The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1880-12-08
FOREIGN CHURCH NEWS.

After one hundred and three ses-
SONS, sitting in all four hundred and seven DAYS.
the revlsers of the authorised edition of the New
Testament have completed their work. At a
meeting, held In London little more than two
weeks ago, the final touches were given. and the
printers work is now going on.
We greatly regret to see it stated in
the London journals that Mr. Surgeons state
OF health is giving his friends the most serious
anxiety. dis illness is not of the rheumatic
govt character from which he suffers usually
but 1t has taken more serious turn
The Christian World calls attention
again to the surprising interest of the RELIGIONS
situation In France. and emphasizes threepoints.
the Importance of which cannot be over-estma
ted For the first time in all the history of
france there is complete religious liberty for the
hrst time In all French history the government
is favorable to the spread of Professionalism and
Tor the first time in French history the masses
OF the French people are eager for the proclama-
ton of Bible truth
An English writer in the ContemDo-
rdry Re0teO deals sharply with the Agnostics.
de sums up the matter thus" The man who
processes that he knows nothing about God is
practically the man who has no God as far as
the knowledge and fear of God can redeem and
regulate life"
The Episcopal Church of New Zea-
land is said to have no fewer than thirty-eieht
Maori ministers.
Bishop Ryle has declared his firm
conviction that if the bishops and clergy of the
last century had done their duty, and understood
their times as many do now, an immense pro-
portion of English Nenconformity would never
have existed, and John Wesley and his com
panlons would never have seeded from the
Church of England"
In the recent death of the venerable
and aged minister, Rev. Edward Hughes. of
Aberystwlth, at the advanced age of ninety six
years, Wales has lost its oldest Nonconformist
minister, he having been minister in the
Calvinistic Methodist Connection for the long
period Of seventy five years,
The late radical change in the policy
OF Pope Leo XIII is described in the GozsttsT,
Rome letter His early mldness and con ISiiV
ton are turned to bitterness and violence. The
public schools of Rome he declares dens of in.
lqulty, and proclaims war to the bitter end
against them. His course has already reduced
the number of enrolled pupils one-tenth.
AT the recent restoration Of !, obrnob
occupied by the advanced Ritual IN En 10 "a
one of the workmen emrlo,ojS ' S III hng ana IN
pulpit and exclaimed; publish the bans 'r oi
natTlinony between this church and the CbnrcI
Oh nome And l." said another artisan
I turHiing toward the first speaker, forbid the
bans. On what grounds? ?" inquired he OF
the pulpit e Because the parties are too near
o kin" was the reply.
Twelve Chinese converts have been
ordained to the ministry of the Church of Emo.
land. Nine of these are living and engaged IN
the work of the Church.
The London Presbytery having ex.
pressed its dsapprobation of the lax views il
regard to the Christian Sabbath contained in
recently published pamphlet by DR.. Donald
Fraser he has withdrawn it from Circulation
and has declared to PresbyteEy that he hold
the obligatory nature of the Lords Day as J
Christian institution,
"A serious blow at the Papaov seem,
to to be meditated by the Italian government
1t proposes to confscate the property held IL
Rome by the Propaganda, the great missionar ~
Establishment of the Roman Catholic Cbnrcb
The Propaganda was founded more than two
centuries ago, and has been of immense servict
to the Papacy. The Pope has protested anG
begged Tor the protection of the Europear
Powers, but the only sympathising response has
come from the impotent Sultan of Turkev' --''-