, 1880-09-26

away with? You must Remember that il,
this country an article IS never done away
known cases where the compensation was
greater than the worth Of the property"
The ! onng Peoples Associations Of the
Plymouth Congregational: Trinity Method
ist Episcopal, First and Michigan Avenue
BAPTIST, With Christ andSt; J9hn's KeteImed
tiol1al meeting III the new 1ec1ure-roolns q:
Christ Church, corner Of Michigan avenue
and Iwenty-fourth .strest Monday evening
at O'Clock promptly; Brief addresses vii
Rs shad as By the hey Key Rs &Rsoge 4emsF
Z. 5. Pope, Il: T. Miller. II. G. Tuppey, S
F. Wishard, George G. Needham, and JOSEPH
S. Wilson, followed hy season OF prayer III
which to ask the special blessing OF Almighty
God upon the religious work Of the Associa'
tions
The following creed for the Agnosticss
formulated by religious contemporary, i
suggestfve:
Il believe in the chaotic Nebula, self-existent
Evoiver or heaven aud earth+ and IN the differ
entauon OF its original homogeneous Mass. it,
into separate worlds: divided into land and
water: self-ofganizcd into plants and animals:
reproduced In like species: further developed
ized, and perfected into man. He descended
from the Monkey assended to & TIE philosopher; r
civilization, under the laws Of developing So
cIoiogy. From thence he shall come again. by
the disfntegration OF the culmtnated Hetofo-
back to evo tas e H. H9'Hsene no'Isg @
personal Absolute. the. wholly unit Catholic
Church, the disurion Of the Saints, the survival
19s Dispersion Of the Body and in Death k7'f''sf'
There are indications In more than one
quarter in China that the Chinese officials
mean seriously to ignore the federation clause
in the treaties The English missionaries
the epersecutions directed against them, Which
they say are Of a character unknown in any
treaty port for thirty years, to the GOODNESS
with which the misslen is regarded by the
British Minister and Consul. And the Ameri-
can Baptist missionaries In Southern China
say that 1.-THE battle for religious liberty is
Eot yet fully fought It is true there is
federation clause in the treaties, and it our
Ambassadors and other officials would insist
upon its fair maintenance equally with other
not likely the Chinese would think seriously
Of ignoring it It is quite evident that if this
state of things should continue, missionaries
in China may be compelled to appeal to in
huence at home to know whether treaties
stitueney there or Of a few administrative
officers here"
AMERICAN PRESBYTER1ASISM.
The Presbyterian Church of the United
States had its rise in emigratlons from Scot
land and the North Of Ireland to the Ameri-
can colonies as early Us 1853. The Oldest
Maryland, aboutDGao; and the first Presby,.
terry was in Phil ilMelphia, in 17o7 The first
ministers on record as preachcrs%nd found
ers Of churches were Francis McKenrie and
John Hampton,-the former from North Ire
W WHOM were sent hither by . body Of London
dissenters to expound the Gospel. They set
tied on the eastern shore Of Virginia, near
the Maryland border, and preached wherever
people would listen to them. From the for
phia the body grew By em}grations not only
from Scotland and Ireland but from Wales,
France; Switzerland. and Holland, while it
was also strengthened by New-Englanders,
who were induced by various reasons to en-
ter the denomination. Presbyteries have
doctrines Of the Church pure, and they still
continue their lahors with the utmost dill
gence and zeal. LII 175S the American Pres
byterian Churches were united, and, thirty
The congregations then numbered 419, and the
ministers. 1s6. Their increase was rapid,
for in 1854 there were = Synods, Ill Presby-
ferries, and some ! 800 ministers a scheme
OF union between Presbyterfans and Con-
gregationa1ists was devised i'll 1901, and
it in this and III other States. In 1855, the
church was divided into the old and new
school, the former holding high Calyinistic,
and the latter somewhat modified Calviuistic,
creed approaches SO near to that Of Calvin
as Presbyterianis1n; but many Of its pititess
articles of faith arc hardly known to-day,
by the body Of tho laity, to exist.