New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-06-25

| Is between four and five thousand, out OF
| twenty thousand in all, with Congregational,
! Presbyterian, Methodist and two Lplscopal
| churches 1t Is a mistake to suppose that
| polvgamy as bad as it is, Is the worst ana
! most dangerous feature OF the Mormon
| Church The offence Is one OF when Only
| about One-tenth part OF the people are sullly
| The infallibity accorded to the Mormon
| Church and its priesthood Is the thing most 10
be feared and hardest 10 uprOOt; and pOySamy
rests upon this. i lady of our party meeting
! married daughter of Brigham Ioung drew
| from her the frank statement that like other
women she should shrink instinctvely from
such step as her husbands taking second
| wife, but added that she should submit without
| protest, as the Church requires II. Here is the
| key-note to this bondage OF pOlygamy, but con-
! tact with the outside world is beginning to be
| felt. and p0ygamy is looked on with decreas-
| inc disfavOr among the young people, rs they
! begin TO see how ii Is regarded by Others
! Church BUILDING SOCIETIES II ENGLAND
| The incorporated Church Building society
of the Church OF England l. one Oh many
! societies all engaged IN the same work. It's
! income last wear. was about $4,000, but the
| report shows that its achievements nave been
| out OF all proportion 10 the slenderness OF It's
| means Ii has built, as me Ch"rchmGR PoihIs
| ont. or encouraged the building Of thlrty-one
! new churches. and has assisted the rebuilding
| of nine 1t has also made grants Tor email z
! ing or increasing the accommodations III slAtg
| seven others This IN one year. buJ the
f10 900 thar passed through Its treasury was
| only the nucle1Is of this crystaliZatiOn. Since
! Isis the society has received and dlsDufseu
! something less than G9OO,OOO but IL has
stimulated the public to an expenditure OF
| something more than ll,OOOVUO. IL takes
! credit therefore, for the erection of l,o9J new
J churches and chapels for the Improvement OF
522t old edIices and for the provision OF
! l,727.S7O additional slttngs. / he society m
cludes within the sphere OF Its operations al
| VI. irp. ~s4pf "A
remote corner in which a mlsslon-chapel i
needed. il builds that chapel or helps 10 Dulld
! IT, There are several English Church Buldlng
| Societies which have common ancestry In
! THE Bishop Of LOndOns Fund. W men, some
wears ago, East London was cut on from the
! Diocese of London and given 10 Rochester,
| The Bishop of Rochesters Fund took up the
| good work and carried It on. hen came the
! new Diocese of 1T. Adams, and Bishop Of
ST. Adams Fund and now, IN North London,
| there is Bishop of Bedford and Bishop
of Bedfords Fund These funds, IN their
| several districts, are engaged III common
! work They promote the building OF churches
they provide incomes for the maintenance OF
more clergy; they found or keep up church
| schools. The Church OF England IS awake and
alive again, as if from the dead Church ex-
tension Is III active progress I'D every direction
| The reports of all the societies give testimony
TO the enormous efforts which are being made
to not only meet but anticipate the religious
wants of the growing population OF England.
But in all these reports there Is one common
note OF dissatisfaction. / he necessity lot lhe
Bishop of LondOn's Fund we are told, IL not
less URGENT than when the fund was first
created, The Bishop OF II. AlDan funu mas
doubled its income, and doubled Its wants
Their work is everywhere incomplete ana
their appeals ale lncessant Tor providing
the means of public worship and that pcrma-
nent parochial organization the establishment
OF which Is the proper Junction OF truly
nntional church All this means that the
| d. nov
direction and long arrears OF old work 10 be
cleared OF, and that she has set herself to DO
it,"
TPprIrGIoy N FRANCE.-N. Roche's recent
proposition in the French Chamber OF Deputies
tc abolish Christianity by completing the spoil
alton of the religious bodies, and handing over
all churches and cathedrals for secular pur-
noses. has excited very little attention III TINS
country. Though perhaps no one here believes
It 10 he serious, II Is certain that a number OF
educated men IN France would not be mt an
opposcd to it. a writer in one OF the English
secular Journals commenting on TINS state OF
things saws that in France, especially IN farls,
q GOOD many people believe nothing, and thar
of those who are religious, few now care 10
urofe,s themselves good Catholics. In Eng
| land as rule thinking men have no desire to
see contempt poured upon any religious forms
which are still honestly believed III Dut tllcre
Is he thinks, a general feeling now prevalent
that the Church in France has ceased 10 repre-
sent any bcieyable doctrine or even any prac-
.cable system of morals. Its ceremonies,
he SAYS are half insincere lis peculiar doc
trines q mass OF exploded metaphysics ana ITS
moral ideals simply out oil harmony with
healthy human nature. In spite OF these dam
aging characteristics, DO doubt the Roman
Catholic Church retains considerable influence
in the French provinces. The good country
cures are still beloved, and keep awe certain
sense Of general prOpriety, combined win a
kind OF religious sentiment. In the large
towns their action Is more questionable. gun,
whenever there Is a really eloquent preacher
who can talk anything like common sense,
Notre Dame Is invariably crammed with men.
That fact must point to something. 1t points
To what Renan calls the necessity OF an IN
SttUctiOR morale Ct same II the denoluon Oh
the Church meant the destruction OF religion,
people like NJ. Roche and Paul Bert would nave
n much rOugher time OF II but l am not al all
sure that some such extreme measures as they
ad, ocate would not be very good for religion
in France. In the old days the cathedlals anu
churches were the results of religion III these
DAYS religion IL supposed to owe Its continuance
and vitality 10 the church system. The
sooner that idea Is OVerthrown the better. IL
Christianity depends upon brick aud mortar, or
( : d.. SC much the worse for Christianity; but
AS IL started and conquered the Roman Empire
without these useful adjuncts, there Is reason
to suppose that the essence OF 1t lies else
where and that what neither Nero, nor
Caigula, nor Marcus Aureus, nor Julian was
able To put down, may possibly, IN some form
or other, survive the legislation ot even VI.
Roche or a NJ. Paul Bert
The Christian Union gives an account Of
meeting held recently in Springfield, Mass, by
some Methodist ministers, fol- the reading and
discussion OF four essays Oh he lnierme-
date State " The Resurrection The Judg-
ment" and Heaven and He'll" The writer OF
the first argued that no one had yet reached
heaven or hell, but all we're resting in their pill
grimage from the here to the hereafter, IN
Hades the second cssayist argued for the
| medieval doctrine of the literal resurrection of
| the Identical body which is buried IN the grave;