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Foote George William. Satires and Profanities

PREFACE

THE DEVIL IN THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND

RELIGION IN THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS

THE STORY OF A FAMOUS OLD JEWISH FIRM

CHRISTMAS EVE IN THE UPPER CIRCLES

HEINE ON AN ILLUSTRIOUS EXILE WITH SOMETHING ABOUT WHALES

THE DAILY NEWS

JESUS: AS GOD; AS A MAN

THE ONE THING NEEDFUL

THE SWINBURNE CONTROVERSY

GREAT CHRIST IS DEAD

RESURRECTION AND ASCENSION OF JESUS

SOME MUSLIM LAWS AND BELIEFS

THE CHRISTIAN WORLD AND THE SECULARIST

THE ATHANASIAN CREED

OUR OBSTRUCTIONS

MR. KINGSLEY’S CONVERTITES

THE PRIMATE ON THE CHURCH AND THE WORLD

SPIRITISM IN THE POLICE COURT

A COMMISSION OF INQUIRY ON ROYALTY

Draft

A BIBLE LESSON ON MONARCHY

PRINCIPAL TULLOCH ON PERSONAL IMMORTALITY

THE ESTABLISHED CHURCH

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The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council has delivered judgment in the case of Jenkins v. Cook. Many of the highest personages in the realm, including the Archbishop of Canterbury and the great law-lords, were present to give weight and solemnity to the decision, which was read by the Lord Chancellor. It was reported at full length in the Times of the following day, Feb. 17, 1876, the length being two columns of small print.

I must try to indicate briefly the main facts of the case, before hazarding any comments on it. Mr. Jenkins, of Christ Church, Clifton, brought an action against his vicar, the Kev. Flavel S. Cook, for refusing him the Sacrament of the Holy Communion. Mr. Cook justified the refusal on the ground that Mr. Jenkins did not believe in the Devil, all passages relating to the Devil and evil spirits having been excluded from a bulky volume published by Mr. Jenkins, entitled “Selections from the Old and New Testaments.” By the evidence of Mrs. Jenkins, who attempted an amicable arrangement, it appears that Mr. Cook said to her: “Let Mr. Jenkins write me a calm letter, and say he believes in the Devil, and I will give him the Sacrament.” Whereupon Mr. Jenkins wrote on July 20, 1874: “With regard to my book, ‘Selections from the Old and New Testaments,’ the parts I have omitted, and which has enabled me [meaning, doubtless, and the omission of which has enabled me] to use the book morning and evening in my family are, in their present generally received sense, quite incompatible with region or decency (in my opinion). How such ideas have become connected with a book containing everything that is necessary for a man to know, I really cannot say; I can only sincerely regret it.” Mr. Cook replied in effect: “Then you cannot be received at the Lord’s table in my church.” Mr. Jenkins, a regular communicant, and admittedly a man of exemplary and devout life, answered: “Thinking as you do, I do not see what other course you could consistently have taken. I shall, nevertheless, come to the Lord’s table as usual at ‘your’ church, which is also mine.” Accordingly he presented himself, and was repelled, whereupon he brought an action against Mr. Cook.

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In Beranger’s authentic record, already alluded to, of “The Death of the Devil” – which, however, relates only to the Church of Rome – we read how, on learning the catastrophe: —

But while they they were in this passion of grief and despair, St. Ignatius offered to take the place of the dead Devil; and none could doubt that he with his Jesuits for imps would prove a most efficient substitute. Wherefore the Church threw off its sorrow and welcomed his offer with most holy rapture: —

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