New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-07-16
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.


is now conducting religious services III
japan. The Rev. Horace Leayiit, OF An
dover, received an account OF h.. CooN
address at Kioto, and sent il TO Inc Coh9re9d-
tiOndlist Tor publication. The account III part
is as follows: aThe Kioto meeting was re-
markable in several respects. pfs., you
mist know that while National Parliament
has not yet been established, there are Already
local assemblies. where representatives eiecteu
bv the people discuss and decide many matters
of local interest. That which meets in kloto
includes the city and two or three outlying
provinces Leading members OF tins assembly
invited Mr.. Cook to deliver the aduresS, anu
they provided the building ana assumed al
the expenses. They issued tickets Oh dui, i,S
sion, and many members OF the assembly anc
leading officials of the city govern meht were
present, the vice-gOveTn0r being on the piat,
form. Some Buddhist priests were lhViCeu
and were present, as were many Oh Ihe most
intelligent men of the city. Inc largest ouilu-
inc that could that day be secured was
theatre holding 200 TO 800, and 1t was hiled
TO It's utmost capacity. Mr.. COOK address,
with its Interpretation, occupled tiIe1 nDuis
and three-quarteTs, during the "hoie ol WHICH
time, with perhaps the exception Oh the ItsS
twenty minutes when some began TO leave the
room there was the most perfect order.
The address was the same as that gwen
in Kobe, only fuller and more outspoken: IL
was indeed rare day, and as ne soWeu Win
fnll hand those seeds of Evangelical CHRISTIAN
truth into minds which, II they heard at all,
had baard from afar. one could not help the
feeling that the hand OF GOD was IN IL anu that
He would not suffer His word to return unto
Him void IL is probable that the address was
more distinctiveiy religious than some ex-
pected it to be, still they knew what MS al,
dresses had been elsewhere and they invited
him without even shadow OF suggestion that
he should trim his speech. Coming out OF
that meeting with the recollection or That great
audience of legislators, ylce-gOyernOr and
many lower officials, physicians, lawyers,
editors, teachers, pupils, priests, merchants,
etc., have been sitting III perfect quletness and
attention for four hours, listening to Chris
tian preacher, "A foreigner too at that declaring
here in this old sacred city OF kioto that
Christianity alone can give them the clvlllza-
ton they seek, the safe constitutional tree-
dom to which they aspire, and then recalling
the fact that within ten years Protestant
Christian. imprisoned for his faith alone, died
in the prison of this same city, one could
hardly help shouting, What hath God
wrought Mr.. Cook also gave question box
lecture to the students OF our school, which
was very interesting and profitable"
THE SALVATION ARMY.-A contribution
of IS 10y the Archbishop OF Canter-
bury toward the purchase Of building
in which the ministratODs OF General Booth
commanding the British Salvation Army, and
formal recOgnItIons by many other prelates OF
the Establishment, have attracted universal
attention in England of late. No movement
Tor the time commands equal dltCuiloH tlic
religious world. The fortunes OF the Army
may be said 10 be in the ascendant. Says
The Times 0londOn) 4 Lord Chief Justice
dehOunces attacks upon IT, Courts OF law con
denim magistrates Tor attempts 10 repress It's
demonstrations. Spiritual lords IN their places
in Parliament approve It's objects and condone
It's fallts. Their head and Chief signifies his
sympathy in the solid form, magnlncently de-
scribed by an archeplscopal chaplain as
nominal Of a check toward its purchase OF
al
enlarges daily. French police and Churchmen
are perplexed and alarmed 10y Its projects Tor
an invasion of the Republic III force An IN
road has already been made INTO Ireland. In
England professions which were at first dis
turbed by ribaldry. and exposed almost To as
much danger from the attendant guardians or
the peace as Europeans from Alexandran gen
darmes, can now usually count upon tran
quility, and often on courtesy. IL the Organl-
zation be exposed to any danger, II Is rather
that which threatens a denomination all men
speak well of. Sufferers in Its ranks by the
riotousness last Wednesday Of young idlers of
the lower sections OF the middle class IN DuDiIn
ought to congratulate themselves on having
been singled out tor tribulatlons profitable TO
their cause. The blood OF the martyrs is the
seed of the Church. H0otiDgs and sticks and
stones are Indispensable 10 test the material Oh
which "a Salvation Army Is constructed. In
displays of the temper from which these rude
and brutal assaults proceed Is To be found an
explanation of the recent good will the Army
has excited among the respectable oruers Oh
the British people"
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES IN ENGLAND. - The
Sweden borgian sect has not attained much
strength in England, and the precepts OF
its founder have attracted little attention.
The Saturday ReCieiC, commenting upon an
article in The North Amer1cdR RerieT, de-
scribing the activity of Sweden0orglans IN tins
country, says: 1t Is rather perpiexing to be
told that the doctrines of Swedenborg have IN
our own age become religious trulsms which
form the burden of popular preaching ana are
enunciated from all more or less liberal pulplts'
His theological inspirations undoubtedly
originate In a violent recoll from the current
Protestant doctrine of justification, which he
regarded as subverslve OF morality; out III
rejecting Lutheran doctrine he rejected with IL
the great body of traditional belief OF the
Church. His teaching on the TRINITY Is not
easily distingushable from SabeIlIanlsn, ana
in order to cut up by the roots the Lutheran
scheme CT justification he deEied original SIN
altogether. The reviewer says that lie aDOl-
ished the devil but that Is not by any means
clear; his whole teaching on the future lie
and on future states of reward and punishment
i clothed in obscure and nuptical language,
though it includes very precise statements
about the condition IN the next world OF tne
leading Observation-Disclosures, Calvin ana others
who had TO explate hereafter the Immoral
theories of justification by faith only which
they had inculcated here. We agree with the
reviewer that 'Swedenborgs ideas are quite
unorthodox,' but heterod0xy Is one thing ana
modern religious liberalisIn-which affects "a
sublime indifference to all doxles is quite
another. That Swedenborgs principles log
ically carried out would result in an extremely
radical form OF heterodoxy from which most
religionists instinctveiy recoil. may be true'
and probably is true but form of hetero-
dow 1t would be after all, and not mere
ante REORGANIZATION, to adopt >, tie re-
viewers somewhat cum brOus phrase"
Conn PREACHING IN THE SUMNER
Attention is called 10y The Christian Adrocdte
TO the custom OF churches obtaining inferior
ministers to supply the places of their ciergymen
when the latter happen 10 be absent ana
.a.l.n;nIIr lie nrevalence of this habit when