New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-12-10

her last vision she charges with worldllness, FL
DER n. smith, editor OF The Rerier and Herdh'
ana William {. Gage, business manager OF the
paper, who is also mayor Of the city and HopTl-
etor OF one of the heaviest denOminationai pub
hsnlng houses in the world. Both men are ex-
cellent citizens and it is probable that they
may resign at the next meeting. The talth mas
hundreds of thousands of followers all over the
united States and Europe, all of whom are
practically governed by the Battle Creek lead
ers. Mrs White, or the prophecies, as she Is
sometimes called is apparently seeking ny
means OF this vision to regain her ascendency
IN the councils of the sect.
THE Boston Pilot says that the recent publ
cation Of the Notes of Visit to the RusslPn
Church" by the late William Palmer, selected
ana arranged by His Emnence Cardinal New
man. with the assistance of Father Eagleslm
OF the birmingham OratorY, and with Preface
by the Cardinal, has created a sensation IN the
London literary world. Mr.. Palmer, who died
IN Rome over three years ago, was brother or
the present Lord Chancellor of England, and,
many years ago, furnished with letter from
Dr. Routh, the Superior of Alagdalen College,
Oxford, started for Russia to study the doc
tTine and practices of the Russo-Greek Church.
lie considered as many earnest men tnen dlu'
THE Visible Church at present to exist, rs
Cardinal Newman writes, ID three main
branches, or rather in triple presence, the
Latin, the Greek and the Anglican and
since, on given territory, there could not be
more than one of the three, it followed that
Christians generally, wherever they were, were
bound to recognize, and had a claim to be re-
cognZed by that one ceaslng To belong 20 the
Anglican Church, as Anglican, when they were
at Rome, and ignoring Rome, as Rome when
they found themselves at Moscow. The me
cdents and results of this visit are told in tn
-Notes," which were bequeathed to the Car
dinal 10y their learned author
Colonel Robert G.. Tngersoll is now on y lee
tuTe tour out West, demOishlng the Church. lt
is n noteworthy fact that the secular press,
almost without exception, cOntroKert IN their
editorial pages with singular ability his brill
liant bat vulgar diatribes which they report In
their news columns. 1t Is evident from TINS
that the popular heart is mot yet divorced rom
the great fundamental ideas OF Christianity.
"A a random specimen of tins secular comment,
the following Is taken from recent editorial IN
The ChicUgO EreRiRg Journal: at Is barely
possible that Mr.. lngersolrs wicked teachings
may have beneficial effect upon the Church;
in helping It to see itself as others see II, ana
to rid itself Of some of Its errors, on the prin-
cple that we often learn something valuable
from onr enemies. But his sweeping lcOnO-
clasm would tear down everything religious
and sacred, without proposing To build mp any d.
thing else IN its place. Mankind is lnnately OF
a religious and worshipful nature, and the chief
trouble with Mr. lDgersOlls assaults Is that ne
does not recognize this tact. The men anu the
women of this age are not 80 TAR advanced
IN MS St}ie OF llOtIdll5W 10 W tohsSlb ~ 'AIO
knocking out from under them OF all the props
Of faith, and to he left dangling wildly IN mid
air.
The Rev J. Hemphill OF san Francisco said
recently that the millennium Is ral IDLY APP
uroachIng During the millennium, he thought,
The physical conditions of the world would be
improved. sin being removed pain and tray,
all would be done away with. he physical
conditions of man would be vastly improved,
and there would exist no pain, sorrow nor
tears. such as arr ours now. When, that time
comes men Will live a. long rs the old patll-
archs before the food. Healthy bodies Will
make healthy minds and for a thousand years
the two will be yoke-felOws. The moral and
spiritual conditions Will he vastly, improved
and holiness will abound. And dcrng those
thousand years he thought one language would
preYail throughout the world, for through the
Tower of Babel or sin, numerous tongues
came. aud by the casting out Of sin, they Will
90. But what language IL liable 10 be adopted
The signs of the times are that the honest old
Anglo-Saxon of England and America will be
tie one. foI it is now being introduced over
not only the civilized but the unciyilzed world