New-York tribune., 1881-09-11
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| OF Canon Farrar's latest work GMercy and
Judgment" he Christian Advocate saws
AFTER a careful reading OF this book we are
compelled to number Canon Farrar among the
destructive critics of Christianity. He tears
| down, but does not build up. For definite
| teaching he substitutes indefniteness of the
most cloudy kind, an indefiniteness which is as
unsatisfactory and as improbable TO the in
qulrer as certain teachings with regard to hell
are TO the Canon himself. From his point of
view the many extracts from the fathers from
the records OF councils, and from individual
theologlans, by which he seeks to Justify his
Eternal Hope have great weight Filled
with the Churchly spirit, the consensus of the
Church would TO him be all-sufiicient. But TO
the true Protestant the only weight all this
matter has is that which belongs to il by its
measure of accord with Scripture and reason
The Bishop of Manchester touched upon the
SUBJECT OF rltuallsm IN a recent sermon preached
at Accnngton. In referring TO theories on cere-
monlals advocated by certain schools he said
tllat he sometimes felt as ii Ne were losing pa
uence and hope at the continuance of this idle
controversy about matters of ceremonial 1t
engendered strife and bitterness and wasted
energies which in his Judgment might Toe far
ornaments and the like that were needed The
people needed IN England more than anything
else downright earnest preaching and teaching
Whle they were lighting and disputing about
NesCmentS ana ornaments and chalices and in
cense, the infidels and atheists at their doors
were trying to destroy the peoples faith. Was
it not something worse than folly, he asked, To
be distracting and tearing the Church in pieces
at such time
There is trouble in the Dunkard or German
BAPTIST Church in the Miami Valley. Recently
there has grown up in the church a party the
members OF which style themselves the ~Pro-
at Arcanum, Ohio, the Progressionalistsm de-
manded that some of the time-honored customs
OF the church be dispensed with, and this gave
rise to an angry debate. Forty speeches were
ieln
ana representing eight States. The Progress
slonalists" were in majority, and carried their
point but the division in the church conse-
quent upon theiI action cannot be healed IL il
thought. There are said to be 100, 600 Dunk
ards III the United States.
In Tyrone, Ireland, according TO a correspon-
dent of The Northern Wing. the Episcopalians
with population of 40, POI have lib magis-
uates oT IA proportion of l to 432 the Pres
bytellans with population of ,42, l56 have 10
magistrates, or "A proportion of tO 3,2lj; the
Methodlsts with population of 3,Il5 have no
magistrates and the Roman Catholics who
number 119,937 have 2 magistrates. or a
proportion of l to .59.96s. The Pau Mall
Gdsette IN commenting these figures saws
that the system of Protestant ascendency IS
far from beng extinct in Tyrone"
1t is stated in The London Christian World
that the jews are making efforts to establish "A
colony IN the district of Gilead and Moab, and
nave secured a grant from the Sultan of
i,o'o,OOV aCies OF lstuu lOg tnc purpose Tor
which they are to pay large amount of
money. IL there ls any truth in this report the
result ot the experiment will oe awaited with
considerable interest
In commenting upon the fact that Dr. Hitch
cock has devoted several months of labor to the
correction OF the proofs of the Revised Edition
of the New Testament, upon which he has been
at work. Ihe Christian Union saws: " Until We
have perfect minds, however. we shall not
have perfect books Typographical errors are
one of the results of the tall"
Joseph MKay, of Montreal, who died few
months ago bequeathed SI4,s00 to Home aud
Foreign Missions and to colleges and sunday
schools connected with the Presbyterian
Church of Canada: 81, 800 to missions con-
nected with the Free Church of Scotland; and
Sl,Ooo TO the American Presbyterian Board of
Missions.
The popularity of Professor David Swing. ot
Chicago, was shown last Sunday 10y the large
audience which gathered in Central Music Hall
10 hear ms hrst sermon after rest of three
months. Nearly every seat was filled. The
sermon was on sympathy" the text being
taken from Hebrews iv. 10.
The preachers who were transferred from
one conference to another in the Methodist
Episcopal Church in the course of the last con-
ference year numbered 2S6 il is said or only
one IN elghty-tilree of the effective list.
The General Christian Missionary Conven-
uon' the Foreign Christian Missionary Society
and the Christian Nomen'S Board of Missions
vii! meet IN Indianapolis on October Is.
scheme is on foot in Scotland to erect a
monument TO Dean Stanley in Dmfernline
Abbey, near the monument which the Dean
erected to the memory of his wife.
The Germany and Switzerland Methodist
Episcopal Conference has 9.7I7 members
showing an increase during the year of 273
Syria. il is said, has eighty foreign preachers.
300 native helpers, 1000 Christians and
\ $4,000 churchgOers.
1t is reported that there are %, IO3 Presby-
terians in w-Icaland.