The New York herald., 1877-07-05

Will pe Mouerhteo Dy tne new. Or. Uoolu, OF
the Free Church, and the Rev. DR.. Phinn,
of the Established Presbyterian Church of
Scotland. The representatives Of the oldest
and the youngest bodies of Presbyterianism
will thus sit side by side as brethren and
friends. 1t is now forty-four years ago since
the Free Church parted from the Establish
ment on the question of State interference in
religious matters, and this is the first effort
at afiliation or union made since that time.
OTHER BODIES HoNoREp.
The other churches represented in the
Moderatorship of the Council are the Re-
formed Dutch Church Of America, by the
Rev. Dr.. Ormiston, of New York; the
United Reformed Synod of France, by
Pastor Fisch, of Paris, who will be remem-
bered as delegate to the Evangelical Alli-
ance, which met in New York in 1873.
THE EVENING MEETINGS.
The Presbyterian Church in England is
represented in the Moderator's chair by the
Rev. J. Oswald Dykes, d. D., of London;
the Irish Presbyterian Church by the Rev.
DIR. Bell, the American churches by the
Rev. DR.. Kerr, of Pittsburg, Pa, and
Elder Junkin, Of New York, who pre-
side in turn over the evening meetings
HISTORIC RDIFIcE.
In the heart of the old town on the High
street stands venerable fame of irregular
and remarkable exterior. The old
Gothic work upon it has been touched
unkindly by the hand of time and
the hand of man, but its square tower,
surmounted by arches which unite
in the centre and support spire that
rises one hundred and sixty feet
ipto the air, is we'll known to those
who have followed in the footsteps
of John Knox. This is the Cathedral of
st. Giles, named after Edinburghs
tutelary saint at the time when saints
counted for something even in Scot
land. How long ago it was erected no
one knows. Tradition says that for
thousand years the spot has been sacred to
Christian worship, but the earliest known
reference to the Cathedral is in 1850,
when good King David H. reigned. A
century later it is spoken of as q
collegiate church with forty affairs, and, with
it's nave over two hundred feet long, must
have been shrine where religious awe
might we'll have been inspired.
SIMPLE SLAB.
It witnessed many historic scenes, but
if you pass round the church to Parliament
square, where the equestrian statue Of
Charles II. stands in rich comparison, you
may have slab pointed out to you in
the pavement with the letters J. X. upon it.
This is where all that is mortal of John
Knox, the great reformer, lies waiting for
the last trump to sound, and where he was
laid to rest after life as stormy MS st. Paul
the Apostles, in November. 1879.
THE CHURCH OF KNOX.
You now get clew to the reason why
the Presbyterian leaders chose st. Giles for
the first meeting Of the Council, where the
voice Of grave divine would be raised to
preach unity among the branches of the
brethren that had separated on fine
points of doctrine during the three
hundred years gone by. This was the
parish church when Knox was pastor
of Edinburgh--Knox, who would rather
be right than be bishop or pope. 1t
contains three separate places Of worship,
and during the Reformation it was made to
accommodate four. Parts Of it, too, were
used as prison, as a police Office and an
office for the town clerk.
TRUMPET ToNaUEp.
Here John Knox spoke with that vehe-
mence and energy which the English Am
bassador said, ''put more life into me than
six hundred trumpets" Here, too, ''the ras-
cal multitude" as Knox called them, did as
at Perth and Stirling and broke up priestly
professions and smashed the images of
saints with the fierce iconoclasm of the
time, which was as much anti-English as
anti-Catholic.
NO MASS FOR JENNY.
Here the "greenwife," Jenny Geddes.
when the Bishop OF Edinburgh asked the
Dean to read the collect from the OBJ
noxious Liturgy of Laud, snatched
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