New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-12-12


| that thing he ought 10 do so, because nc was d
| Churchman aud member OF thuiGh SOCIETY,
! hut If he was asked what u meant lntDbricaiy
he should say lt mattercd simply DOiblhg'
The Bishop said he did not want peOpe =" 30
rejoicing or clappipg their hands because w;
Pelham Dale was III PRISON. Dut ne WIshen
those who could not really minister lOya'iy anu
faithfully in the pulplts ara AT tic comm. nbion
tables OF the Church OF Eng.snd wOuin SEQ
whether they could find some other place wren
would be more cOngenIal to then. ne result
of these differences would, he teaieh, han 10 pe
dsestabli, hment and dlsend0Wment OF tho
Church OF FL gland, and rs he believed tba' IHe
cause of rCli gOn would be- retarded rather man
advanced 10y the destruction OF tie NalODai
Church, he lamcned the folly and Oh 'tIn9cy ~
that man who rather than comply WIN the re-
duIrements Of tie law-whICh were not tyran-
nIca-wOuld wreck a great Church FOR the sake
of maintaining an ornaments ruDrIc as though
10 were essential.
THE OLDEST MONTREAL CHURcT.-BoDse-
cOurs ChuIch has the reputation OF be.DG me
oldest church on the Island OF Montreal, having
been completed when the Church OF N0ire
Dame was yet in course OF erection. hai guc-
rte Bourgeois, WHIT founded u IN the year
1868, intended it for a nunuely, Dut mei WIN
difficulties, though she established one IN
NOtre Dame-sr. shortly afteTwaid. SGur 90
Bourgeois. IN order 10 obtain letters patent Tor
tie church she bull nag. made TWO Jour-
ueys to France, the first OF whlcI o. lC)J was
fruItless, but the second, In 1911, was SUCCESS
ful. Among the personagcs Madame Bourgeois
met with during this visit was Baron dc ran
champ, one oil the first pIOprletors OF the Island.
This nObieman had In his possession = small
image of tie Virgin, said 10 be endowed with
miraculous virtue, which had been reyefeG by
tine family for at least a century. THIS image
he was DESTROYS of having removed TO Mon
treal, and chapel ererted for IT. reception IL
was at once concluded that the IMAGE -hOud ne
transferred to Montreal to BOnsecours Church,
where, tn the great joy Of the inhabitants, on
the och OF June, 1873, the principal stones
lald with much sOlemDliy, MI on August
l., 1875, mass was JertCImed Tor the FIST tine
in the new CHURCH. Nearly eighty years after
ward il was consumed by fire, and remain cd IN
o state Of ruin seventeen years, when ITS re-
building WAS undertaken, aud OF June 80,
1873 It was again opened tor public OTship.
Many years ago il was bought from the sisters
OF the congregation by the fabrique of the
parish. to whom it sill belongs. IL J. COM
pleteiy hemmed II by warehOuSes-eyen strip
Of ground only eight or ten feer IN W DIN. eX-
tending along is side, beng occupied by small
stores
A LONG PAsTORATE.-Last sunday was the
fOrtieth anniversary of the installation Of tile
Rev. James d. Shaw DID, as pastor oi the
Brick Presbyterian Church, Rochester, n. \.
His pr0tIacied passionate has been marked 10y
nTmetOus revivals and by constant additions 10
the church membership, ! 500 peisO having
been received on confession during forty years.
The church now has LISP members. On lues-
Dr. Shaw by nearly all the prominent cleIgy on
the city ar public meeting held IN the
church. He was called upon to make the
closing address, after Or. Anderson ana others
had spoken. He remarked that an InJunc tion
had been served on him. and he could not say
all ne would IKE TO, but this much he would
say 1T he had remained IA bacheior-ihe ildli ~
a man, and the poorer half at that-he would
never have lived TO reach a iOrueth anniversary
Instead of that he would have been the poorest
stick that ever imposed on the cTcdulity OF
congregation. lie attributed much Of his sue
cess to his patience and the magnanimlty or ms
congregation, and that his sermons were easily
understood. Always had he Iabored to bring
his words down To the comprehension or
child. His conscious weakness had all along
been his greatest strength. and ali that he ha1
accomplished had been done III the strength of
the Lord.
DR.. Prime discourses sagey in the last b.
SerUer on the sin and folly of rdlculing other
peoples religious views. lie tells how one
evening III this city he was at public meeting
in Il Baptist church, with ministers of several
different denominations, when one or them told
a stOIy the point OF VIII On was o make hight OF
the rite OF bapUsm by immersion. The bid
taste, the bad manners, the atrocIty o. the
thing must have been painful t. every right
minded person 10 the house. And No one rite
Is more frequently made matter OF ieehic W.T.
ricism than the baptism Of Infants Ivy
sDrnkling and the baptism of adults by INN 2
sion. When a Baptist speaks OF blby-spurk-
le,s or a Pedo- Baptist speaks OF mmerSicni~s
"dippers," they are both offend IS against
Christian decOrum. In like manner the a'meus
OF the MethOdists and the forms ana yestments
Of Episc0pallans are often made fun Of by those
who do not stop 10 reflect that pecUllarltics are
the most sensitive places III ones sgt n, aad
whoever laughs at them wounds to the qulcS.
A Methodist minister of London, Canada.
read from the pulpit last Sunday letter from
yOung man who attended the Rev. l.. =.
UcmmoHd's revival services lasf winter. The
letter stated that the writer was reduced TO The
last stage Of misery being too proud 10 beg aud
too weak To work. He was therefore on the
point of committing suicide, Rud desired the
pastor to write to lis mOti.er informing her OF
her sons intentions. 1 he reading Of the letter
caused 4 sensation In the church.
The English IevIsers OF the NewT Cstnment
held their closing session on November II.
There were present during tie s. sl1n the
Bishop OF Gloucester ana Bristol, who PIE
sided; the Deans of " Westminster, Rochester,
Lincoln, and Litchiield; the MASTER at the
Temple Canon WesicOtt, Principals ADgus aud
Newth, Professors Hort and NOulton, and PIE
beDdaries llumphry and Scrlv .ner. VITA Mr.
TrOutbeck, the secretary. The company has
sat 407 days, and the average attendance has
been sixteen on each day OF meeting.
Cyrus H. Mccormick has given another
E Toe, 600 TO the Northwestern Theological
Seminary, and in IA few days this money Will De
placed III the hands OF The Treasurer. IT'S
viii place the seminary IN position TO oifer
strong inducement 20 Professor Patton 20 re-
main, rs they can offer him II chair similar TO
thai which he goes 10 ill ut Princeton. He has
fully decided however, 10 leave Chicago ana
all efforts to induce him TO remain viii be
futile.
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