The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-01-23

before the United States District Court in session
at springfield, Illinois, where Messrs. Stuart,
Edwards and Brown, attorneys'atlaw, of that
city, gratuitoUsly aud ably defended the colpor-
teur on behalf of the Board. The result was
that the Colporteur was discharged. The Judge
decided that religious books and tracts sold and
given away, not Tor profit, but as a means OF
distributing religious reading we're within the
exception of the law, and that the colporteur OF
the Board was not "peddler" required to have
a license.
The "old Pine Street, congregation, in this
city, honor themselves IN chershing the memory
of the eminent divine, Rev. DR.. Brainerd, VINO
for nearly thirty years was their beloved and
faithful pastor. Last year they erected a COM
modious and beautiful building IN Carpenter
street, called the "Brainerd Memorial sabbath
School, and now they contemplate, as aturther
memorial, TO fit up one of the large halls in
Lafayette College Tor the use of the Btanerd
Missionary Society. There IS a peculiar pro.
priety. in this, for this society was not only
named after the illusrious klnsman of the
doctor, David Brainerd one of whose missionary
stations among the Indians was where the
college now stands, but 1t will be remembered
that itwas before this society, at its anniversary
IN 1866, that DR.. Braluerd preached his last
sermon. The congregation very naturally regard
the work of this society with peculiar and
tender interest; and as the increasing number
of students in Lafayette College renders it
necessary to ft up larger room tor their reli-
gious meetings, the friends of DR.. Brainerd have
undertaken the work. The congregation will
thus have another appropriate memorial of
Lafayette College,"
GERMAN REFORMED.
a Talk to Young Men.-To-morr0w evening
the pulpit of Dr.. Bethune's former church,
corner of Tenth and Filbert streets, will be
filled by Rev. Professor Doolittle, of Rutgers
College. He will address himself especially to
the young, whom he cordially invites to come
and bll the church on the occasion. HIS text
will be, "The way OF the transgressor is hard"
DR.. Doolittle has supplied the vacant pulpit of
this church since the removal elsewhere OF the
Rev. DR.. SchenCk.
CATHOLIC.
- A conference of liberal Catholic priests has
been held in Madrid to consider the state OF
theil affairs produced by the revolution; and it
is understood that they have taken preliminary
measures looking to the organization OF an
independent national Catholic Church. If they
mean by 'nationaW to make their church an
appendage of the Government, they will fail,
If they think they can give to their ''independ-
enp organization the prestige aud power arising
from the patronage OF the Pope, they will fail
I7ldependent.
The Armenian Patriarch accepts the invitation
OF the Pope to attend the Gcumenical Council
at Rome. The Greek Patriarch of Constantine
pie, of course under Russian influence, refuses.
The Anglican bishops have written an answer
with keen pen. After referring to what the
Church Of England has done in disseminating
the Holy Scriptures, they add:-
Thou, our most holy Lord; Thou, the Vicar
OF Christ, the Bishop OF Bishops, the Supreme
Judge of the Faith, and Arbiter OF all contro-
versies; Thou, the Head the Church the Light
OF the Nations, let as humbly ask Thee, canst
Thou show us even a single copy of the original
Hebrew Old Testament printed in Thine own
city, Rome, the Mother and Mistress of all
Churchesr No, not one. One. edition of the
New Testament in Greek, printed there the
other day-about 400 years after the invention
of printing-trom the celebrated Vatican MS,
we have now gratefully hailed, after long and
anxious delay. But we apprehend that the flock
committed to the pastoral care has still to wait
for an edition from the Roman press, in their
own tongue, of the Old and New Testament"