, 1874-05-31

Presbyterian doctrines, and has requested tina
his name bo stricken from the roll His reques
has been granted.
Tho Rev William Full, pastor Of the NoF'
Ql.) Methodist Episcopal Church, has peer
transferred to the Colorado Conference.
Tho Rev stopford J. Rane, hto Vicar OF
payonhau, has boon appointed travelling secro-
tarv to the Church Of England Temperance So
| cety.
Dishop Harris, OF the Methodist Episcopal
! Church, has concluded to make thorough ~
| epect,ou Of tho work Of the Church III 6caudi-
| nayia, and will not return until fall-
Tho Rev. Alr. Webb, pastor Of tho Presby-
terian Church Of Adrian. 11ich.,. has resigned,
| and accepted call to tho Second Presbyterian
Church. IN Salem, 0.
Tic Rev. a. J. Leyenbeyer late pastor OF the
Presbyterian Church i'll Rockford. ILL.,, has gone
to DenlBon. Texas, to take charge OF the Presoy-
| tcriAn Church there.
Tho Rev. ]. H. Buckley, pastor OF Summer
field Methodist Episcopal Church, Brooklyn, n.
Y, received = check for 81. 600 to start hm IN
housekeeping with his Ne" wife
| A New Haven paper states that the Row Or.
! John Hall will succeed the Kew. III beecner
for the next year as the lecturer On preaching
| before the Yale divinity students.
Tho Rev. Dr.. Nelson. Of Lane Seminary, late
| pastor OF tho Fifth Presbyterian Church, Gin
cipnati, has preached his farewell sermon in that
| church, and has gone to reside IN Geneva, N. 4.
Prof. Edward Judson, Of Madison University,
| who has been preaching lately in the Warburton
| Avenue Church fonke1s, N. Y. is going to Bos-
| ton for couple Of yearH to purBuo soma 1aVoI-
| ite studies.
t Tho vestry Of Trinity Church, Now YORK.. has
| Dismissed the Row Alya Wiswell, for sixteen
t years an assistant clergyman of tho parish. be-
| cause Of an application made by Mrs W1s"eu toS
| divorce.
Tho Rev. F. r. Ellinwood, ons Of the secre-
| tarieB Of the Presbyterian Board OF Foreign
| Missions, is making arrangements for = trip OF
eight months to China and japan, for the pur-
pose Of visiting the missions in those countries
The Christian Union makes an elaborate spol-
| OCT to the Rev. John P. Gu1iver, formerly pas
tor of the New England Church Of this city, for
publishing an allegation that he wrote the 5ook m
| called, Law and Pen81ty Endless in An Endless
Universe"
| 4 New York paper says the Rev. Dr.. Armi-
| tage, OF the Fifth Avenue Baptist Church, Ne"
| York, and the oldest pastor in the city, keeph
greenhouse in his garden, filed with the oholceat
plants and flowers. When called to v1slt tue
gers. he cuts bouques, as gift to the afflicted
| one This tender thoughtfulness has been the
keynote OF long and successful ministry.
Bishop Wllberforcc, tho late Diocesan Of Win
I cheater, England, WAS always accessible to
everybody, always ready to go anywhere, no mat
|
! population, always devising how to smooth over
| differences and bring his clergy into unity With
ono another. Young aud ambitious men. after
| staying with him week, would say, "Wel, II
slave" And tho slave Of his diocese
he truly was. Only lie gloried in his s'a-
very Tho Bishop Of oxford Was but tho Rector
of Avcrstoke writ large. Il eVcr there wns
man or Bishop who fulfilled the injunction to
endure hardness, aud that in many forms, that
| Diahop Wes Samuel Wi1berforce.
RELIGIOUS MISCELLANY.
London Catholic priest has offered to say
mass nco week for any one who will regularly
send him the Times second-hand, on the day OF
ts publication.
The following conundrum is asked BY relig-
ious pap er: "How many Of the prayers which
arc now made would bo made if there was no.
body but God to hear them7"
The proselytes to ritual1sm says the South
H'd1c, Daily Ae,o*, rapidly and daily increas-
| ing in Cardiff and the neighborhood, while dis
eenting protostantiem is withezins. and Protsst-
antism within the establishment il constantly
waxing fainter and feebler.
Mr. spurgeon, in recent letter to the Chris
tfdn at Work, attributes the remarkable prog
Of religion in England, in late years. to tho
earnestness with which tho neH 90 doctrines nave 81
deep-soated prejudices Of the people in regard
to Popory. Mr. Spurgeon says:
II anybody had told mo twenty Jears ago that ths
Witch Of Endo1 would become Queen Of England, I
should have believed 1t, "a that Es should
hare aeen such High Church Development; but tho
fact is the earnest and decided, and held
what they behaved most firmly and did not hestte to
push their cause. Ths 4ge therefore, goes DO I'M
pressed it will receive what IS taught BY Jealous man.
| whether It be truth or falsehood.
II. c. Clermont Ganneau, who made the ex-
posure Of the alleged falslty Of the Shapiro col
| F3@afrfainR hiq ranaral A8EArtio79 n
gard to the receptions carried on in the East in
antiquities OF all kinds. "Very recently, he
saya,"1 have been offered, for 10 francs, the
very seal OF David, servant Of Jehovah en-
| grayod in hard stone in Hobrew-Phenlcian let
| ters little fantastic, but quite egible- And
tomo time ago was offered stone covered
| With cha1actera newly cut, something between
Hebrew ind Himyaritic! expect soon to have
| the tables Of the Law and tho yellow PhGnician
book containing the correspondence OF Hiram
| and Solomon"
| A correspondent OF ths st. Louis Globe. who Is
| Presbyterian, says: II will give reward Of
$50 to any ono who will giyo tho nalno Of .
Presbyterian minister, who is member Of =
/ presbyteIy under the jurisdiction OF tue General
| Assembly OF the Presbyterian Church OF the
| United States OF Ano1ica, who has, ut any time,
| preached the doctrine Of infant damnation and
| will giva $50 additional reward to any ono who
| can point out any article in tho confession OF
| faith or ca:echistn OF this Church teaching this
horrid doctrine. AS infant damnation has been
charged upon Presbyterians in IN editorial Of re-
cent date in the Globe. tile aboTo reward ia Of
| forcd for the proof"
Tbe Hester7a Methodist says:
Chaplain Sunderland, Of Washington City, +, sort
OF heavenly wtre-pulcE, He excefa that Enrth Pole
prayer builder, bis predecessor, Chsplaiu Newman.
1t that somewhere in the funeral services Of
Senator Sumner Chaplain Sunderland ventured to ask
blessings upon tho officers OF the Government, aud
then On ths WY toward Bosten, to tho hurt. Il oc
CURED to the petitioner to he throne Of
| grace that he had forgotten the Vce-Prosident No
doubt the Lord would have overlooked any little omis
sion like that. but 6unde1lands praJer directed
/ to the newspapers well to heaven
indeed, possibly rather torard the press than
the throne. And, Illuminating upon tho look Of the
thing in print rather than expecting ansver from;
the skies, Chaplain Sunderland teegraphed horizontal
II to Washington City to the printers to type in the
Vice-Prezident. Whether hs sent the supplementary
petition vertically In suc wsy to overtake tbs New
| Jcrusalsn message il not known"
Bishop Kerfoot, OF Pittsburgh, In n late ad-
dress, titus discourses OF the proposed American
prayor-Book of 1785, used BY the followers OF
d.. Cummins: Nothing but very gross ignor-
rance, GROSS classification Of history, can
| explain the recent and current statements made
about this book. The ignorance is palpab1a and