The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1880-12-01
FOREIGN CHURCH NEWS.

The FRENCH JEsUITs.-Dr. Pres
sense thus refers, in the London Christian
World, to the Jesuits, recently expelled from
France
These are the men who reduced Port ROYAL
to ruins; who, In the eighteenth century, pur-
sued the Jansenists to the very bed of death, to
make them give their adhesion to the bull Uni
genitus. These are the men who, after procur
ing the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes,
stirred up the most odious persecution and
bloody prescription against the Protestants, car
ried out at the point of the sabre, by the dra-
goons of Louis XIV. These are the men who,
in our own day, threw the Madiai into prison,
and sent Matamores to the galleys, and who
have obtained in the Syllabus the very religious
code of persecution. 1t i'll becomes such. surely,
to assume the attitude of victims of intolerance,
because they are simply forbidden to form them
selves into corporations which are virtual hot
beds of conspiracy against the republic"
In Switzerland they are endeavor-
ing to recover the lost Sabbath. The Sunday
business of one town has been so reduced that
visitors have begun to ask if it is an English
town. In Berne the market day has been
changed from Sunday to a week day. The
movement has extended to Vaud, and even to
Greece, where the merchants of Athens have
resolved to close their shops on every Sunday in
the year but two
From China we have accounts of
long journeys by members of the China Inland
Mission into little known parts of the empire.
Among them are those of two women missiona-
ries who set out alone and arrived in safety at
Hanchung-fu in Shensi, feat which would
have been impossible few years ago. A
Corean convert is translating the New Tesla.
ment and the Pilgrims Progress into his native
language.
The restiveness of the Broad-church-
men of the Anglican Church under the light
yoke of the standards of that Church is we'll il.
lustrated by the remark attributed to one of
their number, the Rev. Brooke Lambert in
which he calls subscription to the Thirty nine
Articles" a submission to forty stripes save
one"
The government of France has dealt
sternly with the unrecognized religious orders in
France. Indeed it is said that these orders
have practically ceased to exist in France. Of
three hundred and eighty four monasteries. with
400 inmates, only few remain. The female
orders have been allowed to continue without
molestation.
The eloquent and devoted French
evangelist, M. Revillaud, who has made mum.
Der of addresses in this city, affirms that mot
one tenth of the French people are really Ro-
man Catholic; that the peasantry are not in
sympathy with the Roman Church, and that
France is now open to the gospel and will well
come it everywhere" He instances one town
where three hundred heads of families upheld
by their wives, signed declaration abiuring
Romanism.
DR.. Pussy, the old Oxford Professor
whose name has been associated with the rise
and progress of Ritualism in the Church of Eng
land, has entered the lists in controversy with
Canon Farrar in regard to the punishment of
finally impenitent men His main argument is
one which is summed up in the following words,
and Is clearly undeniable:-" No one has vet
been found to doubt that the mass of Christians
have from the first believed the future punisb.
ment Of the lost to be everlasting. We see IL
even apart from Holy Scripture, in those close
upon the times of Jesus; it was the faith of the
martyrs; 1t was recognized as the faith of Chris
tlans by the heather. One who searched for
human causes of the first marvellous propagation
OF the gospel counted this belief as one Of the
five causes; that the Christians believed it so en-
ergetlcally as to be able to impress their belief
upon the heather also. No one doubts that the
millions upon millions of Christians, centuries
after centuries, have believed it."
The Irish Church Gazette thinks il
great scandal that at Conventions, Sunday
School Centenary celebrations ct cetera, in
Dublin, the Episcopal clergy are put on the
same footing as ministers of all kinds of schis-
matical bodies. Everything of this kind" it
says, is calculated to make Romanists think
that we pretend to no higher position than that
of Presbyterians Methodists and Independents.
with whom we thus publicly coalesce. What
can Romanists think of us if we pretend to
nothing higher for our orders than what the
call ca, OF congregation can give2" Sure enough
What any one with thimbleful of brains
thinks of such trash it is not difficult to deter
mine.