The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1870-03-23
FROM THE NORTHERN STATES.

Another Protest-Just as Father Hyacnthe has
disappeared from public view, and silence succeeded
to his indignant protests another voice is lifted tC
expose and rebuke the pretensons Of Rome. Pere
Crafty, a priest of the Oratory, Professor Of
theology at the SOrbonne, aud a member of the
French Academy, preacher of so high rank
that he has often been called to preach at the
chapel in the Tuilleries, is the present offender
against the utramontane party His reputation
of the dogma of Papal Infaibility is complete and
unqualified. The argument by which he justfes
his rejection of this dogma is short but it is strong
and decisive 1t rests upon the fact, which he
proves by abundant citation of authorities, that
one of the Popes, Honorus l., was condemned for
heresy by three Councils, aud ever so many POpes
He holds the utramontanes to this fact, and, with
tremendous power exposes the absurdity OF an in
faibiity which cannot preserve Its pOssessor from
open and acknowledged heresy. In the course OF
his argument he relates some curious and very
damaging facts. He found, in his examination OF
the subject, that all the Roman Breviaries, down
to 1920, contained the name of Pope HOnorus as
having been mathematical and declared hereto
by the Church. But on the examination Of the
present Breviary, he finds that the name of Pope
Honorius has disappeared has been entirely left
out. The case was difficult one to deal with and
it was quietly suppressed The argument against
Papal infallibity which it supplied was one too
ready tOO IIGucudHU 10 DC lelI IOr use 10 Jne
Protestant or the liberal Catholic and the heretical
Pope's name was summariy erased from the r3ll
The systematic Justification of the Roman Bre
wary, says Pere Crafty should be sufficient to
stamp dlsapprobatlon ew dogma, whose
declaration the pres much desires
Seeing, as he qua -lat it s'sO closely
allied to lying" 1t isu, Catholic theolo-
gian and priest so sharply denounces the Prayer
Book Of his own Church. Presbyterian.
Death of Rev. DR.. McClintOok-The Methodist
Church has lost its most distinguished scholar and
unless we except Bishop Simpson, its foremost
man, in the death Of Rev. John McClintock, D.
D.. LII. D., who died at his home in Madison n
j., recently He was not an old man (only So, }
and it is supposed fell victim to overwork
Rev. John PrOudft, D. D.. died in N. Y, March
9th, IN the 9th year of his age He was a son of
the late and distinguished Alexander Proudft, D.
D., whose Christian philanthropy made his name
among the brightest of our day He graduated at
Union College at the age of seventeen, and was for
several years therefore tutor in the College. For
nearly twenty years he was Greek Professor in
Rutgers College, New Jersey, preaching most of
the time every Sunday, in addition to his literary
labors For nearly ten years preceding his DEATH
his health had been somewhat feeble; but his ac
tivty in religious and benevolent abOrs wasreStrict
ed only by the measure of his strength. He was
fine classical scholar, and cultivated largely his
taste for letters.
From Princeton College Dr. McIlvaine retires to
preach at Newark. n. D. Professor Packard was
serenaded by the students the other day. Next
year the College is to have an entire new set of
recitation rooms They are to be in Dickinson
Hall, which will by that time be fully completed.
This building, erected by the munfcence of Mr..
John c. Green, will contain on the two main floors
eight rooms-the best in America. Above, in the
third story is to be large hall for the purpose of
examination. The whole building is to be lighted
with gas, and to be we'll ventilated throughout.
United Presbyterian. interest in the
Rev. DR.. Davidson church, Hamilton, Ohio, still
continues, the church having more than doubled
its membership, in the last ten weeks by an ac-
cession of not less than one hundred and forty
members.