, 1874-11-08

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Tho vito Of tho Rev. DR.: Field, Of tho Ne.
| York Evangelist has just recovered from
| serious fit Of illness. She had wide fcquaint
anco among the litel AT circles Of New York All
Brooklyn.
The Centennial Committee OF the Preabyter
ian General Assembly have decided to erect
statue in Phladelpala to the Rev. John Wither
| spoon one Of the signors Of the Declaration O.
Independence
The recently chosen Bishop Of Shanghai is
native OF Mhryland, and is about IS years old
HI. graduated at the University OF Virginia, ant
studied Theology in the Divinity School OF Phila
delpbin. He was called, about two yenrs ago. t.
| the rectorship Of the cathedral In Reading, Pa.
RELIGIOUS MISCELLANY.
Aspeaker At recent Sunday school gatherin:
| in Montreal Thus speaks Of one Of tho Indlar
preachers among the Northern tribes: ''strip.
ping bis shoulders to show that he had thrown
OF all deceit he stood up and said that he had had
| vision. He sald the Gseat Spirit made htst
the sun, which took him week. He then rest
ed. He went to work again and made the moon,
and then, as it had nothing to shine on. ou1
mother,-tho earth. Then he created the buHa.
10, tho greatest gift to his people. After this
came tho red men. He put them here and said
You stay there He then created little
You stay there;' but they had so much fire in
20 everywhere, and crossed the Mater and came
hero. The Great Spirit must have put them In d
bad country, or they would have stayed in it.
They had no business to cross the big lake st ALL
but tLey have como here and havb got to stay
hero, aud I've got to tell you We had batter let
them alone"
Mr. Boeohor is delivering lectures to his church
on prayer. Recently, in one Of his Friday eyen-
ing lectures, he said:
have recollection, In my childhood. Of threo kinds
Of prayer. Ono family prayer, where my father
odated; tha second ths praJer Of my raothcr,-
my second mother, that brought me up md tbs third
tho loug prayer in church, There wore two things
Tia Tia lis. ~,s hat my f.thers prayers Tsrs .iTs5s
short. think that I. ts great inhum2ntty to get
children down On their knees and then pray hv The
halt hour m the deah Is weary and the spirit 100, and
the wuoie exercise IN 3rksoiue. Not only they
Short bu1 after tho earlier and elementary Petitions
they alwa broke out in the Language Of foresight or
hope He believed in the millennium and he almost a.
ways went forward into The great t1iumI future
when tho dev should be put for thousand yea.s
peting about. Ho used to walk through the heavens
With magnificent fgures Of every kind To these
s VIZ liz h aof ts
whole my recollection Of my fathers prayers Is very
agreeable: and think they were profitable to me, a.
though WAS little child.
The English Ritualists point With e1ultatiou
to the "perversion" of Lord Ripon as ore OF
the frat fruits Of Dierael.'s attempts 10 nut
doxn Rtualien in the Established Church, and
predict, IT the war is continued, that multitudes
OF Churchmen will follow his example. "Bsought
up" says the Church Herald, '',u school ct
rigid Eyangelicaiisn,, Lord Rivon's mind was
TOO honest aud bis heart too warm to be con-
tent with the traditions he Inherited. An In
sliactire rejection Of the NARROW scheme Of
Calvlu1Bm left him-as il has lett thousands Of
those who. in their carly years, have learoed
nothing better-a liberal and broad churchman.
But Lord Ripon is man both OF deep religious
feeling and Of large culture. He has read enough
TO find out that our Lord and His Apostles not
only enlightened the world By their teaching,
but also founded Church and when, like
one divinely grounded religious po!ity which had
the right to claim bis submission. be failed to
discover Ito characterlstics in religious organ
tzatlon superintended In the latitudlnarian in
terests. by Arenolshops Tait and Thomson. nn-
der The control Of Parliamentary majority.
Therefore, like an honest man Is he IL, he &C.
copied what had become to him the only alter
native, and with It whatever obloquy it may
h11ng from those who a7e unable to appreciate
hts motivea."
The English public are just now exercised as
to the authority and title OF the so-called Patli-
arch of Antioch. who has been made much Of by
the clergy. There are twelve persons who claim
the title, and among them ali it seems quite
probable that this one may bo an adyenturer. 4
London correspondent eays:
1t has bean asked whether this friend Of tho English
hierarchy il Monothelite, . Monophysite, Nesso-
rian, Jacobe, or !" = defender Of the Three Chap
tera" whatever they may be. One object Of this In
about giving his benedctiou 10 the English clergy IL
not Of tho herottcs who arc periodically cursed In
e from tho
fear that the Patriarch really falls under the n71edic
tions Of the High Church clergy. He belongs to the
proper By whom be IL regarded II hereto. aud As
J4cobite Monotheltte and, to soma extens Mono
physite, al rolled into one- It mhy BE- suspected that
The innocent English Bishops were chiaay impressed
by the venerable appearance Of the Patriarch and took
his orthodoxy on trust.
ar. Berry, Ffennell, writing in Land and
Wate7', says: "One matter Which think will
impress most strangers With feeling, Of disap-
VI Dowupatrick. It is neither tue city itself
nor the nne substantial cathedral On the bill that
evoke This f.elin8. Tney are we'll enough, trim.
thriving, Q notwithstanding On tho whole. and |
neod not fear comparison With other ca'hedrals
or ssthedral cisies Of Ireland. But something
more than disappointment, something like lndig-
nant surprise, takes possession OF one On being |
led up to what Is said to be held sacred a the |
grave OF St. Patrick, aud which rs such is Tis- |
tied, am told, BY muititudes Of American strau-
gers every year. It lies in the highest and most
central position in the otherwise decent1y-kept |
chu1chyard surrounding Dounpatriok Cathedral,
And is the one spot Of earth IN the whole |
1eglect and deaeoration. Around are graves |
mud g1avestones, ancient and modern, all we'll |
ordered and neatly kept, some showing the re-
ooot touch OF hands directed by loving care,
while the one which strangers would hava az
pected to find most honored and re1efed is the
only dishonored grave among them ali. The |
hole, unmarked by CROSS or
slab. now half filed with loose Enbble Of broken
bricks, stones. aud earth. is q disgrace to the
papsts, in that they claim to be Christians, have
n equal right to honor the restng-plAce OF this
faithful. fearless preacher Of Chr1stiAnity, who
xaa the first to bring the Gospel of Truth into
ization among her then wholly ba1barous Princes
md people, and whose feet first touched the
[rish soil upon the shores Of the County Down.
shall feel proud, indeed, It these observations