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- Hugh Boyd M‘Neile (18 July 1795 – 28 January 1879) was a well-connected and controversial Irish-born Calvinist Anglican of Scottish descent. Fiercely anti-Tractarian and anti-Roman Catholic (and, even more so, anti-Anglo-Catholic) and an Evangelical and millenarian cleric, who was also a devoted advocate of the year-for-a-day principle, M‘Neile was the perpetual curate of St Jude's Liverpool (1834–1848), the perpetual curate of St Paul's Princes Park (1848–1867), an honorary canon of Chester Cathedral (1845–1868) and the Dean of Ripon (1868–1875). He was a member of the Protestant Association (in its 19th-century incarnation), the London Society for Promoting Christianity among the Jews, the Irish Society, the Church Missionary Society, and the Church Association. M‘Neile was an influential, well-connected demagogue, a renowned public speaker, an evangelical cleric and a relentless opponent of “Popery”, who was permanently inflamed by the ever-increasing number of Irish Roman Catholics in Liverpool. He was infamous for his stirring oratory, his immoderate preaching, his prolific publications, and his inability to accurately construe the meaning of the scripture upon which his diatribes were based (see below). He was just as deeply loved, admired and respected by some, as he was an object of derision and scorn for others. (en)
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- Church at all times and in all places. Individual Roman Catholics were (en)
- two basic propositions, the truth of which he believed in totally. First (en)
- :: "I would make it a capital offence to administer the confession in this country. Transportation [to the colonies] would not satisfy me; for that would merely transfer the evil from one part of the world to the other. Capital punishment alone would satisfy me. Death alone would prevent the evil. That is my solid conviction."
No, thank God, it is not your solemn conviction, Dr. M‘Neile nor is it the conviction of any English mind, however narrowed by sectarian jealousies, in this age of mild humanity! No bigot, no fanatic, now exists in England, who would, in deed and in fact, erect the gallows or the stake, for the punishment of an erring act of religious custom. (en)
- not to be persecuted, because, in his view, they were victims of a cruel (en)
- of the celebrant, and the wearing of vestments including albs, (en)
- political concessions to Roman Catholicism had to be opposed because, (en)
- obtained political power and influence, true religion would suffer. (en)
- even to use the word "religion" when referring to Roman Catholicism. (en)
- There were a number of aspects of Victorian ritualism to which (en)
- that the Roman Catholic Church was the enemy of Christianity and (en)
- them find true religion. Second was his belief that the Roman Catholic (en)
- Scotland . (en)
- Church was engaged in a political conspiracy. It did not, in his view, (en)
- recognise the supremacy of temporal rulers and would, whenever (en)
- Who that has seen him on the platform of Exeter Hall, and there witnessed his form dilate, and his eye kindle, as he launched forth the thunderbolts of his eloquent indignation against the Romish Church, will not agree with us in thinking that, great as he is in his church at Liverpool, he is still greater as the orator of the public meeting … (en)
- Anglican Evangelicals took particular exception. Prominent among (en)
- to Evangelicals … (en)
- Thus, in his view, it was the duty of a Christian to oppose the Roman (en)
- them were the doctrine of the real presence in the Eucharist, the (en)
- ular making the sign of the cross during it, the use of confessionals (en)
- But with all our respect and admiration for Dr. M‘Neile, we do not consider him to be a deep thinker: there is great talent, but little profundity, in his verbal discourses; and, popular as he is, we venture to say that he shines less in the pulpit than on the platform. (en)
- in his view, the Roman Church was evil and, to the extent that it (en)
- The frenzied vehemence of bigotry has reached its climax. At Liverpool, the Rev. Dr. M‘Neile, the notorious platform orator, uttered a sentence last Sunday morning, in the pulpit in St. Paul’s Church, Prince’s Park, which, we are sure, was never surpassed by the cruel ferocity of Popish intolerance, in the worst days of the Inquisition. To be sure, Dr. M‘Neile did not mean it,— he would shudder to be taken at his word; but why does he, a Christian minister, not bridle his tongue, unruly evil that it is? Here is the sentiment, at which Bonner might have blushed, in the bloody reign of persecuting '''Mary:— (en)
- Dr. M‘Neile, on the same Sunday evening, went into his reading desk, and pronounced before his congregation the following apology:—
:: "In the excitement of an extemporaneous discourse delivered by me this morning, I used, I believe, a most atrocious expression. That expression I have already withdrawn in the sight of God; I have, I trust, made my peace with him; and I now beg to withdraw that expression in the sight of this congregation, and to make my peace with you. I will not repeat the expression which I have referred to; for those who heard it will sufficiently well remember it; whilst I will not grieve those who did not hear it by repeating it." (en)
- use of wafer bread, mixing water and wine in the chalice during the (en)
- the Pope the Antichrist. [M‘Neile] had difficulty in bringing himself (en)
- [On the platform] he is at home; for, released from those trammels which the clergyman must feel around him in the pulpit, he can give a loose rein to his impetuous temper, and allow his eloquence to take broader and bolder flights. (en)
- service, reservation, adoration, benediction, the eastward position (en)
- and bowing at the name of Jesus were all also particularly offensive (en)
- The impelling force behind [M‘Neile’s] actions and utterances was (en)
- deception who needed the love and compassion of Christians to help (en)
- chasubles and coloured stoles. Priestly absolution, and in partic- (en)
- possible, grasp political power and use it to crush heresy. Any (en)
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