New-York tribune., 1886-03-07
CHURCH SAYINGS AND DOINGS.
THE RELIGIOUS OUTLOOK AT HOME AND
ABROAD.


ABROAD.
The fifteenth annual report of the Ncw-Iork
City Mission and Tract Society just issued should be
by all citizens who have tho welbeing Of the city
heart Il shows tia, while there may DO movement
uptown tho part OF .omo churches, the lower and
poorer part, OF the city not forgotten. There are
comparatively few who know anything about this great
and important wOiI, WHO aware that some
OF tLcso churches OF the people" much
more handsome and far better equipped for eyangeHc
work than the average uptown church. Among these
churches may DO mentioned the beautiful DE witt Me-
mortal Church, the BroOme street Tabernacle, Ohyet
Church AMI -. Auxustnes chapel. tho latter being
portion Of Trinity Parish OF these and other churches
downtown II can be trutatuy sli that they In no
churches Ia the inyldous sense o; that
term Ia clerical and appointments they arc
equal the BEST AMI the people who attend them need
uOtee that they the recipients Of charitable dole
dealt out 20 them to keep them ont Of the Tho
work OF the CITY Mission in Sow-York Is a noble one.
uni should be sustained By the uoople generally. \
gooi city mission is far better investment than city
prison. altogether aside from tho higher aspects OF the
There arc churches. chapes and missions OF all
kinds In Tho Cily OF New York. with accommodations
for $4,000 persons. The annually required for
uiustcrs salaries and tho. ordinary running expenses
Of the cLurehcs IL estinatcd a S3.OOO.OOO. The
Protestant places o; worship number J96 anu VIII ac
commotAte 275OOO persons, OF whom II IS estimated
34OO are comnuucants. There arc AIS Sunday
scAoo!, with membership OF llb.S20; OF these $50
are Protestant. with attendance OF s52JI There are
IN Nc.yorE than 3bO res siOus and charitable so
ciei,es f. scstinated that these societies receive aHd
dlSbur.e annually SlO0O.OOO In London thero are
900 charitable Institutions. with an aggregate annual
ond wealth OF London taken into account Nowiork
compares very iaVoraby with It IN THIS respect Indeed
New. ! olk may well prio herself oh her charities.
many VI which are sustained by religious DEVOTION
The Iosto, Heraid has boon giving very ful sad In
tercstiug sketch OF fremont Temple, Boston, OF which
tho Rev. Emory J. Haynes. formerly OF brooklyn. Is
pastor Trinity Church and fremont Tempo are per
haps the greatest spiritual agencies OF Boston. ami
Of those Two fremont Temple Is much tho larger and
more democratic It Is estimated that fully 5000 per
sons como to fremont Temple every Sunday either for
wor,hip or instruction. fow OF whom arc
moro than moderately wel-tOio Tho con.
triuutions however. for psrOchal. philauthropic
or missionary purposes are most generous
and tho pastor called IN vain for money for any
praseworthy Object lie IS most efficiently assisted In
the many aided work OF large church by large corps
of lay workers. mto and fomae; In fact mepOers who
do not work the exception In ts church The social
fo Of the church IS not forgotten. while the higher In
terests Of the people LOGGED after Ohce IL onh
social dinner Is served OF the halls connected
with the church other social gatherings are FREQUENT
In all OF which An honest attempt is made to realize
true Christian brotherhood Il is stated that many young
men and young women have found their mates
sor e at these gatherings Though Baptist in its policy
aud teaching this great church recognizes no denonna
ioua lines In it's phlIuthro pic WORK ana the large mum
bers OF strangers who constantly attend fremont Tempe
seldom near anything In tle sno"s tnht hh' sincere
who arc not Bapsts consider fremont Temple tho ideal
Of what Christian parish ought 10 be-
Said an old fashioned Evangelical Episcopal clergy
man tho other day: that Willie WnDoriorco Now
ton has been writing article about the Old Evangelical
war horses for The Church Ma1G;ine. No among
the Younger clergy better qualified to do this, for
be son Of dear Old Richard NewlOa Uf Philadelphia ho
must have Dreathsd In Low Churchmanship with his
earliest breath All, me- There were giants In those
days-nen who sturdy believers. and hard htters
when there was need OF hitting. which nearly
all the time for the pesky High Church
trolble some and kept us steadily on tho 60 But am
afraid the grand old Low Church party OF my boyLood
days s about dead now. The modern craze Tor Hsthe
cn I'm worship and the modern speculatOns OF 50 called
science have been too much for US Speaking Of tno
Newtous however, II Is not generally known That lieO6r
Newton OF city began his ministerial oarnor as Low
Cluohman holding practically the same views which us
gcncraed father has always held Indeed IN the earlier
car, of his Iectorship the Authon Memorial Church,
am told that prayer meetings were hea IN tahi vel
liant but errao preacher now will lind hard 50 im.sns
him as the leader In m evangelical prayer mootn&'
Tho Low Churchmen were always strong In Philadsl
nhia Yirgpla and South Carolina DIR. John A. Stone
nr Dver. Dr. stephen H. Tying. Dr. Miner, Bishop
Grtswold. Richard Newton, Dr. Andrews Of Virginia.
Iohn A. clark william Ridgoley. Bishop Chase, Bishop
McIIyane, Bishop EastburD, the Rev Charles d. COOPER
and Bishop Lee vino still lives, are sOmc OF the names
that will always receive honor In the Episcopal Church
To show the Intensity OF party feeling in those days
Mr.. Newton relates incident that occurred
at the election OF bishop for Pennsylyanis In
1s45 Tho convention was held In Philadelphia and che
leading candidate was Dr. stephen IL. Tying After
number OF frutess ballots DIR. Tying withdrew ana the
Low Churchmen began to feel blue until some ono nom
nat.d DR. Alonzo Potter OF Union College. schenectady
as compromise candidate As tho ballots were ann3Gne
cd the entire congregation kept sc1ro WIN DIeluoss
iniere,t aud when It was that Dr. Potter had re-
coived enough to elect him an old coornd woman
exclaimed He's got It! He's got 1t Bross de LORD
Now we'll have no more Pusson'slm' Az the tmo lho
Low Church men were from being aOo 10 ieel inc eo
1denoe felt by the old woman But Later eTehs amply
H., nf tha