The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1894-01-21
RELIGIOUS NOTES.
Regarding News In the Churches At
Large.

Rev. w u. Smith, assistant minister %
Grace church. New York. has received a
call 10 the rectorship Of 81. Peters church.
Norfolk. recently made vacant by the re-
eignation Of Rev ". i. Gravatt. and has
accepted the same.
Pere Hyacinthe is giving series Of Ad-
vent Lectures under the auspices Of the
"Societe Franchise d 'Evangiisation." on
Sunday afternoons I'm the Protestant chap
el i'm the Rue TaitbOut. The subjects an
nounced are: UD The church outside the
churches; CD The Congress Of Religions at
Chicago; CD The Kingdom OF God upon
the Earth: 90 The Kingdom of God in
Heaven. The attendance is very good.
The Right Rev. Robert Samuel Gregg,
y. D., Bishop of the Diocese of Cork.
church of Ireland ProtestanD. has been
elected Archbishop Of Armagh and Pri-
mate of Ireland 10 succeed the Most Rev.
Robert Knox, who died on October 18th.
A great Nonconformist Unionist demon
stration was recently held at Hull Eng
land. the first of its kind held in that
city. Four thousand persons were pres
cnt Dr. Rentoul. VI. p, was the chief
speaker The sole qualification for mem
bership was Non-cOnformists and Union
ism. They wanted to show thousands ~
Nonconformists would not desert their
Irish co-religionists. Or. Rentoul was en-
Enthusiastically received He showed how
Ireland now suffered nothing which Home
Rule could remedy. Mr. Gladstone, he
said, is a pronounced High Churchman,
and as such must hate Dissent. Every
man Of you was against Home Rule till
one High Churchman told you IL was
right All Irish Nonconformists tell you
Home Rule Is ruinous.
OF all the political princes and poten-
tates on the globe. none equal Emperor
wilhelm H., Of Germany, I'm confessing
their implicit faith in Jesus Christ as the
Son Of the living Cod One year ago, at
the rededication of the famous Luther
church. Of Wittenberg. and in the pres
ence Of a brilliant assembly Of represen-
tative men from the State and church
from all Protestant lands. he freely and
frankly expressed his belief i'm the doc
trine Of the divinity OF Christ. This was
all the more significant as just at that
time the controversy on the Apostles
Greed and especially on the words Con-
cefved Of the Holy Ghost, born OF the
Virgin Mary had reached fever heat IN
Evangelical Germany. Recently, at the
cornerstone laying Of the new Evlnsel-
zeal church I'm Jerusalem, the cOnsumma-
ton of a PROJECT WHICH ita1 hfNtt '1r.'
bv wilhelm J. and Frederick III, the
grandfather and father Of the present
Fmperor and which IS really national
enterprise Of Protestant Germany the
Emperor Wilhelm again in the most en-
phatic terms. and in that hearty anu
heart-warming way 50 characteristic OF
his utterances, proclaimed anew his adj
ba.ence TO the fundamentals of oid-fash-
toned n~sitlye Christianity. In the official
r,..al document which was deposited IN
The stone. the history Of this church pro-
iect is narrated, and the Emperor con-
tinues ,s<.,.t.
MAY this church be a memorial OF faith
I'm the Son of God who became man, and
who was crucihed and arose again. ana
&c our Saviour: may it be confession OF
the saving truth Of the Gospel OF the
grace Of God. as this glorious doctrine
was restored again 10 Christianity
through the labors OF the Refornersi
NAV il be a visible sign and token OF the
unity of the Evangelical churches here IN
germany and beyond it's boundaries
1--WE thanks To God the Lord. that he has
enabled me TO realize IN this way the
nroiect of my fathers. To him do pray
that at this place from winch the Fi"d
and petition that he would give grace,
tidlncs Of the great joy of salvation hrst
wont forth. the pure Gospel may also pe
nreached at all times. and that NJ ms
place, where the Lord suffered lor u,
He be praised also by German tongues rs
the everlasting Saviour and Redeeiner 10
all eternity. God grant this Amen