Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-06-03
RELIGIOUS NEWS.

HE EVOLUTIONARY Bfespy teTlans, OF w est
ern PennsyiVaE1a, who are in the habit Of raising
peTiodical rows abnnt ru ttIug Goa in the cnusli-
tniion of .he United St1tes, are now riding new
hobby. LAST week at PitisbuTg they denounced
the use of tobacco in any form.
DR VAUGHAN, the RomGn Catholic Arch
bishops OF Sydney, and probably the most diStin-
guish OF Australian Urela.es, is now in this
country on his way 10 Rome. He belongs TO one
of the oldest Catholic families in Eugla al, and is
a brother of the Bishop OF SsliOrd.
ONE Of the siguers of the pre5en ment
against Heber Newton was the Rev. r. II. McKim
rector of the Church Of the HOLY Trinity. Al Tue
recent session OF the Council OF the Die csc of Viz
gInia this clergyman was one OF line nominees for
the Office of assistant bishop HIS name was with
drawn, however, because he was accused OF heresy,
in that he incliued 10 the belief that Immortality
only 10 be obtained by the saving grace Of
Christ, ald that tue fate OF the impe Intent was
snHihllsticn. DR.. Newton can afford to smile al
such an accuser.
The Rsv. DR.. Miner, distinguished Uni
Yersalist clergyman OF Boston, has celebrated the
ceremony OF marriage 2565 times, uniting CORE
spOLding number of couples in Wed!OCk. OF this
very respectable aggregation OF counubial felicity
only three couples have been divorced. There
must be something peculiarly binding in The
marks used BY me good doctor in wedding his
patrons together. II IS quite obvious that he
would not pc popular in either Chicago or Louis
vile, even if the people OF those cities could be
persuaded 10 tolerate him at al.
WHEN the name Of he Rev. DR., T.. II
NcKim, of New YORK, was presented for assistsnt
bishop IN the Virginia Episcopal Council, last
week, objection was IN ldo ID him GU the ground
hllatiOn instead OF the everlasting damuatioH- 40
the wicked. In his sermon 10 his congregation
Sunday evening" DR.. MckIm said: My position
has been misunderstood and misrepresented.
have no further st3t-ment 10 make al present. An
article of faith and theological opinion separ-
ate ana distinct Things. A theological opinion Is
an loea man holds personally as an individual,
ana does NOT enter ar an INTO ms Teacn-
ings, which are based on the article of faith
CARDINAL MANNING rrlsles this incident
as having happened 10 himself zone night was
returning 10 my residence III Westminster, when l
met poor man carrying basket and smoking a
pipe thought over this Aristotleian syl!Cg1sm:
he who SMOKES gets thirsty; he who is thirsty de
sires to d1nk; he who drinks too much gets
drunk; he who gets drunk is lost. This man is in
danger OF mortal sin. Let us save him. l alice.
tionately addressed hin: Are you CatAOi p
L am thanks be to heaven Where are YOU
trGm| From Cork, your reverence Are you ii
member OF the Total Abstinence Society,"? No,
your reverence Now said J. that is very
wrong. Look at me. l am a member Faith,
may be your reverence has need OF it!' I SHOOK
hands with MIN and Lett him."
II begins 10 look as if every religious de-
nomination would soon have a version of the
creed. the old English version had gown to be
spoken OF as King James's Bible Now the Bap-
lists have received to have private Bible The
Church OF Rome ha9 always had what is claimed
rs the original version. That known as the re
ylsed edition is being accepted mainly by liberal
Protestant seclS. Meanwhile Mr.. Conway and Mr..
SchermeIhorn have tried their hands at making
universal bibles, which 10 all intents and purposes
nave fallen dead-boFn iuto oblivion. Any book
that could stand the tampering ana explaining
tnat the Bible has received these 2C0 years and still
live must have more inspj alton in 1t somewhere
| than all the dullness OF modern infdelity may
| hope TO drive out OF it in 1000 years.
