Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 28, 1875, Page 6

ey PS Et TROIS, CAL AE OO. uate Bales. aoe THE -CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY FEBRUARY 28, + 1875.—SIXTEEN PAGES, manifested. Mr. Moorhonse bas been in Chi- RELIGIOUS NEWS. Yhe Lay Preacher Discours- eth on Bretherly eve. Striking - Instances Thereof Which Have Recently Occurred. Expressions of Opinion Concerning Standing Committees and é Bisbops-Elect. What Dr. De Koven's Friends Think of-the News from Ken- tucky. A Dissertation on Delicate Theological Distinc- tions. Approaching Visit of Harry Hoorhouse, the Boy Evangelist. Comments and Opinions of the Religious Press. Notes and Personals at Home and Abroad. Church Services To-Day. THE LAY PREACHER, A SERMON ON DROTHERLY LOVE, Behold how yood and how pieasant itis for breth- ren to dweil together in unity. Last Sanday we disconrsed upon the box of Precious ointment, which the penitent woman used to anoint the feet of the Savior. The psa- sage from which our text for this morning is taken, likens brotherly Jove to the precious aint- ment upon Aaron’s beard, which went down even tothe skirts of his garments, The simility is. beautiful one, and has been for timtreason prob- ably sdopted as a part of tne ritual of the an- cient brotherhood of Free and Accepted Masons. All through the Scriptures the duty of brotherly love isonjoined. “ Let brotherly love continue” was one of the special injunctions of Christ to His followers, and its prevalonce among them wae cited as one of the strong proofs of genuine Chtinuszity, **How these Christians love one “ was said of them in the primitive days of the Ciristian charch. Judged by this standard, what would be the verdict of the impartial observer at the present day. It is afact patent to all, end as humiliating us it is obvious, that the bitterest animosities and the most vindictive quarrels that have cursed the world have been between those who -pro- feseed to ba followers of Him whose whole teachings were imbued with a spint of love. In our own times, and our immediate locality, we aro bappuy free from thoe bloody demon- ttrations which in former times, and even recently, in other lands have brought shame and reproach upon. the canee of Christianity, and yet, even ia this generation, and in our own roidst, there is sbundant occasion to cuitivate the grace of brotherly Jove, and it behooves ua in our convideration of the subject to regard more particularly ine beam in our own eyo than the mote in tha: of onsbrother. To secure any practical benolit fran ny of the teachings and Ynaxims ‘of the i is necersary for us to bring them rizht 1 and apply them directly to ourselves; tt without intending te be offensively rer ou" nal! make our treatment of the suty sideration essentially a s Joave to thoze of the hortora of the Ingnisi- Protestant worshippers sione of the Bishops 8 Pope by Victor Eman- by Bismarck or or uel. The thoory is that ell mankind are brethren, « but thos) of tho household of faith especially ure supp sed to be united in a bond of brother- hood el stronger than that which makes all of tbe bum .u fzawily akin. Is this the fact? In zuswer to this question. Jet us lool: back over th> history of Christian churches in Cuicago for tho past few years. Weneed hardiy ullude tv the jealousy ana ill-will that bas been ruanifested between different denominaticns, bot can fina sufficient answer in the strifes which nave occurred between members and pas- tore of the samo faith snd order. In pointing cut some of the instances of unchristian strife, we do not propose to espouse the cause of elthor sido. engaged iu any of the controversies, but’ only vse them to illustrate the plentiful lack ef tat brotherly love which was like the oint- ment on Aaron's beard and like the dew on Jlermon. Occupying, 28 we do, in our-capacity of Lay Preacher an entirely independent plat- form, we shall speak treeiy of 21] denominations, aad yet, 28 we hove, “* with malice towaras none, with cherity for all.” 5 First, then, we will consider that staid old con- efervative organization known as the Protestant Episcopal Church, which claims to have come Gown to us from the Aposties in an unbroken line. of succession,—that it is de jure and de facto the real origivual Jacob’s, and that the maveterions power and virtue which ts imparted ‘by the laying on of hands in the rites of Con- iirmation, Ordination, and Consecration, can be traced back through the Jong chain of eighteen centurics, withont 3 ‘missing link, and that the subtle and almost miraculous spiritual eesenco is as pure and potent as when it was be- stowed bythe Aposties upon their immediate successors. ‘The long, bitter, and uncampromising contro- veray waged between the iate Bishop Whitehouse. and one of bis Rectora, aud whicn finally resuit- ed in a eecession, is fresh in the memaries of all “who read the daily pap Tho partisans of eitner side rushed into Trot and the secular Papers wore flooded day after day with articles which, to say the least, were pot fragrant with ‘Christin charity and brotherly love. The strong arm of civil Inw wns invoked and the decision of the ecclesiastical courts were appealed from, and carried up to the civil courte, and the strange spectacle is seen of a ‘Rector, after having been deposed and degraded by eolemn sentence, and elected and consecrated 2s Bishop of the seceding Church. declared by a decree of the civil cours as still « priest in good standing of the old organization. More recently the death of the’ late Bishop made tho clection of a euceessor necessary, and the enemies of Christianity have been fur- nished with numerous arguments ecainst its Fenitinenesa, Christisn brethren, who should dwell together in unity and’ the i bonds of peace, enter, into tho arena of strife with aii the bitterness and implacability which’ characterize epposing political factions, accus- ing each other of fraud and duplicity, and in one instance the Bishop of sJarge and influential Diocese in nother State has been charged with actual falsehood ; and the end is not yet. Now, br a of the Episcopal Church, suffer en ad- recnition froma layman. These things onght uct to be, and if ye have so learned Christ your religious education has been faulty, and our ad- ‘vice is thet you go back to the Great Teacher, without stopping to count the links in the chain ‘of Apostolical succession. Another notable instance is found in the pro- | ceedings instituted by Prof. Patzon against Prof. Swing, for unsound teachings as a Fresbyterian pastor. No doubt Prof. Patton isa sincere, hon- est man, but we ine there are few even among ‘the moet rigid Calvinists who do not think that his action in thst matter was ill-ad- vised, and displayed painful want of that brotherly love so bighly commended im our text. He eecma to have considered himself as being specially set apart se an orthodox watch-dor, and bis following the matter up after Swing bad, to avoid further ecandal. withdrawn from tho Presbytery, reminds one of the story of the dog - Noble, told with sguch telling effect: by Henry Ward Boecher | passing through, had escaped on the other side. Zeal in bebalf of the Church may be commenda- ble, but to be profitable it sheuld bea zeal 2c- cording to knowledge, and: should be tempered and controlled bya spirit of love and concilia- tion. We read in the Scriptures of a fiery zeal— aconsuming zeal. Alas for ihe history of Chris- tendom, it has too often had a litoral illustration in Gring the fagots’ and coasuming the hapless victim accaved of heresy. Asa foriter illustration, let us call to mind the recent troubles in the Baptiat desomination, which resulted in the establishment of the Amity (?) Church, and ithe resignation of tho pastor ef another church. The whole thing was a disgrace, a burlesque upon civilization, and the Blilingagate evoked duting the progress of the fight would make s London fish-woman biush.. The pastor of the leading church of that denomiuation in this city was openly chargod in a public sermon (duly advertised) of fraud nod missappropriation of sacred trast fonds, and those men 60 arrsyed against exch other pro- fcseed one faith, and had received one baptism, being, 28 they claim by that rite, + buried with Christ.” is it any wonder, my brethren, that7thoze out- side the fold- grow