New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-03-26
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.

has recently been carried on with more vigor
and has been attended with greater success
than at any other time within the last forty
five years. AS Is usual with them they nave
| selected for their missionary labors neighbor,
hood in which the poorer and more degraded
portion of q large city's population. Is to DO
| found. In London it is the vicinity OF Penton-
vile where every Sunday and one night IN the
week the Mormon population of North London
| congregates III a tail, old house situated IN one
of the most dirty and dismal streets OF that Ill.
conditioned quarter. The following account or
one of the meetings is givin by the Inc PGLI
MoU Gazette: "The congregation numbered
about hundred, among whom females greatly
preponderated, about One-third being girls
whose ages ranged from ten years 10 ABOUT
eighteen. There were, perhaps, about Two
dozen men present Six of these, being elders
| or Office bearers were seated around table,
which does duty for pulpit, at the head OF the
room. The Saints both male and female
| seemed to belong TO the lower working class,
and to be such persons as would be likely to
find strong argument for the Mormon religion
in the fact that 1t has earthly Zion. There was
little show of reverential feeling before the
commencement of the service. Those who
were present laughed and talked with as much
ease and freedom as if they were out OF doors
There is, however, very little about Mormon
religious service that encourages solemnlty or
feeling or conveys the idea of worship. On sun
| day night the proceedings commenced by the
| singing of "a hymn, to gall0plng tune, from
book which has short preface signed by
Brigham Young, Elder Pratt, and John Taylor
After the hymn there was minutes pause, ana
then "A stalwart young elder from Utah, IN a
| voice which comes through his nose and his
mouth, rose to preach what he spoke of as the
Gospel In a modest preface he informed ms
hearers that he had had no special theological
education, that he had never been particularly
piOns and that until recently he had not even
been accustomed to read the Bible bnt having
now been Amounted 10 the work, and feeling
the assurance that he was chosen, he knew that
the Lord would teach him what to say. After
this remarkable opening, he launched out into
| a Singularly rambling discourse, the oOJect Oh
which, as he deliberately announced was TO
| show that all other sects are wrong ana That
we only are right Still, he would not be so
| uncharitabe as to commit himself to the asser-
ton that the other sects were wholly III error.
| He was good enough to admit that there might
be little grains of truth in the doctrines OF each
of them but they were none the less devoted 10
! perditiOn. 1t was "a mistake, he SAID TO sup
pose that the NIormons had cast the Bible
| aside. 1t was the foundation of their Gospel.
They founded their faith upon it. The book
| of Mormon was in no sense Bible, but "a re-
cord of the history of the ancient Jewish set
Tiers in America These settlers, it seems,
emigrated across the Atlantic in the reign OF
Zedeliah, and became American Redskins.
| Some day they would again become white men,
and be brought back into the fold. TIE Bible,
indeed, referred plainly to America IL those
passages where it spoke of the Church OF God
and the City of Zion, which the Latter-Day
Saints profess to be- No minister of any other
denomination could argue with Mormon from
the Scriptures. NOOther religion accepted the
book in its literal sense, like the Mormons. Il
| know he continued, that the Lord will sub
santiate the claim that make to be His SER
want, and will approve OF the Gospel that
| preach He was succeeded by dark, wild.
| eyed, harsh looking man, bearded like pard.'
| This person hesitated for minute, then raised
his voice into IA harsh monotone, and delivered
| the message that God in his infinite mercy,
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linking his periods together with ands and butts
and alsos, and closing each Of them with mys.
terous references to the meridian OF time
| After this came other speeches, III which the
Deity was introduced with the familiar ana col
| loauial He says, says He Then followed
very important Mormon ceremony. one OF the
elders produced bottle of oil. II is to be
anomted,' he said, for the healing OF the SICK );
and the process OF amounting was perIormea
| Mt once Three of the previous speakers each
laid a hand on the bottle, while prayer was
offered up asking that the Lord would cOnsecrate
it to His good purposes. There was one person
present who desired to be healed. He was a
light Paired, rosy YOUTH, who apparently
suffered from lameness. Seating himself at
the table he awaited the miracle. One OF the
brethren poured some oil on him from the
newly consecrated bottle, and vigorously
| rubbed the crown of his head, after which the
elders laid hands upon him, saying, We, His
servants bearing His holy priesthood, lay
our hands on your head, and praying that any
| pain may be removed from this time hence
forth, command the same to depart from You
| and trouble you no more They then assured
him that if he had sufficient faith he would be
| healed The excitement with which this opera
ton had been followed by the congregation had
hardly subsidized when the elder with the harsh
voice and the rafting delivery announced,
we will therefore conclude with the singing
| of the 29th Hymn after which short prayer
brought this peculiar service to an end"
The Rev. Henry L. Phillips, of Delaware. City,
appeals to the public for .pecuniary aid In
| bringing an action in the civil courts against
his bishop Bishop Leo for alleged illegal re;
mOyal from his church. HIS case as presented
~, Title IL of the CanOns of the General
Convention, the Bishop and Standing Commit
tee of Delaware deprived me OF my RectorshIp
of Christ's Church, Delaware City-sentence
| next day the election OF vestry for SoZ was
to take place. And still claiming to act under
the Canon, the Bishop inhibited me from the
exercise of all ministerial function in the do
| cese April 20, 1881, because of alleged acts of
disobedience to the Judgment 'ot deprivation.
| As a matter of fact, the proceedings were not
| legal or regular and were not such as are auth
Orized by the Canon or by any canon OF the
| Church May %, 1880, the matter of differ
! ence existing between myself and some OF this
| parish had been ultimately and finally adjudl-
Gated, and was fully and entirely sustained The
| matter of difference grew out OF the lntermed-
| ding of the leader of the choir with the manner
of conducting the service. The Bishop was in
duced by the representations of few members
| of my congregation to reopen the case. lhe
Board of Arbitration that reheard the case,
and made the award depriving me of my living
was illegally constituted and mad no power to
act Their proceedings were irregular and m
| formal and | protested against their JuIledlc-
tion; it was not the court and board of arbitra-
ton created by Canon w., Title IL. Never
theless | submitted under protest to. its de-
crees April 20, 1881, three days after the
| deprivation took effect, 1 inhibited. an
| equivalent sentence to suspension in Delaware,
| by the Bishop, for offences of which had no
| Lnowlelne. WAS accused. and the accusation