New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-06-19
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.

| SELWTN COLLBGE.-(auDriuSe, IL SCENE, ht
we'll as Oxford. is 20 have it, denomiBational
college. On June 1. the ceremony of laying the
first stone OF Selwyn College at Cambridge was
performed by the Earl of Fowls, High Steward
of the University, who confined his remarks
chiefly to the character of the latee. Bishop
Selwyn, in whose honor the college was
founded. The Master-elect of the college, the
Rev. A. I. Lyttelton, spoke briefly on the oh.
jects of the college and the proposed methods OF
teaching. He maintained that the three main
characteristics of Bishop Selwyn's character
were faith, selfdenlal, and obedience, and he
wished to point out that the three characteristic
features Of Selwyn College would be religion,
simplicity of life, and discipline. The Vice
Chancellor said II must be "A matter of obserya-
ton that the tendency at the present time was
to dissOciate higher education from the sacred
influence of the National Church, and he was
deeply thankful that God had put II into the
hearts Of his servants to establish college Tor
the purpose of teaching and spreading the doc
trines of the Church of England. The Bishops
of Durham Carlisle and Lincoln wished the col
lege GOd-speed in its work, aud the Hon.
James Russell Lowell, the American Minister
to England, reminded his hearers that his own
Alma Mater, Harvard, at Cambridge l" the New
World WAS founded 24O years ago by graduate
Of Emanuel College. Cambridge, England. me
Spectator pays a graceful compliment TO the
master of the new college. Bishop Selwyn; 1t
says, was IN some respects more OF a Journalist,
a. ChurchmaD,-we speak of the days of his
speeches, than the frank, manly, simple, and
perfectly open minded man chosen for the head
of the new college In Mr.. Lytteton, we believe
that the Selwyn College has secured the pro,
mise of a fair start, and a popularity that VIII
be all the deeper laid for sprlnglng from a r..
ligious root. Under no man, perhaps, could
religion. simplicity of life, and dis, ipne-
which are intended 10 be the CHARACTERISTICS OF
the Selwyn College hfe--be rendered more
genuinely prcpOsSesslng, less dldactlc, prln
and rigid" In another article in The Spectator
an affirmative answer Is given 10 the questions.
" Is IL well that denOminatlonal colleges should
rcappear at oxford aud Cambridge i II well
that colleges should be founded with the
ayowed object of making "A university educa-
tlon cheaper thing than II l. At the Older coli
leges = In answer 10 the first question it -
claimed that those who give their money 10
kcblc or Sclwyn College 1T least know what
they are about. They have their own conc'p-
zion Of tho religion which they wish Ia see asSo-
ciatcd with the new foundation, and no dim
Guilty l. likely 10 arise IN giving effect t0 that
conception. Consequently, instead OF looking
with displcasure az these additions a. the ola
universities the true Liberal viii rather well
come them, a. an additional proof how gcnu-
ney national Oxford and Cambridge have
become Finally II il claimed that a young
man who goes Ia one of the &c lleges with very
little money to spend Is more likely - spend II
wisely-ihat Is, % get the most profit and the
most enjoyment ont Of it-than he would De az
the majority of the older colleges
METHODIST IN NEw-YoRR CITY.--A writer IN
the current number of The Methodist discusses
The needs of New York MethOdlSn,' and
comes to the conclusion that east of Central
Park and above SlXty-first-st., 1--WE new
churches are needed, and one old one should be
rebuilt. This work would require an outlay OF
not less than $500 900, and il is regarded As
the first and greatest want of the church. To
speak disparagngly of New York MothOdism,'
SAWS the writer, - has seemed 10 DE a kind of
fashion in which some of those pretty closely
connected with II have been known Ia indulge
rather freely. without AT all deprcciatlng
either its works or it, character, u must still bc
conceded that il is not dong IT, possible best
and though il il probably quite the equal IN
Christian and denonllnat0nal zeal OF any other
like portion of NcthOdlsm. yet II cannot DE
denied that 10 il liIlng TO "A not lncOD,dcrdDle
extent in respect 10 some of the demands made
upon il by It's proyidcntial opportunities. II
seems to I've suffering for the lack Of a strong
aud active c0nncctionali.m among both the
ministers and the official lAlty, and OF practl-
cal and effective recognition oi the UNITY of the
Mcthodirm OF the city. ! ms l. seen III The iact
that, except two feeble and struggling affairs,
sustained principally 10y women, there l. not a
single local Methodist institution among us
neither school asylum nor hospital The
church, il is pointed ont. has failed 10 keep
pace with the movement uptown OF the pOpala-
Ton of the city. In the great central portion Oi
the city. extending from FOuItccnth-st 10
Central Park aud from Fourth to Eightl-ayc,.,
there is. with The exception oi 'olorcd pro,,
pie, mission, only one Methodist Church, and
that a small one bought ~ second hand ten
wears aso aud designed only for temporary use.
h would seem az IL there were here problem
which M,t.odists might consider with profit
PROFESSOR SMIrHs FRIENDs.-According "a
the Edinburgh cOrrespOn, Q II of me LORdOn
Times there L. great indignation al over scot
land on account OF the decision OF The Free
Church Assembly in Professor Robertson
smiths cast. IL discussing The attitude al
Professor Smiths friends the colrCspOndcnl
SAYS: Wild schemes of sec s,Vh and Oi
stopping the supplies b. wtLOldlns con,ribu.
tiOn~ 10 the Substitution FNnd are being talked
of both in The north and I'm the south. Professor
smith, friend, held public lr,ahlaet yc~tcf-
day morning for thc purpose first. OF cypress
lns sympathy with him, and, secondly. of conn
selling and t,coulagluC their Sympaih lD,ls 10
the church. Their resolution is to stick by the
Free Church and fight ont the hattle th'le.
Defeat has not darIuted them, While the mus
tee they h; We suffered has increased their de
20 pcrscVerc until the wrong bas /
been rightcd. The knowledge, too, that the !
rising generation OF the church Il mainly ON
their side gives them hope that favorable
issue il only question of time. line adoption
of this policy l. due mainly to Nj. Robertson
Smith himself, who, IN bis speech IN The General
Assembly, earnestly CounScllcd his friends to
remain loyal 10 the Free Church. Dr. Walter
G. Smith said. nj the breakfast, that Professor
SMITH had saved the church from ruin, which
her so-callcd leaders were about 10 bring about
her 4 mass of people were waiting for such
de session rs the signal for them To drop away
from their church. but the Professors speech |
had prevented that threatened exodus. The |
fIar. therefore, is not to be hauled down; on
the contrary, it is to be- nailed to the mast
CREEDs AND CREEp-MAKIEG.-The recent |
of "A committee of twenty-five /
prominent Cougregatonast clergymen for the |
purpose of preparing a new creed and catechlsm
for In, usc of the churches furnishes The Church
man with "A theme for an article on creed |
making" "lf there could he no further addi- |
tions to the crccds of Christendom,' II says, |