The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1880-07-28
FOREIGN CHURCH NEWS.

1t has been matter of reproach to
Olney that it has remained for nearly eighty
years without any memorial to the poet Cow
per. This deficiency has been meet by the
erection of the "Cowper Memorial church I"
which, although intended for the use of an In
dependent congregation has been freely sub
scribed for by members of the Church of Eng
land and of other Christian communities AS a
further and more direct memorial life size
statue of Cowper is placed in the gable of the
new church facing the street.-Presbytetian
"A few Ritualistic churches in Eng
land have supplied many clerical converts, seven
Anglican clergymen have come over from st.
Saviour's Leeds; six from st. GEORGES in. the
East; seven from st. Bartholomew, Brighton
and three from st. Paul's Knightsbridge. These
four churches alone have taken from the Angli.
can Establishment twenty-three clergymen and
gwen them to the Roman Church.-T6
The Established Church of Scotland
is permeated so largely with Rationalism at the
present time that DR.. Watts, the outgoing Mode.
rator of the General Assembly of the Irish Pres
byterlan Church. designated a volume of ser
mons by representative ministers of the Scotch
Church few evenings ago as Paqanised Chris
t'Gn'ty-ans epithet which is exceedingly appli.
cable to the book.-I6.
1t sounds strange, but we believe
that it is fact, that in this nineteenth century,
and with the light of some terrible revelations
stu SHINING, small group gathered together
last month to celebrate, with some formal cere
monial, the establishment of the Holy Inouisi
ton. Only in Spain was such a meeting posi-
BILE, and In Spain it was held The Tribunal of
+ alth, empowered to punish heretics, was con.
stltuted by Ferdinand and Isabella on the LIST
Of June, 1880, aud Torquemada was appointed
Grand !nquisitor. 1t was abolished in 1908
having burnt 81 ,9l2 men and women. But
there 1--we In our time some men and women
who are not ashamed of this Internal institution
Presbyterian.
:" Scotch Sermons, 1880, are not
the stuff tn which Scotch sermons were once made
preachers Mr.. Stevenson, makes a plea for the
Nationalist IN the church. I" He may not"
says Mr.. Stevenson, be Theist in the sense in
which you are a Theist. He may not accept as
you accept the Christian doctrine of immor.
tahty. but does he thereby cease to be reli-
glousY We think that the Canada Presbyterian
is right in saying -" If these gentlemen preach
the gospel it must be after the fashion of him Of
whom the quaint and godly Rowland Hill used
to say that he preached the gospel much as a
donkey mumbled thistles-very CAUTIOUSLY. -
ID.
"A correspondent of the London
record writing from Italy says: " Demolition is
fast gong on. That which in England Is ap-
parently being built up, in Italy is in rapid pro
cess of destruction. A few more years and there
Will be no Roman Church. such as she non is. to
coquette with, and to initiate. As it is she is in
the mind of the majority of the good in Italy a
church fast passing away. What presses much
more upon the minds of Italians than the pros
pect of demolition is that of reconstruction.
and the basis and principles on which it sbould
proceed. Here it is that they want direction.
l wish could place in the hands of some of the
eminent men whom L acquainted with in
home and Florence copy of our own Book of
Common Prayer in Italian"
= The Standard says that the follow
ing petition is in course of signature, and will be
forwarded to the Bishop of Lincoln to be pre
scented to the Upper House of the Province of
Canterbury " To the Most Reverend the Arch
bishop and Right Reverend the Bishops of the
Froyince OF Canterbury in Convocation assem-
bled-the humble petition of the UNDERSIGNED
laymen, communicates of the Church of England
whereas within the last fifty years the Ro-
man sequence of colors' has been adopted for
aitar cloths and vestments in many English
churches to mark the different seasons of the
Christian year, in accordance with the usage of
the Church of Rome, thereby rendering the use
OF ecclesiastical colors of the Church of England
more IN accord with the use of Rome than if
was even prior to the reformation; and whereas
Chls Roman use is opposed to the traditions of
the Anglo-Saxon Church; and whereas also Il
is opposed In principle to the final settlement of
1867, and to the Ornaments Rubric' of the
BOOK OF Common Prayer; wherefore your peti-
TONERS humble prayer that a committee of con-
vocation may be appointed to inquire into the
existing use of ecclesiastical colors in the Church
OF England. And your petitioners. as in dutv
bound, will ever pray" A similar petition is in
course OF signature, and will in due course he
forwarded to the Bishop of Durham to be pre-
scented to the Upper House of the Province of
York -
The building of new Anglican
Church IN Rome on the corner of the Via eGGesu
Maria and the Via Babuino has drawn from
Cardinal Valletta a strongly worded protest adj
dressed to the Syndic of Rome. The Cardinal
writes that 1T is with real and great regret he
learns that portion of the Convent of the Bare
footed Augustinians, near the Church of the
Gesu Maria, has been coded to the administra.
ton of the so called Church of England that
In Rome, where, until these recent times berasv
was never permitted to enter, the munioipalitv
itself has by solemn contract consented that
In one OF the most populous quarters and in a
building erected for the use of a RELIGIONS com
munlty, new church of Professionalism shall IN
the scandal OF the citizens, be built. is such a
1act as could never have been foreseen He
says that the object for which the area was coded
must have been known TO the city officials from
the contract and they have actually infrinoed
existing laws IN permitting the erection of the
church for the bill for the suppression of mo-
nastic orders allows the Municipality To Obtain
some of the buildings of tba oer,yyu.,..:.:-- r.