incredslons regarding tho merits and genuineness of Chriscianity. whe those who are ordained sa its texchera go far for- get their high miavion a3 toengase in wicked Drawls, aud avail themselves of the medium of the secular papers to tell tho world at large how corrupt some of their essociates are? Uniformity of belief npon non-essential points or certain creeds is not to be expected, nor is it at a)) necessary to a unity of purpose and a friendly co-operation in the great work of prac- tical Christianity. Long and learncd disserta- tions upon the comparative merits of & shower-bath or a plunge-bath a3 9 means of saving grace; the dogma of the vreal presence in the Euchariat; the instantaneous acd miraculous regeneration of an Unconscious infant by the act of baptism; the doctrine ‘of Election, and numerous other grave matters which bave beeh the ‘subject of much resosrea, and the occasion of many and sore disseusions, are, as it seems to a layman of doubtful utility. Dy their fruits shall ye know them,” was the declaration of the Master, and when the world at large shall-cee all who profyss to bo Christians exbibiting in their intercourse with the world 2 spirit of charity, and dweliing together in unity among themselves, their ‘inituence for good will vastly augmeniod. Any system -which does not commend itself by wholesome practical reenits smong ita advpestes will naturally de re “i>? sith din- trust bv others. When the ere saall seo that Christianity, in ta ers, 18 yielding the peaceabte fr nees, it will do more to attract : brace it than all the doctrinal «ec. from the times of Paul to Patton. trary, whon men witness or read of tus fal wravglings, criminations and recrumnations, among professing Christians and clerzymen, they will be repelled rather than attracted. “* Furst pure, then peaceable,” is what is de- manded, and never more than at ths present time, when thousands sre drifting. into skepti- cium, and rejecting all religious beliefs. In’selecting the three particular denominations alladed to by way of illuetration, there was no intention to singlo them out as worse thay oth- ers, bat eimply because their transactioas have been more prominently before the public of Jato. ‘There are in all of them good and pure men and. women who are inezpressibly grieved when they see Christ wounded in the house of His [riends. Let us alt, then, strive to bring about s qifferent state of things, ao that we can say, with o joyful realization, “Behold how good and how pleasant it is for brethron to dwell together in unity.” —— THE ILLINOIS EPISCOPATE. DR. DE KOVEN AND THE BISHOTS. To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune: More pressing if not more important matters hevye preyented us from paying more prompt attestion to an article in faz Trmoxz of Wednesday, Feb. 17, hesded “ A Plain and Com- mon Sense View” of Dr. De Koven’s soundness in tho faith, It is a very trite saying that, “Common sense is the most uncommon of alt our senses,” and this wnter, who signs himself “HL,” is evidently no exception to the general rule. Ifhe has any “common sense” he has certainly not exhibited it in this essay, which contains almost as many misstatements ag it has sentences. But we shall not'attempt to follow him throngh all hig aberrations; a few instances will be sufficient. First—He represents ‘almost tha entire College of Bishops” as indorsing the * ortho- doxy of Dr. De Koven.” Bat “thet is the very point which the memorial- ists agsinst Dr. De Koven’s confirma tion as the 4 Bishop of Llinois propose to test, provided, that ia to say, that the Stand- ing Committees of the various dioceses will al- low the matter to go before the Bishops. If the Standing Committees understand the utterances of the Bishops in the matter of Ritualism for several years past, as wo do, they will not think ‘it worth while to troubig them with the matter,— they will bo sssured that the Bishops havo al- ready pronounced sentence upon Dr. De Koyen’s views and utterances, and thst, therefore, it is not necessary for them todoanything more than make an application of thisto Dr. De Koven by declaring that they cannot consent to his con- eecration. Waclaim that all that is peculiar in Dr. De Koven’s system of theology has been distinctly and unequivocally condemned by the Bishops on various occasions, but more particu- Jarly 1m their pastoral of 1871. If Bishop Doano i, as “HH.” claims, the author of that pastoral andatthe sametime tbe advocate of Dr. De Koven's confirmation and elevation to the Episcopate, wo havo only to say, “it is for him snd not for us to explain nnd defend his consistency. But the rastoral is plain in ita condemnation of Dr, De Koven’s prin- ciples and practicesin Ritualism andits con- nected system. The Bishops there say, ‘ What is known as ‘Ritualiam’ is mainly a quastion of taste, temporement, and constitution, until it becomes the expression of doctrine. The doc- trine which chiefly attempts to express itaelf by ritual, in questionable and dangerous ways, is connected with the Holy Eucharist. Thnt doc- trine is’ emphatically a novelty in theology. What is known as eucbaristical adoration is un- doubtedly inculcated and encouraged by,that ritual of posture lately introduced among us, which finds no.warrant in our ‘offica for the ad- tcinistration of the Holy Communion.’ Al- though men may, by unlawtal reasoning on Di- vine mysteries, argue themselves into an ac- centance both of the practice and the doctrine which it implies, these sre most certainly an- authorized by Holy Scripture, eutirely aside fromthe purposes for which the Holy Sacra- ment was instituted, aud most dangerona in tneir tendencies. . Nor, it is notorious that no one in our Ameri- con Chorch has been more prominent or mora zealous in the defense of this doctrine of “Eucharistic adoration” than Dr. De Koven. He has exhibited this in two Generel Conren- tion, and in all sorts of speeches, pamphlets, newepaper articles, and catecbisms. In this re- spect we suppose there will be no dispnte. . It is a matter entirely apart from his ideas on the mode of ist’s presence in the Euchariss, ‘This he did not attempt to deny or explain even in his speech in the last General Convention, in which he labored so anxiously to free himself from the charge of Transubstanhation and of a “‘local, physical, carnal preeonce in the ecle- ments.” It is. not necessary to quota Dr. Do Koven’s ijanguage on _ this dictrine rung through the greater part of his speech on the Ritual Canon in the last Goneral Convention. -This doctrine of ‘ Eucharistic adoration " 1tis well known that he holds. He himself hes not denied it—will nat deny it. But thisis tho doctrine which the Bishops bave so unequivocally condemned in tas pastoral just cited. But thia is not the only doctrine of Dr. Do Koren which the Bishops have condemned ia that pastoral of 1871, which “H.” so aptly atyles “their protestant pestoral.” Thoy there further say, ‘In thus speaking of dangers con- nected with present movements in the Church, there are other points oa which your vishops must not be silent. The first relates to privato confession, . . . . Another peint of: dangor isx tendency toxard Saint sqemp.