New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-09-26
THE RELIGIOUS WORLD.
NOTES OF The CHURCHEs-WHAT IS SAID
AND DONE HERE AND THERE.


The Guardian which speaks for the best conserv-
alive thought of the English Church. calls attention
to the urgent need of home missions among the agr-
cultural laborers. The late elections have concus-
lively shown that large proportion OF the agricultural
laborers OF England and Wales not only aliensted
from the establishment but bitterly hostile to it.
= On every SIDE" says The Guardian" ave told
OF the religious ignorance and the mm orality that
so terribly rife in villages and compelled
TO ask what the Church has done. is DONG to
remedy this state OF things" 1t is startling find
that the Church has failed in the country where it
had everything in favor II might be asked indeed OF
what Use is Established Church if it allows large
part OF the rural population to slip from its grasp
English chrrchmen are keenly conscious that mis-
take has been made here and they are now anxious
to remedy it, For the last thirty ysars energies OF
the Church have been expended in the cities, and in
rebuilding churches and developing ornate
ritual. 1t is ielt that and women are of more
importance TO the church than beautiful bindings
and the cry has gone forth that the agricultural
laborers must be reclaimed How they snail be re
claimed it not easy say. The Guardian sug-
gests ths employment of I" mssioners who shall 90
from parish to parish and hold missions" 1t Is
doubtful however, If Hodge will be impressed by
/" missions" The Dissenters have given him pretty
much the same thing in revivals and he will be quite
dIgnihed mission OF the Church
/" It Is a tact beyond dispute" SAYS The London
Morning Post" that very large number of the
clergy remunerated by stipcnds small out of oil
proportion their claims public or to their
position gentlemen. Not only 30 but there are a
vast number OF painful instances in which clerical
starvation would be much the true expression
than clerical poverty. Why the clergy so poor
Firstly. because the property OF the Church in it's
totally u not sufficient to give decent mainIeuance
to the clergy engaged in active work. Secondly be-
the lay do not recognize that Is their
duty to support the clergy. and to make up the
deficiency arising from the lnadequacy OF endowments
1t must be remeDbe red there more eergymen
than there bvIngs that the majority of the living
are ul-endowtd' that episcopal patronage is very
limited that curates must make their mark before
they can expect preermen and that the Church will
never have the means OF properly paving her mertO-
rOus clergy till the laty do their share on scale tar
beyond anything vet attempted our times. They
have spent enormously in building beautiful churches
let them do the thing Tor the tenanee OF
the men who serve their aitars'
The session of the international Sunday
Association will be held Chicago on the lst OF next
June. Il will be an important gathering; anC il il
expected that delegates from many foreign lands will
be present
The Holy Synod Of Russia has lust decided that
Russian soldiers observe Lent in the most rgor-
on, way. They will have last only during the
tour great Lents yearly but also every Wednesday
and Friday. and the great days Of prayer and re-
peutance. This Is tho calculations The Great Lent
loi Easter. ~ DAYS Petrofki Lent 20 70 so;
{ s-pen-ki Lent. II: FilippohsxI Lent 80 SIX DAYS
NJ prayer aud repentance, q 81 Wednesdays and 3
neither meat nor fish during the Easter Lent nor
eggs. nor milk nor even sugar allowed The OH
assert that the physical strength OF the soldiers
must inevitably -uheT' from the regimen.
Protestant missions bat it Is not moro than atty
years since they began really 10 grow In the year
1856 not a single missionary from Great Britain was
10 be found in ang part Of the heather world. There
are in the British Empire dfty-nine societies or
yanzed for aud exclusively .nga yed IN foreign
work. Aud the aggregate annual income of these
societies is nearly - 900 300 In the OF Europe
mere thirty-hve missionary org mutations WITH
IN aggregats income OF nearly ! 900 900 a1d in
his country there thirty three s-ionary 0rgani-
,atous with aggr, gate income OF little over |
s3.uOOOOO. In lndi4 aone there are twsnty-slx
Roman Catholic bishops. |. 222 priests. and 1850 I
schools IN Oh ma the Church has torty-se /
bishops. I+6 European MISSIONARIES, $40 native /
're-t~ forty colleges. aud sixteen mouasteries. The
Bible y now printed ana lated IN Z57 anguale
AL this looks very encouraging; but what ha- been |
lone as nothing 10 what IA TO done ~ the 430
mi ions of human beings now on the earth only 40
Millions be rcckOned r. nominal Christians. /
According to careful estimates the year 2jO A d.,
me person in every l49 "A Christau. In 1876 /
nc proportion had fallen TO one person m every 3iI
out IN the present year owing the asst hty years Of
ggressve Christian work It has risen 10 person /
n every 2l3 These facts show that the Church must
work nard Il would convert the world but they also
now that work properly directed will tell The really
treat stumbling the work fOrel IN MISSIONS
the un~Orthv lives OF 80 many protesting Christians
10 missionary. however devoted i'm press hi
age on people when they robbed and demOrazed /
y tho men who profess the very religion prelc he'd oy
ne missionary.
The religious papers beginning to call attention
o the tact that Intoxicating liquors are being intro
need into the Congo Territory. 4" Tho Living |
,hurch says that is baroarous than bar
arsm ITSELF and uters q vigorous protest against il
n the name OF Christianity. Whatever NAV be !
he barb rsm Of these native tribes" it says they
ave 50 far survived their yicss aud superstrions az
o equal the population OF own country. But now
ONES the question whether they will be able to sur
I'VE the Pc and destTuctveness Of that ire
water OF winch We told the natives are PASSION /
liely fond and which even thus early is taken in |
currency. Taken In currency Could the most
ignant devils III hell, 10 say nothing of mercenary /
lewis earth, hit upon more de,esti5e and dehd
nanizing Medium of exchanged Think OF giving 10 |
White men ivory, spices. gums and receiving in return
,Octies of rim All demuOhns Of gln and whlskey /
Think of taking away from the dark Continent whole
hipl0ads Of useful products aud Of imp rang thither
Y role shplolds OF bad liquor And this not from /
ne civilized country. but from thirteen civil Led
Ties. Between CHRISTIAN America, In land. Ger !
many Holland. etc. there is of rivalry del
Ee pagan Africa with drink, that pagan Africa may
nrch these Christian countries with IT. stores of ivory
ud rubber. Could Christian civilization well be cap
ble of greater iniquty Could it possibly do or
invent anything which would make the natives when
hey get their eyes more thoroughly detest Il ~
In reviewing volume Of sermons The Christian
r. gis-r remarks " These sermons display good
ea of ingenuity in the choice aud Management of
eHts But II the Bible a CONSCIOUS personality
ne easily imagine 1t res-nting this sort Of
ient the OF which is that il anything it
an be made TO anything that can be tortured
nj OF IT. Take, Tor Instance tue twenty sixth ser
hon, on and On The text IA from sOlOmon's Song,
- have put on my coat how snail put IL on
low take tnis text IA IL connection. ami what 10
NOVA OF it, meaning and OF the general purrort OF
oomou's song the clergyman should be- unfrocked
no could descend TO such 4 OF Il ~ the author
lakes. At every turn there is some violence
the aiming of Scripture phrases some nOkIOas
IA ggerAtiOn OF the significance OF sentences that
ave m them inrrin-lc aniri tnal valnr The idsa