The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1880-07-07
FOREIGN CHURCH NEWS,

Bishops have been conspicuous marks
for assaults of various kinds, but the most anus.
ing attack we have heard of a long time is the
onset just made on Canon Ryle A clergyman
has forwarded to the Archbishop of York a
protest, In which he says:-" Having read an
announcement In the newspapers that your
Grace proposes to consecrate DR.. John Charles
Kyle bishop on st. Barnabas' Day, venture
to draw your attention to St. Paul's express
statement that bishop must be the bus.
band of one wife, Il Tim iii: y, on which I
would respectfully remark that if this apostolic
law does not mean one absolutely and one onlv.
and not one after the other, it has no meaning
at all, for 1t would then imply that person not
bishop might have two or more wives at the
same time. Now, as DR.. Ryle has married four
wives IN succession, it appears to myself and to
many others that your Grace, as Guardian of
the Truth in the province of York, might with
no lmpropriety interpose your high authority
and desist from consecrating that clergyman
because OF this undoubted bar. Presbyterian
"A letter from Scotland, referring to
the case of the Rev. Robertson Smith, saws =
1t Is literally the fact that the Professor has
not converted half dozen persons to his views
Indeed, the only man 1 have heard of who was
prepared to go all his length was an able young
minister who died during the sitting of the AS
sembly-the Rev.. Peter Manson, of st. Fergus
The more Mr.. Smiths teaching has been known
the less it has been liked III.
The IRISH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
The Forty first General Assembly of the Pres
6yterlan Church OF Ireland met in the May
Street church, Belfast on Monday. June 18th
The Moderator of the Assembly was DR.
jackson Smyth, a brother of Professor Richard
Smyth, lately deceased, and of Rev HUGH
Smyth, now pastor of the Second Presbyterian
church of Elizabeth, N J.
1t Is not, by any means, sinecure to be the
Moderator of the Irish Assembly. The business
OF the once continues after the Assembly ad-
Journs. Dr.. Watts, the outgoing Moderator
this year, told the Assembly that he had, reck-
onlng his labors by the mile," travelled on the
business of the church during the year more than
4OOO miles, embracing two Journeys to London.
hVe to Dublin two to Derry, and two to Edin,
burgh."
One of the most interesting reports made in
G IN Assembly was on the subject of temperance
1t asserted that there had been decided adj
vance In the cause, and proved the assertion bv
the fact that $7500,000 less had been expended
In Ireland the past year than in the wear he
fore; The Sunday closing law was working
most benefcially.
The Sustentation Fund of the Irish Church
was larger IN 1880 than in 1879 by about SIS
UOO. DuI Ihe increase came from legacies-from
the hands OF the dead rather than the hands of
the living "a
After discussion of day the Assembly re-
FUSED to sanction the use of instrumental music
In the churches by a majority of one.-Ib.
The Jesuit order has been defined
to be " the Pretorian Guard of dangerous &c
clesiastical Ciesarism."
:. "A London paper states that the fol-
ling curious directions are given to those who
attend the Ritualistic church at st. Michael and
All Angels, Chiswick =" During prayers all are
requested to kneel. The kneelers should be
hung on the hooks provided for the purpose by
those who have used them"
The successor Of DR.. Duff in the
char Of Evangelistic Theology in New College
Edinburgh, is DR.. Thomas Smith, now pastor Of
the Cowgate church, Edinburgh.