New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-06-06

eight and genteel, the company particularly
"select There is none OF your open ar
"wagrancy here there is no tarpaulin or saw
:" dust. Remember that the pnceDf admission
/" is only sxpence, and the opportunity may
"never occur again"
Now a certain Mr.. Cross in the House OF
Commons had vague remembrance Oh other
servants of the same master, who undertook
long ago to preach to hungry souls Ills glad
tidings of great joy. There were no adVow-
SONS in that case; no dead mems shoes to wait
for: instead of trout streams and packs OF
hounds. he remembered that they were beaten
with rods, they worked in hunger and thirst,
in cold and nakedness until cross or the
stake ended all Mr.. Cross, with these old
fashioned and lOw-bred notions OF Christianity
has brought in bill to pcremptorlly stop the
sale of next presentations, AZ scandal 10 dc-
cency and civilization, and has raised tempest
of wrath among the Bishops only equaled by
that in the Ecumenical Council the other day
when a charitable word was spoken for Protest
ants "U0ref;cys. hnreticlS, Opncs dnmnGmus
"peurn ~ prelates and bishops cry together.
Westminster sends back a 5onorOus echo TO
the thunders of Rome.
The SATURDAY. Reriev settles the question with
an amusing cOmplacency. If the practice OF
tbe English gentry and Christianity differ, IL
has little doubt as to which party ought prop
erlv to 90 under. "Thesc are not Apostolic
s. DAYS, and our clerical coat" it says, ought
" IN he adapted to our social cloth" 1he Re
MEM then brings the "Church of Christ " up
TO the bar, and cOndescends to instruct IL as
TO its proper place in society, very much III the
manner of Dogberry with the watch. IL Is
true. it comedies loftily, that there are great
scandals in the giving of patronage, but II
should be remembered that these matters con-
Germ the nobility and gentry of England III
" Christianity cannot adapt itself to society az
it is it forfeits its imposing claim to be an ln-
L" stitution for all times and conditions OF the
"world.n "God 3 a good man." says Dog
berry. "But an two men ride Of horse, one
"must ride behind" So lndicrOus a position
in journal which processes to represent the
most cultured and foremost thought in England
will astonish and amuse our primitive American
churches. They verge perhaps to the other ex-
IRENE. Outside of the great city congregations
the lab0rer in spiritual fields is thought worthy
of such exceedingly small hire that 1T would
be better 10 pay MN notnlhS do All anu o'
him the credit of working for the glory OF
God. So low are the average salaries OF most
clergymen that almost all the churches provide
beneficiary funds for superannuated ministers
or for their widows and orphans, course
which to secular eyes appears both unjust and
impolitic. A clergyman has the same human
nature as a lawyer or blacksmith, and Will
give his best work when free from pecunlary
anxiety and conscious that he is to be paid a
fair living price, and that neither ne nor his
children will become paupers. The Presby-
terrain General Assembly last week, among Its
other good works, set about righting this error
in its limits There is wide gulf in this mat
ter between the practice of our churches and
the English laity, and nothing but sound COM
mon sense and pure Christianity can bridge 1t
over.