The Portland daily press., 1868-01-04
Religious Intelligence.

Some unpleasant feeling has been excited
IN Gardiner by the action of persons engaged
In starting Young Mems Christian Associa-
ton in excluding the members OF the Univer-
salist society of which Rev. j. l.. Fletcher is
pastor, from any participation in this work,
while at the same time they did not hesitate
to ask member of that society for the tree
use of his hall in which to hold their meet. ngs.
- The sixteenth anniversary of the Montreal
Y NJ. C. A. was held on the 18th ult This as
ISOLATION now numbers nearly six hundred
members, of whom two hundred and twenty
five have been added during the past year. 1t
is nearly free from debt, and is doing good
work in that city.
"A Unitarian society in Washington hav-
ing turned the black children out of their Sun
day school, the Christian Examiner aptly pro-
poses the following emendation Of Scripture
for motto, "Suffer little achite children to
come unto me-"
The CongrPgationalist gives list of Con-
gregational clergymen who have died within
the past year. The list embraces thirty-four
names, ard of these the ages of twenty-Mne
are given, The eldest on the list is President
Day, of Yale College, "a years, and the young
est a. wears. The average of the whole is CT "a
years. The average age of the forty-six Con-
gregational ministers who died the previous
year was 81 IL years.
"A Brownsville pape' notes as fact that
not gentleman in Matamoros attends the
Catholic Church OF that city, unless when the
church is used for some great OCCASION, and
to the question, ''why is this" replies: THE
truth is, nine out of ten Mexicans take great
pleasure in jeering and ridiculing the pretend
ell priests of that country. We don't wonder
at this at all; for so abandoned licentious, and
rotten priesthood can be found nowhere else
in the world. Catholic priests are forbidden
by law to cross this river into Mexico. The
so-called Catholic Church of Mexico is an
abortion of Catholicism, and it is the duty of
the Catholic clergy all over the world to make
this fact patent"
"A large number of the clergy and laity of
the Protestant Episcopal Church, alarmed by
the progress of High Church" ideas in their
body, especially as evinced by the attempt to
discipline the Rev. S. H. Tying, Jr., for preach
ing in Methodist church in New Jersey,
without the consent of the presiding Rector of
that parish, have signed public declaration
of their views ON this question. 1t is very
significant and remarkable paper. The sub
scribers declare. themselves "deeply moved by
what they believe to be the present dangers of
our beloved church, in the open and secret
tendencies which exist in it to conformity
with the Church of Rome" They assert that
the essential principle of these tendencies is an
entire subversion of the Protestant and Evan
gelical character of the Reformed Church,
a priesthood; baptism into magical rite; the
Lords Supper into the sacrifice of the mass;
evangelical liberty into bondage to manifold
0 bservances and ceremonies; and the one
c hurch of Christ, the blessed company of all
faithful people, into the body of those who
recognize and conform to a mere sacerdotal
system" They declare that in many puipits
of their church another gospel is preached
which is not the Gospel of Christ, that the
church needs to be awakened to sense OF its
peril; and they range themselves on the side
of Mr.. Tying in the use of the following lam
guage: "a paramount duty is imposed upon
our clergy and our missionary organizations,
to see that, SO far as they are able, the pure
Word of God shall be preached everywhere in
our land. We cannot yield this liberty and OBJ
and we hereby express our sympathy with the
resistance which is made, in this respect, to
the attempted enforcement of false construc-
tons of canonical law. The Protestant Church
man-perhaps the ablest Episcopal paper in
the country-takes ground boldly and earnest
ly in favor of this declaration, and it fore
shadows great struggle in the church. 1t
says, alluding to the declaration; "In view of
these facts we call upon all, and especially our
laity, to resist these arrogant assumptions and
this attempted imposition OF ecclesiastical ty-
ranny, which degrade the ministry destroy
the manliness of the laity who submit to them,
and hopelessly fetter Evangelical effort in our
church," 44e. ..u ID. ...-a .. ..-,
Several prominent English churchmen en-
terrain q project for the establishment OF a
southern university in the United States. The
movement is put forth as an Offering to the
American church, and not to the south as
against the north. 1t is supported by high
and low churchmen, and by conservative and
liberal states men, the Earl of Salisbury, Earl
Stanhope, Mr.. Gladstone, Mr.. Gathorre Har-
dy and Mr. Beresford Hope being among the
subscribers.