The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-08-12

political economibts anu legislators already here, ana
many suggestions have been made for limiting It's
increase. Tho ecclesiastical property Of Romo and
otncr parts Italy already disposed Of by the Italia
government has natted $i02 s23, 600. an amount OK
cecdng by $2 600 900 what the entire property was
expected 10 realize And yot the government has re
served many buildings for It's uses. and every conn.,
mune and considerable city has shared In the division
Of such structures could DO turned to account,
There are many converts st occupied by tho monks
IS temporary privilege. or until il can be seen 10
what use they can be put Thirty-two such monastio
buildings in aud about Naples have been handed over
to the public within a short time There Is. however,
hardly any danger OF such An accumulation OF prop
ery the hands o! religious corporations here as IN
Europe Tho people OF America are two materialistc
TO give 10 the Lord 10 the Church unless they see
good chance TO get back more than they give. We
can therefore, sleep easily, assured that no tcmpm-
ton shall bsIall bot such as Is common to man.
The poty of the Catholic Church better fitted 10
cope with refractory members than that OF any other
Church Hence very little ecclesiastical chickering's Of
that Church come to the surface, II any exist
Once awhile, however, as II TO remind the hier-
archy that the Church 10 mundane still, wave OF
trouble rolls across their peaceful breasts Just now
the Bishop OF Buffalo, N Y, has had 70 exercise srbi-
trsry authority toward q church IN Lockport. IL -
composed OF Germans, and formerly three trustees
held the property but Of late the number was IN
creased 10 seven. These have boon divided among
themselves on the right Of the pastor to receive or
disburse any OF the funds oil the society couple OF
weeks ago a trustee stationed himself at the
church door to collect pew rents. The pastor, Row
Father Urch lett the altar aud ordered the trustee 10
dssst and return to place, which he refused 10 do
At the time three other trustees made threaten
ing demonstrations toward their pastor and the sight
tn Tim laaet uuxe last
the Bishop sent another priest the church to cele-
brate mass at the close the building was locked
up and the pastor appointed assistant In another
church in the city. The congregation meantime have
the option stay at home receive religious instruc
ton two other churches near by. Similar
action was taken by former Bishop twenty five years
ago toward ST. Louis Church, Buffalo, when Father
Uron was pastor there. Is he a O, man to be placed
In sole charge of a church?
DR.. McCosh, of Princeton, N. j., has raised storm
about his by what the Iettgencsr and other re-
ligous journals hero call his unwsc speech before
the Presby terrain Council He told that august body
what hundreds OF them must have known was not
strictly true, that the American style Of preaching
adopted from New England lrst to write boauti-
full essay then hunt around tor text to ct it, and,
having found this to read II before congregation on
the Sabbath Tho people have grown tired of this, the
Doctor says and hence they run to Scotland and Ire
land find such men Drs. Hail. Taylor, Bevan, Or
miston Ings and others, who give them simple Bible
truths But he saw improvement Of late IN tho Amer
lean pulpit and he predicted that by and by the Amer
leans would boat the Scotch preachers and turn
them out We presume the Doctors remarks were
intended in humor rather than seriously, but tho
point of the Joke Is nne our exchanges cannot soc
it, OF course Dr. McCosh knows very we'll that all tho
Imported Scotch and Irish preachers in America for
twenty-five years past would not suffice TO oil the va
cant pupits In his own here to-day, and
yet the hundreds OF thousands OF converts added to
mis- Churoh every year must result from TINS kind o:
essay preaching which he condemns. And the Doctor,
ioo be forRetful that before he or the good
brethren named by him ever saw these shores there
lived and preached here man named Fnney, another
nam.d Edwards, and q certain New Englander named
Lyman Beecher and few Others whose lame swept
the Atlantic. So that all the good things In
America do not come from Scotland We say this
modestly OF course, because good thing may some
times come from Ireland, we believe New York and
Nav Jarsev Presbv teriauism did.