New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-10-22
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.

THE FUTURE OF MIssIoNs.-The churc chs
are at last beginning TO recognize the IhcV ILL.,
missions to day ought to include nluCn ih"Io
than the preaching of the Gospel. W hat aio
known as medical missions were starteu lo"
years ago, and are meeting Win 80 illuon lilo
cess that their future Is an assured lact', III
missionary in addition 40 his theoioSO1
training. is graduated from medical school,
so that he may be able TO do something IoI t,.
bodies of the heather as well as thei souas
This is step in the right direction, anu niny
possibly lead to restatement oil thr oulooe'
and aims of missionary effort Ii Is idle TO eX-
pect nom Christian neOple to adopt the uulii,i
nant religion of the Western clvllzauon' un.n
they have been persuaded to symWIhlte VIII
its intellectual and social beliefs. UhuSrS ~
the spiritual view of missions, which tne
Church naturally dwells upon, are great prop
lens uf ethnOlOgy and sociology WHICH
govern and control the religion OF Il race, h7
inevitably as they affect Its intellectual OF
social life. lt Is not by accident that Inee
niy~GnG of Buddhism dominates india, or that
Roman Catholicism represents the religious
thought Of the Latin races, or that I NlniShl
seized upon the intellect OF Scotland, o. that
tho Celtic half of Ireland Is more KOmau IMAM
Rome itself Every race has stamped It's own
individuality upon its religion as upon It's coue
of morality; and the one rs wei as the otnel
reflects the best thought OF the race concerning
duty to God and humanity. Speaking OI0a'iy'
therefore, every race has adopted tlat form
life; COnfuciauism in China, buddhism In
India MahOmetlnlsm IN Arabia amt Chrls-
tianty in the Western Hemls Dbere, are, iu-
manly speaking the outcome OF ethnol"glc',I
and social laws which cannot ne tscaPeu'
This fact has been profoundly ignored llithef-
to in Christian missionary w0Ek, aud the re-
suit IS that Christianity IN the last few cen
turtles has made 20 sensible inroads on the great
mont Christian populations Ot the world Inc
Roman Catholic missionaries went the 1ur-
in nfIn hon
sage To the prevailing conceptions OF me races
TO which they were sent; aud as a result thtJ
have done more than Gny other rells Gus OISahl-
zatiOn in converting tie heather 10
the faith. 1t is literally Impossible
to reproduce w-England Puritansm
amid the hills of Syria. or under the shade" Oh
the Mosque OF St.SOpha. And were such type
Ct religion tranSpanted there artIhclalIy, IL
would soon GIe like any other exotic. ii thc
Christian missionaries are ever TO convert inc
world. it will be by preaching Gospel Tilted To
the needs and social condition OF every crea-
ture.
THE ROMAN CoNTROvEEsY.-Ihe London
Echo makes the following causuc comment on
the Bishop OF LinCDlns paper before the ChuIch
Congress, on The Controversy with lone - :
IL was the Old story over agaln-OrthodONy Is
my dOXy heterOdOXy Is your OOX}. Inc cor
pOTate reunion OF ChrlstendOm Is most deslr-
able: therefore let ROmansts and Dissenters
alike abandon their distinctive views and ac-
cent the faith of the Bishop of Lincoln II Is
true that the Anglican Church Is an lnsular
church, and that she looks askance ut the Con-
I tineutaI Churches Of the Reformation, tut her
isolation from Continental Professionalism
proves her cathOlcIty, while, on the other
hand, her independence of Rome should COM
mend Der to the support OF Trotestants; ANY
assembly in which the clergy did not largely
predominate would oe wearied 10y the mean-
choly unrcality OF such idle words. he great
gulf between Canterbury and Rome became
inpassable when the Ecunenlca Council gave
its impumatur to The dogma OF Papal ln.alll-
bilty. As for the Free Churches OF England,
they can find out little distinction between the
sacerdotalsm OF Leo XII. and the saceTdota-
ism of Dr. Wordsworth the one Is quite a. re-
pdgnant 10 their reason a. tie other. IheJ
know nothing % conversions 20 lone among
themselves. but they see wholesale conversions
10 Rome amon1 men bred and born M the
Anglican Church, from Cardinals Manning Gnt
Newman downward. Abroad trey ind al -
recOucllable hostility between Religion and
Democracy nj home they find the prepunder-
ating influence of the Anglican Church hostile
10 pOlitical progress. Why cannot pTelates like
the Bishop OF Lincoln he content that men
should differ II the Church wishes to become
more popular let her devote mOIo Of her time
and energy TO such practical work as the I'M
provemeut OF the dwellings Of tht poor, IS de-
scribed by Canon ErshiIe Clarke, at one OF
the sectional meetings OF the congress yester-
day"
A MODERN VIEW OF BIsGOP-.-1he London
CDeciatOr IN commenting IN the recent
meeting of the Churca Congress at Derby,
thinks that the drift of English churchmel
OF all schools or thought is toward an
Ecclesiastical Democracy. The example OF
the American clutches, and the weak
euing Of the old traditional respect for the
CDiicOpate are assigned a the reasons Tor this
tendency. The Hugh Church clergy have for
wears shown great contempt for bishops as
such the Broad Church clergy incline 10 con-
side. them Cversecrs; and though the evan
relical clergy rather put their authority for
/ ward, Tie Spectator questions II they would
do so were il not that owing TO come legal de-
cisious. ErastianIsm is to them convenient.
A benehced Bickersteth would defy q mltred
Pusev quite as boldly a. benefced Pussy
would DEFY mitred B.ckerstcth both High
Church and Low Church in the last resort de-
claring that the power of the Keys, rs inter-
Iretcd by prOtestants, rests rather with the
whole prcsbytery than with the bishop. Dis
estab ishmeut, by setting episcopal InCiVld-
ualitles more ,OUse, aud favOrinZ the election OF
vigorous rather thal OF sate bishops, would Ia
crease this tendency until the wearer Of the
mitre might become in most diOceses q very
constitutional monarch indeed. lie would con-
firm and Ordain, but he would not govern.
4 SECT OF 20 SECTs. We are willing, says
The Central BAPTIST, OF st. Louis, to cOucede the
sincerity OF MIR. Barnes, bur, if we read the New
Testament Alright, he Is wrong and while he
NAV meet with temporary and seeming success,
We are Of the opinion that the general outcome
of his work Will be destructive. There i al
idea that if man would be emileEtly useful he
must siep outside all ecclesiastical relations
and restraints ard set up for himself lnde-
penGently. There is a popular yet useless and