New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-07-31
ne wouid do vastly greater work, and work
with Lar greater promises of permanence.r

senIatlves as able In her relations 10 the Stare
IL was from that point ne seemed TO view her
from the human rather than from the divine
side. She was powerful because she was an in
trlnslc part of the constitution of the land and
not because she was a society ordained by God
and endowed by HIM with spiritual gifts He
was an Erastian of the most advanced school
and III bis desire to be comprehensive and lib
erai, he was sometimes In danger of becoming
indifferent to all truth, as was apparent in his
attitude during the Colenso controversy. He
was not so much a representative of the English
Church and of her doctrines, as written in her
tormuaries, MS of the English Church hedgcd
In and crippled by the State. But he was a dis
tinguished son of the Church, and his death
be felt.n
The Seaside Sunday -school Assembly will
0egin Its sessions at Education Hail. Asbury
fark, n. D., next Tuesday evening. The Rev.
James A. Worden, who will have charge of the
exercises exercises Of the Assembly viii preside at Che
chairman of the New-Jerscy Synod Sunday
school Committee, will welcome those present.
Short addresses will be made by the Rev. Drs
=; n. Brooks, of st. Louis, Herrick johnson, of
Chicago, and w. p. Breed, of Philadelphia.
Inc topics for the ten days are as follows:
Wednesday, Christian Literature; Thursday,
aS Sdao bat sGls Missions" Friday Science
Monday, Temperance Tuesday, Foreign
Missions; Wednesday. aThe Children;
thursday, Home Missions" Admission to
,he morning and afternoon exercises is free,
out fee OF 20 cents is charged for the evening
entertainments.
Of the sermon which the Rev. DIR. phillins
brooks preached week ago to-day on the late
Dean Stanley, The Boston Transcript saws: IL
tribute was paid to the lite and work of the late
Dean of Westminster, the Sunday following
ms death, even In the churches of his native
iand, than was heard 10y those who were so for
tunate as to attend the morning service at
TRINITY Church in this city. Colored, as it
could not fail to be, by the warmth and tender
ness OF an intimate personal friendship, still
Its main characteristic was its vivid and accu-
rate estimate of the moral and intellectual
quail ties of its subject, who was beyond Ques-
uon one of the most effective forces in the re-
nglous life of the England of to-day, the fore
most champion of rational and intelligent
Christianity"
In recent issue of The Pau Mall Gasette
some interesting figures based on the census
returns are given in regard TO the religious be-
nefs of the Irish people. There are in Ireland
Protestant Church of Ireland, ass, SOB Presby-
terians and 1859 Methodists. The Baptisfs,
Quakers and members of other denominations
number 81, 3l5. The decrease in the ten wears
IN the number of Catholics and Professionals
was about the same-4.S per cent The de-
crease In the number of Presbyterians was "A
per cent, while the Methodists have increased
81 per cent, APPS members having been added
TO the Church.
What is to be known as the Meade Memorial
Church-a monument to the hero of Gettysburg
is TO be built in that city under Episcopaiian
auspices. The tower is TO be composed exclu-
slyely of stones inscribed with the names and
addresses of the various Grand Army of the
Republic posts or of the Society of the Army
OF the Potomac, or of any officer private who
may desire TO honor his commander or a COM
rade by sending stone suitably inscribed
According to The Congregatiomolisf, q if the
appointment of Dean SANKEY'S successor were
put TO a popular vote on this side of the
Atlantic. there hat Ganan
Farrar would be the man." 1t thinks however,
that DR.. Vaughan, Master of tie Temple,
stands better chance.
Had the Roman Catholic Church retained all
her children, says The Catholic Telegraph, there
would now be in this country from 10000 600
to 25,0O0,000 members of that Church.
whereas there are now less than 1000, 900. The
Telegraph attributes the great loss TO the in
huence of the public schools.
In London last year $50 missionaries made
3,l43,SO1 visits, distributed IL, 1863 Bibles and
portions OF the Scriptures and A. 0O4, 6l2 tracts,
received 2,1SS new communicates. reclaimed
2,50S dTunkards, rescued 500 fallen women,
induced 5, 746 persons TO attend public worship
and sent 1868 children to school
A daughter of the Rev. Dr. Henry Highland
Garnet recently appointed United states Min;
Iii Liberia, on the spot where DIR. Gamet's
grandfather was taken prisoner more than a
hundred years ago and sold into slavery.
OF the 327 Catholic priests who were in this
country in 1884, only -four are now alive
Archbishop Purcell, of Cincinnati Archbishop
Henri, of Milwaukee, the Rev. James FittOn,
formerly of Worcester, Mass, and the Rev. Mr..
Havermans, of Troy.
The English bishops, according 10 The Lon
don Record, are thought to have come TO the
conclusio n at a recent meeting that the revised
version of the New Testament cannot take the
place of the authorized version in public wor-
ship.
The company appointed TO revise the author
lied version of the Old Testament finished its
seventy eighth session on July 8, in the Chap
ter Library, Westminster. The second revis-
ion of Isaiah continued as far as chapter
XVII, verse ..
The cornerstone of the new church which the
First Baptist Society of Cambridgeport, Mass,
is to build was laid recently with appropriate
ceremonies.
1t is reported says The Copgro9ationolist. that
the Rev. Brooke Hereford, of Chicago has de-
Cambridge.
The First b apiist Church at Woburn, Mass,
celebrated Its one hundTedth anniversary Cd
July 3.
The total membership of the Moravian
Church In America at the close of the last year
was 16,491.
CURRENT RELIGIOUS DISC USSToN.
DO yon wish TO push the contrast furtherf CO.
cept the challenge. What has indelity done for the
worldf Has 1t an objectf 1t Is TO destroy. Ii ir
notification, reputation. secession 1t is the base
attempt TO throw of all obligation, 10 renounce all
authority, contemn all law. Its advocates
called free thinkers" who set themselves I'D "a
the infallbe Judges of truth, receiving only what