Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 18, 1875, Page 2

THE CINICAGO TRIBUN wonnd of Ourist's Chiroh > Wo have th of tho aonzesil ther will bn chieerfuily made. the agaa liko & range of everlaating hil Jioanon eannnt ascond abave them; it cannot dig hrneath them : and (¢ is abyolutely pawerions 10 remove them ; it onis shown the wenkans of its lopic, and tie nuaonndu wlhen it denies their exietonce, of adistingnished writer, [ would hinre onimorats phenomena which canfron: the phi- iationa/iam AL svery turn, ¢ then, is tho 1eano which the wasering discipia is bound aeriounly to conmder. Takiog mto so- count the varivus queations whote anavors, on the ono side or thie other, form the =um tual of or mgeinat the claana of the —tho yrenuiness and nuthentleity onta : the fndgaiant and gool fatth 8; tha Loutimony to the actnal one enrrence of prophecies and miraclos, &ad thar emalinees of Lpiscopatiane, that nuetz-tine hundicdths of the wholo baly of Christians, A srom tho earhiest agesto thn piesont day, have | of Ingland nndoubtedly been Episeoral dn form, | wo shou'd nat. ‘There ara now 350,000,000 of nommnal | samo to this day.® Ciristiang on the earth. Of thoso, 300,000,- I ara Eplecopa'ians, ns by Jate au- | said, thoritative tatles. Thrao wnd & half miilions | wor be hava been Laptized 18 Clivists nama, aul 5,000, H10 of them by miniacern o:duined by 1 ahop3, | not renounso communion w Thern are 900,000 of Protostants and 87,009, | Fgland.” 100 nre Eptacopahiang. Ou® of the 10,000,609 not | who attend on our preachiog, to attond tha ‘mns 20,000,000 have adopted the Eps- ?fldrun tho praat 8 trines and theic trao faith, throaga (in_many ‘nu—.rh less onr duty) fo ssparate from It re8 ecig) a very pragiical and catholio Fpiaco- t 24 nacy, carriod tue Gompol b0 mora than any otlior |, dons Agninst & Soparation, choireh of Christ among na, The Waldensoans, |'**'Cheso o althingh tosing tho histoucal conddnmity of the | and I Lenh Episco aoy, still rotaln tho vriuclple, Cuarios Wealey 11701y roanons n, »” lhl{ (?hurlch Kl’,f Eagl t to tho Epjecopnl Church) have occurrad | ** Wbom I oxhiorta \:ur'nv;l‘l'.’h '?‘hu ll‘\"urrxlv)hlnn Chuieh, lu | *Lrolatod what I had dono, and what 1 wonid nth century, commencing asCoagrasa- | 40 1 timo to come,—put & to) ho fiftovath century becamo Episcopul, | tho time of Chureh sarvigo. ery of | clearer aud oleare, [ they keap to th i Church separates 1ro: Iadvieed all ov eun of I8 plilasophs, In thn langiago i evidencor, for Christian faith, Epacopal copa! principla. whioh they aro connc~ted: tha chaiacter of the Teachor Himself: that one portrait wiieh, in its perfect purity, and holicss, and boan atanda alone aud tnanproached in hnman bis- tory or buman fiction ; thoes righta and care- monies of tho older law, ro significant a8 ¢ypical of Chilit, so strange and moanincless withont Him ; those predict-ansof tao pronised Mossiab, whosa obvious meaning te rendered still more manifost by tho futilo ingeniuity which séiivos to pervert thom: thn history of tho riso and prog- Tesa of Christianity, and its compnrison with that of othsr religinns;: tuo abille Luman means to bring abont t] it sctunlly sccomplished : {8 autagonism to ¢ho currant [deas of tho ago aud countey of fie origin ¢ its Bffccts aa m esatem on the moral and social condition of subsequont penerations of mankiod: ita fitness to eatisfy the wants and coosois the suferinga of Laman nature; (he character of thosu by whon it was firet promul- the sufferings which their convictions ; the ¢ AL i 5 ! q Eplacopate, Luinar havo gradually alopte: HZmMJ’.n.m i | fron vurk, and 11,003,092 in Drussis, with its 490 | 1703, Dustese, | g s efnio e O bese changos ocourred nud their charches | * sianding that alinost all the gupbas Shngen odatreedl il thate ShToies. | b advico of Mi. —, hal lofl y, d I ontneatiy eshartea them (o return to it. 1773, ©* Wy insortad in the verv first rulos of our Hosety: +They that leavo the Clicel, Laavo us,' Ihis wo dit vat asa naoiut of pradouca, but Dot of conyeieurs," fram tho Gineeli; T boli ! do so. or laability of results whick —=b.H 10 dabyy, lihertas: in vwinbad, variias encen in opinloa and ceromanies and 0ot mike | thom oithior the hatzes of & party or & wacty by | basing tho Church frso £y net wholle wion the | braadand compicheneive tormulnties’ uf the Taith acknowvledzod by ali; broad ennugli to eim- braca tha doscondants ot Putitans and Cavaliers, of Dutch sud [eiok, of Tngil<h aui L iy i a0 on 3 ey d by Rk ol -esdsy. St undge | pointument tha wame hour, bocausa I love the ud tho primitive disol- | Sbarch of Engioud, 3 1008 Awesicen, i, all I e, a0 hasieu thi uuton of onr ohurehes by | Rev. T K aitosted the sincerity aontradictiona nd the {nadoquacy of alt theories of unbeliof ; 0 explalu - th of them combined t which thev are bound to uccount, id simlinr quesitons into full conaldsra- \te you prepaced to aflirm, the whola {nquirv, that an impostor, Sgmont, aad hin disoi a3 the result of Jesus of Nnzaroih was entbusiast, or a mn thical ples crafty and designing, -meaniog but deluded men? For, be a3- nothing short of tuls i tho conciu- ust maintain if you reject ono f tho whols doctilue of Clini-t. 1ther 1Te way what he nrofeassd Himself to b, ~ihe incarnate Bon of God, the Divine Navior ol.a fa'len world, ond, It Giod's ravolatio He has joined loaven then ecouor dITIIiD;‘l wi :hnnmu‘lluk’ad for unfi)‘. & uniy not vacched ap bue agazht for upon the Al ity uBte | Stales ocat lome, id f20l, & nity porfectly cousst glary of the peopl caited Mcthodists, P:atsiois they will not son- 1739. 1In this yoar, just +80 yorus bofoco bie death, Lio wrate 83ven moars % froin the Usarch, I Liave boan nuifuri, both 1o doc tor shove tucso fivey yoars ; aud lato for s to turn i 1791, Wesler, on ** Wa thauk Tnae, O Lord, for theso and all Fuv matcios. linss the Church grant uy truth aud | tist, our Lord, for over au alon which vou m ot or ona tittlo o basis of truth ent with eo!f-respest, & nuity wooured by come mon consont to go back Lo putiods nntedating the maileru strifaand todrink of tho ture watsis of Lrnth nearoet to the foantain-apring. ! My dvar Iiwhop, you nn.-y;m)llu o,lmn‘k(zhm:nwa ' reasIn do uot pro; erly appreciate the Mothodi<te, What Fradrtie prevend s s Ao | Al islplino, wa both toba kapt irom dbing our duty by renson A of o Infirmite ¢ ox Dotk o witd | path, uow I am grag-hioded.” that you nre mistalsu. Your ways are genoraily | bisdoxti-bed, said: very churchly according to our atandaed, vour | santiments ‘aro excoedmgly Catholie, your ** ameny " much more satisfasiory than onrs at times, your sacramontdl servicos very solemn, Your fuste ofton very taithfully obsarved. vour > 3 shap, dovotion very g.eat, and our Lpisco- | PR of your onn.nuvication rogimen” and the subtssion of | 1988, in vindicating the wrati of the cleruy to 1t very Catholle. Toon thoo ia | teution may Lu diawn from th wucli asintliness among yon, & full harsost of Christian graces nd i do.ng ot the real woris of : it | 8 trie Catuglie Clhurch, Tust (s things aro | 18 ““'.