Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-07-31

Rev. R. J. Campbell, the young man
who has so suddenly come to the front
as one of the great preachers of our
time. He was originally a churchman,
and is a graduate of Christ Church
college, Oxford, where he had dis
tinguished career as a scholar He is
not much more than 80 years of age,
but has moved the city of Brighton as
it has not been moved since the
preaching of Frederick w Robertson.
Plans are now prepared and on exhibit
ton for a new church in that city to
cost $350,000 1t will be perhaps the
most expensive church edifce among
the non-conformists of England 1t
will accommodate about 1000 people.
In an address recently delivered in
Hartford, on the relations of the
seminaries to the churches, Pro.
fessor Williston Walker, who has
been for some years intrusted
with the administration of the student
aid funds in Hartford seminary, called
attention to the fact that theological
students are, beyond any other student
body, prevailingly poor in purse. 1t
is true now, as in the apostles time
that not many rich feel the call to the
service of the ministry" Theological
students ''come prevailingly from
country homes. 1t is a proof of the
reality of the divine covenant made
with the fathers that in so many in
stances they come from homes of min
listers, home missionary pastors
homes oftentimes." Prof. Walker es-
Inmates that not one-half of the stu
dents in the seminaries are able to
look to parents or to friends for the
means by which to carry on their
course of study. Yet these men are
frequently the best scholars in their
classes. Some form of student aid is
evidently necessary. The problems
Of ministerial education and supply
were never SO difficult as at the pres
ent day, and are worthy the most
careful and intelligent study.-New
York Observer.
There continues to be a certain
amount of grumbling in the Episcopal
church over the ordination of Prof.
Briggs, and it is understood that a
society has been organized, or is to be
organized, for the protection of the
church against the incursions of SINH
lar scholars. 1t is said also that
there will be opposition to the re-elec-
ton of some members of the standing
committee who passed Dr. Briggs's
papers. Bishop F. d. Huntington has
expressed his disapproval Of the or
dination. He also condemns Bishop
Potter for his action, on the ground
that there is no law compelling him to
ordain a man he deems unworthy of
the off1ce.-New York Independent.
The Free church of Scotland still
maintains it's old and right position
that the union of church and state in
Scotland is an improperly In the
Free church assembly lately, Principal
Rainy moved a deliverance declaring
that the present alliance of church and
state in Scotland ought to come to an
end, in the interests of public justice,
ecclesiastical freedom, and of the
unity, welfare and efficiency of the
Presbyterian church in Scotland
There was opposition to the motion
but it was carried by large majority.
The Christian Observer.
The purely commercial relation
which certain class of people hold to
the church has had no more glaring
illustration than is afforded by the
refusal of some pew-holders in up
town Congregational and Episcopal
churches to pay their pew-rents during
the summer months. Such a con-
temptible breach of contract would
properly destroy the credit Of any one
in purely business relations; and the
people who thus seek to defraud their
church would not dare to do so were
the eye of the world upon them New
York Examiner.
The unity of the Protestant Episco-
pal church is like that sometimes
found in menagerie where animals of
different and naturally hostile species
are seen in the same cage, apparently
living together in peace and har-
mony; but it is the cage and the
keeper that keeps them so.-New York
Christian Advocate.