, 1873-06-25
THE NEW DOMINION.
-.
Annual Conventions Of Re-;
1igious Bodies.
An Extraordinary Document from
- the Roman Catholic Arch
bishop Of Toronto.
Movements Towards a Union Of the
Various Presbyterian Churches.

The Railway ImhrogHo---The Funeral o1
Sir George Etienne Cartier.
From Our G1cn Correspondent
Or7Avt Ont June 1e, 1873.
During the past fortnight Canada has been
suffering
1 pAEoXTsM OF RELIGION.
From the far east into tho far west the war
note has been sounding, and the gatherings ot
the claus have been many and large. The days
of (vocaD deliyerance are upon US, and he who
zy,anerh may read the po1tents Of the times, We
have but utyesteraay passed through fiery course,
aud shall for months to come carry with US lively
1emembrancea OF the heat and burden ct the
day. What the month Of May is to England, as
centred in it's focus OF London. the first
fortnight of June is to the inhabitants
Of the New Dominion. The abashed for
egner needs the warning to tread lightly
and speak low as be PAGES the loug-reach-
ing aisles Of famous Exeter Hall, and
ehrugB his shoulders with nmazement as he
hears related the wonders of that new-old
species of divine af1latus, E3eter-Hall oratory-
He looks with curiosity on the extraordinary
women, and still more extraordinary men, who,
armed with iunch-baskets, spend the day in
Nrapt attention, swallowing without scruple
the marvellous recitals OF impossiblo-looking
missionaries, and drinking in with avidity the
diaThe8l stream Of eloquence from only
too possible-looking representatives Of the
sacred profession. So passos away the month
of May in the Worlds Metropolis with
all due respect to the Garden City). We, in the
New Dominion, are located, as the atlas viii
show, some 5000 or $500 miles westward Of the
Aioiher-Country. When it is morning in Hold
Hingland, the shades OF night have barely COM
fortabjy settled themselves in slunber along the
banks Of the St. LAWRENCE md away up cn the
rolling prairies of the fertile belt. That then,
Be should celebrate our religious carnival
month after our fellow-citizens in the British
Islands, is but what may be regarded as very
natural sequence. That is, indeed, the way in
which NC regard it. So much Rs preliminary to
a statement Of the fnct that all the religious
bodies in this country-we object to it's being
called o colony any 1onger-have been busly
engaged in holding their
ANNUAL CONVENTIONS
during the past ten days. In q good haH-dozen
cities OF this Kingdom have been gathered to-
gether large representative bodies OF men, to
debate On tho present stato of Gods tabernacle
on earth, and to board around in sufficient num-
hera to caree near approach to famine in the
lousea Of many hundreds OF the religiouEly-in-
chned. Tie gatherings have not been without
other attendant dangers. So many pastors abb
cent from their tiocks has caused breach into
which tie young and inexperienced hare not
hesitated, under the prompting Of the Evil One,
to rush, needless OF danger. Pulpits, for the
last two Sabbaths, have seen their cushions
thumped by unfamiliar hands. md young dea-
cons, relieved from the Mentor-hke caro- Of elder
~ pastors, have frisked with unwonted unction
and unexpected scandal. The daily secular pa
pers lave devoted columns Of their space to re-
ports Of discussions On church topics, and tho
weekly continued serial has incontinently fallen
flor space) before the sledge-hammer assaults
! end the long-wndedness OF reverends enjoying
|fthn undeniab1y true apostolic succession. The
;Fentirc community hns held prolonged holiday,
cries Of outdoor mummeries, have bathed
i'll the annual bath of freedom
and freq discussion. We are essentially
religious, If not pious, community The Eng
Methodists, and the Scotch and their descend
rnts swear BY Calvin and quote the Shorter
Ea:echisn1. The Irish support noble Catholic
institutions, and stand side BY side wish the hab
AQGrAtfOD
{: Mother Church" The welsh. German. Scan
dinayian, and Bluenoso sections fu7 nish dozen
different creeds and each counts two for its
own glory, and on5 for that Of the Lord, in the
animal Session Of its Supreme Court
in the month Of June, "Poor. but yery
pious parents" is with US what Il poor but
honest" forofatbere is with the rest Of the
world and the motto which. adyices tell us. is
current in the States, " It is better to be gor-
reouslv vicious thun uuassuuinply yirtuons"
has no hold on onr understand dines or resnonsa
in our hearts. The Methodists and I,reshyteri- |
ane cra - +o 1aroaat protaatant accIasiastic,1
hodiaa and hot1, ara eoua}lv dec7e3 on the uttor
nauchiiness or ali tho th;nrs nerta;ninp tn tha !
wn1fd tIa f1esh md the dey;1 The me seeta
by gtrawberry-festiyai to finish the work com
nienced. in sober synod. by the other and heaT- |
;eT hodv Tha gr,eTr;itas IN tia Teiir;one fefd
ara nth nH,nerons md yelI-noninned. |
for E1cI in The breadth and thicGncss
Of the bottom 1ayer of niety in ali Canndians
fIat. # NECESSARY a Kannck viii officiate ~ hie
own minister c1erk. treasnrer. church-yestrv !!
and ear,nr-circTe- n the most n1t.of- f-tteswa3v1
nmteta wRara tha screech of The hnl1. .fror is the
only sttempt at Harmonious sound that Nature