New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-09-19

| Bishops Coke and Doane are but Quixotlc NJ.
tacks upon a windmill. The Religious Herald
| welcomes the prospect Of a revised Bible be-
| canse there are so many instances in which
change is demanded, as IN the passage, he
that eateth and drinketh unwoi thily. cateth
| and drinkeh damnatiOn tO himself, when
| merely means judgment or condemnation, ous
| by which in it's present sense, many tImid
soul has been kept from the comfort OF tho
| Lords Supper.
Bishop Fraser. preaching in Manchester. Eng
| land, few Sundays ago, entered protest
| against so much attention being paid TO dis.
putablc arguments aud questionable points OK
doctrine " in the present state or society. lnero
was, he said, truth in the remark recently
made by Mr.. John Bright th1t men were weary
| Of dogma They were weary OF IL as IL had
been fun mated again and again from pupits,
bur he did not believe that Mr.. Bright meant
| that men were weary of hearing or those great
Christian truths when were the basis OF all
! Christian hone and the foundation OF all Chris
| tian faith He was filed with anxiety 10 know
| how to deal with the phenomena which pre-
| scented themselves IN society, and he could not
understand how men could persuade themselves
| to waste time on mere Duerllities
veteran Biblical translator, DR.. Wenger.
| died IN Calcutta on August 20. He bad trans
lated the historical and prophetical books OF the
| Old Testament and the Gospels AMI Acts INTO
! Sanscrit. putting the poelical parts OF the Old
| Testament into >anscrt verse. HIS labors IN
|
scholars as DR.. Rajendralaa Ultra and the late
| Professor ii. H. Wilson. In Bengali he exc.
cuted one OF two revislons Of the translation OK
| the Bible, and parts of it he translated afresb.
| His version Is used by all denominations OF
Christians in Bengal DIR. Wenger was a swiss
| ty birth. He went out to India In 1889, and,
with the exception of about three years spent
| in two visits ~ Europe, he passed the whole OF
the intervening period In India. lie belonged
to the Baptist Missionary Society.
The Rev Walter @. Scott has asked the Phil
adelphia Central Presby terry to investigate the
charges OF heresy preferred against him by the
faculty of the University oil Wooster, Ohio.
He was asked TO resign his professOrshp on
June 81 last. and lac was denied not only
hearing, but any information as 10 the character
of the charges, which were based on his heret-
icsll opinions" Failing to secure an lnyestiga-
ton at the hands of the University Trustees,
Professor Scott now comes to his Piesbytery
to obtain hearing. y committee was APP
pointed by the Presbytery last week To COM
mun;cate with the faculty of the college, and
find out what we've the specific charges
A special meeting of the Evangelical Baptist
Benevolent and Missionary Society was held in
Boston a few days ago, for action upon the re-
quest of the Building Committee for an increase
Of the amount Cfl50, 00O), previously authorized
to be expended in rebuild ne fremont Temple.
There were twenty seven members present, rep
resentng twelve churches. The Committee re-
ported that the cost of rebuilding the Temple
would exceed by large amOunt-prObably
$50 000-the original estimate. After dis
cussion 1t was resolved TO authorize the direc-
tors 70 increase the appropriation To the Build
ing Committee I'd the extent OF SJ1,OOO, and 70
give the second mo-, tgage for $4,000 which
will make the debt on the building Slo5,OOO.
How was Wesley enabled 10 accomplish the
vast amount of work of which his Journals jour-
news, sermons and pub ished volumes give eyl-
dence7 An EnglIs1 Methodist, astonished, as
-t. ia AN Fha. ali 70 md aN
tent of the great preachers work must be, asks
this question, and then finds the secret IN his
severe abstemlOusness. Wesley not only never
smoked and rar ely drank tea coffee, but he alb
stained from intOXcants, and even, durln g much
of his life from animal food. A revelation ae
his words to the Bishop of London in 1747,
Dr. Cheyne advised me- to leave of meat and
wne and since have taken his advice l haze
been free-blessed be God-tIom all bodily
disorders"
Bishop ChataId, of indianapolis, has sus-
pended from Church ceremonies Tor TWO months
the refractory members of the Ancient Order
of Hibernans who dsregaI ded his pastoral
in allowing dancing at picnic. Ine blsnop
says: ]Catholics are not forbidden 10 ENJOY
themselves by dancing, II they WISH nat IS
left TO their cOnsciences. Catholic societies,
however, having a religious character fiom
their very organization, are so forbidden; anu
such prohibition is clearly within the range OF
ecclesiastical authority, TO which they In
special manner subjected themselves wnen
formed"
The Rev. NJ. G.. Bullock, Of Oswego. \. Y,
who was recently arraigned before the Northern
New York Conference OF the Methodist Epis-
eOpal Church on account OF n sermon IN when
he accorded tO Unversallss standing ana Eel.
lowship thin the Christian Church, has Joined
the ongreaational Church. He was undecided
for a time whether Re would find the Episcopal
or the Congregational Church the more con-
genial Mr.. Builock's predecessor, DR.. Briggs,
tvas fret 81 IIulVprS1iIat
but is now CCngregatiOnallst.
Mr.. Mcody's seminary at Mortified Mass, Is
supported by tue hymn book fund" aud ~
private gifts. The number OF resident pupils
l. to be seventy, but the girls must do all the
work of the institution, for there ale TO Do no
servants except porter to take care or the
| furnace and do the fetching ard carrying. The
principal has been sent out TO the Indian Ter
| iitOry for dozen young Indian girls, who are
t. receive q better education than the schools
of the more civilized tribes provide, and Mr..
Moody also has a scheme for educating
Chinese girls.
The Rev. T. B. Nicely reminded the Metho-
dist preachers of Philadelphia at their last
| meeting that sermon is an invention. and no
ore has a right 10 steal 1t. III maj
breaches another mans sermons" he said. he
| cannot be earnest. All do not steal. and pa
| ga ist preachers are the exception. Sermons
should be spoken, and not read. written
paner Is a non conductor between the speaker
and his audience People give men no credit
for dlflidenre and mOdesty in the pulpit"
Ram Chandra Bose, the converted HIndoo,
saws that il 4 missionary cannot develop anu
| improve his converts, both socially and mUraiiy,
he would better leave them i'll the arms or
| beathenism He has right to bring them
| forward and then allow them to be demoralHrd
even more completely than they would be IL
left undisturbed under the influence of false
faith.
Mr.. Kimball the "church-debt raiser" has
been laboring during the week in Chelsea, Mass.
The debt of the First Baptist Church IS
100000. In one day he secured $3l,OOO,
and h. expects to get the rest to-day.