The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-10-09
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Religious Intelligence.
WAITING BY THE RIvER.-Dr.
Thomas Hastings, who composed the
tunes TopIady, Zion, Retreat, orion
vile, and many others which are sung
the world over, adds, in the eighty
fifth year OF his age, still another rare
and appropriate iustallment to his leg
acy Of sacred songs by the composition,
Waiting By the River How com
forting to the aged Christian, patiently
waiting on the sho5es of time to- ex-
change earth for Heaven Though
poor in this worlds goods, DIR. H. is
rich in the hope CT glorious here
after. uElo4 u9th aoITEo
THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND,
TIE London correspondent of the
Cincinnati Gazette, Of a recent date,
g gives the following interesting account
of the dangers, on one side or the
other, now threatening England's es-
tablished Church:
Heretics in the Church increase-
not in number, that would be impos-
sible-but In temerity. Three or four
trials are on the ecclesiastical docket.
The Rector at Frome has been sum
moned to answer for overmuch genu-
hexion. The Rev. Mr.. Voysey is to
be tried for overmuch latitude OF
teaching and preaching, Mr.. V. has
the coUntenance of Dean Stanley aud
Professor Jowett. Several cases of
less publicity, but of no less moment,
let us believe, are to take their turn
before the ecclesiastical judgment
seat. Then the Dean of Ripon, who
divides hisyeEerable venom between
the Premier and Pope, is furious over
the approaching Church Congress at
Liverpool because the Rector Of st.
Albans (Mr. Mackonochie) is a dele
gate thereto, and is to read a paper
theTeat. If that paper doesa't advo-
cate candles for the English Church,
and its separation from the State, its
author will evade the two themes
which just now most engross his ac-
tive and courageous mind.
Ca So, no wonder the Archbishop of
Canterbury is out in favor Of changes
to conciliate the factions, and no
wonder Archdeacon Denison declares
''the Church OF England isvery sick,
suffering from more than one kind OF
obstinate sickness"
The Archdeacon has taken partin
all the Church Congresses" and once
3 hoped they would cure some of the
ills which the establishment is heir
to, but he now abandons them in
despair. The Pail Mall Gdzstte con-
soles him with the assurance that : if
the Church Of England is very sick,
its rivals are no BETTER" and says the
most distressing of its symptoms are
three In number, VIZ: The ,vigor of
Its antagonists, Catholics and dissen-
tiers; its internal divisions and their
incurable character, and the increas-
ing disposition of the age to embrace
the voluntary system, and to have free
trade in religion as well as in. other
things. The Gazette concludes this
vigorous and significant article with
these Words:i
1t this is the disease of churches
in this day, the question naturally
arises, What is its remedy? The
answer is very simple. The remedy
is inquiry, which must in time issue
either in the attainment of such
knowledge as is attainable, or in the
attainment of the knowledge that no.
knowledge is attainable. The first
result would cure the disease by re-
moving it. The second would prove
that it is not disease at all, but the
proper condition of rational beings.
In The ,1lRBes CONNIE ds the Primate's
admonition, and plainly says If the
establishment would live and not die
it must make haste to put its house in
order. Meanwhile it is the universal
belief, In the Church and out of it,
that death has passed upon the house
and its dissolution Is lneVita BILE.
Everybody says--some mournfully,
some joyfully-" 1t is only question
of time Ten years is frequently put
as the time" but twenty is allowed
By the more conservative of the
thoughtful English. The Scotch kirk
is almost ripe enough 20 fall from the
Dough which it has recently shaken
by petltlonlng the Government for the
doing away Of patronage" -
I'll lMr. Watkin Williams qnye notice
in the House of Commons that he
would move the following resolution
at the next session: s44
1J First, that the time had ar
rived when the measure of religious
quality which had been granted to
ireland could no longer,s consistently
with JuslAG6s u6 MlklnelQ from w aleS T,
and secondly, that 1t was expedient
that the surplus funds to be derived
from the property of the disestablish-
ed and diseudoWed church SHOULD be
applied toward the advancement OF q
national and purely undenolninational
system of education. mosaorB
In addressing his constituents 4he
other day, Mr.. Williams said his notice
was warmly received by the. House, y
and if Mr. Gladstones Seouhtenance
expressed anything, he was gratiied
and pleased with 1t" So the Premier
may be said to ~countenance" another
whack upon the thick end Of the
wedge.
The disestablishment of ireland
has got so far In the work of recon
structiOn as t0-resolve that a COPY of
the Bible and one Of the PRAYER Book
shall lie on the table during each ses-
sion Of the Observation-Disclosures synod
Then of the successor who moved
that the Bible be laid on the table Is
not published, but the custom thns
determined upon is said to signify 4 a
formal profession that the Synod was
prepared to adhere to the existing
Constitution of the Church, which
looked to the Bible as a rule Of faith,