Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-10-05
THE EVANGELICAL ALLIANCE
Immense COncOurse Of People at AssO-
citation Hall-Anotber Meeting
Organized.
Addresses by Leading Foreign Dele
gates-BishOp Bidell, Of Ohio,
on Professionalism.
Protestant King In France-The Great
Convert from Pantheism-PrO-
gramme for Next Week.

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Convert from Pantheism-PrO-
gramme for Next Week.
| New YORK, October 4.-The second
days session of the Evangelist Alliance
was begun by prayer in Madison Square
church, Rev. DIR. Adams officiating.
After which, the delegates assembled in
the Association hall, the galleries of the
latter place, reserved for the public, be-
came so crowded, and so many people
were in the streets striving to gain ad-
mittance, that the meeting was organ
lied in DIR. CrOsby's church, on Twenty
fourth street, at which addresses were
made by Rev. Mr.. MarstOn, Of London,
and Rev. DR.. Conrad, of Philadelphia.
Promptly at ten O'clock President
Wolsey called the delegates to order,
and Rev. DR. Frank Conlin, of Geneva,
offered short prayer in French. Rev.
DIR. Hodge, Of Princeton, then delivered
an address on the unity ct the church,
arguing that each denomination should
recognize the sacrament and orders of
the others, when, instead of reerimina-
ton, all would be one mystically in
Christ. Addresses were also made by
Rev. DR.. Porter, DR.. CroOke, who repre-
sented Bishop Simpson, of Philadelphia,
and the Dean of Canterbury.
The morning session of the EYangeli-
cal council was brought TO a close by the
reading of the paper by the Rev. G. G.
Dallas on the communion Of saints. At
the afternoon session, Bishop BedalI, of
Ohio, read q paper. After paying high
tribute to the virtues of the late Bishop
MeIlvaine, Bishop Bedell continued: /:
% Il is charged that Professionalism is a
failure because Of its division into sects.
But uniformity is not necessary to unity.
Professionalism is not a church nor ne
CATION. There was no uniformity in the
church from the beginning. Union is
not unity. There can be union between
denominations ignoring minor differ
ences. To-day, sects, under the mask of
Rome, are cOntending more
fiercely than Protestants. DenOmi-
national distinctions arise from
national prejudices, physical build and
mental capacities, and we will have de-
nominations until truth and free thought
are crushed out. Differences in the
ichurch are the necessary preservatives
of a free gospel. We are living under
law in which denominationalism is con-
sistent with christian unions. There is
among christians union with the Faith
er, with Christ and with the purposes of
the church. The union for which
Christ prayed-the union of the Father
and the Son-cannot be seen. The
prayer of Christ has not been unan-
swered, and the church has always
maintained at unity with which de-
nominatiOnal distinctions are consist
ent.n
Rev. DR.. Cook, of Paris, followed
Bishop Bedell, and said there was no.
where more unity among christians than
in France. The Protestant pastors are
in perfect accord as to their ordination,
and it was a common thing for the
three principal Protestant churches to
unite with the reformed church in the
solemn act of ordination. The Young
Mems christian association and Sunday
schools Of France are founded on the
principles of the Evangelical Alliance.
At the bedside Of Adolph Menot pastors
of different denominations were called
by his own request to give him counsel
and administer holy communion.
Never was the word evangelical so well
known in Paris as in the war Of 1871,
hen these Evangelical Alliance ambu-
lances, in the days of the commune,
the brethren used to hold united meet
ings for counsel. In conclusion the
speaker said what was chiefly needed in
France is the frequent interchange of
pulpits. Rev. w. Noel. of Berlin, de-
livered an address in German.
Rev. F. w. Conrad, of Philadelphia,
delivered an address on the interchange
of pulpits, maintaining that interchange
should be confined to evangelical pas
tors. Next week an opportunity will be
given the delegates for an interchange
and declaration Of their opinions on
the papers read. The conference will
terminate on Sunday evening, the
twelfth instant. Tomorrow evening
C ,mmunion service will be held in Rev.
DR.. Adams's church, at which Rev. MIR.
Lehechedrah. an oriental convert from
Pantheism, viii assist. This gentleman
wishes it stated that he cannot possibly
accepthalf the invitations he receives to
make addresses, but arrangements will
be made that all attending the confer
ence may hear him. His remarkable
conversion is accepted as a grand in
stance of the power Cf Gods word in in
fiuencing the souls of men. Tomorrow
side at the meeting at the Academy OF
Music, while another meeting will be
hold in Steinway hall on Monday. The
conference will be divided into two sec
tions-theolOgical and philosophical.
The exercises at the associations hall,
Monday evening, will be conducted in
the French language. Tuesday evening
there will be services in the Madison
Square church for the faculty, and stu
dents of different denominations attend
ing the conference. On Monday next
Brooklyn will formally receive the dele
gates, and in the evening dinner will
be given there in the Academy of Music.
On another evening a public meeting
will be held in the same building, when
addresses will be made by the foreign
and resident members. The Evangeli-
cal alliance has accepted an invitation to
visit Washington on the fourteenth
instant, and will hold public
meetings at the Metropolitan
church, on Fourteenth and Fifteenth
streets, at which President Grant
and members of the cabinet have been
invited to attend.
Early to-day an announcement was
made that some of the aldermen had re-
fused to sign a call for special meeting
on Monday to vote the hospitalities of
the city to the evangelical alliance, but
the requisite number of signatures were
obtained by three O'Clock. The names
of five aldermen, known as German
members, were not attached to the call
at that hour, and two of them had re-
fused to sign.
An important book, and one that
anticipates in great meak ure the official
history of the Franco-German war, has
just been published in Berlin, in Major
Won Hahnke's narrative of the operations
of the army of the crown-prince, who
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