New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-10-05
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DENOMINATIONS.
A religious convention without one crank, a
delegate IS making record worthy Of note this the
proud boast put forth by tho Episcopallsns who have
been three days in session at ST. Georges Church.
and IL is TO be hoped that the good beginning will be
sustained through the month. There one similarity,
| however, between this convention and that of non
Episcopal bodesit IS difficult to get enough members
present the opening service to join in the religious
| exercises. The General Assembly, after falling m
many expedients to proper representation at
the prayer meeting decided last spring TO have the
business meeting begin at O'Clock every morning.
and, by a rule of tho body the Moderator must call
the Assembly to order. The first half hour was spent
in prayer, formerly but attendance was no longer
optional. The prayer meeting was as much part
Of the Assembly any other feature and tho traggns
in Of members, frequent in former years, was
avoided.
While the Epscopalians are busy with the revision
Of the Prayer Book, their Presbyterian friends are
earnestly at work either advocating change I'm the
Confession of Faith defending the Standards as
they are at present. DR.. McCosh. who reported
TO DO dspeased with DR.. Holiness reference TO Ed
wards's iron heel" has como out in favor OF revision
OF the Creed, but he failed TO carry the New Brunswick
Presbytery with him. This was hardly to be expected
| by those who knew the Hrmness with which the doc
trines OF Calvin upheld at Princeton. Not salts
Assembly the Presbyery added their for doing
so. These include one which will undoubtedly have
great influence I'm deciding the question when tt
up for discussion next spring: That, even, II
the Confession revised It could not be made the
expression Of the personal faith Of the thousands of
Office bearers in the Church" The closing reason that
there is little hope Of making any substantial i'm
provement in It's forms OF words" is not tenable
| perhaps
Some thirty Baptist ministers and aymen gave a
reception and dinner TO the Rev. DR.. Morehouse at
the Windsor this week. The popular secretary OF
the Home Mission Society has just returned from
extended trip abroad, and related many Incidents
showing how he had improved his opportunities for
studying mission work in other countries. DR..
MorehOusc will doubtless sympathize with the traveller
in India, who after inspecting thoroughly the various
mission stations IN that land, heard another traveller
decry foreign mission work The uselessness Of con-
tributing money shown conclusively by tho man.
who, moment later. began to tell OF the wonderful
hunting expeditions In which he had participated.
While unable to tell OF the number OF converts In
any station, he could tell how many elephants were
captured in successive years by this and that hunt
| ing club how many tigers had been killed by this
and that hunter, etc. 81 saw one tiger In
all Indlao remarked his missionary friend 4" it may
be that there tigers IN India but there were none
| I'm the places which I visited: may it not be that
there are converts. by the thousands, by the tens
| OF thousands in places whore you did not visit"
Imagine army officer from another country getting
idea of missionary work in this city by calling at the
clubs in Flfth-ave There New Workers. also, who
could learn Of this work If they came nearer to It,
Dr. Mcleod, for many years the pastor OF tho
Presbyterian Church in indianapolis, which PRESIDENT
Harrison attended, preached last Sunday in the Col
| legate Church, at Fifth-ave and Twenty ninth'st
He is considering call from the First Congregational
| Church OF Albany. During the summer he preached
several times in the city Since pe Dr. GSnTcS
| has been vainly seeking for successor
| A serles Of evening sermons on The Church and
its Relation to Living Questions" is being delivered
by DR. Macarthur in the Cavalry Baptist Church.
To the Labor Question Is to be discussed
Tho Bethany Presbyterian Church Sunday school,
above the Harlem is considered by the pastor to be
as much part of the church as either of the con-
gegational services and he pastor superintendent
chorister and Bible class teacher. After giving the
names Of the Apostles the ancestors and the sons Of
Jacob naming the books Of the Bine' and s ledtiag
listened to sermon and then sang the Haleluiah,
chorus from The Messiah new church is desired e.
by the pastor to meet the demands OF the rdpIuIy
| growing neighborhood
DR. Edward Judson. who has been working earnestly
for many years in behalf of the poor classes of tho
West Side has just been made happy by the generosity
of Vermont gentleman, who has put at his disposal
for the use Of poor children and tired workers
large ana Wel-flITlSHtu couHly HOuoo oitua'Ou III
| the midst of beautiful grounds.
DR.. Dc Neuvc who killed at Palatine Bridge
! last week wa. one OF the General Assembly Com
mssiones who strnuOusly urged the necessity OF
complete printing outfit for the Board Of Publication
When nc met his death he returning home from
Lawrenceve, y. j., whore he had given an afectlng
eulogy at funeral Of his old preceptor, the Kew
Or. ). NJ Hamil.
| "Wanted-A Man." will be the topic OF the Rev.
| NJ e Peters the pastor OF the Bloomngdaie Re
| formed Church, TO morrow evening. AZ the same
| fine DR. c. = Robinson will draw spiritual lessons
! from the Great Pyramid of Ghizeh' In the East
Eirbty-sixth Street Presbyterian Church. President
Andrews of the Brown University. will preach morn
ing and evening I'm the Fifth Avenue Baptist church