New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-04-11
WHATA PASTOR SEES AND HEARS
ITEMS OF INTEREST TO CHURCH PEOPLE.

III END Of I'M ElsESJ ~ CHURCH PEOfLC.
There is seemingly as much difference among tho
Lenten lecturers at ST. Georges Church TO their
official standing when responding TO DR.. Rainsford's
invitation there is among the cergymen who recog
nize DR.. Potter as the Bishop d New-York DR..
van Dyke wore his Geneva gown, as he would have
done In his own pulpit or In DR.. Hairs Professor
Briggs wore q Prince Albert coat as he would have
done in the ecturerOOm Of Presbyterian church In
his classroom at the Union Seminary. DR.. AbbOtts
paper says: The Churchman is entirely right in
saying that all preaching in an Episcopal church by
not epscOpaIly ordained is lay preaching and that
from the point Of view Of the Episcopal canon DR..
Lyman Abbott, DIR. Briggs and DR.. Washington Glad
den, In their religious addresses In DR.. Rainsfords
church, were laymen, not ordained clergymen.' DIR.
schaufer another Of the preachers does not propose
to lay aside his clerical functions when speaking
officiating In Protestant Episcopal church, and
he did not think DR.. Rainsford desired him TO do
If this were the proper place the Pastor would like
to give expression TO the sentiment that he
hears so often from laymen Of various denomna-
lions in regard to the seemingly incessant and
apparently needless theological bubbles that consume
the strength of the ministry the pages of the religious
press the days Of the official meetings OF the religious
bodies, and the thought Of those who should stand
shoulder to shoulder with the appointed leaders OF the
Church Universal in advancing the interests of the
kingdom TO which all have pledged their allegiance.
1t is safe to say that time and thought were given
to the Revision question at Saratoga last summer than
were given to the progress which the Presbyterian
Church had made the year Just ended. The vote by
Presbyteries on this burning question received more
attention than the additions to the Church OF those
"plucked from the burning the possible WORK OF the
women desconesses, II the order were established,
has OVershadOwed entirely this year the actual WORK OIL
the godly women at home and abroad What is true
Of this denomination Is equally true OF the Cohgre-
aIic fodv
The Andover theory of future probation may or may
not be great beresy the attitude OF those advancing
or opposing ii has ended in complications not "Te
seen at the outset which have crippled the work OF this
honorable missionary agency. And not that alone,
hut another of the Boards of this denomination viii
report heavy debt at It's annual meeting this spring
The woman question has been the absorbing topic
in the progressive Methodist Church. and If the con-
trbutions do not soon show perceptible decline 1t
will he because the anniversary Of Wesley's death has
revived his spirit among his followers In spite Oh inc
theological whirl in which they have been revolving
And now the General Convention OF the Episcopal
Church Is threatened with bitter discussion growing
ont of the MacQueary trial. These are murmur OF
the complaints that come to the Pastor to which he
would give utterance this were the proper place
The Rev. DR.. James o. Murray, dean of Princeton
University, will preach tomorrow in his former pulpit
| in the Brick Presbyterian Church Dr. van Dyke
will speak to the Princeton students this evening and
preach in the college chapel tomorrow morning ana
afternoon Yale and Harvard have also had d. van
Dyke as college preacher this year.
The recent address of DR.. Alfred L. LOOMS at the
meeting held in h. L. stuarts paror in the In
erest Of the University of the City OF Newforh mas
attracted no little attention. In speaking OF he
benevolent and largehearted citizens VINO are pouring
their hundreds and thousands of dollars into the treas
ures of hospitals and dispensares and letting their
4 lar .l IDOmiS
New-York City, as l lave said before, mas tnV r
hospitals aud dispensaries to-day than the heeus VI S
SICK and suffering poor demand II you "u bc% has
| annie of IT, suppOsing the half million wnGn mas
been spent in erecting cancer hospital that mas I
patients or endowment when another Gs a tbe WdrS
snppose that halfmOn dollars had been tnfleu llS
the treasury Of the unIyerty y yn ga tS MTnS the
hospitals and you will find that oneaalt 10 1IC U
Of the patients pay PATIENTS apie 70 oe MAKO AN
address nj The Woman's Hospital ana oNeh1eu uo
ladies very much said had gone through t the hos
nit and Of the 1875 patients there were only fourteen
Tho American Institute Of Christian PHILOSOPHY mas
inst decided on Its list Of speakers for Its fifteenth
summer school at Avonby the SEQ n a. and 10 continue
The meetings win begin on M M%s Editor o.
e The Methodist Review w open The Rsve icaSSa
With .nd1,ta paper par On " NShane Of Haven Win
gIscmss dThe scientific and Social Law OF 3ufvV'
the Rev. Edward NJ Deems 6'r ~ Of Nam President
VII present erore Of Trinity College n. c., The Eco
the eo q pS.oc RT w 4 Ss Ed#%rd
Ine Itue ~ I{amIton College "The philosophy Of
Rsa G5 K PTapS' Criticism the
princeton unsgio and exJndgc W. H. Arnoux "The
1acne Of EsS on N hS iGe Ray p D.
The sermon WI htadsInIia the Epscopalian who has
81 history Of deSmna92n
mis- country HIS recent address on , tnre Va kindly
Te eSS "' The anniversary w and De there Ten VIII
Eresldet i,,no one evening the question being VI
be RPoasnns for Accepting Theism, Which seems