The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1869-06-23
FROM THE NORTHERN STATES.

The Central Presbyterian Church, San Francisco,
Rev. Mr. Fackler, pastor, have sold their old edi-
fee with the unexpired lease for $4,000. Its cost
was $1,000. The Society have bought at 50-vara
lot on Tyler Street, between Taylor and Jones, Tor
their new building which is already in process OF
erection. part of this lot they have leased tor
two years. with the privilege of buying, for $l35
per month. -Pacifc.
Centre College.-At late meeting Of the Board
of Trustees Of Centre College, Kentucky, it was
determined to elect President and four Profess
sors in June, and start the Institution in Septem
Der with full and able Faculty. Prof. o. Beatty
is the only Professor now in the Faculty, and in
order that there might be no embarrassment in the
Board, he rendered his resignation, which was
promptly rejected.
DR.. Bushnells long expected book, Woman's
Suffrage the Reform Against Nature, has just been
published by Scribner
The Offices and Roman Catholics. might, per,
haps, be worth while, if any one should prefer
mere superficial or external signs Of supremacy, to
notice few such as may be found in the city OF
New York ITSELF Not many state church in the
present age imposes the test of membership as a
condition to holding civil office. The Church in
Austria does not in England it has not for forty
years; in France not for eighty. 1t does not yet
in New York. How near it comes to it may be
partly guessed by any one who will look over list
of New York elective officers, with the discrimina
ting sense of him "who knew the stranger was an
American from his name, O'Flaherty.
In no European country, we say 1T with some
confidence, has the clergy of Catholic establish
ment its hands more nearly closed upon the whole
system of public education than here in New York.
Nowhere in Europe is the hierarchy of an estab-
shment appointed by the Papal See in such
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e-Christian hatelligencer.
The Roman Catholics in New York.--Patnam' $
Magazine for July contains an article entitled
"Our Established Church." which will be, we
suspect, very much read. Its aim is to show that
the Roman Catholics have, to a considerable ex
tent, succeeded in making theirs the established
church Of that city and State.
The writer estimates that the real estate owned
in fee by zone or other of five ecclesiastcs in this
State, Roman Catholics bishops, is worth nearly
fifty millions of dollars. He remarks that the Irish
(Protestant) Church now to be disestablished owns
but eighty-fve millions of property; and he pro-
ceeds to give some examples of the grants and gifts
of public money and real estate made to the Ro-
man Catholics in this State
Debt Paid-The West Arch Street Church,
Philadelphia after two weeks vigorous effort,
hive secured subscriptions sufficient to pay debt
of $35, 90, which had been resting upon the church
building for many years. This discharges the entire
debt of that church. with the exception of small
sum which is in litigation. The church property
is now worth probably 5000, 900, and occupies one
of the finest sites in the city.
Trinity Church on Trial.-In the suit of David
Groesbeck against Morgan Dix and VIM. h. Duns.
comb the argument upon the demurrer to the COM
plant was continued on Saturday before Judge
NJ Cunn in the special term of the Supreme Court.
Mr.. Chatfeld for the plaintiff contended that as
the allegations of the complaint stood confessed
that the plaintiff was one of the corporators in
tended by the original charters of Trinity church
parish; that the descendants had diverted and con-
tinued to divert the trust estate from the purpose
of its founders, the inhabitants of this city, which
was TO prevent the increase of vice and immortality
in the city, and had, on the contrary, allowed it to
increase by not preventing houses OF ill fame on
what was Trinity church property; that they had
apostatized from the faith of the corporatoIs OF
TIA, who we're Protestants and believers in the
doctrine of the Christian communion as estab
lished by the Gcumenical Council of bort, and
had on the other hand preached that Protestant
ism was failure, and admitted into the Trinity
church parish the services of the Greek commu
denominations that they were receiving and vast
ing the income of many hundred thousands year
more than the $4,000 year allowed by the ac
of 1884, and had refused to restore the Annekt
Jams property, though they had no title to it but
lapse of time; that all these facts being admitted
the Court, under decisions in similar cases, would
interfere, and appoint receiver and remove the
trustees. The argument is to be continued.
DR.. Anderson's lectures before Andover and other
Seminaries upon Missions have been issued in book
form. and entitled Foreign Missions, their Rea
tons and Claims. 1t is volume that no minister
can read without regretting that he had not been
missionary: And in connection with this vol
ume should be read the most charming OF mis-
sionary biographies, that of Miss Fidelia Fiske.-
We picked it up few evenings ago at the house
of FRIEND, and could not lay it aside until we had
fnishedit. Without exception, it is the best work
of the kind we have read. The biographer has
executed his task with great delicacy and discre'
ton. The subject was Christian of such type
that the venerable Dr. Anderson says of her, that
he has found in her the nearest approach to his
ideal of the Saviour. This is saying much. But
if Zion was filled with such saints we would not
hear the lamentation of GOODNESS as now. Every
Christian should read and study, and then initiate
Miss Fiske.
Ordination of Foreign Missionary.--Mr. Edward
Riggs was ordained for the ministry by the Fourth
Presbytery of New York last Sabbath evening, in
DR.. Tasting church. He is a son OF the Rev.
DR.. Riggs, of Constantinople, one of the transla.
tors of the Bible into the Armenian language
He goes to Sivas, Turkey, as missionary Of the
A. B. G. T, NJ.