New-York tribune., 1882-04-09

| Streets SOOn a1terWaru tiey came lntO contact
| with procession OF the Salvation Army, when
| free fight ensued, the professions being
| broken up, and the flags and several OF the
band instruments destroyed. The members of
the Salvation Army ultimately had to seek re-
| fuge IN their barracks Several thousand per-
sons were in the streets at the time Of.the colli
sion, and great deal Of excitement prevailed;
but no serious injuries have been reported.
1t is a curious fact, says The Congregation
0tist, which, in its credtable zeal for the utmost
possible nicely of Greek scholarship in the in
| depreciation of the New Testament the present
time is fitted to appreciate, illustrative of the
manner in which the Orthodoxy of one age is
| apt to differ from that OF another, that at the
beginning of the sixteenth century when
Erasmus was intent on the acquisition of the
| language of Homer and Demosthenes and
Plato, he was met by the determined opposition
of the doctors of the Church, who insisted that
the Greek tongue was Ia tdngue des keresies
and who in the Sorbonne, as late as 1880, for
bade anyone to translate the Holy Scriptures
from the Greek or Hebrew without special
permission of the university.
The First Unitarian Church in Roxbury.
Mass, celebrated the 25Oth anniversary of its
foundation on April 2. In the course of his
tOrical DISCOURSE delivered to commemorate
the event, the pastor of the church, the Rev.
John g. Brooks. spoke of the manners OF one
and two centuries ago. He believed that tho
change which had taken place was one for the
better There was a wider kinder charity
now less drunkenness, and of less riotous and
vulgar type and even dishonesty, supposed to
be modern vice, was no more common now
than then.
At a meeting Of the Presbytery of Philadel-
phia last week the report of the committee ap-
pointed TO inquire into the charges against tho
Rev. DR.. a. A. Willis, who, it was claimed,
delivered lecture on certain Sunday in o
Cincinnati opera house for the benefit of the
Unity Club, an admission fee of ten cents hav-
ing been charged, was presented. The COM
mlttee, sustaining the accusation, decided that
the lecture, " sunshine; or, the Secrets of
Happy Life, was secular in character, the time,
place and circumstances of its delivery being
Objectionable.
At recent meeting OF the WOmans Foreign
Missionary Society of ST. Louis, missionary
told of the difficulties of learning the languages
of India. A change of accent made a great
difference. The missionary that tried to tell the
HindOOstanee audience that " In My Fathers
house there are many MANSIONS" Informed
them that In my Fathers house there is much
butter" And a most learned minister had
translated the first line of the hymn 40 for a
thousand tongues to sing in this wise, 80, for
a thousand sausageS.o
The canonization of the Princess Maria Chris
tina, of Savoy, first wife of King Ferdinand III.
of the Siciies, IS at present undergoing discus
sion by the Congregation of Rites which met
on April 1. The virtues and the authenticity
of the wonders ascribed to her are to be duly
considered and weighed. The cost of the pro-
cesS-fOr even canOnizatiOn is expensive-are
to be borne by the Empress Maria Anna, the
widow of the Emperor Ferdinand OF Austria,
and sister of the dead princess.
Early in the present century the Dean of
Durham visited the Waldensians and discoy
cred among them document referring to
money which had been collected for them by
Cromwell. The Waldensians, it appears.
never received the gift, because Cron well
died, and his successor seems to have squan-
deIed the money. The Dean, however, pre-
sented the matter to the English Government,
and after a discussion III Parliament the Gov
ernment, in 1924, paid interest ON the money
collected by Cromwell.
The Rev. DR.. George d. Boardman has just
completed in his church at Philadelphia a re-
maIkable series of lectures. They were begun
in 1864, the subject being the New Testament.
beginning with st. Matthew, DR.. BOardman
went over the ground chapter by chapter, verse
by verse, until on Wednesday last be reached in
his 626th lecture the last chapter of Revelation.
The lectures If printed in book fOrm-dreadful
thought-wiil make 40 duodecimo volumes of
$50 pages each.
The voluntary proposition of the Rev. DR..
Baldwin of the First Baptist Church of Troy,
\. y, that his church make a reduction in his
salary of $500 "A year in view of the large ex-
penditures the congregation had made in re-
constructing the church building, has been
appreciated by the members of his
flock. In the words OF the resolution passed at
a recent meeting of the Board of Trustees of the
church, Such instances OF liberaity are as rare
as they are unselilSh.'
recent visitor to the Rev. S. +. Green the
" martyr Ritualst,n says that, not finding suili-
clent exercise III daily walks in the prison yard,
he applied to the prison authorities for any
work which they could find him, and that he
now houses all the Goals that come to the jail
i.e., when they are shot from the carts he car
ries them in baskets to where they are kept for
use.
Thrty-two new members have beer recently
added to the American Institute of Christian
DR.. Allen, president of q Girard
College, DR.. Hitchcock, president of Union
Theological Seminary, and the Earl OF Shaftes-
bury have been elected vice presidents.
The congregation of the Broadway Taber-
nacle in this city has for the last ten years raised
on an ay erage 1000 a year for charitable
Its entire contributions during this
time were half million dollars almost an av-
erage of 81 900 week.
Bishop Thirlwall is described by The Pail
NAL Gdzette as Il belated of the eighteenth
century, of whose admirable prose style he was
perhaps the last living practitioner"
The Rev. DR.. William J. Reid has just COM
1leted the twentieth year of his labors as pastor
If the First United Presby Church Of
Pttsburg, Penn.
In Nebraska, out of 1873 churches only fifty
lave buildings. In Minnesota, out of 100 mis-
ionary churches, seventy y-nine have no church
nome.
There is marked increase in the numbe of
he theological students in Germany. In 1870
here were 1,536 last year, 2,3Sl
A .b tbott tho