‘""‘i' that whon tho fliat Lyine with you aud us, aud that the hearts of oar poo- | (0f the Unitol States) visitad g ple gonerady aro touly Catholic, bolouzing to | 36eratiun, bo cailed o tho each other tu epirit, in lifo, and 1o fecling, 1 a | Who advised Liw to apply to reasun why our Clsurch, 1 somo rodieots maim- ed, should bocome whullv Catholio aud firm- | D1y, Iy umted ua fa primtava daye, ¢ I regrot, my dear Diwhop, that your Jing | Disiop. optunism leads you to underrrio the evils of h division, Stand 'on heathon soll, coufranting | UF diarios of oithur Iish millions of idolaters, sud hesr Dr, Livingston | Wh0 wera thy prieats 1 entreut -ull cladses of Christians to bo reconcilod | 33 from Amarica. to onch uther and prosent & united visivle frout X to the cuemy, Th’n very hoathon rebuke us, In | fhore is no ovidesco of thna charaetar, por tho Shanghai theio ere no less thau ton distinet m.s<jonary organizations, Why should not the x o7y heathen gay: © Acreo amorg yonreolves, and | 3uch a8 tars must huve oeou bolwasn White amd then como to us with vour one chiurch *? llere tho Romani-ts have the advantswe, < How fa it at liome? [n the villiges of the | period. Weet. uud £t too. wo find Lhe various churches | Deou impaded upun 1n balf ifled, palf aupported, aud jealans of eact ather, dragging upon mitssonary vocletfes, and bamnge their yery anpeals for aid on matives of sivalry. Uus clinrels woutd hold ail, leaving men and meany for wasie flelds. Tho wacts of men, and moucy, and mogals br thess divinjona s dimply enormous, and would no: for a moment bo tolerated in onr worldly mattara, Tho gond sonwof e peopls would bring it to a qatcs ond. ! Dat by onr wane of unity we are losing the | i (b mattery Do y Divine bies-fug n labors for euvangelizing the record of it in auy 3, worll. Tike rival clans—united, 88 vou iodeat | Do vou not #1id, my Bistinn, agstust o common fge, bat car- rylug on o warfere each in hin own way, and ;m- praviag every opportuuity for privaze sair.ishes with each other. Tha old sumle of yarious hodies of Cbristians as only 80 many rogimenia | Church of Gud, and, ua of the kamo army will vot do, for, wers tioro vo | Wan a grea: lovar of ths mora uuity among tha rogiments of a brigado | binturio wivistry, 1370 is 8moig aects of Curiatian, God | history, blp the General, the army, and the cause. Tho | battlo of tue age 80, wo may not divido 0 and daro o part asander what togothor,—or the eivilizod world for more thau cightean oenturios has boon du- luded by a ouuningly-devised fable; and Ho from whom that fanin camo bas turnod the warld from darknoss to ligtt. from ¥atau to God, with a lie 10 his right baud," For these undeniaile factw, whichno aophistry ©an expunga from the historv of tho Christian religion, aud which no suutle, sprealative theo- vade, I nould suk Judge Booih to ao- count on ratlonn {etic principles, » hich dény that Clirind f3 risen, aud by that devinl stamp the wholo Avatem of Cluisusnity as a moostrows dolusion It 1o “is rison, the thoury of la- tionaiism (s domonstrated to bo falsa; if He fy ol rigen, thore is n. thing trus in all the nuna's v, And if Christ pever roso trom the dend, and His re'igion Is & d-lusion and o cuuninglv-dovised frand, tha phenomona of its A far moro oxplioablo ined Jurist to solve thay though he accopted tlio idoa of tho wupernatural, sod adwitted the fact of the Havior's resurrece It this thenry v correct, have Lbe strangn snomaly of snd not omly if we do not ? af sacred histary. history still remains problem for the loa; realized [rom any system undor heaven. A sys- uiny, born in falaehood, lon,—all of which 18 true if Clriat bo not rison,—and yet such frnts aa ** love, penso, jov, ronlleness, yoodnoss, maeckness, tenmerauco, full of merey and good fruite, without partiality and witliout hyj ocriny,” is ot once the mostivrativual, unph:lenoniieal, and yn- matural theory that ever inauliod 1ho common sente and sober reason of inteleant beings. Ratiopalism in its maa frenzy marders rewson itaelf, 1n the sesumption of much a theore. [ toll you, mv in:otlren, tho faith of the Chrintinn resla on oo feundation of wrnd, folloxs “no enaningly makes known tha pawor a Jowus Gbrist. It 18 nprortes evidénce, phicnnmenal, historie, then cen be pradnead 1 coull fact fo seionee, nn any evont o history. tom concoisod it bianph sod aradlad in - decopti of Curtinnity brineing forth lovg-suftering, devissd fables,” as it ind eonting of our Lord d by Bya~terarray of 2nd sxparimantal, irinapion of soy y theory in philosophy, or Mithens have baen com- forted In death iy the Goztiine of * Jasan avg sud millions mora to-day 0 r1ve un that glurions tra:h rablem of hui the Resurection,” wouid die rathor thai which salvas tho | roveals o blessed 1mener us Druthren, be ve stead- ahounding in the work 840 now that yonr Lord.," My hearera, man spoil you through ccolt after (ba tradition of mon, sfter the yudimonts o the world, aud not Aud :uv the God ot peace that Ain foom the dead our Lora Jeaun, bherd of the shoap, throngh the X covennnt, make yon Rood worl to do His wiil, work- v whioti {s wel pleasing in Ils 8 Christ our Lord. fant, immovab of the Lord, foramnuc Jubor is not i vam in the “Bosara!l lost any philosaphy and varu ¢ than the wo:ld while straggling and divconnacte we not the same Word, the came Huint, men ot | martyr-courags, more motey for isions, | lion 1 spoadior traval, tho ald of the press, moro pro. | lishop™? tection, and suporatitions tottering to dacay, and | L8t nob’ sur, also more mature (luistiamity# Why httle suc- | Wenlos, cosn? Our charches aro divided. Tho oarlv not. No new churct was =ot un at heassaary, o3 Bishiop Huaburs's ardinadion was Tho united eiureh proacnol tho | recoznived by the Church of Englaud, snd. by whole watld, era tho lagt Apostlo | M84 roady to urdata auy Mothol to euter Into wympazhotio ¢ 50 that Joha Wesley did ho everlaatin, erloct 10 evory wight, throngh Jesus church wau ovory v ia; Gonpel to t gk them? Is b not strao, How at homa? Whoro ara our candidates for ‘ ihe saliabin s Ah} e '1'"“""3"“'"1‘1” dividing | D0t tuen daclaro to Lis brother that Lo hlmmolt more andwiore ¢ [ufidelity aud fnsubordination f S frigbsfully on tho incredse? Corrup ion un- | O eciully when Juarles roacbeid? I theromo Achian in thecamp? Do T R et il vl on ity | LI, Ml Weal conyort us to cach otber beforo tho worid b can bs converted, Do you reoifloct tho | Madeso by tauoting yeply ol the a!dor Adama whan sskod to contribiito to fuseign mirsions ¥ Haid hes ** Jlote aio four ar five churches n oar Litie villago whose ministers aud mombors cknnat comuuue Or worelilp tog2ther, nor nearceis speak Lo onch other ; go, aud convart them to Christ, aed thoy | spread tps Guspel abroad,” It 18 vain to wiv that we aro all oue i though not iu outward furin, for if oua in spint, wo shuuld ba oo i churob-followsbip, nur ~ai We ever bo truly one mn epirit_nutil 1 oubwaid relatiouabip we aro ona. Iodeed, the unity AP 100D lmu-hfloo dlfie‘rgnl ru'lllgnou;i budlc:, :ll wiangling nbout somioihiug, ail professing to ba b Courlie, Le tho maockery of chat vty ou Lovq | bim 10 Auoricu CHURCH UNITY. LEPLY TO BISHOP HAVLY, Tae Tomise potliched a week oga Sunday the prenmivmy portion of o lotter iu roply ta Bishop Duven's communleution discouraging tha propossd unlon of the Eplacopal and Methodist Chutches, Tho remaluder of the letter, whicly discussen Wi grest fuliuese tho Poiuty raised Ly the Iisbop, is as tollows : My good Yishop, you adum that at tho Donn Conferenca the Graek members objoatad to the Anglican ordioations a lrregular, rend the procecdings, 0ld Cstholica to reply to of the Homan Catholica Butisfled before, thoy (1 maro ully able (o reply to Romisl Inthe journat of var luet Gun, you will find that friendly {ntere twoen our Churoh aud the Grool that tho Greok Churoh sbould doy what then ? Seoking tho uulon of we should prosent the facts, and Ing to abide by the decision of ai communion counference, and convinced i thore was suy detect we should the misrepressutationn 4 ta Anglican ordors, ku) wers thug b inslnuations, eral Convantion €onree exists he- would be witl. ny such jotor- quent Unitarisn, cews the prat want of onr churchea, sud nution, whon Lo says * that the dacay of faith in historieal Chrlessauity and the Visiblo Cuurcd is at the rqut of tho ohief avils : of our country aud agu—thg thivg most to be | atill wdleriug 1o the dootriue Al dreaded aud segrouted 10 the tendencies of the | Chureh of Eugland, timey—tho chiof onumy of our pohbical, domos- | Mindaters to sdartu tie, and persunal bupjiucss." Clirc s Thie niore Protcatantism s rout nounder {ho Toiany Sise b, nd whars festor i ilio hopo of tho Ruman Catholios, | "ans,Cter Way of sutply Lo ftoman Catih i basten