New-York tribune., 1879-03-29
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.

| died recently within a week Of each other
A new Moravan church has been organized
I'm Phi adephia and ground for new church euinoe
will be broken about the middle OF May
DR.. Howard Crosby has been invited 10
preach the next course Lyman Beecher lectures a
Yale and be has given informal consent 10 90 So
A large number of the Episcopal clergy Oh
Baltimore have published protest against certain
practices in what is known as the EMISSION OF Mouht
| Calvary Episcopal Church.
The membership of the Lafayette Avenue
Presbyterian Church. Brooklyn, has reached l'OSl'
which believed TO be the largest yet attained Oy any
| PresDyt erian church In the country
The Sunday school Assembly which is to he
held IN the Yosemite Valley the coming summer prom
ses TO be very successful leading men OF all denoniha
| tions are interesting themselves IN it,
| At q recent meeting of the Cherokee Indian
Baptist Association eleven churches were represented
and 500 pei present. addresses were maze ny
the Reys Jack Walkingstck, Poor Wolf and MI "hirl-
wind.
Cardinal Manning, now in Rome, goes ire
Quenty to the Vatican hear the Lent sermons OF 10
attend whatever ceremony may be performed On d.
Patrcks Day he expected 10 preach the annual sermon
III the Church of the Irish FraDciscans st. lsidora
It is said that i'll Rome there are constant
examples OF a mode of burial which is snti-Caholc II
| not utterly Pagan hearse. bearing the symbols oi
the ancient Republic including serpent ana the lclters
s. r. O. r., but without the cross or any Christian EN-
blem contains the dead body. No priests accompany
the cort6ge band of music prccedes the hearse and
score or two Of follow carrying banner or nag
OF association Nor is religious service peIIormed
at the grave
In the picturesque town of Uust, on one OF
the Shetland Islands off the coast OF scotland, the Rev.
Dr. Ingram Free Church minister. died at the age OF
lO4 He had been seveDty-sx years in the ministry
and until a short time ago was able to go about,
although had Of late been somewhat deaf Travellers
were accustomed to long distance to see the aged
man, and sometimes a stranger finding BIN out OF
doors would approach and inquire where DR.. Ingram
could he seen, getting the prompt reply: " am Dl
INGRAM" -Four generations OF the Ingrams have lived
in one house, and son OF the deceased ceDenarlan
now an old man. is also a Free Churcn minister
The appropriations for foreign missions III
the Reformed Dutch) Church. were $4,000 in 1865
and they are also $4,000 for 1S79 but the reports,
almost without exception show increase under every
other heading WORK has practically doubled In ten
years the outlay has remained the In India
there 764 communicates and 4,39S members OF
congregations in 1877, against 112 communicates and
60S3 members OF congregations year later The Annoy
Mission in China reported years total OF 947
communicates and 400 members of congregations,
against $50 communicates and $3.50 members of CON
gregatiOns for the past year.
Mr. Mursalls captious criticisms in his let
ters from this country London newspaper, continue
to call out sharp replies from the newspapers Of his own
denomination in this country. The Hatchmdn speaks
this week. OF his bilious discharge" referring TO his
story OF Fororn little hole of place about ten
spefuness the untruthfulness and the cOarseness Of
his letters, which can hardly be imagined by any one
who has not read them An authoritative statement is
published by The Wdtchmdn that the lyceum committee
"under the impression that Mr.. Mursall eminent
English orator, engaged min IN their course at their
highest price"
A Methodist clergyman, the Rev. NJ. G..
Bullock of Oswcgo is to be tried in April for heresy by
the Conference OF Northern New-York. lie is widely
and esteemed I'm the central counties OF the state,
tba IN att He
Gently preached sermon the Universast fath and
certain sentences then uttered the basis Of the
charges now made. "Unversalists believe" he said,
that all punishment is remedial do not believe the
theory is necessarily heretical Nor in my judgment
does it mitigate in the least the terrors of law,
promise any immunity TO the sinner. Following
necessary cOrollary OF This proposition Is the doctrine
which is most specifically characteristic Of the denOm-
inaOn, that OF the hna restoration OF all souls to obe
dience and happiness"
Certain editions of the Bible, owing to the
errors they contained, have received many odd names
What is known as the Breeches Bible" Geneva 156Ol
was called because Genesis ill.,. was translated
They sewed fig leaves together and made themselves
breeches" instead OF aprons" as in the English
sion now used In the Treace Bible" Q5Gs), jeremiah
viii, % was made to read is there treace In
Glead" etc. ms cad Of balm" and im 1909 the word
was changed TO "rosin"; balm" was first used in
1911. The Vinegar Bible" printed in Oxford In 1717
by John Basket derives it's name from the heading Of
which made to read, Ihe parable OF the
vinegar" The D1Ok had many other errors from which
it also been called after the printers name, "
P%1std and in 1882 another appeared in GERMANY
both of which made the seventh commandment read
omitted. II has been very appropriately called the
" Wicked Bible"
Leo XIII. was no sooner raised to the throne
than comparisons made between him and Plus *.
and usually 10 the dsparagement OF Pho Mono 1t was
said of the late Pope that he fond of the world of
% t,a din of colt.
tude and study he had dislike. few weeks in the
country made him long for return 10 Rome and bit
gossip declared that he had "never read book in
the thrtywO years of his POntihcate." His encyccas
aud allocutons composed By scrIbes to whom he
gave notes the Italian tongue and not infrequently
Cardinal Antoneli gave hints to the scribes But of
Leo Kill, il said that he loved to be silent and
alone giving himself to study and meditation, and that
converted he very grave aud serious look
ing at all subjects from an elevated point OF view His
spokeu words were few, and he seldom laughed. He
incessant reader and writer soon after his elec-
tOn he shut himself M and began 10 prepare his hrt
encycca. When at his work be would permit no dis
tuTbance; he loved The quiet and solitude OF the coun-
try and was given to walking alone Win nasty steps IN
his garden.
The late William Hewitt had never been
baptized but though born and educated Quaker, he
had been in the habit Of taking part in the services of
the American EpiscOpaan and the Scotch Presbyterian
Church In Rome The Church Of England has no burial
service for uubapzed persons and the English clergy
man who followed Howitt's remains to the Protestant
cemetery stood apart while they were placed In the
grave and the American chaplain, the Rev Mr Nevib,
mprovised impressive OF prayer and singing
The chapter OF the Bible which Mr. heyn read WAS the
Yivth OF St. Johns Gospel, where Christ comforts his
disciples with the hope of Heaven and processes that
"He is the way, the truth and the life" Mrs. HowIt,
after this chapter read remarked that 1t mad been
her husbands favorite chapter since he was child.
When only ak eight years old he observed one day
that his father IN deep g1ef from the death Of hs
father, and the child unbddeu, took up the New
Testament ard began read to his father this xvth
chapter Of ST. John lie had not read verses when
father thanked him and begged him 10 stop saying
the verses had already soOthed his grief.