New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-01-02

| tnat are tnrOWn upon st8 sueess, frequently
homeless and friesdless. There is plerty Of
material here to make worthy citizens South
and West-whose fortune, it they are to be left
| to New York's temptations and extravagance
will be dreary indeed.
| The New-York correspondent Of The Coaore-
! gationdliss thinks that perusal of the iexs OF
DR.. Tyng's recent sermon on The Mountain
Movers or so-called Modern Miracles, will
show how absurd were the caricatufes OF the
| secular press, and indicate the good sense and
devout Scriptural faith of the preacher. But is
should do more than this. q 1t should arcats
serious discussion. of the great question Ia
| vOved. Ii mon of science can reasonably ac-
| count for the facts on natural grounds, instead
| OF sneering and cavilling at them, now 10 their
| time to do 1t. And even more timely will be a
| large scholarly Christian statement of the be-
| LEVERS doctrine, such as may waken in the
Church fuller testing than ever before of Code
willingness to give wonderful answ ers tn ths
prayer of faith"
The Central Advoeate praises Dir. Vanderbilt
for issuing an order to the effect that trashy,
immoral literature shall no longer be offered
for sale on the cars and in the depots of tie
New York Central Railway. it is melancholy
fact that men who could not Oe induced to pur.
chase the lower class of illustrated periodicals
and in6del books at home yield to the temptation
on the cans. Some of these papers and books have
depended almost entirely on the train boys f0f
their circulation, and Mr.. Vanderbilt has dealt
iDb tCdfuC u UloW IIOu WHICH, ~ Will HOT TtCONtI
if the other RAILROAD managers JOIN with him.
Canon Liddon is continuing his agitation for
the reform of English ecclesiastical courts.
" bat he desires Is not a COuIt of lawyers, even
if the lawyers are advised by bishops, but
court OF bishops with lawyers for assessors. lie
would obey such court or resign his prefer
ment. He has, however, great difficulty. He
cannot get over the appointment of DIR. Ryle TO
Liverpool, and of DIR. 1horOld to Rochester.
These men, he declares, are party bishops, but
he believes that lew like them will 10 future be
appointed.
The Pope has determined to place his new
Secretary of State, Cardinal JacObini, at the
head Of q new commission be has decided 10 APP
point Tor tie superintendent OF the ecclesiastical
property of tie Holy See. The chief element
CT this property is Peters Pence, and no doubt
the appointment of the commission is intended
to inspire confidence throughout the Catholic
world that their contributions will be admins
tered 10 the best advantage OF the Church.
Professor Jaconette has presented to Leo
XIII. a sketch Of the monument to Plus TX,
which he has been commissioned to execute for
the cardinals created by that pOntiff, WHO pro-
pose to place it-a kneeling figure very much
in the style of Canovas well-kn0wn figure of
Plus VI, which ia in that sunken portion of the
pavement known as the Cornerstone of tho
Basiica of st. Peters in similar position in
Santa Maria Maggiorc.
Judge Levi Parsons, of Fort Plain, N. Y, has
given President Potter, of Union College,
$4,000, the interest of which il to be used in
the creation and maintenance of twelve sehOl-
arships The t:nd is to be controlled jointly by
Union College the Parsons Library, and a
Board of Culators. OF whom the rector OF st.
Johns Church, J0hnstown, is a member.
In his last Encylical, Leo XIII. exhorts the
pairiarchs, achbishops, and bishops OF the
Catholic world to stimulate their fiOcks to give
their prayers, work, and contributions in aid OF
the apostolic foreign missions as represented by
the work OF the Societies for the Propagation f
the Faith, of the Holy Infancy Of Jesus Christ,
and tor the Sch ools in the East.
tOnal tables for 1880 prepared under the su-
peryislon OF DR.. A. H. Quint, we'll known as an
expert in such work. The following ale tho
fo0tings: Churches. formed, 105; ministers
70; ministers married. AZ ministers de- eased,
rs.
There arc three clergymen in the Protestant
Episcopal Church who have remained for half a
century in the same parish the Rev. DR.. Nor
ton, of Sc. James's Church, Phi 'ladelphia; the
Rev. DR.. William Shelton, OF Buffalo; and the
Rev. Dr. Edison.
The principal religious assemblies in the
United States during 1880 were the Pan-Pes-
bytcrian Assembly, the General Convention IF
the Protestant Episcopal Church, the Methodist
Conference, and the Congregational Conference
One of the Methodist journals remarks that
even if 1t be true that u neral SchOfeld per-
mrted priests and women to NEEDLE with boy
cadets, General Howard ought to mind his
own business cburchwise."
The religions neurology OF tho year includes
the names Of Bishop Gilbert Haven. George
Ripley, Dr.. Samuel OSR0od, DIR. Henry A.
Eoarlman, Or. William Adams, LrcreIa Mott,
De- +. Ii. Chaplin.
The Bishop of Peterborough recently declared
that agricultural depression was a divine pun
Isl ment for national unfaithtuiness.
The Protestant Episcopal Church is asked
to contribute $1j8,O00 TO foreign missions this
year.
CURRENT RELIGIOUS DISCUSSION
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