New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-11-02
RELIGIOUS INTELLIG ENCE.


mond recently contained article headed IAN Afri-
can illacc rs Seen by Dean Stanley"
At Stratf0rd on Avon has been laid the
foundatior-,t Of CONGREGATIONAL chapel which
will seat 500 persons and cost about $4,000.
The colOred Bdptists Of Kentucky have de-
termined 10 establish normal and theological school
AZ Iuisy He and agent has been appointed to RARE
S95, 600 Tor she purpose.
The Seventh Day Adventists now have in
this country twenty conferences and two m!ss,ous
Their churches number $40. increase Of seventy
one and their members 1907 increase OF 1869
Al q revival IN Michigan rec"ntly the number Of CON
versions often reached, Is said, 100 ~ single day.
The salary of the Archbishop of Canter-
bury II s7J00O year. aud those of thirty archbshops
and bishops average S2675O the other hand, ont
Of $4,000 OF the Clergy only 30 ct more than $1,000
year. and g9I get less than II ooo while moro than
900 ct lee than 5000 The ministers ~ dissenting
churches IA LIZ lama probably are not az well paid as
thIs.
Dissanters in Russia number over 1j,OOO,-
600 IN, stunI.ts. who have the relation TO the
Or ok church that The Methodist, ID 10 the Chrrca 81
Eng and are Increasing rapidly that the Minister Of
Public Worship las dispatched commission TO Odessa
inquire lu" the CIRCUMSTANCES attending the CROWN
OF that aud other hcterodo1 sects.
On the heights of MOntmartrr, Paris, the
builders OF the Church Of the sacc Crur have been
unable 10 md suitable foundations for the structure.
The hill f. regularly honeycombcd In 1883 public dis
trcss I'm Paris was great that national workshops
were established. There 10000 paupcrs IN the
capital. Among other public WORKS the mound Of
Montmartrc was followed out Hence the dIli ultr~
encountered nv tho architects reaching foundation
10 ~, Immense depth aud To- nh with masonry.
The huliuS viii u" erected on these piles winch have
already cost an lImcu-c sum OF money.
4 new religion has appeared in India. 1t is
called the Ary1 somJ" and Of t,tcuc;s he ran NAL
Ga,eHc SAYS they comprise revival of most Of the fair
nnmaritcs Of old rel iou which are associated IN some
OF IN" mysterious rites of Which tac trustees u the
British Museum prrdcuty keep the memorials eel
lr" Az English member Of the sect declares that II il
the purcst religious increment OF modern times. and
rcformatory agitation which incuiodtcs morality Of
being -ccTc' society has been said II lH " the most
active and pnbc propaganda now existing IN INDIA or
ionarv enterprises 10 which, no doubt, II II bitterly
opposed
DIR. Pussy, in his recent letter to the Arch
bishop Canterbury admits that for forty he has
the confessions Of all who came 70 him. These
confessions. he SAYS many places had become habit
tual at the wish OF those who made them or persons
still living he had received confessions for some thirty
i've years What then, he concerns him is TO know
whether IN doing he has come under any censufe
from the hundred bishops assembled NJ the Lambeth
Conference ~ that part OF Their resolution when ran
II II the deliberate opinion OF the Conference that no
mn d, ~" ~ Saita coni".loH Dr. Psey dcyos
nearly forty-twO pages to hls arguments
A Catholic church, i'll whatever country it he,
IA the same all those surroundings that especially
mark itr Individuality. A writer in The Examiner
uondoul describes visit to a convent in one Of the
provinces Of Northwestern India. The approach 10 II
was though mango grove, noisy with the screecbes Of
green parrots But when he had entered the convent
walls Linda faded away altogether" Had he been
al the sacIC CGur In Paris at Brugcs or where
else where the Church bad but house for her yeSali
1t had seemed The same There IN the MIDST OF ndia ne
found the fragrance Of stale incense and fresh
lavender pcrncatiug the same whitc.washed parlor.
with the stlf-samc picture Of Plus H. and Of Mary,
with knife IN her LcaIt, on tHo Walls There, too
were the lOwyOccd, quiet sisters with the same
expression on their faces, and the same cold polite pat
ronage and pity FOR visitors from the wicked world
Statistics have been prepared showing the
progress OF Catholicism among the peoples of Anglo
Saxon origin II appears that In 1857 the number Of
Roman Catholic places of worship in England s9i,
but In 1877 the number had increased 10 3l5 Twenty
one years ago there only II religious houses for
men in England, while last year the number was 20
% converts other religious houses for women
Isted I'm 1857 but In 1877 they had increased to 239,
while the number OF colleges and seminarcs had more
than doubled In the United states, the Catholic popu-
lntion IN 1888 about Two millions, but twenty-0ne
later IN 1876. II had increased to SIX aud haf
millions. This population is ruled by 81 bishops and no
less than b3JS priests who minister I'm 5Oi6 churches
and J,7ll oratorieH and missionary stations.
Ii having been said that the coming of
Christ upon earth before the millennium II doctrine
taken for granted fifty years ago by many denomna-
tOnE, from whose creed III now seems 10 nave dlsap
pearcd The Chrisdn nteigeneO says that tenet has
never In the creed Of any OF the historical churches
and has never been held by any greater number OF
their members than 1t Ia now. All believers hold TO a
future literal personal, glorious advent OF the Lord
Jesus The question at issue Ia whether this advent Ia
closely connected with the general resurrection and
Judgment whether IL IL TO Introduce personal reign
of our this earth which is TO continue for thou
sand years after which the end IL TO The
the doctrine OF the ereeds aud OF the churches; the
latter IL the OF individuals and cOterles Of
whom piOus and learned, and some otherwise"
There have been many persons to question
the Christian faith Of Thomas Carlyle In private let
tor friend he quoted from the Lords Prayer"
and then said: 1.-THE other night, In my sleepess toss
ings about which were growing more and more mlsera
BILE, these words, that brief and grand prayer,
strangely into my mind with an altogether new empha
sis II written and shiung for me In mild, pure
splendor the black bosom OF the night there when
T. as were, read them word by word-with n sudden
check to my imperfect wanderings with sudden soft
OF eomposure which was much unexpected. Not
for perhaps thirty forty years had formally
peated that prayer; nay never felt before how In
tensey the voice OF mans soul s the inmost aspra