to reparr no degradation. Catholic Bynod, essoptial to porfoct Larnony, union, and | cummonion, theroe ala very fow of uy who beuitato nous a hypathaiioal 100rdtnaton, should deew the ugity of Chistoudon vory eantly seourod. the way for au Instaut If tha Orivntal Church, for ity imumgvable higotr, for its diaturbauce It doubted by pride waul uot be i for centiwiles famons ¥, far its quarrelsome- of alf Christendom wigh the Eastor coutraversy and lony- ened broad iy the Eucharst,—if i, Olfuin concesslons on pointy sa doar £ this very inatter of unleayoned broad, clares olvo tuat thsy rezard ag unimp rtant their polity sud” worsbip,—shall wa nat fool iat we aro put to shame by our divimons 7 40 wa louger make & atand n rituels and prac fested'y but from 100 to 807 yoars old, @ Groeke, witting fn the yo *nd oaimning that their Church Dged, and proviug the olaim, tuo, ouical couucils, yicld a0 trities suoh ay "Thitty-Year \ ast foro bLias never ohus much fur blessed unity You declure unioy im| nossible on tha basie pro ought ta be propossd lies wus tho neosssily ou uutil thoy realize that and begin to feel, both | b or thin divided enrrosponds Lo discern the way. b2 untl the two denlrablenesn o earuest wille will Tty domire fur univn wo et w t. [ can read a dwitu conpuer, I Dalisus think that | fubiillment of the diving { ry, Lyiscopalians) | be on Y iu the Churoh, o imagine, Wo mhy 14 be willing ta gy are catholic snd ot supgeas that tl tho wnion mustbo + and wot with them.” po? Burely uot 46 of unity we much more theu you very littlo, Wa shoul yory uame for ona Beutve, whicl would ©vet beeh auy divisiun, 18 uat Lo be cxnectod tha world should surreuder to um, mark aboud ** the sevarmnce of (e 3 d ask phraseclogy. I seek un!r sruth and unigy, CaUL0 {¥ Lo It what Jolin decisious of tus Univeral Charob, in wl 6 a8 many Cutholio practices as wmuch lesa to abaudon, Fulton, tho yreat Canouist of the Chur " 1can thiok of nothing Methodisle would be called upon Foudar, but of mavy things we should bs forced’ 10 b wishes." And do you supposa that Lesilats (o make Tejolce sven at auy Lanful kaciifice #dvice wil] 5 o Lo manded of J1at trash compe s me to add in regard to the 'ho Mathodists have, with thelr fooeroua doc- D this cannoction au | gorm in to our presant *xaion lot mo adtd that chnnges to Lpi<c ias nixtocu Distiops. Tho fall 1,000 in Sweaden aud Norw, adopting the motto: “In nocessurus, ux}:ln;; opening our ayes to sen and recodniao differ- ‘0 doetri to hinva our own shurcbes Cathiolic, aud atmies of the Cross wist vaver cn)m] L Wy aro our missions so unsuccesaful ? Havo rayed for, Ths Rov. Dr. Ballows, tho lesrned snd olo- monts aud diseim dur taatics, tho more united wibin, oc tho riats shounding i grester patii- | To & chugch and o otwm, accarding to tha number of 1ty diTersny | But n Wesley's bedchambe: Fhiaoities, with ity wany diTerent courts and | Mev. Charles 1 eslo n‘x\ ! lmvln'g”uplgnl’x’-. T8 nok aur piople Le.oning (ired of ten if Bishop Ery saoll WO Traginguta o rath g tend o e | & Dishion: oials? timyd ghost of & half-biried Claistianity jn- quining what it may beligva? [y not An‘ngflu yoaroig fur omoking that has @ history, s sud houd a codo of Litub w1l bustau the ruth good for alt timo, and even 48 We a16 on You take azoeption, my goud Minhiop, from the Churoh." I will conteud for o oy sluy meant ln the thpg I never Lad a overilicless, i opiie of all thay | iy 1l separats 30t 10 (hink nut one-bal, perasps uot § hesa will be 60 bold aud {n)udiclous s to foria s sepe 18 Hat opposiifon to theve, 1 declare onco ‘Iihomv vler, Shalund, and that uoae who regard my Judgment and | ubout by u up;;uk from i". Joun Wesrey, Lut me, 3 h a4 ho maant in bl sermou ou the | tendeyt st LR L0 your | ministerial ouice, that on Atlandiug the ministry -':p:;‘gl Wiat aa die urch, that on sobisu, aud tyas oo the Wealcy ar heaitaie to | Cathulio Bpiric, In the frat heaaids #1an and | Coke, to heal ouo | ever Liave bosd & minister aud membes of the | Nosdy America,” srate party, ors tuak Ilive snd die a mewber of (he Cburch of I meagt w 08 the C| which oxplaina the whole traneaction anpainted Dr. Qo bo jomt Buperintendonta over onr brothren (n North Amarica, Wonley dans not eay his * ore tlama uy s mindstey of the ** Ninstacn yoars ago, ads, thera waa n quon 1 In the aormon on attend Chureh, Joha Wasley sald, in n Confarenco Lioid st 1o tion whether washould raparate from the Chureh L and it was nnanimonaly Ppositions remain oxactly the moant what Jolin Wesley meaut whon ho 1361 ** Wa nelther ean ho better men, (ter Chrintinan, than b bors of the Chureh of Lugian 1717 *We contuunlly oxhort all tho Chyich,” 753, [n this year Mr, Weatey wratd his ** Roa- and in 1733 be saya: 1iave novor yo! 0 thoy never will be," of this traot: Yur saparating from a:d are mino also.” not to leave tha Church,"” 'r none will keop to ua. uatess Whoover noparatos 10 tho Mo hodisis," or whom I had wny in- to tha Chureh," "I dary mot separate uva i wonld bo u sin to Ihavce beon tiae ty my p ofossion from 1 *1 have na more 3 from tho Church than L 17498, **Whonever thero is W not approve of any ap- 1730 to thin darv.” thoazhit of kepur. i n i | bad torty ¥ oraos, of | A any Chers ud would saxiat, not oppose Thlw i3 taken from & letter Lo tho echorn Garras.a, of tho Muthodist o- n Ameriea, and el early shows that, i no yehing o bo dono to ngistd, whetler 1n the 1788, *“Lhis 15 thoe \uatan, , ¢hd Do anfrel appors of all manner of ura‘e from tho Ohaw agnnt doparal ) it ia a littta tao aud Kive, (hrnut:h Josus Chy ovar,' And now, my dear Ishop, 1 approach other b wich trambiung, { hisiory, our at- 6 mara to the less 11 en leavor to witte no word, imporian:, Yot deslars thas it dizg T Baoula wis Bisuop ol London, Vealey, Wil you hiudly furnisn Noue will refai~a mors than wudon regarded Wesloy as a 1o esldeaca of unv such ap- up of Landon iu the Jottars iops Seabury or White, rai eaking consecratlon Thera i8 1o ovidence of tlus of tio Bishon of London. that tha Bialiop of . phicadion to tha Biahy sort lu any papera remotost allusion to 1, in Mr. Wesley's juurnal, which was ever 83 minuto as to all couversatious \Wesley. Lu>re in no allnston to it by Cuka and Anbury, norin anv contemaora-y work of that bopa tat you have ot this regard, my deur #0mm0 praof is prosensed wo whall ‘vano WAL this 38 proof in WwA3 090r madde a Biwhop, uszht 10 bn not ¢ Gladly will we Bixhop. ba competled 0 dig tura thue Wasley 89 olso whut "o altogether **u historic o 48y ne" (\Wepley wrow the hawls of Frasnus, of Crete, c083? Do you lind auy in the rocords ol tha Gi1a recewved such ordmation pho Greele Bisnop <h the e:idores in thin such act sy performed ok Church, aver curaful 2u ind auy ventomporary ethod.st ook or journnl? think isurprising (f ¢roo) that John who miuntely recorded the tims and cir- as of uidordination to thedesconate aud d, uover even allnd an ovent aa tint which mada Wesloy, comatane nriesthoos ed ¢ 80 Impostant bim a Bishop 10 the you env, waon Wesloy blstoriz Chursh aud & *‘a deop rtudent of Ohureh ‘*knuning everv lino on which this tud boen fought,” **anxions this | to protect himsolt ugninse any chargo of Leing ; "3 kolter-up of strangs go.ls, the order and unicy of the bisf “thut of acparting from torfe Chareh,” and bad btinsalf boen rango, wlion Charlea 100 conducy in oic., painis 1t out a3 un- catmnienting on b.a brog setting wpurt elders, list prosoher, and bud beon conseeratod a Bishop by Erasmus, and 4 nuky, * Wharo are the poor Methoudiata nuw ¢ Onty & sect of 1 Would Joho Weslo T ithat be wasa Dishop {n tho Church of G ¥ Erusmus of Croto 7 Weesloy were coniocrated by a Greck 14 1L not singular thas the Greeks, who in teeaiving the advancus of the and wisind to Ge sure that its shauld not recogoize of Weuloy? Withouo muat wa beliove 18, be- maks Woaloy appurcotly Cako did ho claim and had receivad powor Lishop, todo a Bishop's ty, not