The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1882-09-27
FOREIGN CHURCH NEWS.

DR.. Pnsey, the leader of the famous
Tac arlan movement, died on Saturday, 10Th.
DR.. Pussy born in 1900 In 1928 ne took
holy orders, and Immediately succeeded DR.
Nicoll as Canon of Christ Church and Regius
Professor OF Hebrew in the University of Ok
ford The publication of the celebrated Tracts
for the Times began about 1888 To these DR.
Pusey was large contributor. writing. among
others, the treatise on baptism, the apostolic
succession. the supreme authority of the Church,
the value of auncular confession and a more
elaborate ritual came to be regarded as what
called Puseyism," and the excitement
which these new views, their holders main
famed, or old views restated, occasioned was
great. In Websters Dictionary" we find the
neologlsm " Puseyism, defined as proposition
10 carry back the discipline and the doctrines
Of the hurch of England to an imagined period
when there would have been no ground for
separation from the Church of Rome"
In lS43 DR.. Pusey preached before the Uni
versty of Oxford a sermon (now well known)
which was held TO maintain the doctrine Of
transubsantiation. For this he was debarred
from preaching until 1916. DIR. Pusey had
always denied the Remaining" tendencies
of the =" Tracts for the Times" and he did this
specially when they were censured publicly by
the Bishop of Oxford in 1888 But DR.. New
man was received into the Roman Catholic
Church in l845, leaving Oxford finally in
February, 1916. DR.. Pusey was not the cham
plon Of Ritualism such. He regarded it lac.
cording to hts own clalm) only as a means to an
end. The great ject of his life was to bring
back the Church of England to true copcep
ton OF catholic doctrine. Hence in his later
years he was out of sympathy with the extreme
RitualIsts, and did not hesitate to condemn then
7xtravagant practices
AN ECCENTRIC ENGLISH CLERGY
MANA writer in the LiUerpo0l Mercury mai ei
the following record "Archdeacon Dunbar
concerts. is now proposing new eccentricity
He Is going to take London theatre, and Il
| turn it into what he calls an ecclesiastical edi
fee. The organ and the choir are to be placed
upon the stage, surrounded by sacred pictures
The altar is to stand in the middle Of the pit
and over it is to hang large four armed silver
| gilt cross pendent from the ceiling. and lit a
each arm and in the middle by the electric
| light. The floor is to be free. For dress circle
boxes, and amphitheatre, payment is to b,
made and the singing is to be Of the best
Such IS the new idea. For an Archdeacon, whC
Is venerable 1t is not bad"
MISSIONARY WORK IN EAST LON
DoE.-Among the various and much needed
agencies for the moral and spiritual we'll beinl
of the East end Of London, the PrimItiv,
Methodist connection is, in harmony with it
history, exerting great influence for good il
this part Of the Metropolis
The Conference of 1875 appointed Mr.. Will
son Law missionary, to superintend the erection
Of cnapel and school in Drifield road. Nortl
Bow. The Conference Of 1876 appointed tn
Rev. J. b. Porter missionary Of that district
the building being yet unfinished, Mr. Porte
hired a small scboolroom and commence,
house.to house visitation. For some weeks tn
the missionary and his wife were the only m IN
bers Of this newly formed society, but earncs
efforts and faithful prayer were at length re
warded unconverted persons began to atten,
the meetings and now, after FIVE years. tire
hundres persons can be counted that have BEEF
won from darkness unto the light Of Christ
Gospel
Some Of these have been rescued from tn
deepest depths Of degradation others wer
atheists, sceptics rationalists Sabbath breakers
&C. and nearly all totally indifferent to tn