The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1881-12-28
FOREIGN CHURCH NEWS.

In the Presbytery of Liverpool there
is carried out system of periodical pulpit ex.
change, the country ministers occupying each
others pulplts on one Sunday in the month anc
the town ministers in each alternate month.
There are seventy PRESBYTERIAN
churches In London, and an effort is beng made
to increase the number.
"A Christian church has been built
with stones from the ruins of aheathen temple
by the native converts connected with the Ma
dura mission of the American Board
1t was reported at the Evangelical
Alliance Conference that KING John of Abys-
slnla had agreed to allow the circulation of the
Bible in his kingdom. but was averse to Protes-
tant missionaries settling there.
The Catholic Review has the fol-
lowing with regard to the Pope's leaving the
| Vatican:
will the Pope leave Romeo We know
not. We hope not. But it is impossible to
! say. Even he himself is in suspense on the
point. In reply to a French Bishop who
recently expressed to him the opinion that it
would be dlsadvantageous to leave Rome, he
to stay where am, but should the outrages and
threats offered to the Church, take more dis
tlnct and personal form | should be forced to
make up, my mind as to the best thing to be
done under the circumstances.
The struggle for disestablishment is
extending in Great Britain Referring to the
action of the Scotch Free Church Commission.
which our Scotch correspondent gave at length
last week, the ST. James Gazette of London
says
This is a declaration of war against the
National Church of Scotland by the most pow
ertul of the Dissenting sects in that country, and
the one which heretofore has RETAINED from
entering the lists. The sect which is next in
power and infuence-the United Presbvterians
has all along shown itself willing to assault
the Establishment on the ineligible ground
that the State ought not to interfere in ecclesias
teal affairs"
The Edinburgh Daily Revieo has the
following
Still another Church census, and again a
surprising revelation of the failure of the Es-
tabllshed Church in England to take its place as
the Church of the people This time the emu
merators have been at work at Leicester, with
the result of showing that out of a population of
~ 600 only 1854, or l in 20, attended the
Established Church in the morning, and 1865,
or IN -, In the evening. The Nonconformist
chapels were much better attended the numbers l
beng, at morning service, IL 1874, or l in II of
the population; and at the evening service 90
l67, or L in 6. 1t will thus be seen that the
attendance at the Nonconformst chapes about
doubles that at the Established Churches. The
State Church. in fact, serves only fragment of
the population, and yet it enjoys the benefit of
all the rich endowments of the Establishment.
The disparity between church and chapel at.
tendance was brought out in an almost equally
striking way at Sheffield. There out of popula-
ton OF $4,000 the whole attendance at the State
Churches, morning and evening, was only So
I5I, or l In 9, whereas at the Nonconformist
chapels there was an attendar ce of 52,1l2, or
IN 3. There the Nonconformists outnumber the
Church people with $4,000 to spare, or by more
then five to three.
DO any of our readers feel inter
ested enough in the Papal canonization of last
week to desire to know something about the
newly made saints? This from Roman Cath
Ollie contemporary is all the information we can
get
The Holy Father, on the Feast of the I'm
maculate' Conception, added some new and
illustrious names to the Calendar of the Saints
benedict Joseph Labre pilgrim, beggar, per-
haps even worse in the judgment of the world,
but IN the eyes of heaven, that could discern be-
meath his rags, mortified Saint Lawrence of
Brlndlsi, an humble Capuchin, employed by the
Holy See in most confidential missions, Glare,
OF Montetalco, holy virgin, whose sanctifed
body is even to this day treasure and protec-
ton to the Church."
Our PERvERTs-Father Henry
CO4SLAuSo NSdJS WTlJer IN LTlJJLl brother OF
the Lord Chief Justice, has Just been named
Rector of the Jesuit Church in Farm Street
Berkeley Square. 1t is curious to note what
large proportion of Catholic priests, who were
once clergymen in the Church of England, make
their way to the front in their new Communion.
Father Coleridge was many years ago fellow
OF Balliol but went over to Rome soon after he
had taken Deacon's Orders Father Edward
Purbrick, the Provincial, or head of the English
Jesuits, was also a clergyman of the English
Church. Of the three English Cardinals, two,
Manning and Newman, are 'verts At the
Brompton Oratory, out of eighteen priests,
twelve were at one time of their lives either
clergymen or laymen of the Establishment; and
of the twenty one oblates of St. Charles, in
Bayswater, the Order in which Cardinal Mann
ing belonged, more than half were at one time
Protestants. There are in England and Wales
about 200 Catholic priests, Of whom about a
third are converts most of them having been
clergymen in the English Church-Belfast
Witness.
General Booth, of the Salvation
Army has resolved on purchasing building at
Clayton, London, at a cost of 100000 to be
used as the Great National Barracks for the
training Of officers and large Congress Hall"