New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-09-21

and progress OF the Church in England, since last
visited 1t, in 1870 The changes very marked and
generally for the better. The Church Of England Is
very great and powerful element IN the national he IL
is everywhere felt like the air, even when unobserVed
il is so bound up with all that is English that do not
how it be from its old relations with the
state except by a revolution in which England itself
must perish 1t will be England longer, when the
Church to be what has ever been In the history OF
the past do think probable as did, that the
revolution will come in time For Englands SAKE
trust not yet for the Churcs sake we In America can
feel no apprehensOns we know how much better II is
for that enjoy entire freedom OF action iOr the
loss Of which nursing care OF princes would be any
compensation"
Last Wednesday at the Unitarian Conveu-
ion in Saratoga James Freeman Clarke read an essay
The New Theology" In the course Of 1t he said
1.-THE great Thelsms all worship God with human at
tributes Why mott Is not the soul Of man the highest
of all entities of which have any definite cOncepton
If mystery is the best type Of religion, what greater
mystery is there than the human aouli The soul
can not satisfied with the temporal and rises into the
Eternal The universal element in man is his reig
ous nature the convection that there is something D
vine in the Universe. There is tendency In this to
crystalline into forms. Rituals dogmatisms, pietisms,
prOprieties in religion, all harden into routine or are
frozen into creeds Men of fire have arisen to pour
life and light into them but these ancient forms have
all fallen into decay. The New Theology will be Chris
tan that is still the great force the world but will
not be in the line OF past creed5 1t has OutgrOWn
them The historic Christ is, however not outgrown.
He will still be the central fact and power He is the
central figure In human history One life like that OF
Jesus lifts forever to higher plane. He brought
aud brings God to men, and all attempts TO dlscredit His
work will be futile" The essay wasEreeted with loud
applause, which President HOar reprOved but the re-
proof caused still further disorder that marked by
great applause and laughter.
Elder F. W. Evans, on behalf of the Shaker
order in America, writes The TRIBUNE that the
called Shakers who recently elected from field IN
Hampshire, England, Shakers at all. No people
Of that order exist In any country except this Two per
sons he says named James Haase and Julia Wood once
visited the community at Mt Lebanon and afterwards
Joined the followers of Mrs. Girey becoming the I'M
whiting cause of an ignorant public giving them the
of Shakers" Mrs. Girley herself 1t will beremem-
bered, disolamed any connection with Elder Evans's
people, and said she knew nothing about them "TheTe
lie in between the Episoopalians and the
Grleyites" continues the Elder ethan between the Cir
leyes and the American Shakers They are the anti
podes Of each other differing radically and in all patcu
lars There the least in the world for call
ing them Shakers. They might be called Mormons or
Methodsts with far greater proprtety. The qlreytes
themselves have always dscamed the name OF Shakers
regarding IL a nickname. Originally that is what II
was the same Quaker or Methodist" The Mt. Leb.
anon people think It bad enough that the world
should have given them odd name in the first place
and consider still worse after they have made the
sble people who wholly unlike the true Shakers
but a not degIre 70 adOpt their name.