authoaty If 3fr. Dinkiop, #ere so careful Lugtish Church, apostoliosl linoag their own aet in the oaso any avideuco wuutever ivit, | uausc to donbt it i to ! | inconsistent, Wi Weslay sont out Di, that ke wos a Bishoo, from Erasmus, or any and powor, Wesloy gave Dr, tho following lette, hie stylos tumaolf not o Thstop, but a 1%, of tho Church of Englun i Fo sll of whom tlcss Wenley, la aabyler of theCuurch o prosenta eiall come, John Linwolu Caileqe, f Baulind, greeung: Wh ko peaplo fn the Southern Frovince: w0 doalra o continuo nnd sr iy care, d diaelpline of the are groatly distresaed for waut of uter the Pacrawents of Laptism per, accordiug (o the usage of th thero dacs not ap) them with nidufste that 1, Johu_We e Revwo ways, In o uany | tobe provident filly ea‘led at this words, that gu inany disjoiuted, Gesultary forces | somu persuns for tiy work of the cau never Liold thoiw own auainst a tharoughly | And, thercfore, uuder the J, orguuized mud woll-discy, lined cliugelr, aud | God, and with & singio ey to His thurefora chinckion uver shusevee will divide aud duy rat Luart aa 8 nuparititenient, eic, sibdivida [votostantivm, Jlavo the Komun Wesloy oxnroasly tells Cutholicy lordonou. ¢ Schiller tolls wnin by | “ providentially callod, " ik, that the L'rotwstant causu waw | 104 appear Lo bo anv_othor and tho Lord's Bapp Dlease:d with some of {his luy yresc Yautige of it without saklpg his periuisalon, sud expelled (hem from (o Bocleiy, Chiarles, noro cou- st relised Lo recognlzo Joves gaa prieat, and counsquently to casnperate with im i the adminis- {ration of th sacrament, theruhy driving Lim out of tle Boctaly, Bat wo are not done. Now, what docs tha aceredited Metuodin bistorian, the Rev. Mr, “Lyerioan, kay It the Rov, Mr, Tyerman does not put thim Erasmus story forever at reat, nutbing can. T quote from pago 436, Volume 1L, of Tyerman's * Lifo and Times of Wealoy" : Erasmun, & Blshop of (ko Oreek Church, vislted London: and, ax it wau (mypoaritilo o obtsin’ordina~ tion for Ino Mtethodist frescliory frow thie Jisbope of the Engliah Chur:h, Iaight be expedient 10 anply to Erasmus to ordain Ay, doues, Erovious, bowsver, to doing this, Wesley foli 18 uecowsary to satiufy Limesl that Erastus was reale Jy.a Brhopi 1y uiv direction, reel timo' ta vel apart miulstry in Amerfea, lon of Almighty glory, X Bava this us what lie monns by becuuco (here does way of suppl 1u a lotter (rom ** Lris- only oignt diya after he addicssed & lettor Aubury, and our brethien ju in which, advorting to the Lo ways: *Ifany onp mil Beriptural way of oor shoop Io the Ve il cousoquenco of the atifa bo- | thom with ministors,” weon alyimicts and Luthetana? Do nut they | tol, dith Septomber, 1784," Loow that tho state of things threatsning to | lLie **luid hand dhvide every communion mot dwided alruady, | to ** Dr, Coke, Mr, sud ta separate othors ad intinitunt. st par- | North Auerica.” 128 Lrolauisut Christendom? Lo ot they slove taneaciion, UKL 8t our folly 1 aur pretonding shot 1y | point 01t % mra Futi more we dividu the tore muiritusl \re wre, a4 | fecding and RUINING theno though the more the army 18 regolved ato frag. | Wilderuass, I 15 wall gladly embrs ** imposition of hands " done ? the peaplo? No. ¥, bin brother, ohich be would asmue kind aver ny wrote the fol- nat baye wat- adolis brotuoe £astly are isiops made, [ 4 Cuku bathy = Ui on b 7o L at thoy langor, YUY | e ok e tumy ro- | Ls the Bishg thoiisty { whow too late, Hoabury was then congee P of Counectiont. Wesloy saw this lal | What s the tostimony of Dr. (v "I'he | who was meds Hupor upoutntles, Tmagng | In lus letter to Rishoy ¥ 't [3r, Weloy] balug 1 edition of bis Warke, Wikl the st courtetiong of | ou this sido oy ok Jre the author, Vol. xiit., p. 209, uiwadent by John W, te, Dr, Coko says: by our frienda e i sler l|ha ncnmchnuow ly design of separathng o, fow cloray of the Cburch o a0t | Quurch. T ave no sk dusign now, 1 g o oy LS | TV e Rk fho Methoduuts tn general dealgn it Whet 1 uma 1o ey botls | seon. [ du, and will do, ali In wy powes ta prevns suchan avest, N hich vau | 49, musny of them Yould bave gon n}:nnu lullow:d ! {z0m 14 (slthough thing about Erasmus ma! fiviny ut'nh:.;m. made, De. Coke does n iog, or Wesley being oo that Wesley n the leiters of au- tvles bimsell oot & Vishop, but m Fres. hLave seen that he eays not a word to Lo & Dishop, m apart as & Buperin. by ssiting lum ) 1o the lewer A4 & Buperinteudent ™ tio Bishop Cokse), nut to * Dy, our brethren in certificate, wr.uunla(luu, o ARtk iy foUlg lowing passgrepl, | woand Mr. Francim Asbury to but “appomted, ' and ho moant “ap- and not *ardained,” for tho snme word p:ointed " ia uend roapncting bith Coke amt Aubury, and Weeley did not ordain Asbury, for Ashury was thonin Americs, A8 ordina. tion was nék neosranry to gonstitute Axbury & Huporintendent, a0 it an not necossary to con- ntitute Coke one. Was not Wesley himsolf the Huperintendant of the dlathodist Howety in o= gland? And sas b ordained soit? Tharo fe no ovidonco that Wosloy evar * ordained " Dr. Uoke, In *‘appainting™ Dr, Coke, Wesley slmply Mid 1t in & mora formal mannor, ha being in s royms and Anbury away. Dutdid Wes- foy jutend, fa appointing ‘Coke and Asbury 8u- ierintendonts, to make thom Bishops? Leo, in e “Shert History," Rivos the nistory of tha uso of the tarm Bishops, In the minutss of thoir Couferanco, Mo shows that in the minntes of the Cinforence they wote called Bu- porintendunts from the firat foundation of the cihodist Church in 1784 ; aud the miteration ouly touk placo in 1787, “At the nexy Confor- ence 1t was maked of the preachers if the word Bisbop mighs stand in tha unnutos ;| woaiug that 1t wan a Sorlpturo uame, and the meaning of the word Bishop was the same with thas of Buperin- teudent.” Now, why s tho titlo Bishop givan ? Decauss Wealey Lad ordaiued thom ishiopa 7 No, It ho iutendent. Butmere: “Sowme of th #ppoaed the altoration, aud wished to retain the formar title (that of §: Jority of tho prenchora agrood so let ths word Dialop romaln, siud in the sumial minuces for the next yoar, the firet quostion in: * Wao aro the l\}&xshouu of our Churels for tho Uniled Siatas Now, action of this Confaronce? ioro 1 his TCaponsn 10 tho word Jliskiop weans Saper- raachors aprintendent), but & ma- ow afd Wealoy recosva the news of the Thoro iy, indeed, » wile differonce hetwaen the ro- Iatlon whicreln you stand fo the Amcricaus, snd tha relation” wlieralit I stand to all the Methodists, Yo are fho eldec brother of the Amarican Methodiste; 1 am, tinder Gol, tho father of the whole family, Tuerefore, 1 natiirally cace for gouall fu o othier yeraon cau do, Therefars T, in & mes ¥ids for you all; for tlie supplica which Dr, Cokd pro- Videa for'yon Lig could not provide were 1t nob for £, —wero it ol that I not only pecmit him to collect, bub suppott biot du ao dolug. B, fn onw polat, ny dear You anner 1o ire, pro- am A litle afrsid Loth (o Doctor and you om me, T stady to bo Hittle, you study ta bo creop, you siru’ along: I founnd school, you areat; a ccloge, Nuy, and eall ft after your own nanies, Oly, beware! 1)o not seck to be namulhlnf. Let mio 1o notbiug, and Chrlst Loail in wil. Ono [t ibls, your greatnesa, has given mogreat concern, How ez you, how duro you, sufler you,self (o be culled Bishop? 