THE tendency TO separate the dioceses Of
the Episcopal Church is growing. Tennessee and
| Virginia having made the move is closely fol
lowed by North Carolina. This STATE viii be di
vided Us follows The eastern diocese will com.
mence at the Virginia line, at the intersection o.
the Virginia line ana the eastern line OF North
anPton county, ana following the eastern lines Of
Northampton HALIFAX, Edgecombe, wilson John
sion, Harnett, Moore and kichmond. This puts
the counties OF Northamp ton, Halifax, Eigecombe
wilson, Johnston, HdInett, Moore and Richmond
and all the counties to the west OF them in The
diocese OF North Carolina. The eastern diocese
IyIlI he the neyv dioeeSa Tts nan,o ;s nnt 80 -
nouncsd. The permanent Episcopal fund, amount
ing to about $50 coo, yielding income OF about
S25Oo, is to be equally divided between the tive
dioceses.
THE clergymen Of New York appear "a
have taken liberal new departure which will
doubtless. astoHish some persons. The SuudzJ
question VIII probably some day cease TO be sub
Ject OF contention. The published views of prom
lnent c.eIgJmen represent almost ali The shades Of
religious belief upon the proper observance of tht
Sabbath. The conclusions reached by these rev
erend gentlemen are remarkable for their una
nlmity. Starting out with the proposition thai
Sunday vas maze for man, they affirm that any
attempt to coerce him into worship on that day i
absurd in the abstract ana against the spirit OF oul
republican laws. They agree that every seventh
day should be observed, at least for hy2ienic rea
sons, but msintain that the church going element
has no more right 10 dictate to the non-chuTch
have 70 insist upon the closing of the churches.
THE New York Sun says editorlslly
There is reason to believe that event OF great
Importance to American Catholics is impending.
1t is, we learn, the intention OF the Vaticsn to
eOny0ke. al day not distant, PlenaTy Council
for the United States The great ecclesiastical as
YORK, although the place OF meeting has not been
iFrevocably fixed The scope and purpose of the
Council Will not, OF course, be definitely settled
until the views of the American hierarchy have
been ELECTED, and to that suG several Influential
members of the eplscOpate VIII, il is said, be
speedily invited 20 Rome. IT is expected, how
ever that whereas Archbishop Spauldiug ofiieiated
apostolic delegate at tho Council of Baltimore
in 1866, Leo Xii viii be represented on the com
ing occasion by a Roman canonist of extensive
erudition and experience, selected from among the
most distinguished prelates of the Curis. At
questioned competence and ripe learning, the
papal delegate should De able to enlighten and IL
vigorate the labors OF the Council so 20 peTma-
nently allay the troubles growing oEt OF infrac-
ity"
CARDINAL NEWMAN recently wrote as fol-
lows to g gentleman who mad requested state
ment Of his views on the subject of the aiirma-
ton BILL Il cannot consider the affirmation bill
involves religious principle; for, as had oeea-
sion to observe in print more than thirty years
ago, what the political and social world means by
the word Cod is too often not the Christian God,
the Jewish, or the Mohan1nedan-no personal
God, but an unknown God-ss little what Chris
tiaus mean BY God as the fate, OF chance, or
amino Tnuadi of Il Greek philosopher. Hence it as
sWears by no God with the government, or sWears
by an 1mpersonAl or material, or abstract AID
ideal something or other, which IS all that is Sc
cured TO us by the opposition. Neither MI. Glad
stone nor Sir Stafford Northcote excluded from
Parliament what religion means by an Atheist
Accordingly il is only hall my meaning If an
made to say that i do not approve, in any sense
OF the word, Of the affirmation bill neither
approve nor disspprOve 1 express no opinion
upon it, and that, first, because DO lot commonly
enter upon political questlons ard next, because
ing is lost 10 religion by is passing and noihlug
gained by its being rejected.
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