*. . . . As fostering tendeucies of which we regret to Bee any tokens among u3, we mast not fil to-point out the dangor ansing from devotions! and dog- trinal books, alien in their character to the whole spirit of our liturgy, which have of late years been. insidionsly multiplied in England and America.” Now, if this last ecntenco particularly strikes any one, itis Dr. De oven. His and Dr. Dix's Catechism. and Carter's ‘Treasury of Devo- tion,’”-which he so strongly recommends and cir- culates- among his young friends, are undonbt- edly works of the character hero indicated. there¥ore, “Hi” represents Dra. Sulti- yan, Powers, Warren, and Reynolds as occupying 8 position different from that of the Honee of. Bishops towards Dr. De Koven, ho utterly mis- sents those gentlemen. It is not they ho | Teprezer stand in opposition to tho Bishops, bat Dr. De Koven.. They accépt and indorse every word that the Bishops have eaid on the subjects just referred to. t who will pretend that Dr. De Koven doss so? Waa not bis speech on the Rit-. subject,—the. ua! Canon, in the last Goneral Convention, a re- ply to this very pestoral and to other utterances of the'Bishops on Ritaalism? If the views of the Bishops on txesa subjects have an opponent in this country, that opponentis Dr, De Koven. Now, whatever He may be, we have no doubt that the Bishops at least are men of “common sense” and common consistency. They know not enly what the Oburch believes and hax said, but what they’ themselves believe and baye said, Thoy know and say that tho Courch has never received ‘nor taught this doc- trine of Eucharistic elevation which Dr..De Koven teaches. They’also know that they have condemngd, snd that onr Chureb, in ber last General Convention, condemned, in its “Canon on Ritual,” the peculiar system which Dr, Do Ko- yen advocates, and which is known to the world 28 Ritualism. Cau we, then; guppose that our Bishops will ‘go back npon thethselves”? ‘That, after having 0 emphatically warned ths Church against Ritoclisn, aod procured from the Gen- era Conyenticn ’ its anequivocal condemua- tion, enforced in zdvance by the rejection of Prof, Seymour 2s a Bishop of the Church—is it for a moment to be supposed that they rill now turn suddenly around and placs themitre of 3 Bishop upon the head of the Chief Priest of Ritualiam? Tho supposition is to us incrediblo, not to say absurd. Tho Bishops are too well grounded in ‘the faith once de- livered to the saints,”—to Cranmer, and Ridley, and Jewell, and Ball, and all ‘the great Angh- can Doctors,” before the advent of: Newman and Pusey,—too clear-sigbted aud conservative, tpo firm and coneistont, to undo the work go hap- Bily comploted in our Jast Convontion by the Canon ou Ritual, to throw the Church into con- fusion, and to introduce even into their own body such af element of discord 8 Dr. De Koyen, ‘the American Apostie of Ritunlism, would be. No! wedonot suspect the Bishops of any such suicidal intentions, or of Any such self-contradiction. . But we may say still further, for tho rolief of our mode&t friend “H.,” that all the gentle- men whom he so reckiessly stigmatizes for offenses which have no existence except in his own vagrant fancy, —that they are all, without exception, whether clergymen or laymen, per- fectly willing to leave this whole matter, ex wall of Dr. De Koven’s orthodoxy as of his confirma- tion to the Episcopate of Illinois, in the hands of the Bishops, to whom it properly belongs, if Dr. De K. can pass the Standing Committees. If tio Bishops shail, by consecrating him as a Bishop, declare that they regard Dr: Do Koveu as sound in the faith, ** not lable to any charge for error in doctrine,” worthy to wear the mitre, safo to place over the Diocese of Tilinois, nuda ccsirable accession to ‘the College of tho Apostles "—these gentlomon will undoubt- oily 50 receive: him, and this witl be their final auswer to all charges of ' factions opppsition. Bui, until such 2 decision, which itis not for them to anticipate, they will-undoubtedly regard hose who uphold Dr. De Koven xgaizst tho well- known scntimonta and dcclarations of the House of Bishops and the General Convention as mere personal partisans and {actious dixturbera of the peace of the Church, not only in Illinois, but in the Americsn Church generally. "3 Tt would Lo easy to establieh this by their do- ings in the lace Special Convention of Mlinois,and capecially by their violent 2nd revolutionary res- olutions in regard to Prof. Seymour thera pro- sented. But wo forbear. We very willingly take the Bishops, both as judges of our orthodoxy and as arbitrators from whose decision there is uo appeal between ourselves and thoze who misrepresent alike our words, our actions, acd ; our motives. . RB. LETTER TO BISHOP CLAREEON. The Hon. Isaac N. Arnold, of this city, who, a5 & lay delegate in the recent Special Iicessan | Conyention, stubbornly contested the right of Chancellors Judd 2nd Wintcbouso to yoto in the election of Bishop, but was overruled and ovar- | core, has adurcased a Jongthy communication to Bishop Clarion, of Nebraska, formerly Rector | of St. James’ Church in this city, in which the writer discnsses the questio#: Was Dr. Da Koven tegally elected Bishop of Ulingis?" Mr. Arnold contends for the negative, and strengthens his position by reference to the Constitution of tho Diocese, which, he claims, cannoi be nulli- Sied by any canon or by-law subsequently enact- ed. contends, moreover, that the Chanccl~ lors had no right to vote under either Constitu- tiou cr. cauon; slso,‘that a divided pariéh must be counted, and that, meluding such vote, and rejecting the illegal yotes of tke Chancellors, there was not ® majority voting for Dr. De Ko-~- you, aud, therefore, no legal election, ‘VIEWS OF A MASSACHUSETTS CHURCHMAN. ‘The following letters, written by an eminent churchman of Cambridge, Mass., appeared in the Boston Globe last weck. Tb the £ilitor af the Globe: ‘Sm: The sttitnde assumed by the last General Con- vention toward the Diocese of Illinots fs oue which not only for its interest fuvites, but for its audacity chal- lenges, the thoughtful consideration of every one who appreciates the civil and retigious liberties secured to us by the Contijental Reformation and the American Revolution, This position taken by the hierarchical genius of the Episcopal Church is novel to this ago, but isas old as the medieval pretensions of tha To- man Caria, whence it ia inherited. Let me brictly examine it from the standpoint of a Christizn »nds citizen, entirely waiving those questions which Lave been made the occasion of this startling seus, the first place, whefe does the Episcopal Chur represented in the General Convention, get its rantfor thus planting ite foot upon the nec! Diocese, an organization in itself independent by vir- tae of the very Conatitation that gave it birth ; in it- self an ecclesiastieal unit, and not a fraction whose ex- istence as an entire entity is dependent upon a union with the General Convention, a merely voluntary aseo- 6 50 not only of it ut e princi Pies which underlie ita polity, ‘Where ‘in the wlols ‘Yolume of Apostolic history do we fiud any number of Bishoprics ergcting themselves into an absolute sov- ereignty to lord it over a sister Diocese? When St, Paul ordained Timothy to be Bishop of the churches Jn Ephesus, or when he consecrated Titus to be Bish- op of the churches in Crete, were the other Bishops and Dioceses, was even St.’Pcter himself, the primua inter pares, asked ‘for his’ consent? Would such » virtual substitution of hume® authority for the Divine episcopate of the Ascended Head of the Church, ad- ministered by the Holy Ghost, ever have becn for 3 moment dreamed of by those through whom the Divine Bpirit madegchoica of the fit porson—lcset of all by that great apostle of the liberty wherewith Christ had made the conscience and manhood of His Disciples free? u And the very principles of the Gospel are against it. The principles of faith in the Holy Spirit's gufaance, and of liberty in non-essential of salvation; the lat- ter one of those features which especially dietinguish the polity of the Christian from that of the Jewish Chureb; and render the Gospel not only neceptable to the Gentile mind, but also prove # in sympathy with those high instincts of humanity which * fix their canons ” against self-respect where the noble and en- robling right of self-government is scrvilely sur- rendered, : ‘i Tosey that such an attempt as this of the General Convention is unconstitutionel does but half express is true natare, unless in that term we include the Constitution, not of the Church only, nor yet those of the several Dioceses, but that ono of good will and equity written by the pen of revelstion, Morcovor, Such an act is in violation of that unwritten Conetita- ‘tion, the Magna Cuarts of humanity, given of God througi: the reason, an authority co-ordinate with rey- elation, its interpreter, and the judgo between man end man of alltreth and right. ‘This authority saye that government ia not instituted to exercise dominn- ton over the subject, but to secure bis rights and pro- tect his interests, Applying this principle to the case in question, it says further that for the General Con- Yention to'veto the election of the Rev. Dr. S¢ymour to the Lishopric of Iinois was an utter violation of the rights of that Diocece, and x spoliation rather thap a Gefenss of the spiritual intereste of that portion of the A