New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-10-22

| La ,,o,, the missionaries ard leave them 70 sumo
the conseQue nees; and for the las' fsE weeks paw
been engaged In cutting off ell sorts OF helpers Hoa
the missionaries and reducing them n the mer~sf IN
fes beyond their salaries for Incidental expenses
| FPrcoP.L FUsIoS-The Diocese of Maine hss 10
lowed Ohio in expressing It's oisapprova! OF me pfec'
| Of fusirg the diocesan judicisres of the Epscop@
| Church into one aggres ate federal tribunal ~EP'
opal Recorder regards the proposition uoostroar
| one tending to b, ak down the moot important pc
cuHsrites OF the ecclesiastical system Of the Church
F;om a comprehensive church, the mans checks OF
whose government give full scope to personal inde-
p.nd,nce aud full play TO individual conscience, we
Will be changed into a sect, in which majority this
way one year. the other way the next, VIII cut
avn y here ami cut away there, uatl nothing is LETT
but mod ration none the less psralyzIng 10 lie ad-
herents because il i cruel to those whom 1t pro-
scribes."
Sr. AyrHoSY's BoyEs-A novel question or dis
pate las been raised among the French archbishops,
bishops. priests, monks and people, and has bees
kmally ,ftrr,d TO the Holy See nor yet for the INST
time-whether the genuine relics of 81. Anthony,
which have been offered TO veneration for three hun
dred wears in the Church of st. Julian at Aries, and
guaranteed by Papal bull, do not really repose at 81.
Authony's Church in Dsuphine' The Able Daisy
declares il, snd On Papel authority, too They say,
Was il rot in Dephre that these relies, brought nom
Corsan,inope by one of their barons in lO1o, cured
that disc ase since known as ST. Anthonys Fret Has
not a Pope before now declared the relics st Ares to
he spurious The Archbishop is enrsged at the by
pothe sis, ard the people of Aries are in fever.
kind proposition, offered by meda,ors that they can
Point out Anthonys-him Of the desert and HIM OF
Lerius--is rejected with indignation.
LUTHERAN MovENENrs.-1he Hamburg Ners, N
a recent letter from Berlin, gives the following pieee
of intelligence: "Some of the minutes OF the Genera
" Conference Of the Lutheran communities which
"took place in May last, have just been published
1t appears that the Conference of opinion that
aucular confession should be rcestabshed and that
" the clergy should be invested with the power Of
pronouncing communication" This is considered
very important movement.
CoNsuNIoS IN THE REFORMED PREsBrrsRAs
CHuRCB.-At the late meeting of the Synod Of the
Reformed Presbyterian Church held in Nsw-York,
the subject of relaxing the present rigid terms of CON-
mupion in that denomination discussed. Ii was
not proposed 10 allow members 10 commune at discre-
ton with other denominations, but TO permit Il to DC
done occasionally. The proposition was voted down.
DIVINITY GEOMETRY, AID L.sGuAGK.-At the
scientific meeting at Albany Prot. Gibson remarked
uron curious connection of geometry and language
Three letters occur in almost all primitive languages
They are a line an angle, and circe-thus: l, A, u.
In almost all languages these letters used IN the
word expressing Divinity. In Hebrew, loA IA name
of Divinity. Greek, Al the root OF aioaios the
eteral.o In Hindoo. japanese, and other Asat'c
tongues the same letters used similarly la Indian
these letters occur in Manic, the word for Spirit
These letters in the old Greek Ph9nician alphabet
are the first last and middle letters, snfyng the be-
ginning middle and end--Alpha, lota and Omega.
A NEw-YoRK DIVINE IN BosToE PULPIT
The Boston Transcript remarkiug upon the Immense
audiences that greeted the Rev. DIR. Chapln OF tins
city ON his recent occupancy of the Hoissreet pulpit
U,ni,arian) in Boston, says Of that distinguished
preacher AS speaker he is not faultless, and AZ
"seimonizer mere criticism could doubtless, lind some
"defects in his productions but notwithstanding this,
"he is an extraordinary man in the pulpit. vigorous,
"grnphic imaginative in style-arguing logically IN
"chain of brilliant and apt illustration he possesses
"the natural advantage of noble voice, which No
manages admirably for the mott part and ne mas
"ao the direct eanestness OF sincere convictions ond
con sceusn of Responsiveness. HIS pathos SUD-
"dung, his imprisoned descriptions vivid and start
cling while he rises, not seldom to u calm, serene
"eoquence that bathed with the holy light of eter-
"nal truths. by the majesty of whose presence the
exuberance of rhetoric is awed and chastened."
Religious IrExs.-The Rev. DIR. Hodge, in an arti-
Gle in The PriRcfon Rertr, advocates the revision of
the Presbyterian form of government, on the ground
that the present discipline is unntelgibe, inconsistent,
and of il parts unreasonable It's reported that
Bishop Whitehouse will resign his relation to the
diocese of Illinois, and that the Rev. DIR. Vnton OF
Boston will probably succeed him. The Rev. >. Y.
Young an assistant minister of Trinity Church, New"
York. has been invited to the rectorship OF TRINITY
Church, Notchez. The number of Congregational
churches in New Hampshire ia AS, with u, S9l mem-
bers The English Bible Society has daring the last
six months sold large number of Bibles in and near
Calcutta. The Rev. DR.. McCne Of Edinburgh has
been appointed to the chair of Theology and Church
History in the English Presbyterian College. The
Rev. James c. White, just installed pastor OF the
Plymouth Church, Cleveland, Ohio, was formerly the
yelknown bonnet dealer in Boston, The Congregs-
tonal Society OF the Rev. Mr.. Thayer, in Newport,
r. L. is erecting an elegant church Of Portland stone,
at a cost Of $50, 600.
The METHODIST CHURcH.-This body Of Chns-
tans has been subjected lately to some severe criti-
csms on the part OF various writers and authors Doe OF
the most notable productions in this way is the Volume
directed against the sect by the Rev. DIR. Cooke Of
Massachusetts,, one OF the most PROMINENT U'"e7 VI
the Congregational order in that State, IN which he
even denies the night Of the Methodists TO place
among Christian sects. The Rev. DIR. Wayland, also,
Of Rhode Island has recently directed bis pen in this
channel but seems to entertain widely different views
from Dr. Cooke. Thus with reference to the hetho-
dist cass-.neetng, DIR. Wayland speaks Of it a. IN
Institution specially designed to gather together tho
scattered members Of that communion into an organ
"zetion that shall be the nucleus of church. Il an
l. h. r,ofin