1 shndder, Latart, 6t the very thought. Thay ‘may call me & kna: ai ance of worafaal, ar A rasceal, a nd Lom coutent; hut they shall usver, hy t, call me s Bishop! Foe 1y sake, for for Chirist'n dake, put s full eod to this] nbyteriaun do what thos ploase, but leb the Afeibodlsta kuow thelr caliing betlor. This Jetter shows a chango lu Weslov's viaws from the views ho took upon reading King's book a8 to tho idontity of Presiyters and Disn- ona, ** Lot the Presbytoriaus do an thoy :loaes, but Iot tho Methodiats know thoir calling better.” Thatie, let the Dresbyterinns, if they pleaso, call themselvos Lishops. What can be plsauor ¢ Toatif, in Wenloy's judzmert, the impoaitinn of andy and prayer by n Preebyter did not coneiitute Asbury a Bishop, neithor coula they, in Weoley's jud¢mont, havy copstituted Coke & Bishop, for Cuke's nutbority to ordsiu was the sawo a8 Wesles's (which was no suthordy at all), both of‘them baing Irosbytors of tho Clurch ot Evglond ; and charefors it in proved cloarly aod undeotably that i: and Asbury ta ko * Supsrinte: Metiodist Socloty, Woaloy did not ordain them Bishio vy, o appointing Coke donts " “of the Now, what do we find in tho year 17807 At ons of the Conforonces, the fallowiug quostion was introduced in the anpusl mioutes: * Who ara thy flzrnuul thut exarciso tho Episcopal oillvo in ¢ Awmerica? Johu Wea'oy F:ancie Asbury, by regular order and *ucces - on.” D, Cuke 8aot Jotters to Bisliop White aud Biehop Beabury, aud William Wilbertoreo, Esg., in which Lo noiglt from the drst two conses tion of bimuelf aod Mr, Asbury ss ** Bishoo of tlul; Muthoaist Sucioly in the I'rotestant Epivoo- pal union of the two Churches, This was in 1701, Tienty-two yoars afierwards, in 1813, bs appliad to WM. Wilderforco to be made a Ihishop 1n Intia. Lhe lapse of tune did noy Mulml{ hiw that ho hiad over been mnde a Biehop. Pa mo, i passing, to romatk that the English Church and the Awmerican Bixhopa mada & griov- ous iistake that they did n.t make Asbury aud Colie Livhops 'and socurn a united Canren, al1o, that thers is nothing necessarily disoredsta- ablo fa Oulie's lottarn, bat viawed in tha hgat of subJoquant ovents thoy mauifeated a nobls hrart and a rar-socing mind, So also thare is perfect uprighioess, and Lonesty, and purs jove of God, in alt Wosley did. Thero wus not oven iucousistoncy. Thore was a.short time undoubt- odty whon Wesley was & convort to the ides of miviaterial panty, which ho undoubtediy aban- doned, But guring this porlod Lo certaiuly did not futend to make Bishovs, but Buparintend- cutd. Ooo theory of \ealey's apparont incon- ® stency roventy any ln‘y nttack upon bis integ- rity, whethier 1t cumen {1 copalians, o Mothodist Churoh in Eurvpe and Thouas Coke, nod uch i theae” Umted 8.at0s," and nre- rmit om Methosia or Epis- ou resdiug tho three lotters of Dr. Colio refocred to, 18 will bo manifest thac Dr. Coke does not i them olaim for a momeut to be Bis. op. His letter to Bichop Whito snows bat be excoeded the authority given bun by =~ 3ir. Wesley, aad tiat Mr. Wosloy dleapproved of ' his proceodings. Tu hiw lotter to Bishiop Benbury, ho euks lum to ordaiu him a **Bishop of tue )| othiodist Socioty," thureby acknowiedging that Weslay, whon ho ‘‘appowted” him s Bupormtendoent, did not ardain him o Bishop of that Bocioty. In bis lotter to Bishop Heabury, be asks 1hishop Heae burv to ordain Mr. Asbury a Dishup of the Methodist Hocioty. In his letter to Bisliop Sea- bury, agkivg for the admission of the Mathodint prouchers into tho Protestant Epscopal Church, Dr, Coke eage that bo knows shey wuyt xubmit to a raordination, 'Llisso lottors show, too, con- clus.vely, that whon Waaloy * appeiuted ™ Coke Suportuiendent of tho Mathodist Soaiety, bo did not **ordan™ him a Bishop of the Cireh of Qud. Te ray serve the cause of tiuth for mo tu siate that o wsual mode of *‘ordination smoug owr English Mothodist brethiren il ovon 1836 was that of “souling arart” wiih prayer, Lu that year (1836) snposition of hands wad introduoad. But what daes Wodgwood's Lifs of Wesley say? *Wealey molved the difficulty by taking Llo office of a Bihop upon lumself,” | do not aduwit that ho ever desigued to take the ofee of 4 Lighop, but the tantimony fs valuable as show- ing that no Mathodist bnstorian, evon at this Iato dav, clajms thut o was ever consecratod a Bishop, Now, what are the fuctu? Wedgwood's Life of Wesloy saya: Episcaral ordinstion was a grest need to the Wea- 'you proschers, and in 1763 Wes'oy obtatned ordinae wn for oo of his proscherd, Jout Joties, who was slcal teachor at Kingswoud ca100), fiom' & Bishop i L6 Areak Cliurch, who bappensd 15 s ju Engiand At tho fune, Yot this ste, » ovidently takon witli extromoly dis- 68 whio tovk ad- b occurred to Wosley thut it e wrote to the Kus d rocelved su so. feiop of Arcadia, in To this was added the testimony of savaral h of Hegyrua on the suhje geatlomen wiio Lad met the Kustern prelute jn Turkoy. Wesioy suys * by tind abundant, unexcoptiousble cra deutialy ay o biy Epiacopul chisacter.! Bring fully autizfed of thiv, Wealsy Tequiated bl 1o st apart Mr, Jonea to ossint ulm went o hie Bucletles, Frysmus did po; and matter had euded here, the thing would Lardly have devarvad further notice, ¥ nowever, that ous of th than soversl nibers apj! for tho vamo Eplacop, in Livyd's Evening 2% it for D ++Ta the article 1u thu pag ors 5 men betng ordained by a Im:'}\lr«l, & uiaster baker, And two ev ebrated Motho. . u uiwinlatering the Sacre- if the No_soouer was 1t known, tincrauls bad been ordained ed tu 1o good-natured Llshop opal favor, '“"'1'1"" wiug appesred 6 o throc tradoe. Bilop, uuother may rachers wado alsa an spplication 1o the samy Lo cousacrate ono ur Loth of thuin iaboy took Lol them {5 was coutraty Lo thy Fulo Lug g Lty Clgreh fur one Bistiop 0 muk auathr s yol. oo witlatanding el Lo said, § g slenfal® ‘Whetber this was atrictly true, wa cap bardly telt; but certain 6 L, that Johsy Jones, Bamson Biaulforty, ‘Thoaisa Bryant, sud othere were orduined. The recull oa, Cliarlsa Wesley took hugo odeuso; aud shorly ltee Mr. Joues wsa oblived Lo losve the connarion Hatgon tauiforth had bis ytleatly funations; sud Thoumas Heysns put ob & Sosn And made u rent (h the Bociety of Abemstd. o Jisgasniaeas did oot ead aved hero. ' In 1171, Augusbie hey Very uawllllugly took & 1o relrain from pxer e ttl) 6 Ul lady, oue uf Weuss's bitleread «pounants b Vgkiod © A Latter o thy Rev. Mr. Jona Wesidy b i which Eo revived the thing. With bis unsuviable scurrlli; calind £ & forge mendioant,” To Lils day tow Greek Churcy tary D e f2 .fi‘x'n'éxln:g'a g *0ur moagure from thip grace, & {ad power of | communton—P) i Bavior oslne 0 prdain 08 B0 patb-ddeaconn i and, alen, to advanoe totha «igoliy of 8 priest ¢ of this grace which hnth doacende €1 L) our humanity T have ordained deacon and aib- slacon at Muowleld'n Chapel on the [l day of No. Yo nher, 176t, and at Willn Kircet Chapel on the $1th of the samo month, prieat the By, 3r. W, O, arcording Lo tho rules of thy huly apostios, amd of aur fuithe Moreover, I bave given to him ponvr to minister auid teach ity a}l gio worlil tho Guarel of dosiin GLtiat, no ono farbhidiug him in the Church of God, Wheie fore, for that very purpose, I have wado this yrerent letter of recommendation from our heatuty, snd haye alven it to thio or.tafned ¥, W, F LiF certificato and recnrity, > «* liven aiid written at. Tandon, in Rritain, Nov, 24, 1764, Erausita, Rishop of Arcaals,” Toplady proceeds to ask Wealoy four insinuat- ing questious : Firat—Did you get bim to orduin saversl of your lny proacliers sccording 0 the Greek ritial Second—~Did not theso preachiors both dresd aml ofliclste sa elergymen of the Church of Bugiand fu conmequience of that ordination, and under yaur own manction and approbation? Nav, i yan not. repoat- al edly decl thelr ordination was, 10 oll infenta aud # valid sk your own T Third-T0l you not eirongly prers thia mupposed Qreck Tishop {0 consecratn you n Dish might bo fuvested with a power of or minisiers you plassei, {0 oficiato 1n you clorgymon? - And di.f be not 1efuso to consesrato you, alleging this for Ufe roason : Thaty socording 10 the canonn of the Areek Church, mors than ono Dishop mitint bo present Lo wssist ab 'tho consucration of a now one? Fourth—Tn op, that you i 11 thin did yon nnt palpably violate the ch you havy repeatedly (aken, Tdod liat no foreryis. 