Diocese ja an ecclesiastical corporation, self- originating and self-sustaining. So it is independent fn ils organic existence. ‘The proof of this is that it dictates its own Constitution and canons in convention assembled, aud; {f it please, may perpctuate its episco— pate by provisional action during the life of its Diocesan, ‘The only ground on which interference With “and “imposition upon the rishts of p Diocese by the General Conference cond bo argued | with any show of reaoh in that tho Diocese is in voluntary unjon with it. But what a the under standing on which such sn alliance is entered into? The concession of Diocesan independence, and interests, and yiehts? Nothing less, indeod, if in the most concerning aud diznified action of that edclesi- sstical body, the choice of a head, its will and the hands that do the bidding of that will, the very man hood of the Diocese in action, choose ‘and act ouly by the suffranco of an absolute thirty-tyrant conclave, which every now and then rattles a pair of fetters by. way of warning to its humble constituents. Certainly nothing Jess, we say, if this be.the case, For where the highest expression of the freedom of-a people, and the corner-stons of its Liberty, the franchise, is’ held in aboyance by power, is theze'ansthing left, either fres im the life or republican in the character, of such s People? e zs Moreover, this arbitrary attempt of the General Convention, if it bo mudfered by the Church at Larne, bodes little good to the Stato, civil as wel! s3 spiritual, Ibis in its nature the legitimate and lineal desrendant Of those mistaken right reverend fathers whose Gisastrons policy drove thousands from the Church, and nally culminated in the English revolut tion under Cromwell, I'need only to mention the mame of the unfortunate Archbishop Laud to alate ‘this point in full, If the nature and history of this old principle—the same whether in the Bands of Protestants, Churehmen, or Papists—ba not Mficient to teach men of wisdom to beware how they allow that infeutile monster to bo nourished, to be let loose goin, thon Ict them read the sigus of the times and find in them a lesson of caution. Whenca come the efforts to centralize political power wiich mock at the old Constitution of our fathers that guaranteed to all American cidzons “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?” No doubt, from causes of smbition and corruption which nations nourish aliently at first, {ill in the matnrity of national Mfe, like the pasrions of our nature, they break forth openty, ising 3 peovle once free and self-governing prostrate at the feet of desvotic might. ‘There are in the causes Like to there in their nature. and not only producing Uke results there, but also ly contributing to the eiiect of these catises which in the end strike fatally at cil Yrocdom. No power so mon!ds the character of men: as religion; and sf, through a self-arrogating Church, they come gradually-to yield ths first = Cinles ef cetf-govemment, ad, bow 10 tycant ane thority, will not such be the very first to deprecate and, surrendor the civil Nberty wherewith the counssis and lives of their fathera made them froe? We copciada, then, that the confraization and-asser- tion of absolute power by the rulers, and tho suffer- auce of the same by the citizens of that common- wealth within the Conrmonwealth—the Charch—ua in- stanced in the action of the lact General Convention, presenta phase of ecclesiasticism hostile to the free inatitutions of the Republic, Noxo Eviscoragt. THE RESULT IN KENTUCET. The friends of Dr, De Koven profess neither surprise nor solicitude at the rofasal of the Ken- tucky Standing Committee to consent to thecon- secration. Kentueky was regarded as certain to refuse, and Indiana was coneidered doubtfol, aud‘ tho fact that tho first two dioceses heard from: rofused consent, does not in the least dampen the confidence of the De Koven party in obtaining a majority of the Standing Committees and Bishops. They exvect to hear very soon from Missouri and the Wisconsin dioceses, all of | which are counted aa certain for De Kaven. In regard to the circalar signed by the Rovs. Brooks, Powore, Sullivan, etc., the friends of the Bishop-clect point to it as an indication that the signors did not choose to afix their names to tho memorial issued some time ago, but issued the circular instead. Some remarks have been made ad tothe good taste manifested by tho Rev. Arthur Srooks in signing the circular when-ho is ractically no longer connected with the parish, K prominent member of St, James’ parish yea- terday said to a Tnrpung reporter: “It does look rather queer ; but, asbe bas been our Ree- tor, I don’t wish to say anything harsh." The opinion ia freely exprassed thst the namos at- tached to the circular will not have great weight, ‘The Diocese, tho Episcopal organ for Illinois, comes ont squarcly for'Do Koven, though Dr. Leeds was tho choice of the editor, the Rey, Mr. Leffingwoll; of Knoxville. ‘THE REY. DR. RUDDER. To the Editor of The Chicago trioune: . OnrcaGo, Feb. 27.—One of the “facts” stated on tho fioor of the iste Diocesan Convention which bad a potent influenco in deciding the course. of those who seriottsly doubted: the soundnoes of Dr, De Koven in tho faith was that bis recent specch on the Ritnal canon in Gen- eral Convention satisfied such eminent Low Churchmen 2s the Rev. Drs. Andrews, of West Virginia, and Rudder, of Philadelphia, that whatover his views hed formerly been, he was thon gonnd, In your issue of this morning you publish the letter of Dr. Andrews contradicting this, so far as he.was concerned. I now furnish you the following, just received from Dr. Rud- der by the writer : In your letter of the 12th you inform me that “among other arguments used to effect the eloction of Dr. De Koven was this, that hia speech in the General ‘Convention satisfied you.” In reply, I would simply aay that I was not \satiaficd with tho statement con- cerning Eucharistic dactrine made by Dr, Do Koen in the late Genersl Convention. “It w=a not a statement which I could in any way accept, But, as I then understood it, for have not yet seen tho stenographie report of the dobatea, it ws 8 ducided modification of his views 2s exprossed in the General Convention of 1871. This fact, or supposed fact, I was glad to recognize, and it gave me great pleasure publicly to call nttention to it, and to express my own gratification coucerning it. That was all. This letter speaks for itself. R. fava eine PRIMARIA AND DUBIA. CONSIDERATION OF THE SACRAMENTAL QUESTION. Zo the Lditor of The Chicaze Tribune: "The Rev. Dr. Ve Koven is Biehop-clect of the Tiocesé of Ulinois, A manifesto from those ho desire the contirmation of this election, and protest from those who oppose it, are sent ont to che Bishops and Standing Committees. The character of the latter document indicates a re- , nowal of the same sort of Warfare resorted toa yor ago in Wisconsin, and’ last October id the Genoral Convention. Tho opposition is based on alleged ‘error in doctrine” and ‘‘illezality” in election. *'Chis second point, even on the showing of the protestors, isa mere form without vitelity. It wos not thought of at the election of Dr. Sey- monr; and, if the “challengo” of certain votes in this election is ‘valid, it must ke on the ground that the laymen who cast them have, after all, no legal right to sit as membors of the Convention. Tho logality of’ their memborehip, though purely ex-officio, is not- questioned. They muat, therefore, have “tall the rights of members” for apy and every sort of Diocesan business; and it is not possiblo to discriminate in their votes, whettier cast for Biehop, for Deputies to General Convention, for Standing Committee, or for any legislative ‘measure. But the main point is the alleged “error in doctrine ;” bat forthis the other had not been thought of. The whole difficulty centres in tho question, -What is érror in doctrine? This takes us back toa tundamental principle which, in these stormy times, is in danger of being wreck- ed..The Church has always reoognized two sorts of, doctrine, a3 expreesed in the.anciant® maxim, In primariis, unilas; in dubii lbertas; in omnibus carilas. Tho P; maria are those. essentiala of the faith which centre in the Holy Trinity, and have been determined by the Church, Rallied