New-York tribune., 1880-02-22
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.

| and by name the Bishop of Manchester, 70 say
| whether usury was was not according to
| the will OF God, and that he had received no
answer from any one Of them, DR.. Fraser pub
! fishes in The Contemporary EeUieT letter say
! ing he was unaware until a short time ago of
! the existence Of such challenge, and proceeds
| then to speak OF usufy. DR.. Fraser assumes,
as an example, that he invests { 900 which
! he has saved from his salary in Northwestern
! per cent debenture stock and that he receives
$40 year for its use. Who IN the world Is
| he mjurlng and what wrong is he doing
! UnleSs money had been invested in the
road by somebody the road would never
have been built-a road which was
absolutely necessary to the prosperity of the
nation, and one winch gives employment TO
/ an immense number of men. Mr. Ruskln re-
plies 10 the letter in the same number of lie
| HcuicC, and his reply is described as really
IAN Indictment against the whole system OF
modern society" He says 1t may be q matter
of private opinion how far the " lucre' y derived
by the Bishop on the fares and refreshments
of the passengers by the Northwestern Is III
accordance with the will OF God, but he adds
| that the higher class OF labOTels IN the Lords
vineyard might surely with true grace receive
from the last unto The first the reflected in
structiOn often given by the first 10 the last,
." BE content with your wages"
RELIGION IN THE BRITISH ARMY Interest
ing statistics have been prepared to show the
! rcprcsentatlun of the various denominations III
! the Army Of Great Britain. They bring out
! the fact that 100, 600 men have declared
| themselves rs belonging to one or another OF
/ the various sects. Something over % per
| cent al them declare iOt the Church 0f Eng
! land, y per cent are Roman Catholics, Z per
| cent are PIe,byterlans, ana only per cent
belong to the great Non-coniormlng and other
! Protestant BODIES OF those IN receipt of good
conduct pay, fully 20 per cent belong to the
! Church OF England, Is per cent arr Roman
! Catholics per cent are Presbytereus, and
| per cent are other PrOteStants. 5 regards
fl..rr.. r.f l'ra.y
mlssloned officers and men head the list f; 40
per cent OF them hold school certificates, while
| the Presbyterian proportion Is , per cent,
! and that OF the other PrOeSttnts only per
cent. The Roman Catholics, 1t Is shown, tail
! t. maintain their proportion IN the matter OF
| education, their percentage OF men with school
certificates being only "a fraction over II per
cent. The declared Wesleyans" are about
per cent.
THE FIRST BENJAMIN DIsRAELI-In the
4 Spanish and Portuguese cemetery III the Mile
/ cnd-road London, the tomb of Benjamin
Dsracll. the grandfather of Lord Beacons-
heid and the founder Of the family IN Eng
! land, has recently been repaired by having the
inscription Iecut and Iepanted. Al whose
| orders the work was done Is not publicly
| known. The Instructions came through an
| influential member of "A London Jewish con-
/ gregaiOn but 1t Is believed by The JelcSh " ORD
| that they came primarily from the Minister
| himself In the same cemetery Lord BeacOns-
stone, though III very dlapdatcd state, has
not been touched. The inscription on his
! fathers tomb contains these words " Sacred
! 10 the memory of Benjamin DlSraeh Born
! 2nd September, 100; died 2Sth November,
| 1916 He WAS IN atfrctlOnate husband,
| father, and iucnd.' Benjamin Dlsraeil made
"A handsome fortune III business, ana his last
| years were passed IN luxury and elegant ease.
C,yov OAKrLEY.-Thc late Canon Oakeey
when "a child derived from his mothers teach
! ing gIcIt proficiency IN music. When fOur
/ wears Old he could reproduce Smplc ans on the
| uiauo. and when eight the organist OF Lichtcld
| cathedral allowed him 90 play the chant on
week days. Canon O5kcley i sad 10 have
been tac first among London clelgymrn to III
| fo6urr that form OI external worship now
known ~ Ri,uali>m. lils innovations, how
ever were far within the bounds ut what Is now
practIscd and tolerated IN the Chuich oi Eng,
! land. But tucy produced q series OF painful
! struvrl.s n the time. lie was one OF TIC
earliest OF tie Tractarians, and joined the
Church of Rome about the same tlme with
DR.. Newman. Cardinal Nisemun very speed
nv admitted hlm into Roman orders, and
placrd nIm IN charge OF an important church
al Is!mston. Canon Oakcley was the young
est son ol SIR Char'c, Oakcley, VINO Ut one
tlmc was Governor oi Madras.
\ late report from Rome says the Pope'S
health "caUses his physicians great applenen-
sion aud his brother great anxiety Close
confinement aud the long S-pr0tdc,cd ncgOud-
! tlcns with Germany are tue primary causes
of hIs Illness. He Is liable to attacks 81 sud
den dizziness and to shlyerlng fits. Physicians
! urrscrlbe amustmcntS, change aud fresh air,
| nut ms brother and Cardinal Nina have 10
take turns in bringing him down 10 obedience
in these matters. The Pope has a dislike, II Is
said, to BENG thought Ill Oh feeble, ana Insists
| on extra work as remedy.
The late vicar of ST. Peters Church at
! Bournemuuth England, built the church at his
VII
wears its total annual Income was only SOU.
! improvements amounting 10 SIOO,OOO nave
since been made to II, and the church has one
of the tallest spires III the western country.
| Its living Is an important one, ana the patron
! hns named us the successor not the former
wears son, as the parlShlOners wished, but
! hrother OF his own wife, who holds TO the APP
pointment in spite OF the wishes of the parish,
promising that he will carry on the good work
of the late Incompatible vicar"
The UtramOntane party IN the German
| Parliament object to the ringing of church
bells 10y the local civil authorities. They
are offended by the ringing of the bells
on the anniversary Of the battle OF Sedan.
OF course they do not regret that tHe
Germans won that battle, but complain
| that Protestants boast of 1t as triumph
| over the Roman Church. n bill has passed
the Lower House, providing that 1t snail not
he lawful for the civil authorities to use the
bells except to Glve alarm ia cases ol hIe'
flood and the other puDhc caalnltles'
Last year the Presbyterian churches of tins
country gave $4,000 to the cause OF nome
missions, of winch sum the New-IOrk Pres
bvtery gave $46,7 92. or nearly One-quarter
III the sum given by the entire Church, and
IN addition it spent $4,000 at home. If an
assessment were laid upon the whole property
of the church for the purpose OF receiving
| from each member n sum IN proportion 10 MS
actnaI nroperty. New-Y York would give, it Is
estimated, $4,000 instead OF SAG, ,OOO73no
reckoning being made of the $4,000 used at
: | home.
During the early and middle years OF his
, n,inlstry. the late Rev. DR.. Idle, OF Midway,