New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-07-04
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.

RARE Books AT DREW SEMINARY Inc
collection Of books relating TO the history t anu
literature of MethOdism which Drew ineO,
logical Seminary has just acquired IS beneved
to be the most valuable one of its kind III the
world twas gathered by the Rev: DIR. George
Osborn author of photography of Metbodsm."
books have long been out of the market ana
are the only existing copies. a copiOus
catalogue accompanies them. There are
twenty-five departments including publications
relating to the Wesley family, the. collected
works of John Wesley, separate publications OF
John Wesley never included in his collected
works, poetical publications OF John and
Charles Wesley, musical works, biographies OF
John Wesley and original letters, general
histories of Methodism, biographies OF Metno-
A Du,nber of works in the. collection were
| Wesley's private property. A beautiful 13n9
edition of Cicero in four vDl umes, puoished
in 1851, contains the earliest known autograph
of John Wesley. A copy of the fifth edition OF
Wesley's Hymns and Sacred Poems published
in London la 1856 abounds in corrections in
the handwriting of Wesley, and strlklngly
illustrates his character for accuracy ana
critical skill. Bible containing me boDk 81
Common Prayer, and the Psalms III stergno 9h
and Hopkinss Version, dated London, l64o'
contains John Wesley's autograph. The binding
| of this volume is the handsOmest when the age
could produce. There is a manuscript copy copy Oh
the letters that passed between John Wesley
and John Smith (Thomas Seeker, afterward
ArchbishoD of Canterbury, in dsguise) There
is one volume of Wesley's Pocket Diary, wIltteD
| in his own shorthand, for part OF the year
| 17AO Last of all there is the cast OF John
| Wesley's face the only one taken after his
death, and the only one III existence. ne
| collection was examined last Summer at Rich
mond by Bishop Hurst, and Oh his return to
the United States Mr.. Anderson Fowler, Oh
purchase as gift by him to the Drew Iheolog-
| zeal Seminary The books arrived in good con-
dtion, and have been placed III an ant que case.
TRURO CATHEDRAL Residents OF Cornwall
have been in London recently to sOlclt through
the Lord Mayor the assistance OF Eng
lshmen and Churcbmen In general IN
the work of building the. cathedral at
Truro, the cornerstone OF which has
just been laid 10y the Prince OF N d aies th d1
the new diocese of Cornwall tet sadly the want
of cathedral, and that 5000, OOO had already
been subscribed toward it. The views respect
ng the size and character OF the edlhce, whlch
| had been agreed upon, were that Whlle not
attempting to vie either i'll point OF magnitude
or detail with the older cathedrals and ministers,
an edifice should he erected with all the dignity,
features and character OF cathedral. Renee u
became necessary, seeing thdt the catneulai
was not for one county only nor Tor one genera,
ton, but for the Church at large and Tor all
time. that the sympathies OF Chuchmen ana
| Englshmen should be enlisted III the WORK,
looked to first. The structure Will pi0Daoly
| cost il il said. about $500, 900, of which sum
only 5000, 900 had been raised, and OF this
| $50. coo had been spent IN the purchase ana
| clearing of the site. Very little more money
| could be expected from Cornwall in many
years, and since Cornwall had rendered gen
| erous help in the rebuilding OF st. Pauls after
the fire III London, so there might be now IN
London liberal persons or companies VINO
| would wish to become identified with The etec-
tion IN England of the first Protestant cathedral
| since the Reformation. The Lord Mayor re-
nIi, d that he had received that morning a letter
| from the Archbishop of Canterbury expressing
an earnest hope that the cathedral fund might
nrosper and the Lord Mayor lid not see why
| the remainder of the money should not be raised
in London. With that end III yiewlt would
allCrd him very great pleasure, he sald, 10 open
n fund at the Mansion House for the receipt OF
contributions
EXETER HALL.-Few places in England have
any closer associations win eyaHgel .,a
London Stand known as Exeter Hall, where
for forty years and more great crowds have
gathered at the annual May meeting OF the
religious societies. But Exeter Hall has lost
something of the glory OF which 1t might well
have bOasted ten twenty, thirty, and forty
wears ago. when the minds OF large element
of the whole British population wee strongly
directed to 1t. But these meetings have now
so far fallen away that me revenue rom mem mem
a.
holders Various causes have wrought the
change which an English paper calls " silent
but very eifectual revolt" The meetings are
too long. it is said familiar ground is gone
over too much; the speakers nave Deell neafu 700
often before and rivals to the place have.spiung
nm in various parts OF London, such as
| Memorial Hall, raised on the site OF Fleet Prison
by the CongregatIonasts. The oratory winch
prevailed in Exeter Hail in its pal n est days is
| described by The Pail Mall Gazette as style
| hat w
IL never forgot the pulpit, and 1T was deemed
| lawful and it was expected that among its dis
tinct features the flights and rants or the
platform and some of the plquant effects OF the
! stage should have places. In the making up OF
the lists of speakers at the great gatherings
there were intrlgues and heartbunlngs OF
| which il is probable that no history Will ever
tell the story.
CUURCH BELLS AND POLTICs.-The rector Of
fine naIish church at BrldpOrt, England, has
dismissed the bell-ringers because III
opposition to his express orders, they rang tie
bells on the occasion OF certain candldai ta
| election to Parliament His own story OF the
case is that on the afternoon OF election day
| he met one of the ringers and distinctly told
him that on no account whatever was thefe Uo
be ringing that night But to his "men'e
| amaZempnt and very great CONSERVATION" he
found that as night came on someone was
ringing the bells. He went Immediately to the
beIi1y door and from above heard peals OF
laughter and cries OF "WaIt0n for ever" MI
Wnrton WAS the NJ =. elect The "cOns;erna-
ton and utter disgust of the rector when lie
heard these dirty electioneering cries are TO
him understandable, especially when he remem,,
hers that as rector of Bridp0rt he has endeavored
to raise the religious tone not only of the PARISH
bnt also of the bell-ringers. The ringers deny
tlIat they made the cries charged upon them,
but tie rector persists in his story, and ADDS
that it was perfectly disgusting TO drag the
bells of the parish church through the mud OF a
4 81. did nf
know what was due to the house of God, they
should have known. The propriety OF 1lneing
church bells in honOr of an election may well
be questioned, but there is evidently something
wrong with that rector, too-an excess oil ZEAL
| at any rate