Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-10-10
EVANGELICAL ALLIANCE.
Stirring Letter from the "Old CatkO'
lies - Christian Unity, Fellow
ship and Good WIN.
Delegates at the Public Institutions
Closing PrOeee5ings-" Chris
tianity and Liberty"


Closing Pr0cee5ings-'' Chris
tianity and Liberty"
THIRD DAY.
NEW YORK, October S.-The ses-
siOns Of the different sections of
( the Evangelical Alliance seem to be
growing in interest. Association hall
was crowded this morning, and large
numbers were unable to gain admit
tanee. Additional vice-presidents were
appointed, owing to the number of
meetings being held.
/ r. L. Payne, of Virginia, wants to be
/ heard, and writes: "If | do not set forth
/ the merits Of Christ fuller than any other
man when you hear me, then you may
| say / am not specially called of God by
! the operation of his holy spirit.n
st. Paul's church was also crowded.
I After prayer, Professor w. Kroft, DID,
of the university of Bonn, read a paper
on "Papal Infallibility and Old CathOli-
cism.n He said that in all the DEGREES
from the pope no reference was made TO
Peters succession, but 10 Peter himself,
VINO denied his Lord. The pope is the
teacher and shepherd of the entire
church-he, both by day and by
night-was the decision, the final
decision, of the disputes between
flesh and blood. At the last Vatican
council there were five hundred and
thirty-three present, when there should
have been over thousand diocesan
members to render valid any actions
they may perform these meetings. The
pope in his own name issues DEGREES in
these meetings. The pope represented
himself as the vice-god, the representa-
tive of Deity. 1t was blasphemy to say
that when the pope thought it was
Christ thinking in him, or that Christ
was visible in the pope. The ROmish
anti-christianity never was as strong as
in our day. It was unadulterated arro-
gance of the Catholic church to hold
this ecuminical council. No one was
represented in it but cardinals and
bishops, and few laymen papers were
read from the old Catholic congress
which was held at Constance expressing
q desire to get into Intercourse with the
Evangelical christians of the world.
At the Association hall meeting to-
day, the first paper read was by Prof. J.
A. Doner, of the University of Boston,
li6ility, and of the Catholic church,
to unity. He also touched on the subject
of nominal PTotestants, who, he said, do
not understand the gospel any more
than the Roman Catholics. Professor
Hitchcock followed, and Rev. George
Fisch, of Paris, gave description of the
revival of popery in France. Rev. Leo
pold Willie read paper on the German
empire INSTRUMENTATION, and the session
adjourned for to-day.
FOURTH DAY.
NEW YORK, October 9-The Tribune
will publish tomorrow a letter of the
Old Catholics TO the Evangelical Alli-
ance. They say: {" We hope and strive
for the restoration of the unity of the
christian church We frankly acknowl-
edge no branch of it has exclusive truth. !
We hold fast to the ultimate view that
upon the foundation of the gospel and !
doctrines OF the church grounded upon |
it, and upon the foundation of the
ancient undivided church unification |
of all christian forms of religion will be |
possible through a really Ecumenical
council. This is our object and intention |
in the movement which has led US into |
close relations with the Evangelical |
a
Greek churches. We know that this |
goal cannot easily be reached, but we
see the primary evidences of success in |
the circumstance that a truly christian |
communion has already taken place |
between ourselves and other christian |
believers. Therefore, we seize with joy |
the hand Of fellowship you have extend !
ed to Us, and beg henceforth TO tread a |
single path with US, wherein all can walk
alike in order that the work of the form |
alton of a single church of Christ
should become an established fact. Ev
cry individual christian creed must cast
off everything which has been intro !
dueed by men, and restore that disci |
pline and those rules which rest upon
the foundation which Christ, the Lord,
laid, and meets the just requirements Of
different nations and ages. This it is
our intention and task to perform for
the Catholic church. We wish to cleanse
it from the stains of depravity which
has gradually increased for more than
a thousand years. All that Roman DOM
ination has created through egotism
must be removed. Every institution
and custom which has crept in, hurtful
TO true christian vitality, must be cast
out; instead Of justification by words, JUS
tification by faith; instead of hypocrit-
ical bigOtry, pure christian life must be
brought into its belief and conduct. The
deterioration of the constitution of the
church into an instrument Of hierarchy
and the Roman bishop must be prevented
by the Introduction Of rules which guar
antee to the congregations their fullest
rights, TO the lowest as well as to the
highest. In short, a system of discipline
must be introduced in which true chris
tan eaTnestness and christian morality
united with christian love will constitute
the end, not blind subsection OF the indi-
vidual, or,of all, to the fiat or acts OF a
single man. We wish to reform the
church In such a manner that it shall be-
come q fellowship In love, in belief and
in works of all who believe in Christ as
the Son of God and as our Saviour, who
alone had been and is still our mediator.
Pere Hyacinthe's letter to the members
of the Evangelical Alliance Is published.
He is united by faith in the same Christ,
the only son of God, as they are laboring
to bring together on common ground
the different christian confessions,
which have been SO widely, and until
now so irremediably separate. "My am
bition, confess, is still higher. Where
You are satisfied with alliance, would
desire an organic and vital unity. be-
lieve this unity to lie in the future des-
TIMES of the christian church,
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, in his ad.
dress, last evening, at Brooklyn, Of wei
come to the delegates Of the Evangelical
Alliance, said If it were an eXtermins-
ton of scots that was sought by this
convention, if that was the philosophy
to be attained, he should not be Of il,
for he did not think il would be wise to
exteiminate them and bring the church
into one great phalanstery any more
than it is beneficial to bring together all
the great families into one phalsnstery.
We get along very well, and allow men
TO keep house as they want to.
The foreign delegates Of the Evan
gelical conference accompanied by
Mayor Havemeyer and other members
Of the city government are on visit to
the public institutions. The session in
Association hall was opened by prayer
in the usual form at eight O'Clock. Rev.
DR.. Prim announced that the farewell
address would be made by Rev. DR..
Schenck, in the Academy of Music Sun
day evening next, and that the meet=
| ings would likewise be held in Tamma-
ny hall and Steinway hall free to all who
can get in. The German meeting on