The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1875-09-08

1t is announced in England that Dean Stanley
has nearly ready an edition OF st. RaUtS EptStteS
10 the CoriathiaRS with critical notes, exposltory
dissertations, aud other aids to their comprehen-
sion. for scholars aud general readers.
The influence of the English revival meetings
has passed into the distant colonies. A series OF
meetings similar to those OF Messrs. Moody and
Ssnkey has been held in the townhall OF Hobart
Town, Tasmania with encouraging results. They
we're conducted mainly BY NoncoDtormlst minis
tiers. although one minister OF the established
church also took part.
Dean Stanley, being convinced that John and
Charles Wesley deserved memorials IN Westmln-
ster Abbey, has arranged to Introduce them him
self, and at his own expense. The example thus
set is an excellent one, and need not be restricted
to the subject of memorial tablets alone; applies
with equal force to all the small charities which go
undone while some warm-hearted person Is waiting
for some other warm-hesrted person to set the
work in motion it ia, in tact, only an application
of the rule, Ii you want anything done. do 1t
yourself - Christian Union.
Whole Bible in Chinese. -The whole Bible is now
for the first time offered to the Chinese in the gen
ersl coloquisl language OF the country. The Old
Testament has been translated solely by 5. j,
of the American Episcopal Mis-
sion. For this work he was emiuently fitted by his
early Jewish education in the Hebrew Scriptures,
aud by his later extensive study of the Chinese
language, as we'll as by bis general education and
mental qualities. After fifteen years of continuous
labor he is able before returning TO America for
visit to present to the Christian church
es in China this completed work.
Bible in France After the Universal Exposition
at Paris in 1867 the committee of the Bible stand,
encouraged by the success Of their distribution OF
the Scriptures, had Bible carriage built, In which
their agents should travel over France visiting the
fairs, the villages, aud the pesssntTy. They have
thus caused q wide circulation OF the Word OF
Lite, 500 600 gospels and epistles have been gra-
tuitousiy distributed In nearly two thirds OF the
forty departments Of France, besides large
numbers of Bibles aud Testaments that have been
sold. Rev II. Q. Guinness says that IN this way
the secret of how to obtain liberty to preach In the
open air in the towns aud villages of France has
been discovered.
Representation in the Council of the Presbyterian
Alliance was arranged as follows: For each Church
with less than one hundred congregations two del
egates other churches to be allowed representa-
ton proportionately to numbers; no Church to
have more than forty delegates. Upon this basis
America will have one hundred and twenty six
delegates Great Britain, eighty-two delegates
and the rest Of the world, eighty-two delegates;
making in all two hundred and ninety delegates
The Northern Church will be entitled to forty del
egstes; the Southern Church to twenty eight
Ii was decided to leave the travelling expenses of
delegates to be settled between them and their
churches. There was agreement on all questions
save that raised by the United and Reformed Pres
Oyterian delegates of the United States, who re-
quested the insertion in the Constitution OF
cause prohibiting any but psalm singing at the
meetings OF the Council. Many inclined favorably
TO the request, but it was finally deemed inexpe-
dent to accede to the demand. A Committee
was then appointed to make necessary arrange.
ments for the next Council with DE-. Bake of
Edinburgh, as General OonveDer.
The Old CathOlics-Rev. Dr.. Schaaf who attend
ed the recent odd Catholic Union Conference
at Bonn, Germany, thus writes concerning their
aims
1.-The Conference, after three days session,
adopted fourteen theses Of agreement on the basis
of the old eeumeniosl creeds. The immediate OBJ
ject was to unite only those churches which ad-
nered to the creed and order of the Primitive
Church, and thus to form league or confederation
of ante Tridentloe churches Of J9re dtrtno eps-
copsl succession. DR.. D0.linger seems to con6ne
himself TO this aim but the body OF the Old Cath
olcs look beyond the narrow episcopal boundary,
toward q union with non-episcopsl evangelical
churches and it is well known that the Old Cath.
Olic Congress OF Constance sent two years ago a
fraternal letter to the General Conference OF the
Evangelical Alliance In New York One OF the
leaders Of the Old Catholics told me frankly that
he would much rather negotiate for union with
Lutherans, Presbyterisns, and other Protestsnts
tnan with Orientals and such Anglicans as are on
the way to Rome, while the Ola Catholics are
turning away from it.