The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1881-04-27
FOREIGN CHURCH NEWS.

FOhE1IN C1 ~ hC1 NEWS.
The clerical list of the Church of En-
gland contains $4,000 names. a gain of about
pastoral work. The stipends of curates in sole
charge vary from nothing to $500 year.
Thirty two receive $400 and twenty two 81 600
Four assistant curates receive $50 year and
2l1 receive nominal sum only.
In every department of the mis-
sionary work in Eastern Turkey there is a
steady and gratifying advance. Nine new
preaching places have been established, max
ing total of 116. The number of Protestants
is now l1.749.
AS an indication how Professionalism
is spreading in France, it is stated that the
district of st. Legerle- Gueretos has become
entirely evangelical. All the municipal officers
and all the traders have become Protestants.
In the seven villages composing the district
there are ouly three persons who remain unde-
clded. The Bishop has sent new cure to the
district, but he cannot induce the people to
return to the deserted church.
The Baptists of England have gen.
orally been compact body, and have been
made so by the cohesive power of the tenet that
immersion only constitutes scriptural baptism.
Lately, some have appeared who are urging
upon the denomination the adoption of the
principle that the I" mode is not essential, Z"
and asking that the rightfulness of immersion
be made an "open question" while the doctrine
of adult baptism should be firmly held. 1t is
argued that immersion is an ordeal from which
many shrink, and pass into other communions
and also that it is form not suited to the
climate of Great Britain. The discussion is
making some stir
The late Earl of Coleman was a
Protestant, but his funeral services would have
left the impression that he was a Roman
Catholic. The coffin had ." a Latin cross of
brass extending its whole length Lights
were placed at the head of the coffin. and at
the foot was a small altar on which were a cru
cifix, lights and vases of flowers" All Ritual
ism.
Dean Stanley makes summary work
OF the vestment controversy. He asserts that
the dress of the clergy had no distinct intention
symbolical, sacerdotal sacrifcal or mystical
but originated simply in the fashions common
to the whole community of the Roman Empire
during the first three centuries of the Christian
Era. They were not borrowed, in the first
instance, from Aaron's wardrobe, or the Fla
mems vestry, and, if they symbolic anything,
they symbolic ideas contrary to those now
ascrlbed to them The significance of these
dresses, he declares, rests on no historical
foundation, and there is the wide distinction
between their origin and the origin of the
ecclesiastical vestments of other religions the
former were intended, not to separate the min
lster from the people, but to make him in out
ward show and appearance exactly the same"
therefore, ministers in the pulpit and out of the
pulpit should dress Just as other respectable
Christian gentlemen dress. That is the sensible
conclusion.
Speaking of the sad effects of TLnc-
taT1dn'Sm on the Church of England, Mr.. Froude
writes:
The mass has crept back among us. with
which we thought we had done forever, and the
honorable name of Protestant, once our proudest
distinction, has been made over to the Church
of Scotland and the Dissenters."
DR.. E. de Pressense saws French
Catholicism is passing through phase of dis
Indignation. In France Catholicism disnIavs .
novel spectacle-one section of the Church bs;no q
in open hostility to the other. The Ultramop
tanes obtained undisputed sway after the
Vatican Council, and Liberal Catholicism head.
ed by Bishop Dupanloup, submitted. MANY
thought that this was the end of Liberal CatboI-
icism; but its spirit is just now exhibiting a
very vigorous life. The Ultramontanes were
very indignant that the religious communities
except the Jesuits, should have assented to
minister DE Freycinets declaration, last August
recognizing the existence of the present institn
tions of France, and they became verv bitter
after the Pope granted to the Government of
tne hepuollc the confirmation of three new
bishops, who have all avowed in their first
charges unhesitating acceptance of our existino
institutions. These bishops have been attacked
and even lnsulted in the grossest manner by the
journals of the extreme Right. NJ. Paul Cas-.
ssagnac has gone so far as to say that, while the
iate blshop OF Polctlers was lion, his successor
is but a base fox or even polecat. This oppro.
6rio1s language is meant to include the head of
the Church himself for there are many Ultra.
montanes who would be quite prepared to saw
that on the death of Plus * the fox crept into
the lions place. Not daring to strike so bipb
they vent their spleen on the nuncio in Paris
and use every endeavor to get him removed
The Pope, Leo XIII will never yield, for he
KNOWS wei That 1t would be to injure his own
cause" He ventures, unfortunately for the
Ultramontanes, to have policy of his own. and
he deems it to be unwise to make the cause Of
the Legtlmists the cause of the Church.
LADIES ANNEX TO THE YorNe