The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-10-10
NEW YORK.
The Evangelical Alliance

sumed its session in Association Hall.
After the opening exercises DR.. Prime
announced that arrangements had been
| made for the farewell services at the
Academy OF Music on Sunday next,
1t was also announced that arrange
meuts had been made for the official
publication, by subscription, of all the
papers read at the conference. from the
beginning to the close.
Rev. w. II. Fremont, Of London,
spoke on the Church and the Nation"
He quoted several authorities to show
that in q Christian commonwealth the
State and church are identical. A
national system of church government
is possible with free room tor all. he
believed the authority OF this confer
ence should not be used against nation
al church government but to maintain
it in the right direction.
Ex.Presldent Woolsey, of New
Haven, spoke on the constitution and
government in the United States as re-
lated to religion. The constitution ex-
pressly provides that no law shall be
made establishing any religion or pro-
hibiting the free exercise thereof
No public act OF Congress touching re-
ligion, would have vail lity within the
borders ofthe United States. He then
showed how entirely different were toe
sentiments concerning religion and the
State which prevailed in the early his
tory Of the country. The constitutions
OF all the States established religious
equality, but the same power which
made these constitutions could unmake
them. After going into the subject at
great length, be closed with the inquiry,
"Could the United States be called
Christian nation2 In other words,
could nation be called Christian which
entirely separated religion from goyera-
ment2 He quoted the argument OF
Daniel Webster in the Gerard case to
show that Christianity was the law of
the land, and said that with all due de-
ference to so great a man, he dill not
think the case was made out.
Ex-Governor Hopkins, ol Williams.
town, Mass, then spoke on the subject,
"The Sabbath made for man and his
consequent right to legislation for Sc
curing its end" He held that il man
had been developed from an ape such
division of time as the Sabbath would
have been impossible. Its institution
must necessarily rest on authority and
on divine authority The law OF the
Sabbath is SO framed as to presuppose
natural law which man wouli never
have discovered. He further argued to
show mans right to all legislation nec-
essary to his proper Observance o. the
Sabbath.
Dr.. Prime then announced that the
Alliance would meet in four sections
tomorrow. The first at Association
Hall, where the general subject will be
Missions" The second at st. PauTs,
where Missions among Heatben and
mixed Populations" will be discussed.
The third at Fourth Avenue Presbytcr-
ian church, where "Home Missions"
will be discussed. The fourth at Madi-
son Square Presbyterian church, where
foreign delegates will deliver addresses.
j. Carvel Williams, Of London, then
opened the debate on the papers read
to-day. lie compared Woolsey aud
Freemartle. and thought the first
gentleman had sketched q reality, and
the second an ideal. The speaker
himself believed the tendency in Eng
land was more towards the system OF
the United States, and he felt sure q
broad church could never exist in that
country. He argued at length in favor
of a voluntary system, and the separa-
ton oF the civil aud religious govern
meut.
Rev. DR.. Meuzies followed in favor
OF a union OF the chnrCh and State. lie
spoke of an incident which happened
shortly before he left Scotland. When
in country church he saw the Queen
and her Prime Minister at their deyo'
tions. In great part of Britain, owing
to the poverty OF the people, it would
be impossible to support religion with
out the endowment OF the church, and
he hoped it would be long before
the government would lay its hands on
the benefactions devoted to this purpose
and apply them to other uses.
The Conference adjourned till Up. m.
The second section Of the Alliance
met in St. Paul's II. E Church to-day,
Rev. DR.. J. G. Crookny, presiding.
President Campbell, of New Bruins.
wick, read a paper on "The Influence
Of Christianity on Civil and Religious
Liberty" He defined Christianity as
the power OF God and civil and religious
liberty as the mission OF Christianity.
J. NJ. Curry, OF Richmond, read a
paper or the same subject He said |
the government OF a nation should rot
dictate otis subjects on religious mat
ters. The separation of State and
church is freedom for thought and the
proclamation OF the essential dignity Of
man. 1t means that the government
cannot interfere between conscience and
God. A national church is built on
the fiction that every subject OF the gov
ernment is a member Of it.
Proi. Gooowln, OF fhliSdelphla, reau
a paper on the effectsiof civil and relig' |
ious liberty on Christianity, alter which |
the morning session closed.
The Stokes Trial.
The Stokes trial began in Oyer and
Terminer to-day, Judge Davis presid-
ing. Judge Davis rendered a decision
on the question raised by the defence
whether, at the beginning OF the new
jury year, the Commissioner of Jurors,
having list OF twenty thousand or
more names, could select select two
thousand for his first contribution to the
jury box. The District Attorney, to
test the question, had filed demurrer,
raising the question whether on such
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