The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1879-09-03
FOREIGN CHURCH NEWS.

mere Is an English preacher, Rev. L. h. Wick
steed, publishing volumes of six sermons on
Dante. What will our censors say to that? The
sermons, or lectures, were delivered at Little
Portland Street Chapel, London (where the late
Rev James Martineau ministered) in 1878, and
repeated at Croydon. No texts are printed, if
texts were taken but the discourses are serious
and earnest, as BELTS the subject.
1t is stated that a new monthly magazine will
shortly be started in England in the interests of
the Evangelical party in the Established Church
The Congress of the International Federation
for the Observance of the Lords Day will be
held at Berne Immediately after the Conference
of the Evangelical Alliance at Basic.
All the French Protestant churches have been
invited to send delegates to meeting to be held
at Paris next month to discuss the adviSability
of severing all connection with the State.
1t is said that the Roman Catholic authorities
have sanctioned the printing and distribution of
the New Testament in Spanish.
The London Sunday School Union has ap-
pointed October 10Th and Doth, as days of uni
versal prayer for the Sunday Schools of the
world
The Canadian Lutherans propose to establish
a Theological Seminary.
Principal Tullock will probably be invited to
England as the successor of the Rev. DR.. Cum
mings.
1t is said that the Broad Church party in the
German Evangelical Church is out of favor at
court
Evangelical work of great interest is being
~ H. .
France Copies of the New Testament and tracts
are widely circulated and read, and there ap-
pears to be growing interest in religious sub
jects.
1t is proposed to organize new Society in the
Church of England, pledged to preserve intact
the Prayerbook as it now is.
Rev. George F. Herrick of Turkey, reports
that the circulation of Bibles and religious liter
ature in that country now numbers 10000 vol
umes year. The only mission, he says, which
can reach Turkey is woman's mission
Rev. Titus Coan, the veteran missionary to
the Sandwich Islands, says: II once thought l
should never live to see all our natives shod
with leather shoes; but many of the men wear
fourteen to seventeen dollar boots, with other
articles corresponding, and all are comfortably
shod and clothed in foreign fabrics.
Ifyou are weary of waiting just leave me, and
twenty years hence look this way again, said
Judson, when he sat in the gloom of Burmsh,
and his friends abated their hope Twenty years
after the above the Bible was in the Burmese
language, and 1000 heather had come into
Christian fellowship. What shall be after twenty
years?
There is evidently increasing interest in the
Roman Catholic, and in the morality that is
taught by that church. Wenote two significant
facts-frst that Kirwan's Letters to Bishop
Hughes have been republished in America and
that PascaIs Provincial Letters have been
printed in weekly paper published in New
Zealand. They are the most famous series of
letters produced in the course of this long con-
uOvecsy.
The Wesleyan Conference at Birmingham
adopted report in favor of an Ecumenical
Conference as proposed by the American Yves
leyans and has appointed committee to arrange
for the meeting.
1t is now regarded as certain that the Cathe-
dral of Cologne will be completed in 1880. The
finals of eight metres in height that are to crown
the towers have been commenced.
Leakage" is term of some significance,
which is beginning to be used in respect to
churches. The Wesleyans of England complain
of it. They had fewer members this year than
last year, the falling off amounting to 1924
members But %, 722 were returned as having
" ceased to be members" Here is leakage"
and the Conference was called on to con-
slider how it Is to be stopped.
The Methodists in England confess to falling
off in their numbers last year of 5000, but
Methodism does not seem to be near its fall, for
in London this body has raised 9l20,000 for the
erection of fifty new chapels, and thirty of these
are already completed.
The following is worthy of imitation between
all Evangelical denominations!
"a young minister desired to leave Method
ism and join the Church of England, but the
Bishop of Rochester declined to receive him until
he had paid up all that the Wesleyan Theology
cal College was entitled to for giving him his
training"
The RoMIsH CHURCH AND ENGLAND.-It is
stated that the Roman Propaganda is studying
ecclesiastical affairs in England very closely and
making every effort to ascertain the exact
strength of the Romish Church in that country.
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has been received with such expressions of al
most national approval, that the policy of push
ing the converts into prominence will be fol-
lowed hereafter more closely than before. The
ex-ritualists will be drawn upon for the episco-
pate, and the Remaining clergy of the Church
of England who become converts to Rome will
have excellent opportunities for ecclesiastical
advancement. The English converts who en-
ter the Romish priesthood do not give satisfac-
ton in all respects to the Church authorities,
however They are too anxious to select their
own places for work They object to the pro-
yinces, and they love London. Even in that
city they are not without preferences, for they
carefully avoid the Irish poor, who crowd vari-
Gus sections, and are given to small chapels with
a select and fashionable congregation to attend
on their ministrations. 1t is limited that the
spirit of insubordination which characterized
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