True American. [volume] (Steubenville [Ohio]) 1855-1861, 1856-11-12
Stsubenvillc, Oct. Is, SO.
[From the Methodist Protestant.
Foreign Correspondence.

ENGLAND, October, lS56.--Ihe signs
of the times are becoming increasingly
startling and ominous. Strange phenom-
ena appear; what do they foretoken !
The world is full Of doubt. All things
foreshadow change-but what Whence
come the absurdilles Of the religious world,
as MormoniSm Whence the blindness
Of Popish priests and organs ? Whence
the heaving of nations! The claims OF
the helrarchies become louder-the spirit
of association grows stronger-freedom
Of conscience is more than ever demanded,
and the thirst Tor persecution is real as
ever. The spirit of assoc lalion has pro-
duced already tfe vast m Missionary efforts
of the age; and the hierarchical spirit has
led runaway Pope to set up hierarchy
in England, and put Cardinals red hose
and hat upon that naughty, crafty, and
doughty DR.. Wiseman. Everywhere the
priestly spir, shows itself, and high
er in its pretensions. Then, again, how
loud is the demand for freedom of con-
science! We hear it everywhere, and
everywhere we s,e men struggling for it
In Sweden, Portugal and Madeir,, in Sar'
dinia, Tuscany and Italy, in Spain,
France and Germany, we see men strl-
wing for religious liberty. and efforts 10
prevent it BY persecution-by positive
persecution, in this second half of the
nineteenth century. :.
Perhaps of avowedly Protestant church
es, the Scottish Episcopal church is mos.
like Popery, and the most successful
pioneer of that hateful system. Thanks
to the heroic labors of John Knox and
Andrew Melville, Presbyterianism is the
dominant church in Scotland but there
has all along in that country existed an
Episcopal church, which has been and
still is, intensely Popish. There are in
all about $50 Episcopal chapels in Scot
land; the greater part are unhapplly
tainted by the poison of false doctrine and
superstitious practices, while there are
only in Edi nburgh, and o'iler great towns,
about twelve Church Of England cbapels,
where evangelical doctrine is preached
Tbs Scottish Episcopary, with its Popisf
liturgy, Puseyile prelales, and, Pelaglar
clergy, has uniformly proved obnoxou;
10 the people of Scotland, because it moi
only apes the superlitions OF Rome, bu
teaches errors which inevitably lead ,e
the portals of that apostacy aga inst which
all true christians must ever protest.
Singular enough, in the great dearlh O
political topics, the London Times ha'
been induced to open its columns 10
discussion on the Romanistic tendencies
of the Scottish Episcopal church, and th'
other day in powerful leader, professe'
iudicially 10 sum up the evidence. Th,
able writer contends that the Scotlisl
Presbyterian church had chiefly Iaboret
to gain the Masses, whilst the Englisl
Established church chiefly aimed at tn
a,istocracy. The result was TINT eacl
had its reward. In Scotland the masse
are attached 10 Prsbylery, whilst The up
: per classes seek Tor greater refinement II
, dissenting Episcopal church. In Eng
/, land, on the contrary, The Episcopa
church has secured the flower Of the rank
a education and wealth Of the country
whilst the masses are found adhering I
the Me,bodisls and Dissenters Engis
Wesleyanism is therefore to the churc
or Enolond what, Scottish EoiscBpacy