Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-02-03

darkness and to certain ruin?
To-day's San appeals thus to its
readers: Anything that damages
the general business of the country
is injurious to the interests of the
nottingham. What he wants is
at good wages. Bust
ness men and capitalists have to
him. If business men and
are alarmed or agitated
orin any way thrown out Of gear,
all labor is correspoudingly dam
aged. Congress is thus doing at
this moment all it can to increase
the sufferings of laboring people.
The Sun also comments on AS
semblyman Swifts anti-fee (?) bill
as worthy the attention OF older
communities than California.
sund.y Reading.
NEW YORK, Feb. 2d.-An able
correspondent of the Church Jour-
nal recently accused DIR. Seymour
of the systematic practice of pri-
vate confession to a priest and said,
"Now, what the Bishops and
Standing Committees of the Church
need to know is just how far the
Dean of the General Seminary en-
courages, favors or winks at prac-
tees among the students which
have no warrant in the prayer
book, canons, rubrices, articles or
pastoral of the Church, but are
rather forbidden there. Rector j.
w. Sparks, who claims to be q
competent witness, declares that
he never listened to any one more
loyal to the Church or more COM
petent to defend it and who does bet
ter defend this branch of the Church
against the arguments of the Ro-
mish sect. AS to the ritualism re-
ferreG to, the Professor is the last
man to encourage it among stu
dents. He has been accused simply
because he is charitable to all and
does not encourage prejudice.
Since DR.. Seymour, who has been
proposed for Protestant Episcopal
Bishop of Springfield, Illinois,
needs only three more votes
there is no doubt of
his confirmation. The following
is the vote of the dioceses so far as
heard from for confirmation: New
York Missouri, Minnesota, Illinois,
Massachusetts,, Maine, Tennessee,
Quincy, Indiana, California, West
ern New York, Albany, Central
New York, Long Island, Texas,
Fond du Lac, Arkansas, Georgia,
Northern New Jersey, Wisconsin;
total, 81. Against confirmation:
Southern Ohio, Kentucky, Penn
sylvania, Central Pennsylvania,
Virginia, Delaware, Iowa, Louisi-
ana, Kansas; total, 8. The vote OF
Northern Ohio was tie.
The Independent says: DR.. Ever
asks two questions concerning ritu-
alism: care any secret confrater-
mites or guilds ut the heart of the
movement Of the American
Church," He answers: "Not one."
care there are any secret CONTRA
ternities or guilds at all?" Not
one.n We are glad to hear it; and
now will DR.. Ever be kind enough
to send us the last annual report of
the Confraternity of the Blessed
Sacrament, OF which he has been
the presiding officer? We wish to
publish the names of the clerical
members.
The Hopkins letters have brought
out letter from Bishop Gillespie
in the Church Journal. One of the
facts introduced by Hopkins to
prove that ritualism has been aban-
doned along the whole line is,
that, since Or. DeKoven's rejec-
ton, ten Bishops and dioceses
have clustered around him and the
Racine College. The Bishop says
that his own action was simply in
dividual, and that his diocese has
not clustered at all. He regarded
the Racine College, and not DIR.
DeKoven, as the interest involved.
He says that he did not doubt that
when ten Bishops of contiguous di-
oceses, not selected by DR.. De-
Koven, have the veto power over
all the other ones in regard to the
worship of the Collegiate Church,
no departure would be allowed
from the law Of the church, aud he
is still Of the same opinion.
The American Church Missionary
Society has handed over to the
Board of Missions the care of the
Protestant Episcopal Mission in
Mexico, This Mission, which is
known as the Church of Jesus, has
about 1900 members and 5000 adj
herents. 1t has been helped to the
extent of 100000 and requires an
annual appropriation Of about
$4,000. The American Church
Missionary Society will confine its
labors hereafter to the home field.
Rev. Douglass Hope, of Christ's
Church, Oxford, and Rev. J. b.
White, of Pembroke College, Ok
ford, both Curates of the Ritualis-
tic Church of Saint John the Di-
vine, at Remington, England, have
been received into the Roman
Catholic Church at the Church of
the Redemptoist Fathers, Clap
ham.
The Public Worship Regulation
Act, passed for the suppression of
ritualistic practices, by the British
Parliament, in 1874, has failed in
the case of Fowler against Gardner,
because the proper documents
were not forwarded to the defend
ant. In the case of the Bishop of
London against Mackonochie for
the use of illegal pictures, counsel
have expressed the opinion that
the pictures have been so long in
st. Adams Church that they are
protected by the Public Worship
Act.
More than hundred years ago
Trinity Church, Boston, received
legacy of $4,000 for the support of
an assistant minister. This fund
has grown to SS0,00O, the income of
which is ample for the support of
Two assistant ministers. The Court
mas ordered that it may be so APP
piled, as this is fairly within the
ntent of the testator.
The Illinois Supreme Court has
affirmed the right of Bishop Che
\ avis o0nnranotipn ta tho z,E,,.ol,