New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-02-25
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.

derived from fine deyout worship and praise OF
God, especially hoping to lie lifted up TO a
higher lite 10y the singing OF some granu . T La
simple hymn. Judging from ms aGco,'I I'm Nv
was appalen;ly disappointed =" we iau oeel
sittinTH he saws. ain the richly upholstered
pew and staring at the painted WINDOWS ou o5
few moments when the organ suddenly h' Shou'
and in distant corner OF the church rom las.j
iOnably dressed ladies and gentlemen aTGfe anu
sang. And this is what they sang: Dou - -; -
Shirt; God is Spirit; and they that WORSHIP
Him, and they that worship HIM, ana they tha,
worship Him must worship Him in spirit ana
i'm truth God is n Spirit: ana they ti' i
worship Him; God is a SPIRIT must 1 Mols",P
Him: thew must must worship: ship INN IN
spiiit and in truth; for the Father seehe.h
such: (tenor) for the (all louD seeBeth sucn,
secketh such. seeketh such to worship
Him. Very softly God is spirit
they; they that worship Him; they; ana
they they that worship Him, must n Wo5
shin Him. must worship Him, ana Uolu,
yellendo) THEY that worship Him; ana they
must; that worship Him Oenor, softly mus!
(contralto) worship; (alD HIM In SPItit anu IN
eth such (bass) seeketh such; !all, softly) 10
worship Film, to worship; (sort O dying awaJ)
in spirit and IN tru-u-u-th.' AS the c3ncInulhg
cadences softly died away amorg the vacant anu
news. like the still, small voice among the
cliffs of Sinai, we could not help wondering
whether those much-tortured words liau any
meanirr and if so. whether that meaning had
any application to the performance Jus, IT,, ehueu'
What is worship i'll spirit and IN truth
TIE DECREASE OF MIssIoNARIEs.-1He
d6r0nce has the following which shows mat
missions are not as successful AS thcV ought W
he: "The Rev Josiah Strong, secretary OF the
Ohio Home Missionary Society, dellNcreu al
address TO the students of Obcrln College,
January II, on "A Famine IN the MINISTRY.
He called attention to the fact that the demand
for ministers for home missionary churcheS was
pressing and increasing, while the humper Oh
men Dreparing for the ministry IS constantly
decreasing: zone year ago the various nome
missionary fields asked for 200 men To-Day
400 are needed: nor is the demand confined to
the missionary churches. Massachusetts aI0he
has eight self disappearing churches not suppleu
with pastors and knows not where 10 ger
tbpm Then he refers to the foreign Held, anu
saws that the American Board could use 3OO or
more ordained ministers To great advantage
makinga total of 700 men now needed toT
home and foreign missions Nor are we alone
i'm This decrease of ministerial supply. Tho
PRESBYTERIAN srminaTies show very nearly me
same decrease, and also the EplscOpalian. inc
remedy, ne says, must be IN powerful revival
of religion in our colleges. The lacts set lOitl
are painfully true. lac remedy proposed we
believed to be the only one which will he elect
i've. Pray for our colleges and for our Young
men that their education may be sanctihed TO
the cause of Chris
Goprrss PHuoSorY.-Thc Archbishop Of
Paris i'm his Lcntcn pastoral speaks mus Oh the
goddess philosophy of the present day " W nat
strikes the mind of every attentive observer II
the work now being attempted OF constituting
soriety without God. The wisdom and cNpe-
tience of ages had Taught that 10 society could
snbsist if il did not acknowledge the authority
of a suprcme Master and Legislator, the source
Of all human authority ana law; MODERN
society rcpnses on the doctrines OF Christianity,
and. i'm perpetual testimony OF It's origin, 1t
dates the wears of its existence from tue hIth
of the Saviour. lnnOyatOrs, however, obllylous
of the benefits effected by the Gospel, Ignoring
tine lessons of an experience as old ~ the
human race, fancy they can Danish from society
all religious ideas. Their aim is that no social m
s.ituton and no public power shall bear the stamp
of religious belief. The school Is To be without
God, aud nothing in the asylums 0l the poor
and afflicted is to recall the existence Of
Father that knows their gri,is and counts their
sorrows. Neither Is any affirmation OF the
Immortality of the so1il 10 shed ON the sepul-
c,ircs Of the dead those rays OF hope which con-
sole the saddcst MORNINGS.
THE ROYAL CnAPLAGNs.-7he London World
Ia. the following information about the royal
chaplains: " The list Of dgIitarlcs, appointed
To preach before the Queen, are signed by Earl
sydney, the Lord Steward. and not by the Lord
Chamberlain, who really controls the Royal
Chapels, in order 10 soOthe the susceplbiliues
Of those lTOtC-tants who regarded ne appoint
lam IA an outrage on dCcOrum. Ia reality, the
whole administration of the chaYclr Is IN the
hands OF the Dean, the Bishop Oi London who
arranges the list of preachers. ana VINO re-
csiyes stipend of G2OO. Except IN Lent, the
nul,it al ST James, is filed by the Chaplalns-
in-Ordinary in rotation TIE only real church
duty of the Lord Chamberlain IL occasionally to
recommend clcrgymen rs royal chapalnS; but
il is by no means matter oI course tlat ms
recommendations are attended to IN several
Nam 4 Il
don. nominated by Lord Mount Edgcum be-
they have been declslvely ignored
THE CRfrps or To-DAY.-1he Boston FER
aid thinks that the truths of vital Christianity
ale very different from the existing crccds of
American Christianity. Ii asserts that these
crceds are WON out and hOneycOmbed; that
they are relics of the past and not the iOunda-
ton sfones for the building of the church of
thc living God of to-day. They only suhiccd
century or two ago. II continues, because they
were then as broad as the issues that then had
to be met but now they are "a dead as Caesar
hody long since turned TO honest dust ana COM
mon CLAW They could not do WORK that they
had no mower 10 do Narrower than the Nicene
and the Apostles crceds by the unbrdged gull
Letwcen a statement of facts and cOnSerics OF
oplnions they could do duty Tor the generation
thai demanded them, but not for that winch
followed them" These statements VIII De Wig
orously denied 10y the great body of orthodox
Christians, who believe that settled ana h1ed
creed is necessary to the preservation OF Chris
tiaHlty
THE ENGLISH CHURCH IL PARIs.-Ihe
Churchman states that the Anglican church OF
the Rue Marbmuf Paris, the first ana oldest
place of worship opened by the ChuIch oil Eng-
land in that city, is to be taken down IN order
TO make room fOrimprOvements. 1t has been IN
existence about half century, and Is now
almost "a ruin. On Sunday, January rs, the
Rev. DR.. Mackay, the incumbent, mad" some
ounropriate remarks with reference to the
demolition of the building, and the consequent
movement for providing another place OF wor-
ship, requesting the oxcrtions Of his congrega
tion for the speedy erection OF the proposed
new church in the Rue des Basins. A plot of
pronnl has been purchased there, on which
Temporary iron church is TO be placed early in