The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1881-02-23
FOREIGN CHURCH NEWS.

The effort to raise 100000 to sun-
plement the salaries of the Waldensian pastors
IN Italy, which has been made chiefly in Scot
land, has produced thus far about $45 900.
The audiences at Professor Robert
son Smiths lectures on Biblical Criticism in
Edinburgh are said to be considerably smaller
than were expected.
A gentleman in England has promised
to give $50, 600 to endow bishopric in North
China, If the selection of the bishop can be vested
In the Archbishop of Canterbury
The Australian churches are com
planning OF a scarcity of candidates for the min.
lstry. The Presbyterian church of New South
Wales, after existing in the country since 1909.
now has only one divinity student
1t is said that 10000 out of 10000
townships in France open to evangelical
teaching. A Catholic priest recently said that
he could not go anywhere in France without
seeing Bibles and Protestant tracts
The Peninsula of Sierra Leone con-
tains population of $4,000, of whom all ex.
cept about 1000 bear the name of Christians.
"A recent visitor at Knock reports
that, from whatever cause it may be, the repute
OF Its miraculous virtues seems to have ceased
In the rush and stir of the time and the district
1t has come to be almost absolutely ignored by
the faithful.
The war between Bismarck and the
Vatican, which has lasted now for eight wears
has not been without results. The opposition
OF the Roman Catholic hierarchy to the mild
form of the first Falk" laws irritated the Ger
man Government into harsher measures, and the
end is that In the German Empire l no priestly
posts are vacant, and more than 600 parishes
are without any kind of ministrations whatever.
= The Rev. DR.. Happier, of the Pres
ibyterlan Mission at Canton, China, has pub
dlshed pamphlet in which he discusses the
various estimates of the population of China
Some statistical writers have rated it as high as
40O,O0OOOO. DR.. Happier considers the aces
sible data, and comes to the conclusion that the
population of China at the present is about 300
100000. more than one-ffth of the population
of the globe.
Dean Stanley, true to his Latitu-
dlnarian sympathies, recently argued for the
abrogaton of subscription, and Mr. Haweis who
IS even more advanced than the Dean in the
same direction, goes beyond him in recent lee
ture on Freedom of Thought in the Church of
England and the General Position of the Iibe-
raj Clergy. Mr.. Haweis wishes every thing
optional. He would notlimit the mental yaearies
and eccentricities of any man by creeds or ar
ticles, butwould permit them unbounded latitude
ana unhlndered license. Congregationalism, pure
iPie' 10 at leasV lntelllglole but 1t is an af-
front to COMMON sense and ordinary intelligence
10 WINNIE Tor greater liberty in an organised his
torlcal church. where those who feel its articles
uksomely restrictive and subscription a hard
snip, can obtain unembargoed freedom for eueo
reckless speculation, by following Mr.. Voysey.
Mr.. Stopford Brooke, or any other seceder TO
the right or left. And if the National Church
of England had sufficient self protective nrero-
gatives it would send both Stanley and Hawe;s
about their business, and refuse for a day to toll
crate their infdelity to the creed of the Estab.
ilshed Church.-PreSbyter,an
Canon Liddon is certainly q dex-
ferrous accommodation. He is about To isspe H.
sermons which he preached in st. PauTs dnrino
December, In volume, and to preface them wi. p
an explanatory note. The note is not onlv do
slra6le but necessary. We fear, however that
the popular and cultured preacher will fail To
satisfy some of his readers anent the felicitous-
ness oil some OF the comparisons which he en-
Ploys, especially the one between John the Ban
tist and the modern martyrs of Ritualism The
canon has knack of handling texts after the
HeuIgVal pattern. In his funeral sermon for the
iate blshop Wherefore, he took for his text
am become all things to all men !" and then
lorceu a comparison between the ambidexterons
veIsaVliCy OF samuel Wilberforce and the con
stunning zeal and concentrated energy to his Mas.
yer cause OF Saul or Tarsus These are bnt
triaing errors compared with those of StanIev
an! anu HaWels' Llddon Is true to the vital doc
trlnes OF the Christian system He NAV wran
tne cross IN incense and surround it with flow
ers somewhat too profusely, but he does not rife
~ VI us atoning Saviour, nor rob it of its pre-
cious efficacy.--Pres5yterian