The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1881-07-20
FOREIGN CHURCH NEWS.

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welcome the Rev. Donald Macleod, the Earl Of
Aberdeen, Dean Stanley, Canon Fleming, and
others were present and spoke. The Archbishop
of Canterbury wrote, regretting his inability to
attend. sympathiz:ng with the object of the
meeting, complimenting the Established Church
of Scotland on its efforts to provide accommoda
ton in London for those Of her members who
on coming south, did not care to throw in their
lot with the Anglican Church.
The placing of Father Curci's book
New Italy" on the Index has led, it is stated
to heavy and constant demand for it. The
first edition OF 1000 copies was exhausted in two
weeks and new edition was ordered. SAYS a
dispatch to the London Daily Netos:
1.-The condemnation appears to have been
wholly arbitrary. Knowing that it would be
impossible to convict Father Curci of heresy,
if fairly tried before the congregation of the
Index, New Italy was summarily and mvs.
teriousy condemned by the Inquisition, with
out any notification to the author of the errors
detected in it. This sweeping sentence over
shoots its mark for, in submitting, to a convic-
ton for unknown errors, Father Curci may con
sole himself with the reflection that tley are
merely due to the printer. Anyhow, 1T is un-
derstood that the condemnation was wrested
from the Pope greatly against his will. he hav-
ing been moved to tears by Father Curcs
severe but faithful representations of the decay
OF the Church and religion in Italy"
Though the Free Church of Scot
land works Sustentation Fund from year to
year with wonderful efficiency, yet it also care
fully builds up permanent funds for many of its
institutions, and supports them by the annual
income accruing. In report of the General
Trustees made to the last Assembly in Nav it
was stated that the invested funds of the Church
IN 1862 amounted to sol $50, and in 1881
amount to $2.670.430. This large advance.
and if the dissensions in the Free Church ever
reach to the point of schism it will be vast
sum over which to quarrel.
Little has been heard of the cold
Catholics lately, and the general impression
has been that they have reached the high water
mark of thir growth The latest statistics show
that the Old Catholics of the German empire
number at the present time as many as forty
five clergy and $4,000 laity under one bishop.
The largest congregations are those at Munich.
bresiau' ana Cologne, numbering about 5000
persons each.
The sporting clergy of England are
not all dead. Land and Water tells of coun
try vicar who was fond of the gun and who
went out on the glebe to shoot of a morning on
which marriage ceremony had been fixed.
1t was fine September morning, and the
clergyman soon forgot the knot he was to be
the instrument of tying. Just as he had a good
shotat bird, he heard the we'll known Voice
OF the parish clerk shouting after him, "Sir the
young people be ready, and be at the church
man, I'll be there in a moment" He Hastily
picked up the partridge he had shot, and, put
ting 1T In his pocket, he hurried to the church
In the midst OF the ceremony something was
seen to be fiuttering under his surplice and in
a moment to the establishment of everybody
out from the folds flew the partridge, for it had
been more stunned than killed. o"Oh. dear
there goes the bird" involuntarily exclaimed
the vicar. Its all right, sir" replied the
cIerS: she can't get out, and she's gone into
the Squire's pew"
-RITUALIsM-Just now we have
what English journals call "Dean Burgon' s
Bombshell"-a discharge which has awakened
many echoes The Dean is an old fashioned
High chnrchman, a learned man, with weak
ness for Laudean views and a great aversion to
what he calls the "old Puritanical leaven. :"
which ne thinks still pervades the evangelical
section OF the church. He has made but few
Puoic protests against Sacerdotalism hitherto.
but his spirit has at last been stirred within
HIM. He has awaked to the fact. now yerv
clear to him. that Ritualism is putting in peril
the continued existence of the Established
Chnrch OF England" The working people, y
as ne says simply hate it." And vet as he
admits, it fourishes among certain classes
phraseology essentially Romish is sin vogue p
and the celebration of Holy Communion is
ttamiIiG,rly spoken of as High and Low
AS he thinks of these things the Dean grows
severe. and denounces the entire sacerdota7 mar
~ with an emphasis which is quite refreshing
Hear him: o
1t is not merely that the solemn fopperv
the effeniinate passion for fnery, the pitif1l
maatttneTy OF this new sect is distasteful to me
the colored stoles, and strange surplices and
imported birettas, and melo dramatic eesticnla.
uons-thelr sing song prayers and their CAB.
bled Lessons, the combined result of all which
things Is to make the services of Gods bonse q.
they conduct them, no refreshment at all bnt
simply a WEAKNESS of the flesh and an exasnera
lion Oh the spirit it is not for reasons like these
say that | avow my hostility to this foreign
school Still, less Is it from any PuritanicsI
Jealousy OF beauty the fruit of Ignorance
God knoweth 1t is because 1 see plainly tbat
the only logical result of such principles anf
such practices within the Church Of England ia n
oetray unstable souls into the hands of the Cbnrcl
Oh Rome-to SOW the seeds of division and dissen
sion among our own people; to destroy the peac,
OF FAMILIES to violate the sanctity of households
10 eliminate in one more portentous Sect"
Presbyterian
AN event Of great interest TO or
American minister was the marcbino, 81 a.,
Sunday School children of the 0bnrcb &c IT,,
land in Liverpool on Saturday last The nr6
cession was an hour and a.balf long. II forp1no,
at the st. Georges Hall and matched To tbt
iown Hall, where the immense crowd Joined II
singing the familiar airs of Moody and Sankev's
gospel hymns Verify the world moves. The
Church of England singing Sankey's SONGS
Who Would have fbopobt - t,,.o-l..