New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-02-26
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of the eminent priest and theOloglan, Joseph
Wassiewitsch Wassiljeff. He was. one OF !he
leaders OF q small minority Of the RUSSIAN
clergy who are distinguished from the mass OF
their colleagues by their liDefaI views tlcl'
knowledge OF Western ideas, aud their SYM
pathy with other churches For twenty.one
years, from 1916 to 1867, Father Wassiijcif
was the priest OF the Russian congregation IN
Paris, and in this office he made the acquaint-
ance of many Roman Catholic and Protestant
thinkers. He founded and edited throughout
this period a religious paper in the French IAN
guage, EURioR ChretiCRne, IN which ne not
only advocated the principles expresSeu IN its
title, but with keen and ready pen criticised
the ecclesiastical affairs of his own distant
fatherland.
The sesqui-centennial anniversary OF tho
founding OF the Market Square Presbyterian
Church OF Germantown, Penn, was celebrated
by the congregation on February - The
church was organized in 1872, and the hrst
building put up the year after. In IO2 It WIS
enlarged. Washington at one time was wor-
shipper there. A big bronze bell, east in Ger
many in 1928, was formerly in the steeple. In
1888 the old church was torn down ana new
one erected, which was repaired and enlargea
in 1857 The congregation began rs High
Dutch Reformed church, became German Re-
formed church. then passed over to the New
School Presbyterans, and came into the gem
eral fold at the reunion of the two branches,
Old and New.
Few people IL this country can understand
the detestatiOn and dread in which Free
masonry is held by vast minority OF devout
Roman Catholics on the Continent of Europe.
As an instance of this may be cited the feeling
which is displayed by the Clerical journals OF
France when denOunclng the present Cabinet as
containing at least four Freemasons: NJ.
Ferry whose crusade against the religious
orders is regarded in France as "a work essen
TALLY Masonic" is a member of the Lodge OF
Alsace- Lorraine. The other Freemasons in
the new Ministry are NM. Tirard, De Manly
and Ilumbert.
The Rev. DR.. John w. Nevin, of Lancaster,
Penn, celebrated the seventy-ninth anhiyer-
sary of his birthday, on February 20. For
tiftythree years he has been III the ministry,
belonging for forty-two years to the Reformed
Church, and for eleven years to the Presby-
terrain Church. A large number of the local
clergy gathered in DR.. Nevin's house to cele-
bratU the day. Among those present was the
Rev. j. s. Fretchey, another Reformed clergy
man who this month attained his eghtieth
birthday, and who his spent tfty-iour years OK
continuous active service III the ministry.
There are at the present day established in
the Fiji Islands about 900 Wesleyan churches,
and 1,400 schools The COMMITMENTS are
numbered by thousands The schools are at
tended by nearly $4,000 children and ont of
population OF about 100000 over 100000 are
reckOned as regular attendants at the
churches. ldolatry IS scarcely known and
cannibaliSm, for which these isar ds were so
famous only fifty years ago, has been v0lun-
tarily abandoned save by a single tribe.
In n lecture On the spiritual influence OF
the Newspaper" delivered recently in Bos-
ton by Professor w 4. Harris, of Concord.
the speaker expressed the opinion that the
newspaper was the most terrible engine for the
punishment OF crime yet invented. 1t blows
the great trumpet of society, saying: Depart
from me- A daily newspaper Is "a spiritual
T II
At a recent meeting of the Dundee Free Pres.
bytery a three DAYS debate on proposal that
an overture should be sent to the General AS
sembly in favor of the use of instrumental
m usic in the ordinary service of the Free
Church of Scotland was brought to Il close with
the rejection of the proposal by vote or
twenty four against twenty-five.
The Bishop of Ely, England, has received
from a benefactOr who desires To remain I'M
known. the sum of $1,000, 20 be held in trust
the dividends to he applied to the cost OF lee
lures in the Ely Theological College upon the
subject of The Ancient Liturgies of the
Catholic Church."
The Indo- European Correspondence has re-
ceivcd news of the murder on the Thlbctan
frontier of the Rev. NJ. Brieux, another OF the
members of the Missions Etrangeres who have
lost their lives in the long endeavOr to lntIO-
duce Christianity into Ihlbet.
new Greek church in one of the most de.
srable parts of the West End of London was
cOnsecratcd short time ago. and dedicated To
st. Sophie. The cost OF the building when
completed will not fall short of $2j0,000
The Rev. George Noel Storrs, an English
clergyman, recently visited coal pit in the
county of York, England. and delivered an adj
dress to the miners underground before they
were raised to the bank.
CT nj
was organized in the first story of school
house. while a ROmish mass was being per-
formed in the second story. So at least the re-
port goes.
Meetings in favor of the discstablisbmcnt Of
the Church of Scotland have been held recently
in Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Glasgow aud other
cities OF Scotland.
A statue to Zwingli is to be erected at Zurich.