beneath the standard of the Cross, wo must in unity embrace these Primaria and defend them with our lives, Tar away from this contre of light is the dark region into whieh error and heresy, duly tried and condemned, have been banished from the Church, Between this outer darkness and the central light is the region of the Dubia,—th=t is, of those debatable matters which the Church has never determined. These all have prescriptive right to be hefd by any who may choose to hold them; . the Charch’s flag of liberty guarantecs and defends all rights among them; and the Church’s law of cbarity com- mands the peace among them. Not any of these Dubia sto to be classed as “erroneous and strange dectrines,” which we are bound tu ;* banish and drive away from the Church.” But it was maintained that the Gorham Dubia in one extremo, and the Bennett Dubiain tho other, wore “ crrors in roligion,” and repugoant to the Primaria as dofined and established in the Articles. and Vormularics of the- Church. ‘This forced theso two sorta Gf Dubia into legal investigation, trial, and adjudication. Tho mat- ters thus tried were neither elevated to the peer- age of the Primaria, poras errors sent into banishment. But the decision was (1) that they, are not repugnant to the Church’s Law of Doctrino, but are lawful opinions—are Icgitimato Dubia, and have ell the rights and liberties of their proper territory ; (2) that from the Refor- mation onward they hare always bad actual liberty—hayo been held by ominent Bishops and Doctors of the Church, and havea place in their writings ; and (3) that persons holding any of these Dubia are not for this cause to fe exelud- ed from any placo or position to which they havo been duly sppointed or elected. Tus third point :was an esscntial one in the Gorham caso, and maintained the principle that péraons holding any of these Dubia are not to be perao- cuted, prosecuted, ostracized, for they ara under the Church's protection. Also it is manifest that the Primaria alone have anthority to order all things in the sanc- tusry. The‘ Gortam Duiia may not come in and order the doctrine, language, and ritual of Holy Baptiem; nor tho Caitis-t Dudia the doce trine, language, and ritual uf the Uoly Com- munion. The moment thoy snatch at avthority, thoy forfeit their liberty and the Ohureh’s pro- tection, become rebels, and liable to judicial con- demnstion and banishmont. Well, then, do the Bishops (as quoted by the protest) address tho Dubia in theso two extremes, in tones of paternal remonstrance: ‘You have large lib- erty: why, then, abuse the gentleness of ‘Christ, and the patience of your mother, by pressing your fancies and conceits to the very verge of canonical endurance? Why 2im at usurping the functions cf the power that protects you, and soekto make'the Church more Evangelical or more Catholic than her own Formularies and Ritual affects to-be?” Also whon tho Bennott Dubie take up the Fords-of Bishop Androwes, Bishop Cosiu, aud mgoy othors, éven back to tha early Fathers, and say, *' We adoro Christ as porsonally, spiritually, objectively Present in-tbo Holy: Eucharist, but not the consecrated elements; the Bishops (a8 quoted by the protest) will say ‘That it is im- -possible for the common mind to draw the line between worship of such an undefined and_myetrious Presence, ‘and the awful error of adoring tuo elements themecives.” But it is also true that *‘thoe.common mind” cannot fol- low the distinctions made by the Gorham - Dubia in Holy Baptism, without coming near" 's denial of its sacramental charactor alto- gether. It is also true that in the doctrines of tho Holy ‘Trinity, the Divinity and Incarnatjon of Christ, the Personality of the: Holy Ghost,—in short, in sllthe Pri —the Church’s own distinctions are uttorly beyond ibe reach st "the Sommon zing 3” ‘and that in~ lels uso this very fact against the Church, and “*put in peril the souls of men.” es Che distinction made by Bishop Andrewes and others ones did the Charch a valiant service. The Romish Cardinsls contended for tho pos- Session of the Early Fathers on the side of Transubstantiation; snd it was this distinction tlone that defeated the Cardiuals, and saved tho Fathora ag faithtul witnesses forthe Reforma- tion. All thia does no‘ prove the correctness of the distinction ; butit does prove that tho'distioc- tion, aa wall in ancient as in ‘modern.times, hos had a recognized place among tho ‘Dudia ; ‘that thisnot, .28 ‘asserted by Dr. “the foil equivalent: oe eopnsabataniadion, © :bnt tts mor- 3 an at e theological ‘distinctic among the Dubio are no more difficulf and aan gerons to “the common mind" than ara thoze among the Primaria. Now, the doctrines objected to are (1) the real, objective, personal Presence of Christ in the Eucharist, as the spiritual substance of that sacrament ; and (2) the adoration of this Prea- ence ; with (3) the express caveat, nob tho ado- ration of the holy elements. Bishop Andrewes, in effect, puts this into syllogistic form: Whero- soover Christ Himself 1s present, He is to be But Christ Himacif is Present in tho Eucharist as the spiritual substance of tha Sac- ‘Res ‘Sacramenti).. Therefore, this Presence isto be adored—but not the conse- crated elements, which are but the sign and wit- ‘The words “ Christ Him- self,” 38 used by Bishop Andrewes, are equiva. lent to the words “+ Personal Presence,” as used in ourday, And how so many’can hold thia Per- sonal Presenca, and thus grant Lishop A.’s minor promises, aud yet deny his conclusion, that is, the worship of the Presence, is past my com- adored. rament (the ness of that Presence, prehension. Br, Bennett put the doctrines into = formal expression which disturbed the peace of the Church, and brought him to trial. . The formal expression was justly censured; and yot both the doctrines and these formal expressions were acquitted and dismissed in poace to their ancient place among the lawful Dudia of tho Church. In tho Genoral Conyention of 1871, Dr. De Koven cited this decision as an. a fortiori argu. ment in his own case, viz.: that if theas doctrines in the Bennett fornnita were lawful, much more wore they lavfulin his own and the Androwes This he made manifest at the late At the outset I understood formula. General Convention. “Deputies in 1871, accused Dr. De Koven of ** perilously the purpose of his citation as I understand it now. Others, strangely enough, accused him of ‘shaking this decision as 8 defiance in the face of the American Churoh,” and of beiug guilty of “grogs idolatry.” — - “fia coward consciousness of wrong, when driven to bay, that plays bravado, and strikea the attitude of stern defiance, But true cour- age, strong in conscious integrity, shrinks notin A chapter of Jolin, between law and 9 it out poworfully by contrasting the deeds and life of cago, but, 2a he is a comparative atranger here, the following sketch of the charactor of his work, and of ths man bimsel?, written for the Congregationalist by the Bev. S. H. Lee, ‘of Cleveland, will be found of peculiar interest. Harry Sfoorhouse cane to Cleveland upon tha invi- tation of the Young Men's Christian Association, and held three meetings a Gay for five days, When Leleft, althongh there was no revival in the the word, thonsands cf Christian hearts were lifted up tolove God and His blessed Book mere than ever be- fore, ‘His sorvices aro called Bible-rendings, but the term does not accurctely deseribo them, A Bible-reading, enerally, is the reading of o eclection of passages of Eecipiaze on a certain topic, im a certain prescribed order, and which bas its value inthe accumulsted wwaight of God’s own wards, the reading being done by different persons in the zoseting, under the direction ofaleler. Mr, Moorhowse requests psople fo bring their Bivles, which many do snd more do not, but so- lects and reads.all the nasimges himself. Neither is his modo exposition, as tito word is generally ured. He does not attempt to. unfold $38 son; prsting of the assages which he reads, nor to m: 15 Bo- Guainted with the Word of God, His service is a mix- ture of reading, of calling out the moro atriking traths from the passage, and of making very pertinent ob- servations on them, Ho does not endeavor eo mach to meke people acquainted with the Bible, os to make |. them feelits power, It is in bis hand not'so much an instructive