East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1865-05-10

Church, l03O A. M. and 45U Il. M. Sunday
School at 9 A. NJ.
CENTRAL BAPTIST CuuRcu, Rev. John s. Good
man, at the Methodist Episcopal Church, every
Sabbath afternoon, at three o'clock.
GERMAN METHODIST, Rev A. NJ Meyer, at
1890 A. M. and p. NJ Sabbath School at nine
O'Clock, A. M.
LUTHERAN, Rev. Conrad voll, at IL A. M. and
7P.M.
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The Eastern or Greek Church.
A great deal of attention has been
awakened on the subject of the Greek
Church, by the service recently held
by their Minister in Trinity Chapel,
New York, and the fact that this
service was by permission of the
Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal
Church in that Diocese. 1t seemed
an endorsement of the Greek by the
Protestant Episcopal Church. A storm
of opposition and denunciation arose
from some of the Protestant denomi-
nations, charging the Greek Church
with being equivalent to the Romish,
and Withholding all Romish errors.
We find in the "Chuch Journal" of
New York, an admirable and con-
vincing reply by the Rt. Rev. Bishop
Coke of Western New York. 1t will
repay reading, by any one who seeks
light on this matter. We venture to
make few short extracts:
A prominent Minister of another
denomination, had in a public speech
denounced the Greek Church, as ga
dead Church." and reproachod Episco-
palians for holding any fellowship
with it. AT this point especially, the
reply was aimed.
cat the time when the Druses mas
sacred SO many Of the Christians, only
few years ago, they would burst
into a Christian village, drag the
Christians out Of their houses, and
then with upliftod sword, give to the
poor, kneeling creatures as their only
chance Of life, Course Jesus and you
shall live; refuse to curse Him, and
you die on the spot" And at the
word, without moments doubt or
hesitation, hundreds stretched out
their nscks, and their heads instantly
rolled on the ground. The faith was
,corh something that could do that. -
Speaking of the Russian Church, a
branch Of the Greek ga dead Church
Let us look and soc what this dead
Church has done even within these
last 80 or 40 years. Instead Of favor
ing an ignorant priesthood, that
Church had raised the standard of
theological education far beyond any
| thing We can show in tae p.-t---t-s.s
Episcopal Church of these United
States. Laboriously, zealously and
carefully, their translation of tho
Holy Scriptures has been revised,
freeing it from obsolete words and
terms, and thus rendering it more
comprehensible by the whole people.
They have vastly multiplied the copies
of these Blessed Scriptures in the
vernacular, under tho direction of the
Governing Synod, and they have
thankfully and gratefully received al
in this work from the English Bible
Society, for which they have acknowl.
edged that they owe debt of gratitude
and thanksgiving. Is that "deaG
| Church." which takes the the Bible
with the same Canonieal Books as
ours) and offers it freely as mean:
of grace to all the people Of the land
In Protestant paper, i lately saw @
paragraph announcing as if it were
ne,es, that Russia was now open to the
free circulation of the Scriptures. i
has been thus open for so years, witt
the full APPRECIATION Of her Ecclesias
teal authorities. -
"Tho Russians have liberated twenty
three millions of serfs, --liboratet
them without shedding drop o
blood; nor only liberated them, bu
organized them into villages, with {
local government Of their own; no,
only organized them, but have planted
q schools in every village; nor onl,
established schools, but have place,
Gods word in the vernacular, in ever,
school. There has mover been any
; thing like it in the whole history o
, Christendom. And we, who haC
J only four millions of slaves, ace hav
+ needed four years of devastating AM
bloody civil war before we could libe
rate them, and what has been don
about schools and Bibles for them W
D all knowl Yet zee are the people 4
lecture Russia about the corruption
of her Christianity, are wo9 Doe
: not the glaring difference of the re