The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1875-09-22
FROM THE NORTHERN STATES.

Le.rangt0n Gazette
FROM THE NORTHERN STATES.
Unemployed Ministers.-An exchange says :
There are more unemployed Episcopal clergy
men in New Y ork than in any other denomination.
Assistant ministers and missionaries have very poor
pay A great many men in orders are keeplDg
school, writing books keeping books are employ
ed on the daily papers, and exc out scanty living
in various ways. Regularly ordained Episcopal
minister's who are assistants iD churches, are regu
larly in trade, or on the Stock Exchange, and on
the street some are we'll known real estate men,
aud have Offices in the city. These men on Sun
day perform regular duties In connection with
regular parish meeting was recently held, pre-
sided over by the bishops and eminent clergymen,
for the increase OF the ministry. Ii was openly
said that the that society was so weak, aud
that SO little money was given to raise UP new min
listers was that there were so large number OF
men now in orders who had nowhere to preach
Oae eminent man stated that it would be better
economy to put to work the ministers they now
had, and support those who we're already in the
field, than to expend money in raising up a new
supply. that might be equally idle"
Open Communion The Baptist Union gays /:
"Tne first Baptist church in America was founded
in d yer, N. e., then called Piscataqua. Han.
sard Knolys pathered it in the spring OF 1888. and
according to Backus, continued to serve as pastor
of it until the fall OF l74l, when he returned to
Eogland Benedict says OF this church, History
OF Baptists, p. 497, The church at Dover, to
which Mr. Kpollys oficisted, was probably on the
mixed communion plan, as was very common in
those days In incipient movements of this kind.
The first church at Providence was formed in 1889,
more than year after that at Dover was founded,
and that was also liberal"
Manipulating "a Methodist writes in the New
Orleans Christian AduOcate his objections to the
custom of making propositions, asking people to
rise up kneel down" etc., as sign of some
state OF mind. We quite agree with him that this
practice is often carried to uusavory extremes
There is class OF evangelists who seem to delight
in getting audience into their hands for the sake
of exercising their power over them ia this way
We have several times felt that the meeting had
become circus, and expected the introduction OF
hoops and order for the ustih ID people to jump
through them.-let]tOdist tft
Bishop Coke and DR. Seymour Bishop Coke has
written TWO letters to deputy 10 the Episcopal
General Convention of last year, which have been
published in The Churchmaa and we're obviously
prepared Tor the eye OF the public. They relate to
the II lection of Dr. Seymour as Bishop of Illinois,
and his subsequent election as dean Of the General
Theological Seminary. 1t will be remembered
that the difficulty between DIR. Seymour and the
Bishop was very serious one, and that Bishop
Coke made charges OF doctrinal error and verbal
misstatement against the rejected bishop.elect =
Those charges he now repeats In his first letter
he denies that DR.. Seymour's election as dean was
"vindicatiOn' OF his doctrine or a condemnation
of the General Convention scourse. In the second
he makes his definite charues of falsehood. The
matter in dispute is whether DR.. Seymour did or
did not authorize visit of Father Grafton of Bos.
ton, to the Seminary for PROSECUTING purposes
Bishop Coke says be did, aud quotes statements on
the matter from DR.. Seymour which be thinks
prove the latter guilty Of Misrepresentation and
evasion.
Arrogant Claims.-The position of the Romish
Church, IN regard to education, is becoming every
day more clear and indisputable. The Catholic
World for September has the following: The
superiotondence and direction of the public schools
as well as those wherein the mass of the people are
instructed in the rudiments of human knowledge, as
of those where secondary and higher instruction are
given, belong OF right TO the Catholic Church. =
She alone has the right Of watching over the moral
character of those schools, of appointing the mas
tiers who instruct the youth therein, of controlling
their teaching, and dismissing without appeal to
any other authority, those whose doctrines or man
ners should be contrary to the purity of Christian
doctrine" The point at issue is perfectly plain.
Rome asserts that the charge of education belongs
exclusively to the Roman Church. Ii is right
which she holds Immediately from God, is inallen
able. 1t is "a papan error to say that the State
is master OF education. Philadelphia PresLyte
ran.
Commemoraticn of DR. McMillan.-The Presbyte
rians of Western Pennsylvania had a good time re
Gently in Washington county, in service in com
memoraton of the first sermon preached in that
region By the Rev. DR.. Mcmillan. Oae hundred
years ago he came from the East, where he had
been reared and educated and preached in various
places as he had opportunity, finally settled as pas
tor of the churches of CHARTERS and Pigeon Creek
The exercises of the centennial consisted of address
es biographical, historical, and memorial, and were
altogether interesting to the hundreds of people
who gathered to hear them. The Presbyterian
Banner says He took an active part also. in all
the public movements, and if any of his descend
ants are or have been afraid to preach politics. they
did not inherit it from him for on Monday after
communion he would sometimes hold meeting to
consider public questions, upon which those pre-
sent would vote, adopt resolutions and prepare
petitions to be sent to the Congress and legisla-
ture.
Consolidation Of Theological seminaries.
Congregational papers are beginning to urge the
consolidation of toe Theological Seminaries at
Hartford and New Haven as benefit to the gen.
eral cause of Congregationalism. If the types Of
theology which these two schools once represented
have disappeared, we do not see why they might
be made one Insy ARE certainly not as much
Bibliothsca Lutherana-A correspondent Of the
Lutheran Observer announces as nearly ready for
publication Bibliotheca Lutherans, or Com
plete List of all the Writings of Lutheran Ministers
in the United States. 1t will appear about Chris
mas of this year.
The American Board of Foreign Missions has re-
duced It's debt to S44 600, large sum, but less
than was expected some time ago.