treatise, a5 a sword, ond he certainty wields it with great skill and effect, Ho takes a tonic and holds to it, though with a fres range on kindred matters, Ono’ day, when he would inspire » etrong faith, though he did not announce such a purpose, ho took the words “ fear not” 2s found in the Scripture. He began with the first in the caso of Abram, took a fow in Tsaish, ad closed with the last in Revelation, and used the Historical sotting of each to filustrate and express in a very wondecful manner the duty to fear not. Ilustratfous drawn from Ufe, or from his own exngrience, ara sometimes employed, but not often, Again, he took a personal history like that of Peter, and drevs out of ita progress the richestand most help: ful views of Christian living. gain, he took tho contrast, Institatod in the first grace, and brought slormiest times to speak the thing that it bo-:| yoses with the deeds and life of Christ; the doctrine lievee, and, when occasion cally, lay its hand up- | being that the law Billeth, but Christ maketh clive. on the solemn sauctions of the law, to stay the | The tendency of his services is to send his hesrera jawioss rage of men. St. Paul did this, and ap- pealen to his right as a Roman citizen to save imeell from Roman wrong. Thoy that know Dr. away profoundly impressed with God 2s the Savior of men, Hia thoroughly ovangelical view of Christ is indicated in the remark that the Epistle to the He- brows is the key to the Old Testament; his Calvinistio De Kovon know that in all the land the Church | tendency ig seen in theaszerticn that the Epistle to the bas not a braver, truer son than ho; and yet it is thig his outspoken, guileléss bravory that makes him the target of a thousand: tongues. And when he ‘interposes the law asa shield to quench these fiery darts, and defend his rights, 28 Christian citizen in the Charch, his enemies, Jess noble than the Roman, are only moved to grester rage. of Romans ia ‘Years ago, our fathers were deeply versed in tho Scriptures, but they used them theologically, to estab- Hsh certain cardinal doctrin tha key to the Now Testament, ea. Recently, the revival Bible etudy seams to have brought ths Christian public to appreciate it a& a source of various and precious knowledge, historical and practical, Harry Moorhouse finds inthe Biblo a Person, only « Porson, and thst Person is the power of God uato salvation, It is claimed, and justly so, thatthe Privy } So the Bibleis, in his hands, a Hviag power. Council judzmeuts aro binding on us, because onr Articles aud Formularica are the same aa those of the English Church. If, then, we are law-abiding Churchmey, let us for very shame obey our ordination vow to,“ maintain and set forward, as much as lieth in Us, quiotness, peace, and love, among all Christian people.” As to the Gorham Dubia and tho Bennett Dubia, the above | 50 judgments demonstrate, beyond a cavil, that they have for agos enjoyed the liberty of the Church, are therefore under the law’s protection, and therefore cannot be a lawful bar to say one's elevation to auy place in the Church. . Gut Dr. Craik, President of the House of £0 *> grose idolatry ; ” bat, on being better inform- ed, he wrote in place of these words, “a doc- trine lending to idolatry.” What is this doc- trine? Precisely that of Bishop Andrawes as stated above. What now isthe doctrine which Dr. Craik opposes to this, as (his or) tho trua | of ators and other Hterature, he recommended eases, and study the Lible only, for « year. fluence was such, that, during the past heard of Mr, Moody in Bible in hand, reading and expounding th: word of God to sésombled thousands who listen to obey and turn to Christ . ‘The socret of this wonderful history is, that Harry Moorhouse, not foolishly ignoring helps, reads tho Bible continually in its own light, He reads a book, then reads it again and again, until he is filled with it Friprying slays with all prayor and supplication int Born in humble life, bred'a blacksmith, called upon sts watering-place in England to read 4 chapter and offer a prayer on a Sabbath, no dlergyman being pres- (ing, on a eecond ‘occaaion, how interesting ens, loarning, the Bible might boto himself and to others, he wes led along step by step totzke wp ths great work of bring ago, visiting: Mr, Moody in Chicago. finding him not men by this means to Christ, Eight yoars in the habit of using the Biblo as gostment- ry then famous, to lock up his book- His a ine ‘year, we hava Great Britain, itanding up, much Evangelist, je Spirit.” God bless him, and raise up an army such, who shall be abloto use the word of God as a Soctrias ie the caso ites an correppondance Power. sa mee we. ith Dr. De Koven, under date of ‘ Louisville, EY: DS SEAWy - Jan; 30, 1872,” te pets 5 for thirty years pastor of the First Presbyterian + + . According to Christ's institution, and to the Precise daGnition of it given by tho Church, the espe- cial presence of Christ which’ belongs to this secra- meng can only be in the actaal g of the conse- crated emblems according to His command, They have been consecrated to the instruments of cou- Church of Rochester, N. ¥., writes as follows re- parding the recent faboss of Henry Moorhouse in that city : ‘No man since my day hzs over won tho hearts of the people as Henry Moorhouse. way i Ample, offeinal, Carist-like fm his character. He Ho is s wonder in his veying Christ to the believer, when they are reccived. | jp douqenicl worker, and from ret to last there Only in the reception, when the command is oboyed, can this promised effect be produced, ‘Then only ig ‘been nothing at which I conld take oxception. That hes beem my experiance, I wiah God would send him the sacrament which Chmst ordained complete, when | hiher agin. our duty and His promue are brought together in one, Then Christ fulfills His promise, and bocomes “ our spiritual food and sustenance in that sacrament.” ‘Then we may adore Him as truly, mystically, and spiritually present; uniting Himsclf to us, We must not adoro Him in the elements, for He is not in them they are but the materiel instruments used by Hi grace to give Himself to ys, humbly obeying His com- mand ; they are the “means "to convey to us this great gift; and the sensible “pledgo” to assure us thereof, In the samo letter, and ss authority for these views, Dr. Craik quotes the folowing “from paze 345 of the sth volume of Cosin’a works in the Library of Anglo-Catholic Theology” : evi in 2{r. Moorhouse will hold union Gospel meat- ings on the Wost Side, in the Third Presbyterian Church, beginning 8 : readings in the afternoon and preaching in the londay, March 1. Bible- ening. The success attending his efforts our Eastern cities has been most marked, reminding one of Pentecostal times. Sa gees THE RELIGIOUS PRESS. THE ALLIANCE, Idi the AUiance Prof. Swing writes as follows concerning the resignation of the Rev. Ben E. Timo itis that the body and blood of Christ are | 8. Ely : sscramentally and really (riot feignediy) present, where | Mr. Ely, pastor of Grace Presbyterian Church, has the blessed bread snd wine are teken by the faithful | resigned. His letter is a model of frankness, or elseit communicants; and as true it is, also, that they are ‘not present but only when the hallowed elements ara so taken, as in another work’ (the History of Papal ‘Transubstentistion) I have more at large declared, ‘Therefore, whovocver so recelveth them, st that time | an when he receiveth them, rightly do revorence his Savior there’ togethe the mental bread and cup, exhibiting Hie own body and blood unto them. Yet becsuae that body and blood ix neither sensibiy present (nor otherwise at ali present, Dut only to them that are duly prepared to’ receive them, and in the very act of receiving them and the | of consecrated elements together to which they aro sacra- mentally in that sct united) the adoration is then and there given to Christ, neither is nor ougitt to be di- rected to any external scnsibis object, such as are the blessed elements. Hero, then, Bishop Andrewes, Bishop Cosin, Dr. Craik, and Dr. De Koven, announces cer- tain doctrine concerning the Eucharist. This doctrine is essentially one and the same in them all, viz.: (1) ‘Tho real, spiritual, objective, per- sonal Pregonce of Christ in the Encharist, as wil our spiritaal food and sustenance in that