New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-04-02
GENERAL NOTES.

tramp who slept in Buffalo station-house
a., woek startled the sergeant with the exclamation;
.I am like Mohammed's coffin suspended between
heaven and earth without visible means of support"
Lord Coleridge advises English clergymen
t 70 crapple with questions which they do not under
,a,d He saws: "Sermons speeches which are not
,hroneh and in which imperfect argument is eked out
Nth feeling and devotion, do more harm than good
whereas man by leaving the whole matter alone, and
insisting on the spiritual needs of man, and the spiritual
81, which The Christian religion gives him. can AT least
40 no harm, and with many natures may DO hhhlte
good"
Deacon Alfred Cox of Bowdoin, Me-, had
occasion to reprOve his lad of Ia last Friday for
malurc disturbance at the brick Westinghouse. The
father tried induce his TO go forward and sit with
him in his pew but the boy refused to DO The dea
after remaining in the church half hour, set ont
for his house His had armed himself with rife,
and when he saw his father the road took aim and
Titled HIM The boy then went back 10 the church ana
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Here are two CHASTITY tales from Paris: AT
he last opera ball. when the dancers had departed the
vatehmen on making their rounds found the body of
Ueldresscd lady in OF the private boxes She had
been stabbed but whether her death was due to suicide
or murder is not stated ....A Radical died at Bezers
and his brethren resolved to give him downright civil
burial They followed him to the grave with pipes in
their mouths and bottles under their arms As soon as
The body lowered into the grave tie mourners BEGAN
singing and drinking, and having exhausted a thG1r
ins Tens roaG Ia pdrt!" Then they went BACK 10
the wine shops
Dean Stanley, in delivering a valedictOry adj
dress as Lord Rector OF the University of ST. Andrews
Edinburgh on March 16, dealt with topic which many
readers of THE TRIBUNE fond OF discussing in its col
umns-thc reconciliation of theology and science 1t Is
moi reconciliation that is needed, according TO bis yiew
lut the recognition that they and ndivisiblc
Whatever cnarcs mans idea of nature enlages his idea
of God whatever gives him deeper insight into the ma
tre Of the Author Of the universe gives him deeper IN
sight into the secrets of the universe itself Whatever is
good science is also good theology and IN like manner
religion and morality and indiyisibe. Whatever
tends 10 elevate the virue the purity the generosity OF
the prudent is high religion. Whatever debases the
MUD or corupts the heart hardens the conscience
under Whatever pretense however specous, Is low re-
Mgon nGdeity of the worst sort BE II ours said
fine eoducnt Dean, TO fasen our thoughts not on Inc
passions and parties of The brief to-day but ON the hopes
OF the lpl- ~ ' 81 osr,',as l,ta III,
uart,aus but the MORROW the coming century be DhSs
10 the ,alhonc comprehensive. discriminating, alien
bracng Christianity which has the promise, not or Tins
present tnue, but Of the times winch are 10 be-"
An ecclesiastical decision of grave import
apce will be rendered in LONDON this week. This is the
Judgment Of the Judicial Committee of the Pryy Coun-
ell in the FOX stone or Hisdale appeal case. The
charges against Mr. Ridsdale embrace nearly all tho
Hi,uasic practices. and confirmation OF Lord Pen
zances Judgment by the higher tribunal Will expose so
many High Church clergymyn TO prosecution that new
impulse may he gwen 80 the disestablishnent move
ment within the Anglican communion. The London
correspondent of The ChurchmGn UIarIcrd Conn., says
# Is unurcd that the five preates, who are aSSosSois
10 the cour; of final appeal agreed and have sent
in their d-ncnt II that is true some compromise mas
been prorosed The Anglican bench Of bishops has so
often betrayed signs of vaciliaton i'll dealing VITA ecclc
sastical questions that uneQuvoca confirmation OF
tbe original decision ia scarcely to be expected The
London TciepGph outlines the plan ot organization OF
tie new Anglican Church which those Iitua!iS;s Who
control to establish II j. 10 start
with n archbishop oi with very ancient titlc,
who Is 10 pe haktd 10y suffragan bishops ,ch win
titles FROM old English sees and these as also jhe alch-
bisboI rr 10 CuIsecratCd by foreign plcldc' Inc
difficulties attendant upon the conNeciatoo OF me arm
blshol, am, his StfrtgI>, lar regards any inter-
ference with existing Jurisdictions, Will be sUm"uhtSd
plan Of cOuSocratlNs Item upon me
high sea- The communion Is 10 he founded ON the
faith of tue undivided church before the scIlsm al iNt
and West. A brief SacTameutary" has been ohca"y
drawn up containing tie order FOR the ADMINISTRATOR
OF ,he Seven Sacraments The manual contains III
sanctions for The use "a the clsn prdycroL, ds III
the Creek and Roman Churches