The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1868-11-04
FOREIGN ITEMS.

London, Oct. 2s.-The Right Rev. Chas L.
Longley, ID. D., Archbishop of Canterbury,
died, to-day, aged a.
England, France, Prussia. Italy and Portu-
gal have recognised the provisional govern
ment Of Spain.
The Rev. DR.. Schwartz states that there are
100 Jews who are clergymen of the Church of
England, and so who are Nou-confarmist min
listers, and not one of the $50 is Ritualist or
a Rationalist-the ordeal through which they
passed in becoming Christians being an effec.
tual antidote to both Ritualism aud Ration
alism.
A church in Paris, st. Genevieve, presses
upon its foundations $4,000 pounds to the
square foot.
Progress in China.-Bishop Williams. of
China, writes to the SPIRIT of Missions New
York, that the Emperor of China has issued
an edict forbidding rebuilding of destroyed,
and the repair of decayed temples, excepting
the temples of Confucius The principal judge
of Soochow has prohibited the people of that
great city from worshipping in the temples,
or burning incense, candles, or silver paper
before the idols: and the mandarins of Kas-
hung have forbidden any interference with the
preaching or teaching of Christianity The En-
peror, who has proclaimed full liberation to
Christianity and protection to It's followers,
and the mandarins seem to be breaking down
the barriers between idolatry and the Chris
tan religion, and opening the way for the
entrance Of Gospel.
A Missionary Churoh-The remarkable zeal
and activity of the Moravian brethren in the
cause of Foreign Missions is strikingly exhib-
tied bv the last yearly report OF their Mission
Board. They sustain 81 stations in Is pro-
vinces. At these they employ ,430 labOrers,
of whom more than 1000 are native helpers.
The number Of adult converts received and
baptized the past year is 80, 227 To carry on
this work the churches have given the Board,
directly, los, SIS (German) dollars, and in ad
dition to this, the missions have received, from
other sources, S2l2, 600, so that the entire
amount contributed to their support has been
over 100000 (German) dollars.
All this has been accomplished by 81 church
es, with an aggregate membership OF II, 957
communicates Of these churches "a are To-
Gated in this country, 81 in Great Britain and
l9 on the European continent.
Remarkable Life Work-At the late an
niversary of the (English) Church Missionary
Society, says the Missionary Herald, 1t was
said that one missionary, the late MIR. Tucker,
who sailed to India in 1872 and returned In
1864 on account of feeble health, was permitted
to baptize 800 converts, induced the natives
to destroy "a idOlatrous temples, aided in
building GA Christian churches, and had the
Joy of seeing | 3 Of his native converts ordained
TO the work of the Gospel ministry.
Dean Afford in the last number of the Con-
temporary Revieao, speaks of the Church OF
the Future" by which he refers only to the
future of the Church of England. He de.
monstrates that the reformation of the Church
by the State is mere chimera, which may
serve to amuse the people for half generation
or so, but cannot prevent the ultimate sever
ance of Church and State, for which history
has for ages been preparing the way. The
Dean protests against those being called ene-
mics to the Church who seek to prepare it for
a change which is inevitable. He combats
the fallacy that by separating the Church from
the State, England will cease to be a Chris
tan nation, and says that Whatever be the
Christianity of the nation, it is measured, not
by any legal enactment or fiction, but by the
presence and working of the Christian con-
science in the aggregate of It's constituents. -
Christianity is not matter for human law, but
for the free spirit of man" 1t would seem
that spirit so broad as this should give q
broader definition to the Church Of the Flu
ture. IN y Evangelist.