New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-05-23
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.

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and that the Remaining tendencies of the age
are apparently such that even separation from
the Establishment cannot destroy them.
A church said to be of this denomination was
recently set up at YeOvil and report OF the
proceedings coming to Bishop Gregg-wh0, by
the way, seems to have readiness of getting into
trouble frequently-the Bishop has written q
letter to the church saying that he finds from
the description of the chancel that among the
furniture there are no less than six carved
figures" of saints and sinners and that he fails
to see in what sense church with such orna.
ments can be said to be reformed or how God
can be hOnOred or spiritual worship can be ad-
vanced by such material symbOling idOlatry.
Since the Prayer Book used in the Church is the
one which has Bishop Gregg's certificate the
Bishop "cannOt in any way be compromised in
q matter so serious" and adds that the den0mi-
nation to which he belongs canOnIcally forbds
in It's churches the use OF images" OF any KIND,
"molten, painted or CRAVEN" and that therefore
the church at YeOVil "caunOt be and is not in
any way, connected with the Reformed Epls-
copal Church. under the jurisdiction Of Bishop
TOke and myself" He confesses that, person
ally, he is an cOnOclast and that it would at.
ford him much greater pleasure to hear OF
craven images $50 plainly forbidden by the
second commandmenD being pulled down and
pulvcriZed than to learn that they are being set
uD as appendages to Reformed worship"
NJ. LoYsoN's CHURCH.-There is discord in
the new church of NJ. Hyacinthe LOysOn, on the
Rue ROchechOuart, III Paris. 1t has often felt
the need of money, but more serious trouble
appears to have come upon it now. The Able
Rane Bichery, his late vicar, has brought an
action against NJ Loyson for libel. In March,
1879, NJ. Bchery became the, vicar, and in o
years time the two disagreed and separated.
NJ LOysOn had put up notice to the erect
that hencefOrth the church would be placed
under the provisional jurisdiction Of the Bishop
of Edinburgh, but to this NJ. Bchery declared
that as Catholic he could not submit, and ac-
cOrdingly left the church with feelings Of in
dignatlOn. On the following day he returned
to get his books and garments. but they were
denied to him. A summons followed, to which
NJ LQysOn responded with cOunter-summOns
charging that the vicar had carried OIL the poor
box, the keys Of the church, and, among other
property, the sum of 100 odd francs. This, NJ.
BIchery says, is libel, and he demands in addi
burse him for the cabs used by him IN executing.
the ernnds of NJ. and Madame LOysOn.
A DOCTRINE OF HE'LL DIsAvowED.-The
Rev. MyrOn Adams, pastor OF the Plymouth
Congregational Church at Rochester, surprised
many of bis congregation last Sunday evening
by the utterance OF strange doctrine III his
pulpit. Before he began he said lie had some
thing to say which might affect bis standing in
the Church, and with these words for his text,
" Let love I've without discrimination" he boldly
denounced the popular notion OF hell as doc
trine Of the devil, and accepted Canon Farrars
position lie further said he believed the
Church was declining. Skepticism, he said, was
crushing the Church, and the Church was in
fault for preaching false doctrine about the
future condition of the race. sensation de-
scrihed as profound was the result OF TINS Gle.
claratiOn. 1t is said that the chief members OF
Mr.. Adamss congregation are with him III
opinion, and that while others are opposed to
him, and declare he has no creed, and ls liable
to advocate almost any heterOdOx belief, there
will be no attempt to bring about his resigna-
ton.
Mr.. SPURGEON.-In a sermon on the sea, TAX
ing for his text The sea is His and He made
it,H Mr. SpurgeOn recently remarked that on
the water man seemed. to get nearer to Gods
work and that as the "wave swel'od and
roaIed, 80 as to drown all the parks of artillery
that ever doomed forth to slaughter human be-
ings for the pleasure OF kings, there was sub
lime grandeur in the scene" He rldiculed as
unworthy the fear which many people entertain
of the sea. The Lord himself and His disciples
went to sea and He was the Lord High
Admiral of the waters and never gave up His
rank. He owned the sea by the right or crea-
ton, but at the same time tie meant man to go
to sea- for He gave him dominion over the fish
thereof; and if no one ever crossed the deep,
how could man have dominion Il eref Man was
meant to plough the sea as well as the land.
Man was Gods VIcerOy, holding under the
king, and paying quit rent OF alteration and
reverence"
INTOLERANCE IN RUssIA.-It is not at all
probable that Dissenters III Russia as o body
will receive full liberation for some time to
come, owing, it is said, to the absence of
Official data az to the injurious influence OF
their respective beliefs. 1t is only the Old
Believers who have any chance within reason
able time of securing complete federation,
and in their case, this Is due largely 10 the
harmlcssness of their doctrines. Meanwhile
the Jews continue to be expelled from st.
Petersburg and other large towns, whether they
be Of Russian or of foreign bilth. AT Lambor
q week las been given to all Hebrews within
which to quit the district the immaculate cause
of the notice being that they were fOund prepa-
eating Judaism with great success among some
Sabbatarlans.
EyANGELICALIsM IN RUsSIA.-A sect called
PashkoyItes is just now the cause of consider
able anxiety in the orthodox church OF Russia.
II is of recent origin, and is confined thus Tar
chiefly to st. Petersburg. The founder OF 1t Is
General PaSbkOn, who got his 1lSt impulses
from an English missionary several years ago,
and alreadY it possesses i'll ST. Petersburg no
fewer than fifteen meeting places. Evangel-
cal preachers have been dispatched to Tver,
Mini N0vOgOrOd, and Simblrsk, but what sue
cess they have found, there is as yet no report
of The ritual of the sect Is very like that OF
tho Evangelical Christians i'll England, from
which il sprang, except that to the Use OF cards
and story books to amuse children in the Sun
day-schOOs, toys and lOllipOps have been added.
FUNERAL MISREPRESENTATION in the garden
of the Villa Farnesina at Rome for the purpose
of widening the Ted of the TIber, nave yielded
hes6e other interesting archaeological results,
n scpnlchrum containing several funeral urns.
-Four of the urns are OF the finest workmanship,
the decorations beng reliefs of fruit. and
flowers Ashes and calcined bones were found
IN them, ms also in TWO others, which latter con-
tanned in addition two gold rings with onyx
stones somewhat damaged by fire, but still per-
feet enough to show an mtaglio. 1t is believed
that the ums had been previously discovered
in the building OF the, Aurellan, wall, which
masses near the spot, and that the finer urns had
been robbed of their treasures while the plain
ones escaped spoliatOn.
THE JESUIT DECREEs.-An association COM
posed of Lcgtmists and BOnaparst ,lhas formed
Itself into committee at Paris, to resist the
French DEGREES against the, Jesuits., 1t consists