Sacra- ment ; and (2) the adoration of Chriet 2s thus present; but (8) not the adoration of the blessed elemonts. Dr. Craik asserts this doc- trine twice over, once in his own words, snd once in thosa of Bishop Cosin. Bishop Andrewes' formula implies what_Dr. Ue Koven’s expresses 5 ** Sacramental Union " by consecration of | or: ¥ the elements. . Bishop Cosin asserts this ‘‘sac- ramentai union,” but only in the act of worthy reception. _ Dr. Craik ‘donies the “‘ union” alto- gether. But whether this ‘Personal Presence of Christ which is to be adored” be in sacra- apart from them, isa non-essential circumstance; for the Presence, the Worship, and the Caveat, are one and the game in the case of each one of theso Bishops and Doctors; and if thie doctrine be ‘‘a doctrine leading to idolatry” in the case of one, it must be in the case of them all, in- cluding Dr. Craik himself. put this doctrine is easily traced back through th6 Anglican Bishops and Doctors to the early Vathera from whom (as shown above) thay ex- preesly dorived it, in their conflict with the Ro- man Cardinala. Beyond all question (as demon- strated in tho judgments delivered in tho case), isa aly rebuke st Grace toned orthodoxy. In bi&ding adiew to his people, he ‘says that the part he took in the trial Swing for heresy incited a party in aig eh good men. are doing good service, Let their faithfaine recognized and mentioned with praise. Others still have been obliged to withdraw from i the ureh for ita want of high- gf David mesh to opposition, dia withdrawal is « rewuit, ? We are sorry that Brother Ely bas in any way brought down trouble upon his head by his valiant de- fense of the faith, He fought. good fight. Ho was earnest, and eloquent, and brave. : Row, inasmush as the troubles of Mr, Ely have de- acended to bim by way of. our “ambi; ity * and Ick apauga we should love to offer .Dr. Hurd discusses the problem, What todo ith the unemployed ministers, of woom he says: ‘Many of these men have grown old in the service, ‘They have, in their day, been succesefnl workers, and they are, a3 they ought to be, honored and loved by all Sofar aa their names are concerned, the mes & roll of ing, editorial ‘hove various yortions they ens be active service in ministry at the stern bidding of physical disease, sympath; ‘They are, therefore, entitled to the general 7 which which they receive, And perhaps there area few, who, mental union with the consecrated emblems, or | havin; froin the ment, because they have come to believe, with good resson, that the preaching of the Gospel is not their learned wisdom by -experience, have turned toons or another secular employ- vocation. Let all such persons, too, bs han- Bred, for they deserve to be. The Standard invokes increased support for home misaions, calling especial attention to the Chinamen on the Pacific Coast, the negroes in the South, and the Germans, Scandinavians, French, and Spanish of. our own land, the infln- ence of whose evangelization will be felt in Europe, “The Religion of Jobn Stuart Mill” is the this doctrine has prescriptive right to be held by } subject of su editorial in the Standard, which any in the Church who may choose to hold it, the samo as all the rest of the Dubia. And, if held by Bishops and Doctors in the English Church, and by the early Fathers, assuredly here intbe American Church we connot, with noy right or reason, stigmatize it as “error in re- ligion,” and make it the cause for batring any ono from the Episcopate. Thoprinciple bere in- volved was asserted and honored in the Gorham case. Lheve said that the Dubia have no right to come in and order anything in tlie doctrine, Ian- gange, and ritual of the Church. In our lato General Conyentiov, at the final settlement of | do: “the Canon on Ritual,” Dr. De Koven declared finds that what Mr. Mill admits in his ‘ Essays in Religion” is very important in its bearing ‘upon all the questions he has considered. actly for this reason that a religion, and a hope for the future, are of such immense moment to the race, oven a3 respects their present condi- tion, it becomes well-nigh certain that some- where, and in some way, there must bave been fornished to men a means of sure knowledge upon thesa subjects, more reliable and moro conclusive than anything found: in nature or in life, His whole argument shows, besides, how true it remains to this day that the world by wis- “Bx 7m knows not God.” ‘The same psper condemns the practice of: himself in perfect accord with the provisions of | “treating” as useless, valeur, and permcions this canon in thomeclyes considered, and said expressly that, if he voted against the canon, it would be solely on constitutional grounds. This objection, as I believe, was a valid one, which in | in due time will so be recognized by the Cnurch. | We But Dr. Do Kovon's whole course in the case of | ful this canon shows unmistakebly that, consciously | cit or unconsciously, he recognizes the supreme au- thority of the Primaria to order all things in the ritual, as well as in the language of tho Church—that be wouldnoi ask for Liscwa Dubia what he would deny to the Gorham Dubia, viz.: custom, and hopes Mr. O’Hair will get his bill through the ‘Legislature, aa the practice: of treating ‘brings upon a social level men who, character and conduct. are greatly beneath ns, ‘o saw quite s fine-looking gentleman beanti- ily humbied the other day in the streets of the y- He was smoking what wos doubtless a city highly-fisvored * Havana,’ when he was suddenly stopped by @ very mussy, vulgar-looking indi- vidual, who, with the fragment ‘of. an expired cigar in bis hand, asked for ‘a light.’ The scone ‘Was amusing, 35 well as instructive, as these two the right to constract the doctrine, language, | characters confronted ¢ach other, their lips al- and-ritual of the sacraments. On the contrary, most mecting. But the code of ‘treating’ ap- he was well content with the ritual already es- | plied in the cese, and our mussy-looking friond tablished:by the Primaria. in the protest against Dr. De Koven, they are went on hig. way rojoicing in his berro: ‘As for the other matters charged or insinuated | light.” is ens red THE NEW COVENANT, only flourishes, embollishments, apparently in- | speaking of the Beecher trial, says: “The di tended for political effect, and are utterly ground- | fense bere a gigantic for ee them to se Imsy not myself hold either the Gorbam or the Bennett Dutia. Considered on their merits and as debatable matters, I may be willing to take up arms against them. But I will not take up armd against the men who hold them; for they ara under the Church's protection, and I cannot fight them without fighting the Charch— without making myself s rebel, and defying the Church's Iaw. On the contrary, if I may, I will to the last defend the men and vote for them. lieve themseives of the great burden heaped upon them bythe witnesses thus far, but we trust they will be able to do it if they have trath on their side, but confess that, as the matir now alsods, we have little hope that they will succee : nes PERSONAL. GHICAGO AND VICINtTY. a The Rev. David Harris, of Columbus, 0., is By every obligation of right," truth, and duty, I | Visiting friends in the city, am commanded to do this; and, the Lora being The Ber. Mr. Esylias, of the Baptist Church my helper, 80 I will do to my finet apne at Hyde Park, bas resigned his charge. pe ea if Dr. Jatkins held quarterly meeting atthe Oak- HARRY. MOORHOUSE, land M. E. Church last Sabbath morning. SOMETHING ADOUT THE YOUNG EVANGELIST. Harry Moorhouse, the young ovangelist, is to hold a series of meztings in Chicago this week. Ho bas been laboring with great success in tho Eastern citieé. In Philadelphia no hall or cburch was large enongh to hold the crowds that The Rev. J. J. Irving bas accepted the call'to the Western ‘Avenvo Baptist Churob. ‘The Independent says “ there seems to be little doubt that Dr. Da Koven will be confirmed.” .H. Burchard bes resigned the pastor ‘Tho Te ato of the Paptist Charch at Lawndale, near this went to hear him; a Dr, Shaw’s churab, Roch- -eMty. ester, N. Y., there were several hundred copvar- dons; and in other cities: similar interest was ha B Bey. i, 2M. Path urst Ieotures on ‘India asi ae Lockport, Hit, Marck etnse of 1; and at Plainfield, UL, March 2, a1 “Chios and