The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1882-12-13
FOREIGN CHURCH NEWS.


Basle 1t is credited to the small religious
gathering presided over by pastor Stockmayer,
Messrs. Rappart and Schrenk, evangelist in
the service of the Societe Evangelique OF Berne
and others. A large music-hall, the Burgvogtei,
holding more than two thousand people, was
not sufficient to accommodate the crowds which
Hooked to hear the gospel.
THE PARIS MEETINGS Re-
veillaud writes that the Moody and Sankey
meetings in Paris were undoubtedly successful
For six nights vast crowds gathered in the
church of the 0ratoire. NJ Reveillaud says
Never before in our experience have we borne
| away from religious assembly so deep an i'm
preston of these thousands assembled in one
place, these bowed heads these Bonded knees,
this genuine gospel unity and brotherhood
which induces the pale faced workman from
MIR: McAlPs meeting to rub elbows with the
white-handed fine lady" On the last evening
Pere Hyacinthe was present among the pastors
perhaps to learn in the wonderful success of the
earnest evangelist, the secret of his own lamen-
table failure.
"A correspondent of the Indian Wit
ness gives touching account of a Christian
taqulr widow who spends her life travelling
from place to place preaching Christ and teach
| ing His word to the wome of India She is
lady of unblemished reputa ion, of rare ability
| In her work without pay or direction from anv
society. She goes about in the simple garb of a
Hindu villager and tells the story of the Cross
to thousands of her countrywomen. She spends
weeks, or even months, in one locality, and
wherever she finds Christian work going on at
once joins with the workers and gives them all
the help she can.
Rev. William Arthur, the distin-
guished Wesleyan of England, paid a fine
compliment to his Presbyterian brethren at the
late meeting of Conference when expressing his
a t1Sfoo
dist students. He said that there was something
worse than theological ignorance, and something
| greatly to be regretted-namely a scanty and
imperfect knowledge of Scripture, both in the
original and authorized versions He did not
see, he added, why there should be better
| knowledge of Scripture amongst the Presby-
| terlans than amongst the Methodsts: but one
brother had said to him, after such an examina-
ton as he had referred to, these brethren had
only the Presbyterian knowledge of the Bible.
Canada Presbyterian.
The Salvation Army is to have one
of Its field days in town. next Sabbath. Our
walls are covered with posters announcing the
muster OF all the troops in town" and the pre-
sence of Maj this and Colonel that on the oc
casion We are glad to miss from these placards
the protanItles and blasphemies which have dis
graced some of the Army's similar. announce
ments In England There is here no intimation
OF the Bombardment of the Devil" and no
announcement of the Descent of the Holv
SPIRIT at particular hour. General Booth
has no little of the cunning of the Jesuit He
probably knows pretty we'll that among the
stald Presbyterians of Ulster that sort of thing
would not go down. and so he reserves it for his
! English friends. But the system is the same on
both sides of the Channel. Its lack of reverence,
and Its turning of the most sacred and holy
themes into ridicule, are two of its worst fea-
tures.-Belfast Witness.
The Outlook the organ of the Pres
byterian Church in England, says " How sig
nlhcant is the reception which Mr. MOODY the
American preacher, has had from graduates and
undergraduates at Cambridge and Oxford 1t
stlrs ones heart to think of those young hopes
OF England IN thousands assembling to listen to
an evangelist who never passed through anv
University, and has no claim to intellectual
culture, but knows how to open the Scriptures
and how to speak straight to the consciences
and hearts of his fellow-men. There is a religi-
Gus movement at Cambridge which is full of
promise; What blessing 1t may prove for
England. If Oxford, which has been a mother of
Rltualism, and then of Skepticism, should be-
come mother of Evangelical life and mission
airy ardor"
The High Church party in England
is taking a new departure 1t is seeking to
denationalize the Church of England, that it
may be free from the supervision of the State
and thus carry out its Ritualistlc and Romish
designs. Just now Parliament and fashion in
England are turning from High Churchism to-
wards the Broad Church. which is antagonistic
to the High Church party In the meantime
movement has been begun with the avowed in
tention of breaking down the limitations of the
National Church and including within it all the
different Protestant denominations The pro-
liability of success is not very great at present
but no one can tell what may be brought about
by the changing circumstances of a few years
especially as the English people move in crowds
and follow leaders to an extent altogether un-
known in this country. And after all the
Church of England is Parliamentary Church,
and the Parliament can make it adapt itself to
emergencies or introduce changes at will As a
, matter of course Rev. Newman Hall, who has
+ always had hankering after some kind of a
/. connection with the Established Church. is a
, party to this project.-PresbyteriG Banner.
THE YOU'VE MEMS CHRISTIAN AS
ISOLATION IN GERMAEY-But there has been
another meeting of the Germans, who, with
Is their traditional love of the past, lose no oc-
! casion to keep an anniversary 1t was in the
Teutoberg Forest, right by the monument re-
Gently erected in memory of the bravest of all
German heroes, Hermann, or, as the Romans
= called him, Arminius, who had the daring to
a attack the Roman army at the moment of its
= creates strength and glory, and died in defense
of German liberties On this spot sacred to the
German national heart the Young Mems Chris
0 tan Associations of Germany have held their
: annual meeting and gone over their work and
p made more comprehensive plans for the future
Here were men of different stamp from the