'ritice, pereon; prelato, state, tate, hath, or ought {0 heve, any Jurtsdiction, pawor, sipriority, pre-eminence, 'or authority, ecclastastical or apiritnal, within tlis realra 7 Tios much fruth was thero in alt thin? 1t wiil bo secn that the protonded cextificate won signed only a fortnight before the stntement, alresdy quoted, ap. poared in Ltoyd's Ecemna raat, Both the chapels nentioned srero Wewlas's (hapels. Alesander Mathor, Tho had been aix years in the lUnerancy, wan s haker Ifura lio ¢ utered 1t, amt had & eouspler 0In s anbaf funocent mmbition. Wealcy was fu great di uIlI\{, arining from {ho ‘want «f ordained proachers 1o fdininlater tho sacramenta: and thougly ho had lng Beld tho theory of Lord-King, that, according o Now Teatament tesching, evory preabytor was, tn reality, f liishiop, and darefore that Lio himaelf, belng a prei: hytor, w.ia aleo Blabop, and na fully anthorized (0 ure din alh-rs an any Bishoy tn the world 3 yot, fur pru- dential ronaour, (his wan an authorlty which' at pros entho wun not prepared to axereite, and henco ft srould not bave bicen anrpddng i€ ha' bad mide the appiivation to Erasnaus which 1 is susinisel ko did, All this gives conaldorablo olausibility to tho half atlirmative quorirs of Augustus Loplndy, On tho other hand, ioweyer, wo hnve tho abso- 1uta declaration of Weeloy himenlf that Erasmns nevor refected any overtura thatho mado ta him, and, if this wero 8o, it follown that oither Cranmus did actually orduin bim a Bisbop (whtch nono ventures to ayssre), or thnt Loplady'a luslunation fs calumnionsly untrus, To this, alvo, must b addad tha testimoav of Thomas Ohvers, who, with Woaley's conseut, If not at hisyenquast, roplied to ‘Toplndy's attack ; namoly, that alinough Wesley did' not got ine mus to ordiin Joan Jonos, and though Jobn Jonea didl dreus as n clergswan of the Church of Engtand, snd did neaist Wesloy in admivlstoring the Lord's Gurpfl' in tho Mmathodist moctotios, yot Wesloy bad authorizod him (Dlivers) to give the most positive and uuqualified_denal to the Insinuation that ho had asked Frasmns to or- dain himsolf to tho high ofp n Hishop, **But," continues Olivors, * siippors ha had, whero wonld hiave been th blamo? Mr. Weslay In connccted with & uimber of pa1wans who hava Rivon overy proof, which the natara of the thing allows, that they havo an in vacd ca't to preah tho Qoapel. Do‘h lio and they would bo g'al it they Lad an outward eall also, But no Bishop in Eugland will give it to thera. What woue dor, thon, if he was to ondoavor to procire it by sny other Innocont means?" This wag written in 1771, only eix o woven veats after the nlicged ovsnts took placo. Woich I3 Iikeliont to ba truo : the bittor insinnation of a malignant oppoucnt Like ‘Toplady or tio posi- tivo savertion of Wosley lumsolf, and tho nu. tharized dezlaratiou of Wenloy's frivad, Olivers ? "Thore tho mattor must bo fefc, I am rojoicad if you, mv good Bishop, being mistaken as to Wealoy's hoing a Bichop; yot bold, a8 did Weclay, to & bistoric ministry and an Episcopal succoesion, Of conrse, you eanuot in- dorse (ho editor.al of 3arch 26 1o the Christian Adrocate of New York on *+Our Ordination and Epiccopacy.” It was callsd torth by a corre- #] onden bing that Methodiwt ordination 1a * Presbyterian, not E iscopal,” as Wealey and thrco othor * Preshyters” ordamed Coke for America ; but that provislon 1s mads in tho ** Diroipline " for the ordination of a Biahop by Dresbyters, it. by death or otherwino, there be 00 Bishop. The Christian ddvocale says : Wo hwve herotofors indicated our calimato of the Falie of this wholo thing ; but it s not wiso to ignore tho traths of histor; ause they ehiow up aome things rathcr awkwardly, "A most thorough rtudy of the whols subfuct satlsties us that the Methodiss Eplacapacy, in 118 bistory und pretunslous, 1a obvious- ly und sgregioualy fllogiasl, Whale it mny o Dbest, for prudontial ressonv, ta Lave the ordinaiipas, u all ordinary cases, performo:l by the Bishopn, we think: it would Lo wiso 1o allow the regular ordinattons, at nual Confeyoncos, to proccad without s Bishop in all canes of the absence of o Rishap at the soeaion, and eypecially should the aathority to orduin to th mintstry be veated in all our priucipal forelgu misstons, I am inclined ¢o think that you aod your Chburch and vurs aro iu ngreemant, however, for if Presbyters and Dishops were of the sams order, & Proabytar would be &-Bishop without farther ordination, bt your Churcn raquires the Proabytor in besoming Bishon to submit to 8 third ordination. Auatn, the forms used by you for ordination were drawu up from the of- llccs of tho English Church, and this would 8sus‘ain your and my positioa, Now, my dear Bishop, &0 far s concerns ths nnlon of Chrlstians on's Cathotlo platform and in one Lody, it is uot materiol as to tho defects of your Cligroh or of mino, Thore are saough of thom in both. Thore will Lo fower as wo rc'ducn the soctarian and cnltivato tho Catholic apirit. And ans an Episcopaian I rejoice.to fali back npon the authoritat:ve~I sy even say. the uuautmous—dozlaration of tho ontire living Anglican and Anglo-American Ljiecopate. ** Ardontly langing.” they sald nt Lamboth, « far the fuldliment of the prayer of our Lord, that tbey all may bo omo." alao ** ex snimo ' adopt the lanknaze of Dr. Thompaon : Wo belleve that If the Protestaut Eplscopa] Glhurch in the Unitol Blaten f8 to riss fo the micnaury of ber duty aa the Catholie Chuech of the country, sie nust be ready to kiatan to sud considar a grest many ideas which will seem stariling at firat, 1f she is to heal the #ad diyislons of this sect-torn land it must not bo by aittlng still and saying: * Here U am, coms ta o, and be members ol tua Protastant Eplscopal Chureh, andall whl be well,” It must ba done’ by rising up and asking herself 'what she can do—how she can make the unification of Curiatianity about bor in any degrea easter to men, And now, wy dear Bishop, lot me nsk yon to togard this longed-for unity not ay a lovaly drenin, & cloud-picturs in the sky, but what ma v bo & blowsed roality in God'sgood time, and ¢! 841,800 years ago, whoc thy world was dlvided poculations, all were won to Samaritann, Aslatics, Gresks, and Rumans, Poly- tholsts and Pauthelsla—so &t thiy day Lhe out- look for upity ia far lesa desperate. May tho great hoad of tho Ghureh convine us all that all our divistony aro utterly wrong, sgalnst tho plaln word of God, huma reasoi, and historical Zrot, and aronse ua from our aleap aver ¢l aud the aln of & rent Church and a tattored futti, And if I have written an uokind word, indulged in an uncharitablo soutiment, or nought to tarve augbit but a truthful and loving unity and anion, orif I bave wounded your feolings, my dear Bistiop, In either of mv commusioations, I ask Torgivioss of my God and yones, grea. ourde of & divided Christlanity A Loves ov Untry. —— CENTENARY CHURCH. IT8 NREW PABTOL AND HIS VIBST HERMON, In tha Methodist Ohurch there ia no sesaon of the yoaror 1o ocossion of more lutercst thag Just after the snuual Gonference, wheo le wol- cowed to the pulpit tha * new minlster.” Such was the oocaslon s Centenary Church yeaterday, tho Rev. Bamuel I, Adsma, late of Bycamore, in thia Biate, rocently assigued to that charge, belng snnoouced o preach hLis firet wer- mon. After the recaat blskering in the Church wod Conferonco [n settling'npon the suvosssor of Dr. Peck, it was not pirangs that & great deal of vuriosity should oxist {a tho eougregation, not ooly ta hear thedivine wbo bad eucceqsfully pasnsd through the orucible of exsmination ugainst soma of the bost known aud ablest men I the Chugch, but & mero sight of hing was by no mesns uudesirable. Thess ciroutastances combined to draw a vory large congregation, fills iug tho body of the large editice, 28 well as the gaileciew. The day was not without Ite importauoe, too, to the gentleman-elact, seuslble sy Lis was that, ae a rule, teat unpresdiony were bost, sud ome ing a4 he did from a comparatively obsoure plsce and church {0 minister over one of the }im oburches in a %, busy oity llke