The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-11-19
RELIGIOUS MISCELLANY.

Tine ChOrcn Oh Tue bluucicinS, III "iis, ouo
Of the finest and richest in Europe. cost s3,O00,-
900 to build.
M. Jules Loyson, brother Of Pcre Hya-
cinthe and Professor at Sorbonne, is about
to publish a historical work entitled ''LAsSen-
5lee du Clerg6 de France Ell 1862"
The question whether free churches con be
supported is answered by the fact that OF the
twenty-eight Episcopal parishes in the diocese
Of Maine. twenty are supported by the Offer
tory alone.
in 1899. there were but $1,000 members OF
the various monastic orders in France. In
1861. there were 1903, ll9 persons of both sexes,
hound to conventual life and distributed among
1902 houses.
Latin will be the language of the Gcumen-
ical Council, and a uniform pronunciation is to
be fixed. in order that the assembly, owing to
the diversity of accents, need not degenerate
into second ToYer of Babel.
The Board OF Visitors to the United States
Naval Academy protest. in: their report against
the regulation which requires the cadets to
nursue their secular studies on Sunday, which
rule is ''stringently enforced"
The Manchester Guardian says that tie
pone is great smoker, "invariably taking a
cigar after every meal" He was lately pre-
sented with several thousand cigars by the
manager OF large tobacco manufactory.
The body of German Lutherans, formerly
known as the Missouri Synod, has now assum-
cd the official name of general German Luthe-
ran SYNOD of the United States and Canada"
The organization embraces four particular
synods.
There are two gentlemen, each Of whom
will be one of one thousand to give $1,000 each
for the establishment of college or university
somewhere in the West, to be under the con-
troll of the General Assembly, as a memorial
of the reunion of the two branches of the Pres
byterian Church.
in Liverpool two Low Church dignitarics,
the Bishop and Dean Of Chester, have been
irving addresses in favor Of the appointment
of deaconcsses- are to engage in reli-
gious work in schools, hospitals and peniten-
tiaries-only there must be no vows, no con-
fessions, no peculiar costumes.
We hear from Rome, says the Pail Mall Ga
zcttc OF November l. that at the approaching
Council red, blue and white balls will be employ
ed to represent the votes in the following man.
ner: 'The red will be affirmative, the blue
negative. the white will express doubt OF dis
sent, hesitation or skcpticism."
Sir Moses Monteiore, the celebrated Jew
isn philanthropist, has just inaugurated Beth
Uam-m;drash or house OF learning, at Rams
gate. England II is said to be a splendid
edlficc, with large lecture hall, synagogue,
and ten suites of rooms. Ten thorough Tai
mudcal scholars from Russia, Bohemia and
Poland have been appointed teachers.
Tho Church Times halls the practice OF the
invocation of saints, lately introduced among
the Methodists in America, as 10 step in the
right direction" 1t was at camp-meeting,
where Rev. ]. s. Inskip, with both hands rails
ed, ''lnvoked the spirits Of Wesley, Fletcher,
and all the redeemed in heaven, to help them
accent the truth in all its length and breadth" :"
"A writer In the Church Times (Engnsh)
SAYS that the rubric declaring the absolutlon Is
to be said by the priest alone, does not mean
that the priest alone shall say it, it only means
that the congregation are not to join In 1t; and
further adds that there is no absolution at all
in tit is merely an earnest prayer for for
giveness- which layman may use as well.
There is, it says, no absolution without auricu-
lar confession
"A Conference Of the Free Religious socie-
ties Of Northern Germany was held at Bruns-
wick on the 10th ult., which was attended by
the representatives of twenty-six congrega-
tions. The assembly declared their assent to
the proposition that body and soul, force and
matter, God and will, cannot exist separate
from each other. A new petition to the Prus-
sian Landtag for the separation from Church
and State was proposed, and Mr.. Ullch was
requested to attend the Council of Freethink-
ers at Naples, as delegate Of the Conference.
The assembly resolved that in consideration Of
the ''backward condition Of the great mass Of
the people the progress of religious reform
must be moderated"
Tile Roman Catholics are organizing IN
Philadelphia an association under the title OF
'sThe National Institute Of America" Its OBJ
icct is affirmed to be "the cultivation OF every
species of learning, as we'll as every social,
politIcal and financial interest which can be
rendered subservicnt to the causcof the church
in America" The ''Insttute" is to be divided
into twelve schools, each giving attention to
particular branch OF study. Its object is thus
defined in the printed prospectus: This
academy will devote itself with unremitting
zeal to the extension of Catholic ideas in the
education of the people. While acting with
prudence, determination and q just respect for
national institutions, it will lose 10 opportuni-
ty of combating the false and disastrous edu-
catlonal system which is at presert favored by
our authorities"
"A London letter to the New York Times
saws: SAT this moment two clegymen are
being tried for hercsy-an advanced Rational
ist, Mr.. voysey, for denying the Incarnation
and Atoncmcnt, and an advanced Rltualist,
Mr.. Bennett; for teaching the Rial Objective
Presence, sacrifice offered by til, priest, and
alteration of the Real Presence. The case, as
all such cases are. will be carried the court
of last resort. But the decision ofthat highest
court will not be, in the slightest decree, ac-
eepted bv either party. If the Quen in Coun-
Gil declare these doctrines herctlca, they will
be preached all the more dclantlyif if they are
declared orthodox, the Proestan party will
all the more violently anathematiz them; and
if her Majesty in her wisdom Gcidcs tnat