New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-02-13
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.

gregatlOnal ministers in disfelOwshipping for
| heresy his brother, the Rev. MyrOn Adams.
| He said among other things: The Ontario
Association endeavored to % its duty, honestly
and sincerely, have no doubt. 1t has acfed,
| and explained it's action. But il is left fol us
to judge it that action be wise, righteous, scrip,
| tural and according to truth: For myself,
judge 1t to be neither wise, righteous, scriptu-
raj, nor according to truth, but quite the re-
verse; and l propose to give the grounds for
| my Judgment. They had blind man to deal
with. Here was one brought uD under the same
sort of teachings with themselves; but ne
never could see or understand by them clearly:
What they held precious as the very light OF
truth, seemed to him only to intensity the seBse
| of darkness. The report goes out that he sees
| and speaks not in accordance with the stand
| ard notions; that he undertakes and despses
the old traditions and formulas. The ministers
summon him to an examination. And they
cast him out. "ThOu vast born entire (alto..
gether) in errors; and dOst thOu teach US J"
The first and chief count against him they gave
as follows: "The Association has been deeply
grieved to find, first, that Brother Adams is so
thoroughly unsettled in his religious belief,
that, as he admits, he can neither formulate a
consistent statement OF Christian truths, nor
assent to any others have formulated" The
blind man over again9 And then they enumer-
ated some of his errors, j. e., that he canuot
see that the traditional conceptions OF :sln, OF
the atOnement, OF forgiveness, or regenera-
ton, of internal punishment, are altogether
gests that he sees something different ana
better more rational and scriptural. He tries
to give them some hint of these things, but
since they measure by the fixed and the past, as
if saying, 1--WE are MOses's disciples" they are
sure that he furnishes for his belief mo satlsfac-
tory scriptural or rational basis" Because he
differs from them, he is regarded as aDtagOn-
izing essential truths" In short, they took no
more comfort in him than did the Pharlsees In
the original blind man, and in his sraightfOr-
ward, blunt declarations, and in his personal and
irregular seeing of truth. Unless he sees and for
mulates something called truth in the main as
they dc, they cannot fellowship him. why y BE-
cause the formulated, settled, well-estaDlsned
statements arc to be accepted as true always; But
IT this be the method OF truth, why dld Jesus
fellowship the disfellowshipe1 blind man that
now sees upon his own account The grand
truth is, that the blind mans position ls true
one. IL is for d man to get lOOsened from the
settled sealed and stamped dogmas. Let us
not disfcllOwship any man who in any way, or
in any degree. wants and seeks the truth. 1t ID
quite possible that God is leading him to some
but what then7 1t is precisely such that may
first of all be expected to see. For Jesus says,
" For judgment am l to come into this world:
that they which, see not might see ana tney
which see might be made blind" For the pima,
there is but one step; but for such as see there
are twO-frst, blindness, and second, sight. It
seems to me that there is q wonderful gospel
here, in o very small compass ana 1t Is gOspel
to such as can appreciate 1t.
COMPULSORY ATTENDANCE AT CHURCH.
Boston comes naturally 10y its virtues, for IN the
olden time every one of its ancestors was COM
nplled TO 90 to church. The following is copy
of writ, the original OF which Is III possession
of the Rev. DR.. Clark, served upon the sherln
i'm the town of Boston something more tnan
14S wears ago: "Whereas the grand inquest Tor
the body of the county of Suffolk have upon
their Oaths presented that Gamaliel Rogers OF
Boston in the county of Suffolk, ylctualler, hath
wilfully absented himself from the Dubllck
Worship of God for the space OF five weeks last
past, not having at such time any lawful cause
for 30 doing contrary to laws etc. 2. That
Benjamin Leverage, OK sd Boston, laborer, natn
absented himself from the publlck worship or
God for tve weeks last past contrary TO law ETC.
g. That hannah. the wife of Edward Sader;
of sd Boston, rOpemaker, hath wllfully absented
herself from the publick worship OF GOD toI SIX
weeks last past contrary to law, etc. lneSe are
therefore in his majesty name to Will ana re,
ouire y,u to attach the bodies of the said
Gnmaliel Rogers. Benjamin Leverage, aud
Hannah Sadler, if they may be found III your
precinct, and them convey before one or more
of his maiesty's justices of the peace III said
county of Suffolk, in order to their being Sc
cured, to make answer to SAID pIesentment at
the adjournment OF court OF general sessions 10
DO holden nj Boston in and tor SAID county OIL
Suffolk on Monday the 26th day of JANUARY next
at of the clock in the forenoon OF said day.
You are also alike required TO summon the per-
sons named as witnesses to the respective pre-
sentiments to appear at the same time, to give
evidence on his majesty5 behalf. Herein TAIL
not and make return Of your dOings therein
unto the said court"
At missionary meeting held last week In 81.
Paul's Methodist Episcopal Church, Phlladel-
phia, Bishop Simpson hkened tie missionary
fund to the reservoir ut Paramount. AS that
reservoir receives the water from the river ana
sends it through numberless pipes into houses
in every part of the city, so the missionary 1unu
gathers the contributions OF tue Cnlirch ana a'5
tributes them to every bart OF the world, thus
bringing the contributors into communion with
the people of oil nations, and giving practical
effect to the admOnitiOn to teach all nations.
The president Of Pennington Seminary, n. j.,
described that institution rs agl0w WIN tue
missionary spirit. for it has already sent five
Young men to labor among the heathen III
strange lands, and there are twice that number
now willing to 60. The speaker thought the
lesser prosperity attending the more recent
efforts OF tie Methodist Church In this
country is owing to the fact that she ia not
as Jealous in the missionary cause as she used
TO be- He expressed the belief that hundred
dollars expended in the work abroad would add
100 per cent more to the glory OF Coo tnan tne
same amount invested in Church work at home.
and said Remember that the God VINO could
create ten thousand such worlds as this ike
flash of light Is as helpless as an infant without
the ChuIch-cannOt reach 0 soul unth the
Church moves"
The death of DR.. Z. A. Washburn is regarded
by the religious press as a loss not only to the
Protestant Episcopal Church, but to Protestant
ism. The Christian Union says that as Broad
Churchman in the best sense, he not only IN
rludcd all schools of thought in his own Church,
but put himself 10 thorough sympathy with
other communions. Indeed, no man in the
Church was more concerned to have its spirit
broad and liberal, especially in the Protestant
"A nd lpa2 hOHnNAd ny acCl6St-
astcal limits. He was a worker in DR.. Muh-
lcnberg's memorial movement; ne was the
apostle of the Church Congress; he was first
aid foremost in everything that gave lntellec-
tual breadth and spiritual movement to the body
to which he belonged. In this direction he lived
IN spe n vast change and one which was vital to |