New-York tribune., 1880-01-11
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.

March would have been ninety-five years. OF
age. He was the son of farmer In humble
circumstances, but by teaching was able 10
complete college course at Brown Univer-
sity and to take degree at AndOver. During
his stay at Andover he made the acquaintance
of Judson, Hall, Mills, Newell Richards and
Warren, that famous band Of young men who
founded foreign missions. For a time he was
settled at Portsmouth. n. H., and while there
he had among his hearers Daniel Webster,
then q young lawyer OF promise, and soon
afterward elected for the first time to Congress;
In 1914 he accepted call to the Congregational
Church in West Midway, and for fifty one years
remained in full discharge of his duties there.
When finally relieved OF all ministerial re-
spOnsibiity in 1866. he was retained In the
capacity of senior pastor, and this he con-
| tinued to be until he died. The Congregation
aRst says of him that he furnished beauti-.
| full illustration Of the truth that strength OF
| will and purpose is more commonly found IN
| quiet and gentle nature than in noisy and
| clustering ones. His demeanOr was so meek
and placid and his manners 80 quiet and un-
pretending that he sometimes seemed to
| strangers to be wanting in force OF character:
Those who knew him better knew that he had
| an eye to see an ear TO hear, ana mlnd ana
| Judgment of his own.
CATHOLICS IN ENGLAND.-Cardipal Manning
and his episcopal colleagues have just issued
in London q Catholic directory, from which
| interesting statistics of the state OF the Roman
| Church III that country have been derived.
From the list of members OF the Sacred Col
lege of Cardinals 1t appears that there are now
six cardinal aIchbshops, fifty cardinal priests
and twelve cardinal deacons, one of the latter
being John Henry Newman. There are only
| two survivors of the cardinals whom
Gregory XVI, the predecessor OF Pins lA.,
created; three vacancies exist, and already
| in the present pOntificate nine CARDINALS
have died. In Great Britain and Ireland and
| the colonial dependencies of England there are
II archiepscopal and n episcopal sees, be-
sides 81 vicariates (sees held by Wears -apos-
tolIc) and episcopal prefectures. Including
| ii auxiliary bishops there are now holding
Office within the limits of the British Empire
| 127 bishops and archbshOps, with few re-
tired bishops, of whom four live permanently
in England. OF Roman Catholic peers there
are 3S, being an Increase or three, ana OF
Catholic baronets As. The number OF priests
in England Wales and Scotland is 2,2l1.
| They serve Labs churches and chapels, lot
| including the domestic and private chapels IN
houses OF gentlemen and nObemen.
| AGREAT METHODIST CoUNCrL.-The commit
tee appointed by Methodist Bishops to con-
slider the subject of an Gcumencal council OF
all the Methodist bodies In every part OF the
world, and to confer with the branches OF the
church in Great Britain on the subject have
received favorable responses to the PROPOSE
tiOns, and named the 9TH OF May next as
day OF meeting to prepare the call Tor the
council This meeting will represent more than
! ZO,OUO,OUO McInOulSlS III dil pdItS vi
DOM as well as In Asia and Africa. Bishop
Simpson, chairman of the committee, has Is
sued a circular III which he points out as among
! the benefits of the cOnDcll to the church ana
world that it would tend to harmonic the differ
ent Methodist organizations, to break down caste
| and local prejudlces, and " to olnd together In
closest fellowship people essentially Que IN
! doctrine, spirit and purpose" He adds that
the relation of Methodlsm, as O whole, to ed
| ucatlOn, To civil government, to other Christian
would certainly come to be better understood,
while - more earnest conservation, an In
ttnser glow of enthusiasm more daring pur-
pose of evangelism, and, consequently, more
powerful rcvlyals and larger benehcences in
every department Of Christian enueaVOf MOuiu
mark the future PROGRESS of the church"
SprTLEsENT OF A BEQUEsT.-Last week the
counsel of the Franklin aud Marshall College
and of the Theological Seminary OF the Re-
formed Church, botn situated at Lancaster,
Penn succeeded III making final compromise
with the contestants of the Wilhelm will by
which the institutions were bequeathed an es-
tate valued at $4,000. The ground OF con-
test was that the will had been made within
thirty days prior to the death of the testator.
Under the State law this tact inyalldates all
charitable bequests, but il was shown by the
institutions tnat the testator was the last
of three brothers, who together had amassed
this fortune, that they were devoted
members of the German Reformed Church,
and records were produced showing that the
brothers had agreed that as each one died the
property should descend to the survivor OF
Survivors until all were gone but one, When
he should leave II to the institution named.
This understanding the last brother carried
oht. but he died before the thirty days elapsed.
The contest was begun by the children OF two
sisters. The terms OF the settlement give
$50. 900 Ia the children and the remaining
$4,000 to the college and seminary.
A PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE IN NEW ORK.-
The PlesbyterlaDs in their efforts to add an
endowment Of 100000 to Hamilton College,
AT Clinton, y. Y :. are, 1t is SAID, about TO sue
ceed. BY this means they VIII Obtain control
of the college and make 1t distincilyely Il Pres
byterian institution. 1t has often been noted
fiuence which this denomination represents III
| New York II should have had no collegiate
institution in the State. The time has been
when Union College was somewhat under Its
influence, but OF late years the leanlngs OF that
college, if II may be said TO have had any,
have been toward Episcopalianism. But the
Etiscopalians have i'll HobaIt and Columbia a
good representation without Union. The Bap-
fists are certainly well oil with the two lnstl-
tutions they now possess-the one at Roches-
ter and the one at Hamllton,-and the Metho-
dists are deservedy proud of the university
which under them has attained to such good
standing at Syracuse. There would seem 10
be very good reason then why New York Pres
byterians although virtually possessed already
oi a good part OF Princeton, should have a
college in their own State.
SHOCKING DEATH OF A BIsHoP.-Dr. John
S. UtCerton, Bishop suffragan of GuIford, Eng
land, died under painfully sudden circum-
stances fortnight ago. He had been an
nOunced to preach two sermons at the church
in Ryde, Isle of Wight, and after preaching the
first one, and in the prayer for the church mill
tant, having spoken the words: That it may
please Thee shortly to accomplish the number
OF Thine elect,n he lInelt down before the COM
munion table, while those who did not attend
the communion service were leaving the church.
Very few persons had gone out when he was
heard to make a cry as in pain. He fell forward