The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-08-16

new Liberal ministry will be formed. repre-
resenting the moderate Catholics and Protes-
tants as againstlthe reactionary clerical policy
Of both ultra-C Catholics and ultra-Protestants.
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The third International Peace Congress will
he he'd in Rome in November. Aprogramme
OF the topics TO be discussed has been pre-
pared and an executive committee has been
appointed. Prince Ruspoli is president OF
this committee.
Under the editorship Of Professor F. Vi
gouroux. Professor of Sacred Scriptures in
the Catholic Seminary OF Paris, Dictionaire
de la Bible. consisting of fifteen parts. each
Of leo Quarto pages, is being published
by Ietouzey n Ane. OF Paris 1t is .proiusely
illustrated, and is an important addition to
Catholic French literature.
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Lord Salisbury, the English Premier. in a
recent address, said il would be necessary to
fight with the utmost visoT' T. maintain
the Established Churches in Vale and
Scotland. In England the issue IS further
away.
II sintimated that the Rev. Newman, Hall
is likely to give up before great while us
famous London pastorate, which mas now
continued thirty eight years with the same
congregation. lie has zen forty-nlne years
as few men have equaled.
II is an interesting coincidence that in these
days OF Higher Criticism there should he a
movement 10 endow III the University II Dem
yer a Myclife professorship TO teach all the
students the perennial vitality and power of
the Bible Bishop III. w. Warren has begun
th 3 endowment and besides other absorbing
duties will give the first course of instruction
the coming winter. This IS believed 10 be the
first endowment for such purpose in our
colleges.
While it certainly is true that the German
Governments do not make ample provision
for the erection Of new churches and the ap-
pointment Of more pastors for the great grow
ing centers of population. it certainly is q mis-
take 10 think that little or nothing is being
done. In the province of Silesia for instance,
the Prussian Government has within the last
ten years erected forty-four new Pro-
testant churches, established twenty
three new parishes and IS protecting
thirteen more. In the last four years
alone fourteen parishes were created
and twenty-five churches built, while the
number of vicariates has grown from twenty
to thirty Similar progress Is reported from
many other sections in Germany.
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The day of literary finds are by no means
over, h5 IL HlLebteu Dy luo uisCONeiy VA tho
Teaching of the Twelve Apostles" a few
years ago. and Aristotle's Athenian Constitu-
ton and Aristides Apology within recent
months. In the library at Lwickau. in SaIo-
n.y. where a number of Luthers inedttd had
been unearthed. more have been found lately.
In the Vatican library "ConfHatio," which
the Catholic theologians had prepared at
Augsburg in 1880 in answer to the Augsburg
Confession read by the Professionals, but
which the Emperor in disgust would not per-
NIT to be read in public, has just been dis
covered. and is now published by Lie. DR..
Johannes Flicker, Of Halle All the documen-
tary evidences in the Augsburg Diet case had
originally been deposited in Vienna. This
new discovery, in connection with others,
opens up valuable new sources Of informa-
ton for the beginnings of tue Reformation OF
the sixteenth century.
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In the Common Pleas Court. Cleveland o.,
Judge Hamilton decided last week the in
junction case against the Evangelical Associa-
ton. He enjoined the Board of Publication
from making up any deficiencies in the sala-