Olioago, wh he congregation alons would numnber y 82 the town from As be unngod from the pastor's study and approached the pulpit the tme-wors manusoript ho carried In bLls band would seem to yava indicated his spprecis- tion of the situstion, u‘lfl oppocially hip regard for the Brat imprees to bo made nr»n @ strange ple over whom he had, lo God's ,»wvld.nca, E::n chosen to minster for the ensulng Confer ouce year - Frowa the ouriosity which be excited in the congregation, and tha clrenmatances under which ho had come among them, it wonld bo naturat—snpposing him faliible anl a-ldicied Lo Acenmulatiig zornions and. repreaching thom reencins 1tho that of yestordar—for him to solceted his hont ann, Nothicg ‘omn would bo expected or ho adanted to the tastes of tho intluont al, wealous Christian body be! B, tor thoy liad bean accustomod for yoors to oratory boyond medinerily, logic not wanting in ORer o vividuend, aml - an earnenttioss U owhrk easping the very fonndation of ouo's pliysical strengih. Whother the reverend genllemsn — aoted upon all or any of theao prowlses ls nuknown ; bt to Ay bhat Diis olfurt waw fu overy way croditable, aud that It elicited 4 clore, critical attontion, aud won no amall nicasuro of admiration, in but Ju:t concamsion Lo m Alungor among a strange )Innrln. "o Rnv. Mr, Adamn in abont 40 vears of ngo, Tuliof yigor and nfs, and upparently haw quin. cient physical strength to prouerly sapport a Inrgo and active bratn, Plan in Jreur, Mable la manuore, in the wulpit be has tha bearing of a0 enrncut, zealons worker, and {s ot linblo to be takan for onything olne than n Methodist, even if cast even farther from howme, Beiuk ponsesved of » fuil sbaro of that onthusi- 8341 80 puculiar Lo tho uin of lis deuoini- nation, hn b In hitc tho elomants of & rovie valist, which aro only niareed by his too closs attentlon to his manuscript in dollvory, which 2 ¥ostarday, howover, may bave boen tho rosuft of the ~‘embatrassmont lo confossed. Ho It o rapld eponker, n closo but not & deap roswonor, nud his rhetorical powers aro ubove the medium, and caleniated to plaao. Hia geaturoy arn Mothodistical, and have rbn ap- pesrauco of heing atndied, or o’ lenst would be aad t want In naturalngss, aud to tond to arrost tlo effect of iy otherwing parsnasive and fin- pravsivo atvle, What ho losen fn this, howevar, he mora than Euinn In tho poescseion of the fac- uity ag much desired in pnl:m oratory, of group- ing facts and of olucidatiog points with woll- choson language, which, added to iy strong and mellow voice. lis caudar, mimplicity, sympathotie nutare, atd sterhng Christian character, makos him at leaxt tho cqual of his predscoaior, and doubtisss outiraly uccoptable to the critical cou- gregation with which ha has como to labor, Ho introduead bimaolf yestorday morning by s03ing that Lo folt atrange at boing mado j-ator over sich n large congrogation of strauyors, and ot boing suatchod from a villaga to be thrust futa a largo, thrifty, enterprising city, to study for tho first Lime 1t4 moral, vocia!, and raligioun character. Mo had had nothing to do with sur- rounding lumeolf o flatteringly, but felt that It wns tho work of Divine Prowi. donce. Ths fleld necded wisdom added to lubor, and, undor Lho circumstancos, in sll his fooblanoss, ho shiould have hemtated ta ontor npon it, oxcopt thut he know that God Iind eallod tifm to the rainintry, aud ad marked out the work for um. Whgrever ho had been #ent Lo preach the Goapel bo had felt that the hand ot God had dirocted bin, and in bis new fiold he should toly implicitly upon the samo scrong arm. e fonnd additional oonsnlation that gavo bim conrags and suength in tho fact that ho kuew he Diad been pianted among au earnest, zoalous, self-sacriticing Chrig- tian . people. Haforo cutmiine nuon the work before him he hind cousstad with frieuds, and by ono ho lad heou advised to look 1pon the Con- tounry Clurch a4 a hospital, and upou 1ts, mom- bership and conpregation as' sl being nick, and totogard himewlf as the nurse; and again ho had boen advised Lo regard thoso among whom he was about to toil sa an army of workers, and tako oourage. Hu closod by again eaying that ho should ruly unon God, and oxprasemg tho Lepo that he wight prova of service o advancivg 1lis Kingdow. Ile announcad as his text : Tha Spirlt iteo'f hearaih witness with our apirit that wo ar tuo clilidron of God.—-Knman, 8., xof, The revorond rontleman spoke about forty minutes, dividing s subject into thran hoads s (1) ‘T uatirn of the human spirit and ita teatl- mony ; (2) tho w.tnees of the Spldit of Gad ; (3) the “copartnership of the hnman and divine splrits,” Uuder tho firat head he malntained thet one's conaclenco was & neser-fail- ing witness, snd testified tunmistakably of tha change of heart, Upon this point ho dvelt at langth. Under tho acoand hend he ar- gued that tho witaess of (God's Spirit wea nover- failing: and undor thn third ho songht to estab- 1ligh the copattneralip of the human and divine spirits [n a mimple and beanziful style, Tha dis- coursa throughiont was bised satelv upon Bibio trucke and llustrated wish Seriptiial facts. —— FIRST METHODIST CHURCH. SKETCL OF 123 SEW MINISTER. ThoRov. 8. A. W, Jawett, lata of the Aurora (T1.) M. E. Charch, prasched his firat sermon Yesterday morniog in tho Firat M. B, Chareh, corner of Clark and Washington streats, It ia geverally known that tho Rev. Mlessrs, Jowott aud Thomsa have changed pulpits, the Iatter, who has prenched so accoptably to tha Firat M. . Churah during tho past threo yoars, having been transforted by the Confarence to Aurora. Mr. Jewott Lrings to Chicago an one vialo reputation as a pulplt orator and an Olliclent -pastor. Ho is aboat 45 years old; In stature, of modlum height and stontly ballt, fle wears elde-whiskers, of a color that may bo desoribed s sandy, bordering on red, and bis lair is of s darker ahade. Furiher, ho Impressca ono as boing very plain sud una2suming. He dresses like ordinary men, without tho traditional chokor, Tho norvicon yeaterday morning wers well- attonded, & genorsl ogriosity hoiog doubtless foit on the part of the parishloners to sce what kind of » man had been givon thom for a pastor, Tho seimon, which be read from manuscript, was axcellont and full of timoly sugrostions. A noticeable foaturo of Dr. Jowett's peaking s the remarkable clorruces with which bo ennn- cisten ench word, e does not fudulge in much Reat bt seoms to dopend upan the foros of bis diction ‘hlm.e to Lrapress tho hearer. The preacher, afte) tho opouing seryices, pro- cocdud to deliver tho sormon from the following text: Now our Loril Jesus (hrist 1limself, and God even our Father, which hath loved un, end’ hath yiven us everlasting coumolation anel @ood hopo through graco. Comfort your lnarte, nnd estibiish yon in every 80od word aud work,—~I7, Thessalonians, if,, 1017, ‘This lottor was writtan by Panl during his resis dence at Qormth. That town, with Thessalomca, wero vory important commercial centres, and bud attracted s groat number of Jows. Tlua Gonpal which Panl preachiod was_intendod to bs scatterod throughout the world by being first brought out in the Jewish churchea |n theeo central points. T'aul was too good a General to hafiln at noimportant polats, When he wrote thls lotter to Thoswalonion, thero was frequent correspondenge botween thoas two places. Bince then fhese places havo faded out of the memory of man, but thess lotters remaln theimperishabila ratics of that |fe of early Chris. tinmty, The text expressed Paul's parting words to bia (riond, -+ The bighost good that we can wisti tor a filend 1s that Qo will ivapire his heart with the connolation of the Gospel. The overlasting consolation hie spoite of was found in tho revolation of the characuar of tha Ifinita Ruler of the Universe, Tho araakor reforrod to tho lack of kuowledgo of the future by the Atheist, and {hie ausurance of olernal Lappiness posgessod by Chbristiaus, — NEW BUILDING FOR BETHSL CHURCH. ITH CORNNW-STONE LAID YHATERDAY. The cornor-stons of tho now BDothel A. M. L Quurch, corner of Taylor atroet and Third avepus, was lald yestorday aftarncon in the pressuce of a large concourse of calared people, "The old churels was burued down in theJuly firo, the congregation thoreby lncurring o loss of 37,000, Bince then thoy have worskiped in the Railroad Chapel. Ground was broken for the new atructure on (he 4th toat., and Lt Is jutended to bave tha basomont ready for occupanoy by the 16th of November, The coromony bogan with a prayor by the Rev, E. 0. Joinor, A shott Listory of the chureh wau then read by tha pastor, the Rev, B, U. Joiuer, The stona was [aid with Masouio ceramonies, Grand Master D. ¥, Hogers, of Borioglsid, ofilciating, Hnort addressos were delivercd by the Rev, J, BB. Dawson, County Commlssioner John Jonos, Ed It De Baptiste, and others, During the proceediugs & collsction waa takon up, which rnuzm‘.