The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1873-10-23
RAS THE ALLIANCE ACCOM-
PLISHED IT'S WOK2


Evangical Alliance was shown last
night in surprising manner, five Of
tire largest buildings in the city be-
ing crowded to excess by Protectsnt
citizens of all denominations. who
gathered to bid farewell to the
delegates representing the foreign
churches. The scene at the Academy
of Music was especially interesting,
and the closing exercises of the
Alliance must have left deep i'm
prsssion upon the group of disting-
uished strangers whose presence has
len, such lustre to this great Protest
ami Council.
But while those who were pertici-
pants in this remarkable convention
were engaged in expressing their
sense of it's Importance. it is not sur
prising that other bodies Of Chris
tians, who were not considered
qualified to share in this intellectual
aud moral banqaet, give Gtterance to
their own views OF the matter. The
Roman Catholics found aspokesman
i'll Father McGlynn, OF st. Stephens
Church. whose sermon was ea,series
of assertions of the superiority of the
Papal religion, rather than an argu-
mentative discourse. The Li5e-
IA Chrisiian-those Protastants whs
by tine platform Of the Evangelical
Alliance, are placed outside of the
pale of OrthOdoxy-were represent
ed by the Rev. DR.. Bellows, who. at
his church, last night, delivered be
fore very large audience a sermon
Of unusual power and originality. He
examined In detail the various
articles of faith enunciated by the
Evangelical Alliance, and discussed
them from his own standpoint. A
holder, moro vigorous and more
unmistakabIe definition of the belief
entertained by liberal Christians was
never delivered from amy pulpit,
The authenticity Of orthodox dogmas
which have been received with I'M
questioning faith for centuries was
calmly denied, ard the various in
constituencies which the speaker
hOught that he discovered in the
series of articles in question were
clearly displayed,
1t should not be inferred from this
that DR.. Bellows discourse was in
any way san attack upon the
Alliance On the contrary it con-
tanned cordial, loving and dispsssicn-
ate acknowledgment of the
personal excellence of the members,
and of the purity of their Intentions
Full Justice was done to the in
teIlectual power. as we'll as to the
alleged catholic spirit of the Alliance,
but it was argued that the articles of
It's faith-the pIanks of its platform
to speak in political sense did not
fairly represent their actual views;
that the members did not in their
haart of hearts beloved the dogmas
they enunciated; that that they were
more liberal in heart and thought
than in expression, this being indeed
the very tendency of our age.
The speaker proposed test of that
cathoIicity of spirit which the friends
Of the Alliance claim to be one of the
most admirable features of the organ
ization. He suggested that the
Alliance as harmonious gathering
Of all sects and inherently opposed to
sectarian discrimination should make
an effort to do away with denomina-
tional differences by advising, with
all the weight of its official authority
small towns and communities where
several struggling feeble churches
now exist, 10 unite in the support
of but one church. If the Presby-
terrain should be the most numerous
in any such locality, let the affiliated
churches adopt the Presbyteri form
of worship. Then, as should be
found desirable, colonies could be
formed. Thus, if the kpiscopalians
were the next most numerous body,
the second church might be the Epis.
copaIlan. A suggestion like this
the Rev. Or. Bellows thinks, woulc
at least prove that the Alliance is il