New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-04-01
submitted to the Bishop of Worcester It Is diff
cult to see of what he has to complain

A MISSION AMONG NAvvIEs."-1He Free
! Church Monthy of Scotland tells OF good
| work which Is being done III Edinburgh for the
railway "navves.n Spurred on by the success oil
the aNavvy Mission Society in England, q
number of Christian gentlemen OF Edinoufgh
about year ago started practicai m II
work among the employees Of the Edinburgh
Suburban Railway which employs about SIX
hundred men in the city. These men ina their
own lodgings In different parts or the town Out
the majority of them being housed IN common
lodging-ho in and about the Grassmarket,
n room has been taken there as q reading-rOOm
for any who Inay be induced TO avail themselves
of H. This room is open every evening nom
z to 10, and lending library Is connected
with 1t, while the Scrpture-reader 10 the same
place conducts night school, receives uePos,,s
for the Savings Bank, enrOls members or the
q Blue Ribbon Army etc. Evangelistic SER
vices are also held here Oh Sabbath evenings
for such of the men as attend no other place OF
worship, but these are not very largely aetehueu'
THE NEW THEOLOGY. Boston Adrer-
tiser in discussing theology in New-England
expresses satisfaction that so much interest Is
felt in theological questions. The true issue Oh
the new theology, it believes, IA no other tlan
the salvation of mankind, and the satisfaction
of the religious need. "Perhaps theology" IL
SAYS, may be to our religion and our spiritual
life what the common law Is to our rights ~
citiZens-a great instrument when the Wol.u
will not lose willingly, In any event the
yesterday of the new theology in New Eng,
land should be day of WELDON and gladness."
CHRISTIANITY A NJ lIENT.-At the last
meeting of the Congregational CLUB OF Boston,
tue Rev. Dr. Merriam SAID that "a. lstianlty, IKE
everything else in the world, Is movement
and that, judged by the standards OF the re-
formers, the modern orthodox tbeOloglans are
very heretical. The Rev. DR.. Burrows believed
in the nineteenth centurys speaking its own
mind rs the eighteenth had done. we cannot
he shut I'D 10 quotations. Let the century
speak anew in theology, he said, as in all othel
science and thus the roads may be made easier.
Human constructions may be criticised; let
the Church go on with its restatements
MosIEM FANATIcs.-The Turkish authorities
still refuse to permit the evangelical churcn as
Vlanga (ConstantinOple) to erect q place OF
worship. This church has had in hand during
four years funds given by the BuaId LOT Cile
construction of Westinghouse. But jealousy
on tie part of Moslem fanatics has so far pre-
vented their carrying out their plans. Mean
while the old chapel where they have wor,
shInped these thirty years, threatens to iall
upon the heads of the congregations that
throng It,
Bishop SEABURY.-Tast Sunday being the
one hundredth anniversary of the election OF
Bishop Seabury the first Bishon OF connecticut,
il was Pleasantly observed at Woodbury., where
he was eItcteu. DlSDOp w piO"C''''
sermon and the ladies OF the church provided q
collation.. Many prominent clergymen anu
laymen were present. Bishop Williams VIII de-
liver an elaborate address on the life ana SCI
vices of Bishop Seabury, at the meeting OF the
diocesan convention in June.
THE Swiss CHURCHEs.--Iti is stated that the
synod of the Reformed Church of Basic has re-
solved, by majority of Two to one, 10 cancer
the regulation making bapti m condition
precedent of admission to the Holy Conmuh-
ion THIS measure, tantamOnnt to declara-
;ion that the rite of baptism is n work of super
erogation, has been long under DEBATE, ana
marks distinct advance III the direction Oh
free thought, toward which all the SWISS
churches are tending.
A Converts TwINs.-Mrs. Henrietta Cald-
well, of Louisville Ky, was one of the converts
of the mountain evangelist" Barnes. she has
recently named two of her children who are
twins @Jesus Christ and George o. Barnes"
A local paper INDUCED in some caustlc com
ments on this strange act, for which she mas
irstituted libel suit against the paper, claim
ing SO, 900 damages.
In Turkey, here a few years ago men yoked
their wives with oxen, the curriculum IN some of
the colleges for tue educa tlon OF women com
pares fayoraby with similar institutions In
America One of the girls who was graduated
from IIarpO0t Seminary is at present engaged
upon making a concordance of the Bible III mod
ern Armenian.
A fund for the erection of the much needed
church for the English congregation ID Berlln
was started 10y the chaplain ON he occasion OF
fine late silver wedding of the Crown Prince,
and n considerable amount has already been
subscribed for the object.
The Rev. DR.. T.. II. Stokes, president OF the
Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association, says
that there is no truth in the report that Ocean
Grove is unhealthy.
Several English bishops have requested their
clergy To appoint in their parishes day OF hu-
initiation for the sins of the nation.
CURRENT RELIGIOUS OPINION.