New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-10-02

pdIduc Oh his tHllStlan principle. with the
Intensity of any sterling and genuine man, he
hated cant. When someone at Cbautanqua
urged him to speak publicly, he feared, as the
political canvass was at its height, that it might
be taken as bid for popularity. And he re-
piled that if his religion must be thrown, as a
nlakeweight, into the contest, he preferred
not to be President. But whenever occasion
called for 1t, he clearly showed how constantly
he dwelt beneath the shadow of things eternal
and divine"
The current number of The Churchmdn con-
tains the twenty-fith annual report of the
Society for the Increase of the Ministry. One
of the interesting features Of the report Is the
following statement: "We are happy to an
nOunce that besides paying promptly the sti
ponds of some seventy scholars annually, and
providing for the necessary expenses of manage
ment, the society is to- day free from debt-has
not one dollar of liabilities, and has received
large add tons TO its permanent funds" The
receipts for the year ended September / from
thirty dI0ceses amounted to $34,S40 90; the
expenditures amounted to S33,165 7S.
Nineteen scholars have been added to the min
istry during the year. New England contrib
uted to the fund S21,5l9 90; the Middle
States, 1928 II; the Southern States, $711 SO;
and the Western States, Sl,035 4S.
OF the sermon which Bishop Simpson
preached before the Methodist Ecumenical
Conference, DR.. Buckley writes as follows I'd
The Christian Aduooate Intellectually, his.
toricaly, practically and spiritually it seemed
to be all that the occasion required. IL was
of course, impossible for the Bishop to reach
the overwhelming fervor of some of his Con-
ference, camp-meeting and dedicatory sermons
in discourse necessarily covering so much
ground, but there We re touches of pathos which
reached every heart, and power was hidden III
many passages which will be felt long after the
Conference has closed. 1t gave great satisfar-
ton to the people"
The death is announced of the Rev. DIR. s. A.
w. Jewett, who was prevented by illness, nc
will be remembered, from taking pare III the
prosecution at Chicago of the Rev. DR.. Thomas
for heresy DIR. Jewett was one of the leading
clergymen of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
in Illinois. He was Presiding Elder OF the
Joliet District, having charge OF "A church In
Joliet. DR.. Jewett was taken sick while at tho
New Lennox camp-meeting several weeks ago,
and has been great sufferer since then. lie
leaves wife and four children.
A week ago to-day the last of the high cele-
brations in Holy Trinity Church, Toronto, took
place, and herceforth the I o'clock celebration
on Sunday with high ritual and vestments VIII
he abolished. The rector, the Key. W; stewart
Darling, has retired, leaving the church III
charge of the assistant rector. At the con-
clusion of the service last Sunday evening the
organist and most of the members OF the choir
resigned.
At the meeting of the fourth session Ct tho
st. Louis Methodist Episcopal (SOuth) Confer
ence recently, it was stated that there were
ninety-fOur local preachers and II ,b62 MEM
berS in the Conference. In the past year sol
adults and $50 infants were baptized. There
are l42 Sunday schools, SIS teachers, and
6,G0l scholars.
An unknown gentleman recently offered to
give the English Baptist Missionary Society
50. 900 if some of its missionaries would go
into the interior of Africa by the way OF the
Congo River. Two missionaries from the Cam
eroons undertook the perlious Journey.
The Congregqtionalist thinks that the Bap..
fists of California are to be congratulated, IL
the report be true, that the Rev. |. ,. hall0ch,
DID,, has withdrawn from the district ana STATE
conventions. Ills church thus becomes nlue-
pendent"
The anniversary meetings of the General
Association, Educational Society and Ministers
Union of the Pennsylvania Baptlsts Will begin
at Reading on Monday evening. October II.
The sessions will continue three days.
1t is stated that the Rev. Dr'. Kittredge and
Lorimer among others have offered to supply
the Rev. Dr. ThOmass pulpit at Chicago dur,
ing the period of enforced silence pending trlD
by the Conference.
The next General Council of the Alliance Of
PRESBYTERIAN Churches throughout the world
will be held at Belfast, in June, 1854. The
committee of arrangements Is already at WORK.
II is said that there are ut the present time
ESQ foreign missionaries in India, representing
thirty-two missionary societies, AN increase OF
sxty-seven since 1871.
The oldest bishop in the Anglican Church Is
DIR. Ollivant Bishop of LANDAU, born III 49,
and cOnsecrated III 1919.
Attendance at morning prayers at Harvard
College is hereafter to be voluntary, 1t Is re-
ported.
4 second Methodist Ecumenical Conference
is TO be held in the United States in 1881
The SO.O 900 MethodiSts in Iowa, it is stated,
are building churches at the rate of one every
fortnight
The Roman Catholic Church claims TO have
400, 900 converts in China.