The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1873-10-15

Rev. DR.; Simpson of England, and President POr-
ter OF Yale College considered Education and
Literature ); at the Madison square Presbyterian
church, the Rev. DIR. Parker OF London. the Rev.
ID. w. Beecher, and others discussed THE Pulpit
OF the Age, and at the Broadway Tabernacle
Sunday Schools" was the topic.
FIFTH DAY.
Three sections met on Wednesday DR.. Dorner
OF Berlin, Prof. Hitchcock of the Union Theologi-
cal Seminary, the Rev. DR.. Fsch of Paris, and
Others discussed Popery Since the Vatican
Council" Prof. Kraft of Bonn, the Rev. DR..
Storrs aud others, read Dapers on 1.-THE Old
Catholics in Conflict with Romansm;" and Prof
Fisher of Yale aud others considered 1.-The Prn-
ciples of the Reformation and the Eyangelizltion
OF Roman Catholic Countries
SIXTH DAY.
Not less than five sections of the Evangelical
Alliance we're held on Thursday, two of which we're
divided into morning and afternoon sessions. so
that really seven different audiences assembled to
hear the papers of the Evangelical Alliance read.
At Association Hall, at ST. Pauls Nj. Il. church,
at the church of the Disciples, at Madison Avenue
church, and at Oivet Mission large audiences we're
in attendance, morning, afternoon, and evening,
thus evincing increased interest In the proceedings
of the Conference
The First Section met at Association Hall. In
the forenoon papers were read by the Rev. W. ID.
Freemante, NJ a., of London, on THE Church
and the Nation" by ex-President Theodore D.
Woolsey, D D., LII. D., of New Haven, Conn,
on Constitution and Government in the United
States, as Related to Religion by ex President
Mark Hopkins d. D, LII D., of Willamstown,
Mass, on The Sabbath Made for Man his Con
sequent Right to Legislation for Securing Its
Ends" and by James GirdlestOne Of London on
Legislation upon Moral Questions.
The Second SecHon met in st. Paul's NJ. E.
Church. There were three papers read; the first
by President W. H. Campbei, d. D., New Bruins.
wick, N. j., on 1.-The influence OF Christianity on
Civil and Religious Liberty the second by the
Hon. j. l.. NJ. Curry, LII. D., Richmond, Vir-
ginia on the same subject, and the third by Prof.
Daniel R. Goodwin, D D., Divinity School, Pbia-
del phia, Penn, on The Effects of Civil and Re
ligious Liberty upon Christianity" At the after
noon session. held in the same church, the Rev.
DR.. NJ Hopkins, ex- President of Williams Col
lege, repeated his paper on " The Sabbath after
which there was brief discussion ION all the pa
pers read
The Third Section met in the evening at the
church OF the Disciples, Madison-avenue and
Forty ftth-street, at which Prot. j. +. Asti6 oil
Lausanne, Switzerland read paper Oh = The
Free Churches on the Continent of Europe;" the
Rev. John Hail, D. D the Rev. L. Y. Killen Of
Belfast, Ireland the Rev. i h. Berkeley OF Lur
gan, Ireland, and the Rev. Prof. NJ w. Jacobus
ID. d., Allegheny, Penn, read papers on the gen
eral topic of The Support of the Christian Min
istry."
Prof Theo. Christlieb D. D., University o.
Bonn, Prussia, repeated his important paper OF
The Best Methods of Counteracting Modern In
fidelity, in MadlsOn-avenue church.