New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-07-23
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.


THE FRENCH JUDICIAL OATHs BILL.-This
bill came uD for discussion IN the Chamber on
the 26th ult.. and the choice had 20 he made
between three courses. Bishop Freppel and
the heactlonaries advocated the main ienance
of the oath, with the infection of fines on recall
citrants. The Government recommended a
dispensation for persons entertaining or Affect
ing scr1p,es; and the committee proposed "A
uniform secular cath, or declaration. NJ Jules
Roche, IN a trench3nt speech IN favor OF this
last course, nvelghed against Roman CathOli-
cism rs having for centuries arrested human
progress, established and maintained itself 10y
violence and dcluced France with blood, by
the massacre OF -. bartholomew ana the revO-
cation of the EdIct OF Nantes. mere were
murmurs on the Right at some o. the passages
of bis denuncilton, bat silence on his descrb-
ing the persecution of the llugueuOts rs "A
great crime, from whose consequences France
still suffered. NJ. Roche also cited Victor
HugO's line on Archbishop SibO1rs completely
with Louis Napoeous pertidy ~Pr6tre, co
Test pas dc riH que ton cibOire cst rOUgeI and
drew contrast betv cen the morality of
Roman Catholic casulstIy and that OF sceptics
like Montague and Noltaire. Bishop Freppel,
III reply, repealed the charge that Roman
Catholicism sanctioned mental reservations :;
and accused Pascal, that -Pamphleteer of
Gamins," of Garbled quotations on this point.
lie urged, moreover, that even II individual
casulst, had gone astray, Innocent y d.. had con-
demned mental reservations. lie twlited Free
Masonry with wishing To eXpupcc the Name of
God from tie code, As il had done from its own
constitution, and cited RObespierre' yndica-
uOn OF lhel-m IL an answer to this attempt to
bring back the time of heberi and ChaUmette.
\ proposal signed 10 meet the objection to
an oath by defining It as an attestatI0n upon
honor and con science, implying no profession.
81 religion or pliO-Ophlc belief. was ncgatived
D. 22O votes 10 POS. The formula. -On my
honOr. faith and conscience | swear. was
then adopted by 33- votes to los. The ex-
listing phrase, Before God and man." was
expunged 10y 313 to 96 votes clause for
bidding the erection of religious embens, cru
cilycs and pictures of the CrucfiXiOn in courts
OF Justice was carried against the Government
by 30 votes 70 1871 and the b,l then passed
by 263 to 1871.
UNITED PREsBTTER1AS Missions. 49, The
printed minutes of the last General Assembly
0t tn United Presbyterian Church, according
to The Observer, show a total of S7T,736 o.
expended during the past year for foreign
missions, and $40,-96 ii spent ola home
missions. During the past three years,
&2O7, 20 were appropriated 10 tAe Board OF
Foreign Missions, M tie receipts UOm ali
sources were Sls3,3il. Bat only about
$4,000 were received from Prasbytcrcs.
and the remainder was made up by lega0es,
gifts from Sabbath schools, missionary -Ocieues
and lndly Gu;.is. The regular contributions OF
the Church therefore fell short Of tle appro-
rriauons about $4,000 during tia, period
The Board Of Home Missions had ~ proUriatcl
70 il 1913, 3 il received from all sources
SOS, Ass, bar If this only IS SIS We're re-
celyed from ITeSDl terles, leaving 4 deficiency
of $i~,46J to be made up in part from tie
OtAe. sources mentioned. The Board Of
Frecdmcn'a Missions htI appropriated TO it
$iI.o0O. Received @3O,76J from all sources,
and Ct this only 80. SIS from PresbyterleS,
leaving o deficiency of T2l.9j2. The Board
OF Church Extension had appropriately $4,000
Received from all sources. S5+.1l2; from
PIes1 yterrs only S13.l6D, leaving de-
fcicucy 81 5000. The tnancia. committee
complain that o. the money received only very
small proportion comes into the treasury before
the middle OF the year. They adv .sc, a. "a
remedy Tor these evils. thdt a monthly Uuhllca-
ton devoted to Christian bencuccace should
be issued by the direction of The Assembly 20
be- sent into all the families OF the Church 20
instruct and stimulate the people IN the duty
of Christian giving. Ihe nlted PIcehy-
teriaL Church aud Free Church Of Scotland
have. II appears. been TOR some time employ NJ
this means OF promoting hberallty among the
people with most gratifying success.
The Record Iondon) SAYS: with Protes-
tantiSm a. such. Pere HyacInthe holds nc com
munion He avOws that Professionalism will
do nothing for France. He considers That the
error - Professionalism il that II places the
conscience alone il the presence of the dead
letter Of the Bible. SieaAiug in support Of
doematic Catholicism. he SAYS, addressing the
Prote-tants. Make your own rel zion for your
self and when YOU have made II one day, BEGIN
the same thing over again ever morning. tie
accents and lndOrscs Boileaus satire. Tout
Protestant est pape, unc Bible a Ia MAN, and
adds that the Pope IA this respect is tho chief
OF Professionals. Pele Hyarnthe has learned
hat to be "A member OF the Church of England
one need not be a Protestant; for while
holding the views mentioned above, n states
himself 10 be in communion with the Church
of England, and, IN spc king OF his own ser
vices his committee state tii1t the AngLcanS
will find themselves ~ home there. The osl-
tive REFORMS Tor which teTc HFacintAe pleads
are tt. rejection OF the doctrine o. lnitllI-
bllt, that bishops be elected by their own
clergy and people, that tie celebration OF the
liturrical Offices and the reading OF the BiOe
shall be in French, that PERM >,ion 10 marry
I've granted TO the clergy, and that the practice
of confession be restricted. As 10 the future
prospects OF this movement 1t Is somewhat
difficult TO Judge OF them 10y present results.
One thing, however, Is to be noted th.t no
prominent French cyclc.ldstic has ioincd Pere
Hvarjnthe, and the whole burden Ui the move
ncnt rests upon him alone. Did be but set
before himself n hi- great purpose IN life, not
the idraIi-tic reform OF q vicious system, but
the actual bringing Of souls to Christ, he would
find That the living fire would touch thousands
eff hearts and lips. and he wOald be taking
mart in. and, with Gods blessing. influencing
movement supported not by hundreds but 10y
thousands OF Ills cOuntTynen.
DR.. French. the Bishop OF Lahore, The Ne'r-
FORK Observer remarks, has been gwen the war
medal Tor Atghanlstan for haTlng mlnistCred
under fire 20 dying soldiers during the cam
noilrn OF 1S7y-o1. The Bishop Of Auckland,
New Zeal nd-Dr Covc-has received two waT
medals. namely, the Indian Mutlny medal,
with a clasp. for the final siege and capture OF
I nrsuoV. and the subsequent actions eli Ally !
yunge. Rooy cah and Bareily and the frontier
1r,r medal for the short but sanguinary
Tmbevla campaign in the winter of 1863 l. !
4 Bombay clergyman, the Rev Mr. Nllen. was !