The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1873-10-25
The Evangelical Alliance.

The Evangelical Alliance.
New York Evening Post, October !.
At 10 O'Clock Friday morning. at Stems
way Hall, met the long talkcd-of Evangcl.
ical Alliance. in its nature and constitution
kind Of Ecuminical Council of many
tribcd Professionalism. The delegates include
members Of almost every known denomina.
ton, divided. If course. into two great
groups of Calvanists and dissentcrs from
predcstinstion. snd happily there have been
meetings enough of this body. SO that il
may Ike said to understand its work and to
have no u,opianisms to discuss. Doc,rinal
disscnsions will. Of course, be avoided, to an
extent even which las not distinguished
previous conventions. for the members.
agreeing upon the essentials of a common
orthodoxy. have agreed and stand pledged
subtle,ic and vap"ry metaphysical Gis,inc.
tons. Such conventions ATE. therefore, in
the largest and les, sense. recognitions Of
the common brotherhood and the higher
unity Of religion. They say ns ,anribiy as
declarations could. and somewhat more
practically, tina, Professionalism is one in Is
sence, though many sided and flexible in
form: and their lesson seems l., gather force
from the fact that this large body Of repre-.
sentative men have come together voluntari
" TO discuss the great religious problems
which press SO sorely upon the nineteenth
century.
As is well known 10 the majority Of read
crs. III" Evangelical Alliance originated in
London III 1876. with y meeting of nbou, so
religious organizations from Great Britain
and Ireland. Germany. France. Italy. Be-.
GUM and Switzerland. the United States
and Canada, for the deliberate purpose of
establishing = kind Of higher unity among
the Prntcstnn, denominations represented
Eight hundred delegates were pr.scn, II
that memorable meeting in FREQ mssons'
Hall, and delibcIX'td for five days upon a
general principle, which had. If course. 10
be flexible enough I" meet . multitude "f
contingencies. The work Of organizing the
Protestant body. being pondcrOus. made
slow progress. and il was years before the
ca ordinate associations or na,i"nal alliances
were completed. Of these one includes
England. Irrlan!. Scotland and Wales. and
il known as the British Ali,mnce. France
has one, Prussia one. There is one in Swift
zerland, one in Sweden. in Denmark. in
Belgium. in Greece. in I,aiy; another.
which constitutes kind Of league of the
missionaries. in Turkey and the Orient. All
are independent Of denominations dictation.
and meet upon general platform Of what
may bc defined as truth relieved Of its dog.
matte and special interpretations a: the Apos,-
les Creed, rs near as may he. in the form
OF modern declaration, with the doctrine
Of the Trinity clearly set forth, and special
emphasis on baptism and the sacrament.
The American Alliance, upon which II has
fallen 10 arrange for concourse Of dis,in.
guished strangers, has disposed Of the SUBJ
sis,ence question very naturally by recciv>
ing he foreign delegates as guests. The
number of important papers to lie read is
almost legion. Of the 10l American dele.
gates. 40 will read papers. From the British,
Provinces there are So delegates; from
Great Britain. o.; from Germany, II; from
France. II; from other etates in continental
Europe, 20 in all. With few exceptions all
the delegates are here. and many of them
have been in town for some days - the
guests OF members of the American Ali.
ance. llindOstan, ~ VIC said the other day,
10 represented by one Of her ables, native
ministers. TIE venerable figure Of Prof.
Tho!uck-by many styled ,l,e st. John of
mmentators-will be sadly missed but
In his stead come score of professors from
Berlin. Bonn. Leipsic. Jena. Gottingen and
other university centrcs-reprcscnta,:v Of
biblical criticism, dogms.,c theology, and
indeed Of every professorship Of which
university 10 capable.
OF course. II would be folly to say that
on the great problems aSiialing the world
just now. ~ seldom before for centuries.
this meeting Of the Alliance will havc very
pondcrxble influence In 20 far a. il serves
to bring Protesianis together its value can
not I've overlooked. On the issue between
the ultra. montanes and the 50 called Old
Catholics, II may have It's power, because
the latter and PrOiestanls are vitality one,
the one having gone back. The other for
ward to the real and essential. On the other
hand, 1t 10 not At all likely that the more
floating, though not less dis,ractirg, issues
OF the day will receive any new Ugh, from
the papers 10 be read within the next twelve
days. though there IS abundant room for
practical work in this direction. without
transcending the proper limi.so If discnssior.
Siag1las Fatality
McC.r,k. WIN was recently killed n Yank.
ton, Dakota, by Winicsuutc. the banker. 10
the dtth member Of the family RI" has met
with violent death. Charles NJ McC.Dk,
the youngest. WINS killed nj the first hattie
Of Bull Run; Brig. Gen. Robert l.. McCok
Was assassinsied by gucSriiias. in Tennessee.
while sick IN bin ambulance; Mai Daniel
lcC sOk. the father If the family, was killed
while In pursuit Of Morgan. during his Ohio
raid: Brig. Gen. Daniel McCOok wss killed
II the battle 1T kenesaw Mountain; and
lssaly. Edwin 9. acCOOk. after meeting
bsavely I'll the hasarsls IT war. was assas.
sinaaed q YanktoR. ~ the Telegraph kss
alresdy reporied. Three SIMS remain: Cal.
0sos8e W. AcCOok, the eldest; Msj Gen.
A. NeD NcCOok. now In Texas; and Capt.
Jobs 3sCesk, Who > psaceieiDg ~.