New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-07-31
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.

which the revisers of the New Testament made.
Ine letter is as follows: Your Princeton cor
has made one point of very questionable char,
acter. He insists upon the common version of
second Timothy ii. l6. All Scripture is given
t 10y inspiration OF God instead of, every Scrip
Inc dlihculty with the old translation is this,
W., 1t does lot hold, except with an admission
mat d makes n 1t quite unavailable for those who
ture is meant all that is found in The Bible. il
IL not true that 1t comes of divine inspirs ton
me Bible is record of revelations divinely
MADE and this is all that it claims to be. But
In this record is much that no one thinks of as
at all inspired, though the fact that it was re-
cOrded by inspired men may be carelessly as
sumed as giving character to the whole. In
point or TACT, we lind considerable portions of
the Bible made up of record of things said by
persons having no claim to anything but COM
mon sense. in their utterances; and sometimes
not not remarkable for even that; This holds in
Uhe dialogues throughout the Bible, and in al
most every case. We might even begin with
what tho serpent says to our first parents
where the reverse of anything divinely inspired
Is put on the record. SO of many portions of
the Old Testament and various places in the
w. The Book of job is made up i'm no small
degree OF the assertions of men who not only
mad no divine inspiration, but who often spoke
under total mlsapprehension of the matters
under consideration. 1t follows that we have
to discriminate between the parts of the Scrip
lures that have no claim to inspiration, save us
which express revealed truth and this brings
US down to the simple fact expressed by the
words, All Scripture given by the inspiration
OF God is profitable for instruction, for re-
proof, ETC., Which is, have long believed, the
true translation OF the passage before us. The
revisers have erred in putting it every Scrip
ture,' the word rendered every being the COM
mon word for all, though often transferable by
the distrbutive, which they, here incorrectly,
nave CHOSEN A. 5. CoLTON.'
THE REy. Mr.. CowLEY's CAsE.-In its cur
rent issue The Churchndn takes up for the first
time the case of the Rev. Edward Cowley of
Shepherd Fold notoriety, and discusses thu,
hnding of the committee which "was compelled
to to refrain from presenting the Rev. Edward
Cowley for trial in a court of the Church for
crime" AS the case stands it thinks that
churchmen are disappointed for @they ear
nestly desire that there may be proper canoni-
1t could be proved that Mr.. Cowley has been
unjustly accused and unjustly convicted in the
secular courts The report Of the committee,
however, has deprived the Church of the CD.
portunity to hold such a court, and q she stands
to-day IN the attitude of shielding by one of
ner offices man whom civil court has con-
demned, and whom no court of her own has ac-
Quilted" sIhis fact is due, The Churchman
claims, to the mistaken action of the commit
tee. " In all respects" it says, " such commit
tee is determined by the diocesan canon to be
an ecclesiastical grand jury" the duties of
which are rot, to try the accused man but to
discover whether there is reason for q trial.
But" says II he Churchndn, 4" the action of the
committee was entirely different from this
which Is marked out by the canons. They had
before them as a ground of presentment-and it
was sufficient ground-the fact of trial
and sentence In criminal count and of iDcar-
ceratl9n But they, extra, economically sum
moned the accused before them, and received
az his hands or III his favor the evidence which
belonged TO the court provided for in the
canon: The Church herself is on trial, and
not any one man. he man has been tried and
convicted If the Church cannot prove him to
he innocent, then she cannot innocently allow
him longer TO hold the high Office of her priest
hood. III, on the other hand, she shall be able
to prove his innocence, she will have the hap
piness of rescuing his reputation and her own
fair name"
THE CLERGY IN IRELAND.-At a meeting held
recently in London TO discuss the needs of the
poor parishes in Ireland, Earl Cairns reviewed
the condition of the Church and called atten-
ton to the necessity of providing some aid for
the clergy in the southern and western portions
of the island, where the landlords, having re-
ccived no rents for their own support, on ac-
count of the land agitation, have been unable
to provide the amount of assessment which was
expected from them, and which they had NTH
crt0 furnished, for the maintenance of the
clergy. In the course of his remarks Earl
Cairns said L received this paper the other
day, which states that the average income of the
Church clergy III Ireland at this moment is very
considerably under goo ISL ,00o] year, and
making II calculation as near as | can | find
that III the four dioceses | have alluded to
about one half of the income of the clergy is
gone Only imagine the misery and suffering
with regard to the poor clergy whose incomes
were ESQ G$750J or were ESQ lS9o0l, who
perhaps had families TO support. lie suddenly
finds himself deprived of one-half OF his in
come, and has considerable doubt as to whether
the other half can be obtained To the honor
of the clergy in the districts to which have
referred be il spoken, there is not one who has
tlinched from his duty: great many of them
might i'll this country, 10y asking, have obtained
considerably larger incomes, but they have re-
sisted that temptation and stood firm to their
posts. There is one hopeful thing that while
we lay this case before the country il rs not
case which is to be continuing one | hope it
is to be only IA temporary difficulty"
THE Pores ENCYCLICAL-The lately pub
lishcd encyclical sums up the policy of Leo XIII.
he is brought in relation. According to The
Spectator there is Il sense iii which the present
Pope is Liberal. He has no desire to subject
temporal soveregns to himself, or to make HIM
self judge as between the claims VIII h con-
tending forms of temporal sovereignty have on
the allegiance of their subjects. OF the Popes
attitude toward the French Government The
Spectator says: "1ne Jesuits have been eX-
PEELED; other religious orders have been dis
persed professions have been forbidden; a
variety of petty sights have been inflicted on
religion, but through it all the Pope has re-
manned silent. He could not speak without
saying things about the French Government
which he knew would be made TO carry a differ
ent sense from that which he would intend them
to carry. Leo KILL, unlike Plus TX, has a
political as well rs religious creed, and it is
one which prevents him from giving any pref
erence to one form OF government over an
pres, Kingdoms and republics. lie holds, with
st. Paul, that it is the powers that be, not the
powers that ought to be- that are ordained of
God. Consequently, it is equally n matter of