MrPunch's history of modern England . cted in thepages of Punch. Where doctrinal controversies are concernedwe find a complete accordance with the sentiments of HangTheology Rogers, the late rector of Bishopsgate. We finda complete inability to appreciate a bishop such as Henryof Exeter, who was prepared to spend—and lose—scores ofthousands of pounds in litigation to establish his views onbaptismal regeneration. We find continuous onslaughts onPluralism, Sinecurism, Mediaevalism, Sectarianism, and, aboveall, Sabbatarianism. Punch made no effort to disguise hissatisfaction when the Exeter Halli
MrPunch's history of modern England . cted in thepages of Punch. Where doctrinal controversies are concernedwe find a complete accordance with the sentiments of HangTheology Rogers, the late rector of Bishopsgate. We finda complete inability to appreciate a bishop such as Henryof Exeter, who was prepared to spend—and lose—scores ofthousands of pounds in litigation to establish his views onbaptismal regeneration. We find continuous onslaughts onPluralism, Sinecurism, Mediaevalism, Sectarianism, and, aboveall, Sabbatarianism. Punch made no effort to disguise hissatisfaction when the Exeter Hallites, as a result of theircampaign against the Maynooth Grant, were landed in seriousfinancial troubles, and appealed for relief to discharge theirdebts. How, he asks, can people have the conscience toask for charity of others who have so little of it themselves? On April 26 of this same year of 1845 Punch castigatedthe violence of the Duke of Newcastle, Colonel Sibthorp,Plumptre and other opponents of the Maynooth Grant Bill, 106. THE POLITICAL TOPSY I spects nobody cant do nothln with Cabin. —Vide Uncle 107 Mr. Punclis History of Modern England notably a certain Sir Culling Eardley Smith, who declaredthat the British Lion was now aroused and would not restagain until he had devoured every atom of Popery, and thathe knew of at least twelve men in Parliament who would dieon the floor of the House sooner than that the Bill shouldpass into law. If Punch showed himself almost as violent,if not as ridiculous as this Protestant gladiator, let it be re-membered that, as a convinced believer in the British Con-stitution and the principles of the Reformation, he regardedthe Papal claims as an attempt to set up an imperium in emancipation he firmly supported, but this was anothermatter. His misgivings were unfounded, but there is no reasonto doubt his honesty or that of those who felt as he did. Itwas part of the same insularity, often prompted by a soundin
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