Japan.” Tho Rev. Dr. Post last week was considerably injured by a fall, bat has recovered aru! is on duty again. - : > ’ The Rev. 3. Gilbert has prepared a schedule of prayer-meeting topics two months alucad, for hia Church at Winnetki The Rev. Dr. “Pe 5, Goodspend ia at Saratoga Springs, and encouraging reports cet returning: ic health havo been Tecate . The Rev. C, LeThompaon will lecture in the Joferson Park Presbyterian Church March 9, on “Nerves snd Nervous Peoplo.” The Rev. George O. Noyes’ resideres narrowly escaped being cousuted by fireSunés y. morning. Tho house adjoining was burned. ih ‘Tho Rev. W. H. Milburn, tho blird prescher, will supply Teinity Eniscopal Church at Chicago for the remainder of the winter. The Rey. Dr. W. H.. Cooper, me of the Methodist missionaries to Mexico, iq to return te Chicago next month. III health is sitid to ba tha” reason of his leaving atexico. ‘The Louisville Courrer-Je@rnal_e:eys that the meeting of Messrs: Whittle and Bliss, one day lat wees, was tho largest essemblage of people ever held in Louisville in a building. : The ranks of lay preachers have rnceiyed an acquisition in the person and“ talents of Mr. J, H. Cole, of this city, who is now isborng iz Baraboo, Wis., where his offorts as a. revivalist have been crowned with marked sucesse. The Rev. E. Catison, of Chicago, has accepted acallto the Lutheran oburch at Andover, Ill. ‘This is the firat Swedish Lutheran Chairch in the ‘United States established since the settlement of the Swedes on the Delaware. The church edifice waa built about ‘twenty-five years ago, Jenny Lind makiog a donation to it. -”; ELSEWHIRE. ' The Rey. Mr. Start ia the pastor of a new. church at Melrose, Mass. Au auspicious name. Bishop Whipple, of Minnesota, isin ill health, and has been advised to seak 2 milder climate. Tho Inte Henry S. Stout, of Philacielphia, be- queathed $76,100 for religious and charitaple ~nBe3. Miss Lorenzo Hayes has just been ordained as pastor of the Universalist Chuych in Hal-- Jowell, fe, Moody and Sankey are to commence their work in London March 1. They expect to devote four - months to the metropolis. Tho Rev. David I. Jones, of Bicl.ean County,” Ky., bas given up the Baptist Chureb, and an- noupceed himself a Universalist. : The Rev. O. Witherahow, of Buffalo, N. Y., has becn called to the Rectorship of the St, Paal's Episcopal Church in Cinslonati. The Rev. Dr. Naylor, of Meridian Street Methodist Church, Indianapolis, will soon leave to take charge of a congregation in Battimore. The Rev. J.J, Kain, of Harper's Ferry, ¥: has been appointed Bishop of the ‘Diocese of Wheeling, in placa of tho Right Rev. Whelan, ’ lately deceased. ‘ 3 Dr. Jagger, in leaving his parish in’ Philadel. phis to accept the Episcopate of Northern Onio, surrendered a salary double that which he will. receive as Bishop. e Dr. Curry, editor of the Christian Auvooate, expresses his opinion that there should be fewer Presiding Elders in the Methodist Church, and that they should be elected by ballot. : ‘Tho Rey. William 8. Spiers has resigned the worship of Grace Episcopal Church, Canton, Mi and accepted an election to Christ Chyzch, Ottawa, Il, and has entered upon hia dutfes ag the latter place. . Bugs Smiley haa been giving afternoon Bible- readings in Cmcinnati, besides prosching each evoning, and in the forenoon mesting mivisters and others who desired to conversa with Her ou themes pertainiog to general Christian sad” Church work. No montion is made of ber man- ner of spending the rest of her time. ‘The Rev. Enoch Williams, of Locixport, N. ¥., au aged Mothodist clergyman, died recently at the residence of his daughter in Pendieton, Ni- County. He bad preached and lectured in all parts of the State, and the Lockport Journal claims that he was the first person who geamet- , tically iHustrated the moon’s motion aronnd the @ J, A. Hopkins, D. D., the father, it may be said, of American Ritualism, who wrote a letter the other day urging the eonfirmatyon by the Bishops of the election of Dr. Ji » 82 ex- treme Low Churchman, as Bishop Southern Ohio, is the same man who few years ago boasted that ‘the last Low Gears a bad been elected.” His father, Bishop Hopkins, it will be remembered, published one book to prove that the Pope was Antichrist, and then: another in recantation of it. —e—s FS CHURCH MISCELLANY. AY HOME. Three were baptized by the pastor of the Ans tin Baptist Church last Sunday evening. Sixteen conversions are reported as having oo- curred at the Fulton Strecst M. E. Church last Sabbath. The Grart Place M. E. Church has organized & woelity teachers’ Bible meeting, which meets on Saturday evening, The Methodist ministers continued their die cussion of the missionary work, last Monday. “German Missions" was the theme for the morning, snd much interest was manifested. The same subject is continued until next Mon day, and will be opened by M. M. Parkhurst. ‘It ig commonly reported that the congregation known as the “‘Chureb of the Holy Commun. ion,” on South Dearborn street in this city, will very shortly change tbsir location of worship to Indiana avenue, having rented the place known asthe Murray Chapel, which will be converted into an Episcopat church, under the ministry of the Rev. W. Herbert Smythe. js It is expected that a Presbyterian Charch will be organized at Lawndale, within three weeks. At ig also proposed to commence the erection of as church edifice next spring. The oney for this purpose will be secured on the ground. Preaching is now held every Sunday im Milisra | paaiDeckera Hall, at 3p. m., by the Bev. G. M. ir. ‘* The revival in the Reunion Preabyterian Church continues with uvabated interest. About seventy conversions are reported, and aS many more who zre seeking Christ. The pastor, the Rev. J. H. Walker, is assisted by Cayt. Kitwood and others. Meetings have been held every evening this week. This is the most remarkable revival which this church ever.en- joyved. A Sunday-school was established Ingt_ summer in tho Lake View Town-Hall, which has been §towing in influence and usefulness, aad is now in a highly prosperous condition. A number of gentlemen from Fullerton Avenue Church a tend as teachers every Sunday afternoon. From ~ this point these faithful workers go to the Ma- rine Hospital, where they hold a meeting every Sunday at 6 p.m. _ The Aliance ia reminded of the success of our city miesion work, this week, by the fact that ine new Railroad Mission Chapel, recently erected at &n expense of $30,060, on State street, just-south of Fourteenth, is having some of ita rooma en- larged. ‘This miasion began saveral years since * in a railway car, under the supervision of Father Kent, who has given it his timo aud tabsnt from “ that day to this. Though now over 70: yeace of * age, he is eaid to be as busy as a manof 40. Dar ing the winter, meetings have been held with great frequency, which have resulted in a large purser of Sonversicue, Mr. Biack, sae of par city lawyers, bas done the preaching, it been well done. The school is in charge of J. K. Stearn, and is supported by the First Preaby-. terian Church. Its rapid and continued growth shove what can be dono by our churches in this irection. Ri ABROAD, ‘Horge Pride” was the subject of a recent Sermon in Detroit, bythe Rev. Mr. Patterson, the Evangelist. : . : A remarkable religious revival is reported at Leavenworth, Kan., in which all the churches havo participated. i There are fifty Missionary Societies in the - United States, whose annual expenditure reaches * the sum of $6,000,000. “To the Kingdom of Belgium there are at pree- ent 4,000 monks and 17,100 uuns, 178 monaste- Ties and 1,144 nunneries. Acolored woman vamed Amanda Smith is ae sisting in » rovival in 2 New York City Methodist Ch snd with pronounced euccess. ‘According to Bishop Janes, thers are now es many Metbodiats in Africs, China, aud Indisas . there were in this country 100 years ago. There are twenty-two Baptist churches among the Scandinavians in Minnesota. ‘The Scandina- . Tian population in that State numbers 120,000. —_: Euehd Avenue Presbyterian Church, Cleve- land, O., bas given a mmanimous call tothe Rev. ae Jeffers, now Profescor in Wooster Univer ca 5 ¢ The Milwaukee nunnery recently brought two hibel suits against the GhrisHan Bidicerat cae ? ter damages, ‘and the’ other a ariminal adileg. ”