The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1882-01-18
FOREIGN CHURCH NEWS

Rev. DR.. Trowbridge, President of
the Central Turkey College at Aintab, in re-
cent address stated that the American missiona-
ries had established 400 schools which were at
tended by $4,000 scholars.
The Methodist mission at Foochow.
China, have purchased the beautiful Chartered
Mercantile Bank premises for an Anglo Chinese
college. MIR. I. Ahok, wealthy Chinese gen
tleman, gave $4,000 of the 1000 required
There are indications of renewal of
the negotiations for union between the Eng
llsh Presbyterians and those congregations in
the South connected with the Established Church
of Scotland.
One of Mr.. Moody meetings in Ed
inburgh was for university students Before the
meeting the students seemed to be in an unruly
mood, but as soon as Mr.. Moody appeared ST.
lence and attention were at once given and two
hundred and fifty students remained after the
meeting to converse with the evangelists and
their co-workers in the inquiry room.
THE ORDER OF CORPORATE RE-
UE1oN.-A few years ago, in the hight of the
Kltuallstlc excitement in the Anglican Church
and, amid the disclosures respecting auricular
confession, an account appeared of the organiza-
ton of a secret Order, whose object was to bring
about the reunion of the Anglican and the Ro,
man Catholic Church Some discredited the re-
port; but the Bishop of London and others have
had occasion to speak of the movement and to
condemn it. The facts in regard to its origin
have only Just been given in an article in the
November number of The Nineteenth Century,
and 1t is made perfectly plain that the Order of
Corporate Reunion is not an imaginary organi-
cation. 1t was formed on the 9Th of September.
which was the twentieth anniversary of the
Association for the Promotion of the Unity of
Christendom," body which existed for SINH
lar purpose and which has but recently dis,
banded.
REVISION OF THE LUTHERAN TRANS
LATIoN OF THE BIBLE-The Berlin Neue Exam
getsche hlrchenzeitung states that the work of
revising the Lutheran translation of the Bible
has Just been brought to a close. Under the
presidency of the director of the FRANKIE institu-
tons at Halle, DIR. Frick, fourteen members of
the committee on revision, appointed by the
Elsenach Church Conference, for the Old Testa-
ment, and eleven representatives of the Bible
printing societies, which the well -known Ger
man scholar, DR.. Fronann of Nurnburg, were
recently associated together at Halle for the
purpose of determining upon the revision now
to be printed The Canstein Bible Society has
decided to prosecute the printing of the entire
Bible at Its own cost. with the understanding
that as many copies as possible are to be crcu-
lated by the other societies. On motion of con
sistorial President Hegel it was decided to fol-
low the new photography in the printing. Dur
ing the next ensuing two years the congrega-
tons are to examine and Judge of the revision,
which is really the fruit of more than ten years
of labor. Then on the basis of the criticisms
made public meanwhile, the commission will in
corporate such changes or corrections as may be
advisable and thus the text of the German Bi.
bic will be presented final and complete.
THE Observation-Disclosures QUESTION
IN SCoTLABD.-A fresh agitation for the Dis
establishment of the old Kirk has arisen in Scot
land. A section of the Free Church led on by
Drs Rainy and Adam, cry loudly-Raze, rae
to It's very foundations another section led OF
| by DR.. Begg, are willing, for the present a
least that the status quo should be maintained
One cannot help feeling thai the very success
Of the Established Church of Scotland sine
Patronage was abolished, is at the bottom of Tn
! opposition to 1t, of the Rainy party. They max
no secret indeed in their speeches and lecture
that IN many OF the districts of the country tn
ground is slipping from under their feet bv tn
sapping and mining of the vigorous and earnes
engineers of the Aud Kirk.
Their reason for seeking Disestablshment
not altogether such a one as we can approve Of
IT, as they occasionally profess to do. they an
prove of an Establishment at all, they shout
rather seek the perfect renovation of the prssen
one than its total overthrow. / have no sym
PATTY with the present agitation for Dsestab
shment,' said leading Free Church elder o
Glasgow Zone Of the best and most generous o
men) to us a few days ago. John Knox ha,
too much trouble to rescue portion Of the en-
dowments for us from the grasping mobiles, tina
we should needlessly throw them away" h,
added. And he was right. Why should Scot
land throw them away, when all the money anC
far more is needed TO overtake the ecclesiastical
educational, and evangelistic necessities of hor
population 2-BeJfast Fitness.