Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1869-03-18
RELIGIOUS TOPICS.

Bishop Lee is expected to visit Smyrni
shortly to administer the rite of confirmation
in st. Peters Church.
The Presbyterian Church in Smyrna ad
mitted six persons TO membership on Sun
day, the 2Sth ultimo.
The Methodist Episcopal churches al
through the limits of this Conference are
agitatcd over the near approach of Confer
ence, and the question with them is "Whc
will be the next ministcr?"
The younger members of DR.. Bellows
Church, in New York, have subscribed sew
eral thousand dollars for free public services
in Cooper Institute, with view to the ulti-
mate formation of free church.
The Baltimore Conference of the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church, which has held Its
sessions In Washington, adjourned on last
Tuesday. After the adjournment the mem
bcrs in body called on President Grant,
and had quite pleasant interview.
Tomorrow is the fifth Sunday in Lent,
and the following Sunday is Palm Sunday.
Good Friday comes on the 26th, and the fol-
lowing Sunday, the 2Sth instant, is Easter
Sunday, which will be joyfully celebrated
by those churches who commemorate those
old anniversaries of the early church.
AT a meeting of the congregation of the
First Presbyterian Church, Second street
near West, Thursday evening, they resolved
to continue 10 hold services in their church,
every sabbath until the meeting of the Gen
eral Assembly in May next. The resigna-
tion Of MIR. Huntington will lessen the con-
gregation somewhat, es his friends, we be-
lieve, do not intend to continue their rela-
tionship with the church. The trustees
will furnish supplies.
A writer in the Independent, signing
himself Protestant Episcopalian, recites
the wrongs the church has sustained at the
hands of the high church party, and says:
"These reasons have determined a respecta-
bic number of clergymen and laymcn, who
have surveyed the ground and counted the
cost, nj the proper time, to restore the Pro-
tcstant Episcopal Church to the condition
in which Cranmer, Ridley, Bradford, Lati-
mcr, Hooper left it; to eliminate all Ro-
manizing germs to spike all exclusive, OPP
prcssive canons; to make it American rather
than Anglican, with its face to the future
and not to the past; u church for the many,
rather than for the few; leading the masses
10 Christ, and not placing stumbling
in their way. Such church will he born
in a day not far of.
The Rev. William Aikman was installed
pastor of the Spring Street Church, New
York. in the presence of very large con-
gregaion, on Wednesday, Sd inst. In the
absence of Rev. DIR. II. II. Booth, of New
York, Rev. DR.. Bonar, late of Montreal,
preached the sermon on Psalm 1877 |. SEX
ecpt the Lord build the house, they labor in
vain that built it," The Rev. Robert Ak
man, brother of the pastor, gave the charge
To the pastor, ana Rev. j. ID. Wilson, the
charge 10 the people. The venerable DR..
la .xp
i'e church, made concluding address,
which, with lis memories of fifty years, re-
counting the changes in the city, was full of
interest. The great audience, The evident
enthusiast, and the peculiar relations of
those who took part in the services made
the occasion q memorable one to all con-
cerned in ii.
Rev. Mr.. Lightbournc, of Dover, is writ
ing against ritualism in the st. Michaels
Comet, and another correspondent, Pax,"
is defending it. They have run off the track,
somewhat, as the following sample of the
discussion will show. "Pax says of Meth
odist ministers: "See the nice young
preacher tripping in with his bob-tailed coat
and tight pants, after the latest Broadway
cut, flourishing in mis- jeweled hand hem
stitched handkerchief scented with the odor
sf a a a thousand flowers" To which Mr. L.
2G years with Methodist ministers, 1 have
never yet seen one with '.jeweled hand"
have seen 'Jeweled hands, among the
ministers OF the Church OF England, and the
Protestant Episcopal Church, but of no 9TH
er church. My own handkerchiels are all
very neatly " hemstichcd" by my wife,
whom "worship," but 'thc odor of a thou
sand flowers is wanting, and the desidera-
tum is not likely TO be supplied unless be-
co,ie q UiioUer"