New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-02-27
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.

laid, az we might have expected, among tno
poets, the scholars, and sages whose dust rests
within this Abbey. 1t may he that he was
drawn by an irresistible longing toward the "a.
tive hills of his own Dumfrlesshire, and tnat
there, beside the bones of bis kindred-beeloe
his father and his mother-and with the silent
ministrations OF the Church OF Scotland, to
which he still chung amidst all the yicissltudes
of his long existence, will IepOse all that was
earthly of Thomas Carlyle. But he belonged 10
a wider sphere than Scotland, ana IL Gear
especially to ScUtsmen, he was yet loved ana
hOnored wherever the English language Is
spoken. Suffer me- then, to say few words on
the good seed which he has sown IN our hearts.
=. lt was customary for those who nave
heard him to speak of him as prophet. And
if we take the word in its largest sense ne de-
served the NAME He was prophet ana Ieit
himself to be prophet, IN the midst OF an IN
toward generation. His prophets mamie Was
his simple Scottish dialect and his own pecuni9at
diction and his own secluded manner OF NE.
He was prophet, most of all, in his emphatic
utterance of truths which no one else, or hardiy
anyone else, ventured to deliver which ne feit
was the message OF God to world that sorely
needed it. He stood almost alone among the
men of his time in Offering stern, lnneXiole
resistance to the whole drift and pressure OF
those days toward exalting popular opinion
| and popalar movements as Oracles TO DC vaiued
above the Judgment of the few, above the Judg'
| ment of the wise and good and strong. States,
men, men OF letters preachers have az DOWeo
| their heads under the yoke OF this, as they be-
| lieved, irresistible dominion, and the impression
thar the first duty OF the chieiest men Is nos 10
| lead but to be led, and the necessary condition
| of success to ascertain in which way the current
| flows and to swim with it as lar as 1t Will Dear
them. TO his mind this seemed an insane ae-
| fusion. He was no monk OF hermit snTlnH-
| ing apart from the passions which sway inc
| destinies of a great country. There is no man
| living by whom the thrift, the industry, the
yalOT of his cOuntrymen was so deeply prlzed
| There is no man living to whom, Dad II Deen
| l. l. hn. hnnn
| torpor of approaching death, the news wOnid
| have been more welcome that the Parliament
| of England had been in the last week saved
| from becoming byword OF Teproach ana shame
| among the nations OF the EARTH"
Opposition TO RITUALIsM.-The English
| Evangelicas have put forth their reply to the
memorial for greater latitude ana tolerance ih
ritual, Ill the shape of an address to the Arch
bishop of Canterbury, signed by Bishop Perry
now Canon of LANDAU Bishop Ryan, OF St.
Peters, BournemOuth; and the Deans OF Exc
ter, Carlisle, Ripon, Chester, Gloucester, Peter
borough, and Canterouy, besides gSou n,ams
ether minor dignitaries:. They protest agalnst
any liberation of Rltualsm. They are =" firmly
| convinced that neither in public prayer, nor ID
the administration of the Sacraments, ought
| there 10 be granted any federation OF the use OF
vestments and symbols ayowedly relntro-
| duced as opponents Ut doctrines when we oe-
ieve to be un-Scriptural, and which nave Deen
| declared to be not in accordance Win the pam
intention or the Articles and the formularles
| of the Church of England" 1he Spectator re,
| marks that the real weakness OF the memoria
| is this they do not face the TACT mat II tney
are to have their way, large secession OF eier-
gymen and laity is inevitable. ana that these
| are not days in which the Establishment can
we'll sustain such shock, without consequences
of the most serious kind. The Dean OF Chl-
chester has drawn up, in anticipation OF tDe APP
preaching meeting Of COnv0caIlon, long ietter
10 the Prjmate OF England on the menOrlal OF
the Five Deans praying tor tolerance IN matters
of ritual. Dean BurgOn protests agalnst me
proposal that the chief pastors should tacltly
sanction, and, as it were, connlve nc pract,ces
which in their charges and monitors 70 tneu
clergy they have already repeatedly con-
demned aud which, In the opinion OF inc vast
majority of competent judges, either betoken
disIoyalty to the Articles and Formularles Oh
the Church of England, or else are tne Veile 1'
trifiug.n The Dean avows that the reason why
he regards the demands OF the Riualists WIN
utter disfavOr is because he finds 1t imposslDit
to diyest himself of the CONVECTION that wnat UNI
leaders of the party 10 reality ann az Is tne III
REDUCTION into the Church of England OF some
thing uudistinguishable from tue ROMAN MISS
CoNyoCATIoN OF CONTAMINATION Houses
OF Convection of the Province OF Canterbury
met fortnight ago. The Archbishop In hle
oneninc address said that various addresses mao
been laid before him on the subject OF greater
federation in the matter or ritual. by tle Ia !"
of the country great discretion " as vested ID
the bishops as to the mode In Wmch tne
various laws regulating ritual should be put III
force. and he did not think that the differences
which now brset the Church could be settled III
| any other manner than by the exercise OF the
ouibority of the bishops Another point which
would come before them was whether any I'M
movement could or could not be made in the
ecclesiastical courts. They as well as the
country in general were tired OF ths question,
for they knew that In this age, on the faithful"
ness in the discharge of its highest duty by TIE
Church of England rested not only the future
welfare of the English nation, but Oh the ChliS-
tan Church throughout the WorIc' hesoiu-
tious were carried during the subsequent pro-
cpedings declaring that litigation IN matters
of ritual is to DC deprecated ana deporeu ana
further that authority to settle differences IL
such matters is Inherent IN the eplscosai 0lnce'
The Lower House discussed Tor two days o
, | 0rarameR introduced by Canon Gregory, asking
, Tor the federation OF rituallstlc practices. 10
. this Dr. Vaughan, the Dean OF LANDAU. miro
| ducad an amendment which, while rec0ShlzDp
the full right of every clergyman to promote Dy
constitutional means changes IN the law Oh tne
Church, emphaGcally proclaimed II 10 be the phi
mary duty of clergymen to set, penang tne III
PRODUCTION of such changes, "an example O
| ready obedience to the admoniti0ns OF tneil
| ecclesiastical superiOrs and the decisions OF Una
existing tribunals" The amendment wa
, seoonded by the Dean Of Salisbury, and led u
discussion IN the course OF wnlcn Ca h nsdn
, Gated of the Church hy means OF outward ceTe
monial, but it was in the end rejected by sixty
) five votes to twenty.
: Tup CpuRcu AND THE WoRLD.-The Rev
, G.. North. Of Durham. Conn, read paper Oh
, SThe Church and the World at the Methods
: minister's meeting at Hartford on MONDAY
night. He argued that in one sense the wori'
| has grown BETTER directly through the influence
/ Of the Church on the mass of the population
+ The 6rst grand commission to the Church If
Q Let your light 80 shine before men that the.
, may ses your good works. and glority you
Father which is in heaven Where the worl'
ia NOT growing better the Church is deIe.lct, o
A there Is no Church. The distinction betwee
0 ihe Church and the world is thus gradually dis
: appearing, unless it can be shown that o. p
9 Church Is improving at least as fact. 4 u |;
great peril that threatens the Churcn '1-Iay