New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-06-05

| religious work. There is a time just now"
he, said. ain the Congregational Church, and
| indeed In all the churches for that mattcr-tG
adopt popular phrase-for revival Of stall
wartismf in theology. There seems to be o
great lack Of grip upon the conscience OF men.
There seems TO bc an apologize spirit wheii
certain of what arc called the sterncr doctrines
of the Gospel are preached; and so We
lose the other side of men," Prcfes-
sor w. NJ. Barbour, the pastor at Yale
College gave definition of the law OF lo,o
hearers. If he were to be knocked down upon
| Boston Common he said that the law OF love
would enjoin him to knock his assailant down
in return. look around, y he added : and !
| see unguarded Boston with all the unprotected
| females and children on the Common
| [laughterl; and if that man is not arrested
! what is to become of themf And 50 say that
the great law of love allows me to go right in
| the teeth of that man with saving stroke and
secure him. But now some of the pious breth-
| rem come and say What, sir you minister
of the Gospel and talk that way! Why don't
you pray with him Why don't you give him a
| religious tract ! say, knock him down first,
and then hand him over 10 the tender mercies
of the sheriff; and when he has done what Is
best then we will go and pray with him and try
and bring him to be a better man.
ETERNAL PUSIsHMENr.-The clergy has gem
orally treated the question OF eternal danlIla-
! ton as which it has the right To decide but
| every clergyman must allow that laymen, too,
have their share of interest in the subject 1t
is not easy for the profane to understand why
presbyter should deem IL necessary to weed QUE
| of his denomination everyone whose mind ell
| tertains lurking hope that his peccant neigh
| Dor may III the end DC puIgcd OF ms SINS and
| admitted To the joy of the righteous. Yet such
| is the proposal of some ministers of the Re
formed Episcopal Church. In the General
Council new article of faith WAS offered by
the Rev. Marshall b. Smith, rs part OF the
doctrine OF the Church, declaring that " tho
1 1. 10, in
hell" Dr. Cooper and Judge Savage expressed
| the utmost concern nj the attempt % saddle
such dogma on the new Church. and declared
most emphatically that the adoption of tho
article would drive them and great many
others out of the denomination. he fact -,
that 80 long aS person remains IN the thurh
where he was bred he keeps his fayoiitc little
hcrcScs tO himself but no sooner docs he cut
adrift than he feels impcllcd Ia publish them on
| every hand. There are thousands of orthodOx
EpiScOpaans who remain unconvinccd that Il
sinner cannot pass beyond his Creators mercy.
But the Episcopal Church does not consider It
necessary on that accc unit To drive thcin ON or
its ranks, and, even III churches which have
| long included such Il tenet IN their articles, ~
| is kindly winkcd at nowadays, and no one -
| tabOOcd for his private belief on the subject.
Ii would seem ~ If a new Church ought 10
congratulate itself on the opportunity of avoid
ing any such rcquisltion. But new Chnreh
| always bcgcts dsscnsiOn within lt>rli. Tloso
who have vrnturcd 10 cast OF their mornings
feel
and if opinions disagree there i sure IA J" II
mutiny. The Council adjourned Monday. The
doctrine of eternal damni.ti0n Was not adopted
~ an article of faith, but by. approving th" re-
port of the committee the Church put it,cli on
record a. the champion of the d' glna. =
At the Unitarian festival held recently in
| Boston, addresses were made by hr li"v. Or.
Long of Massachusetts, the Rev. james Free
man Clarke and others The Rev. Robert
| Colycr, in the course of pleasant letter.
| wrote ITO good Unitarian whose lni 1t Is -
| live in exile from Boston and Nc~-tnglarl,
the May meetings are much " at the Christians
| week was over the sea when ! was boy. Ne
manage to make their bcncdicll0n stretch
clean round the yeal, liI>t IN rmcmbriin;
what good time We had AT the last meeting,
and then in thinking what good time We shall
| have at the next.
The thirtieth annual convention of tie Ohio
| Christian Missionary Society has been IN ses-
sion recently at Dayton, Ohio. This l. tho
Home Missionary society OF the Disciples OK
! Christ in ohio, the church Of which irr,hl"it
| Garfield is n member. Four hundred AMI
twenty-five churches with membership of
| 10000. belong 10 the denomination. The state
of Ohio is divided into twenty-five districts,
which were represented ~ d.rgatc, az tie
convention. President llh-dl.r, of Hiram
College, who i, also president Of the society,
| drlil cred The annual address
Al the National Baptist Sunlay- school Ins'i-
tutc in indianapolis. resolutions wee nhihi-
| mou>ly adop,ru requesting ali Baptist churches
and Sundiy-schools la raise special rpntIlhu-
tion on the fourth sunday ~ Jun,. Tor tho
establishment of SUNDAY ->rho'H among tho
colorcd people. Ii WAS >i..jrd that OF the
G.577, l91 person, of African descent ~ tls
United state, more than 1uo.ono are members
of Baptist clurrhc>, al Niin>c chlidlcn Boz 10
than l,OuO.O'O are unable Ia attend sunday
school, tor want OF books and teachers.
The father Of JOHN Il. Cough WI N,i'rlis;,
hi, mother WAS a Baptist, and he lnm,'li "Gs
baptized 10y an Lpi-c,i"i bishop. Mr. tough
SAYS he las felt a. though he VA, "A l!i,lc of
everything" In l~ij. however he h'canra
Consrcentioralict, and jelEci the church, and
since that time he says that lac " has been heart
and soul with that body.
OF the &256. GS - received in the last year
by the American College and Educational so
cicty, SD >5l 81 WAS given for the Use of
colleges and To help needy young men III pre-
pairing for III" ministry. ot tins latter Nnni
%1G325O was given by Mrs. Nalrria g.. St"Af.
of Maiden. Mass. In the last year $40 young
men have been assisted.
The Rev. c. II. Spurgcon. accompanied by
two of the dcacuns of his church, intends, 1t Ii
said, to take journey Ia the Nile. The Rev,
Joseph Cook. it Is also reported, mas acsrr'ru
an invitation from Mr. Surgeon Ia deliver
some lectures in the Metropolitan Tabernacle.
The report OF the treasurer ~ the boain "t
Foreign Missions of the United Prc>bytci an
Church shows that the receipts of the past var
from all sources were 5,4G7 ~; Ill" 'Nlrn-
diturcs for the same period were S'O9'3"' o.
Resolutions of sympathy for the relatives I'D
friends of those who lost their lives IN ~"
steamboat disaster ut Lond"n ont were paS,rd
m n recent meeting of the Montreal ConfereAco
nf the Methodist Church of Canada.
Bishop Shanahan, of Harrisburg, a few Sun
DAYS ago in Philadelphia, confirmed ,62O per-
Ia, "a. AZ 1ta