‘ about §1,000, The whole building is to cost €7,000, half of which sum has been already raised, The con- gregation numbsern 250, many of whom are good workera, sud it is expscted by the time the new church {s completed hut s emall indetedness will exjut, S CHICAGO EVANGELISTS IN ENCLAND. MAJ, COLX, AND WIS WIFE.AND DAUGHTES, AT QLOVCESTER. o Glouceater (Kna.) Journal, Bopt, 33, The week juat endoed has witueased the fatro- duction injo Goucestar of that wholesale systom of ovangelistio teaching popularized in this country by Mesera. Moody and Bankey. Glonoes- ter has yecelvod a vieit {rom Maj. Cole, a nativa of Qhioago,, and & personal frlend of Mr. Moody, “Accampanying Maj. Cola in his ovan- elistic cirouit are his wife snd dl}l;ghlor. who fuln with him iu siuging hywns from Mr. Sanke; Holaotion, Iylor Lo oomipy Gloucestar, they bad been wor‘ui:s in fiv«:oa? and Chester with ETOAL BL00RSS. . Maj., Mrn., and Misn Cole arrived o Glouces- toron Baturda, commilteo at ovening. At linlt-past 7 the \a 8t o prayer-meelitgr—tho o eon lield durin, : and met tho tho wook in antci; “nddrosn to the theatrs, and dey hour ‘thoro wag In tho afternoon and ** (tospol-tootings * (n th ocension the house was donsel! Colo's aldrosecs were listened testion, but pernapa avon atill wan manifested in the i wifo and danghtor, order of sorvicos Las beon day at noon a prayer raooting chango; nud inn tho ovantng n *(in, ovouing 1Lis ' Gospel. Leld In the Corn Bxchange, but tte tions for the wonld-be nudienco wi quate that tha puhro hiold in the Bhira 1ia building lise hoen crow Cola's vinit {s expucted week, and posaibly over tho next f nul visik to Wodneadny's the Cory Ey. Sankey's hymn-buok, nad, a i momber of tho committeo, with a sy ants, voluntoors to tako e are of umbrely, watorproofs till the tnuo e in_our own molancholy tal OWNOIN-—-BMONZ the wa liave hoard the Cola himself—whos: Tueaday evening's fu:ind, ~ Alas for Gloucsstor morals | ter of umbrellas | As p a golf -conptltutod cholr, partly in “the by *Tell mo the oid thoy kesp ia capital tou’ato Liere to aro_workingmon and copln of both soxes fr and doeant mj dy of tha room, old_story,"—anq Punctuslly at 8, door op o #ccompanied bv Mrs. and g hio vtands Leeido thom, and withon comnences to Annaunce the 234 b while tho sunouncomeut L lips, he branehes off to an bymn suggesta, bo says, for his voica {4 some his accent unfamlliar, But gets accustomed to the su onco to iho speaker, aad thon n lost. Meauwbilo, wo ars baving him. About the middle height, i ife, and spate a8 Amaricaus alw, bair, wiiskers, board, and my cowploxion. quiok, aut gmylo,—euon id he as 030n0f hear wht What rough, ang resontly the speskep o the primg of B¥3 arey black , wasrehing oyes, American a8 sud_hor daughter, When thu Maj anocdoto, and the iymn on whi Liat bocu'muog, the Rov. J, H platform offers Apparontly aboyt 15, ch it wag 101nde] artwell from the a short prayer, mas to LYo out & by is o obliged to digress, for th hymn of lua, and the: 1t which ho is obliged story—only sbout s little girl ber dyiog hours was Josud loves me Dby toll it with puthos, and tears mauy oyes that had lung beo: When the bymn baa been gu more in our scats, Alaf, sing together s a trio, :*Iu some wav or other The harmony of the thy ail our Iatent prejudice: of Gospel toaching the Major's raquest t of silout orajer, after whioh ila alond, Then he commences tho sor.o8 of verass from various parts Tastameont illustrative of the wa d with theas vorsss thor direct, homely cowmeuts from th [ these many toxts—t'Thia fy and worthy of al ‘mu, But agig I8 i8 & favority T0 18 8 story counoot to eing ** I amso oakor knows Low to stuzt unblddea intg N 8LIADZrE L0 them, ng, and we are oacs . Mrd., oad Mias Cols the hymn commessng tho Lord will provids, ae voioen 1a perfact, and 8 against this are dispolled. hero fotlow_a a taithful saving thas Chirlt Josus cama inta the y the Major's request repsated by tno whola of thy that “ every ane in the room ma; an loug as hio lives." Presontly, ture of roading and comment, aitozether into aa adaross, of elojience or lnarning abou plsin, ordinary talk #poakerbolieveato bo his hearers: and th Rinners "-{s b; simultaneoucly y remnombar it Maj. Coto glides There is no show at i, It ia simply abont mattora which ths -importaut to himself and lkis full of Ulnsiratioos from tho life. Bome of these illuatratious are gh to cause s geaeral emile. For R about tho equality of all Maj. Cole tells us of sa old ad to ber clergyman a feoling loat, whon she got to heaven, olf 1o uadignitled prosimity “1f there was the same heaven for both, she hoped at all events thea cod distanco betwaen them." the olergvman, “if Botty goss 't thick you'll be tfoubled by her roximity ; unless you loara to show a very dif. you'll "be far enough away fro ‘[ia ond of Maj. Cole's sddress cowmes With no more formality than the begioniog, ‘hen we bow i sllent prayar, and 8 loog list of Tequests for praver for special objects resd oup The list being exhauated, ly 006 to mention objects for rayer, for he and his co-work- mon velore God, lady who exprosa of groat snxisty 8lio alionid tind to bior vorvaut Beity, **Well," roplie $o heaven I dov’ from the platform. tho Major invites an; which he desires ers beliove with T'ennyaon that More things are wrought by prayer Tlan thia world dreams of, y ons the various objects are suggested, le audisncs being bowed in aa asituda of roverend worshup. ‘I'hon the Major asks toal auy ono who would like the pravers of Christiso peoplo for imself should hotd up his hand, sod ono atter auother a oooslderable number of In » fow mivutes the Msjor's voice 15 again Lisard, askingall who held up !hal.r‘ bLiands. and all who degire ** Cbristian conasel, to oo after-meeting. Then with a dael and Mrs, Cole the moeting s broo, acloao. 1t is now peatly half-past 0 o'clock, bat + the after-maeting, to which a Iarge number re- msin, continues for some time longer. e CATHOLICISM IN CANADA. PASTODAL LETTER ¥ROM THE BISHOPS OF QUEBIG Liands aro raisad, In a pastoral lotter, datod Oct. b, issued o the Toman Catholio churches of Canads, Dlshops of Queboo denounced Liberallsm smoog the Cathollea as **the most dsogeron tho Divins conatitution of the Church." No (res dom of thought in matters of faith must be al- lowed to fn sny way queation the sbsolute nnlharltvc%f thg prluathoog. Thny';l:nl nnounce that the Church ought to be supros aud governmant, whenaver the Church chooses and thoy declaro that the prissts a right to meddlo with politics, but it iu tholr duty to do so, even to the ax(sm‘:. inatructing the laity how to voto, in seas joy Church ia interosted in sny issue; aud L the priests wust, in such “matters, mplichly obey the orderd of their superiors in the Chord. Unon $his point the pastorsl u-):n g Iftical on, in fact, touc] pomt it o o e liberty, tle indepeadonoe, or the ven in a temporal pal w, A g‘-?l‘;rx?;;‘ mnl‘lllmo{ll whosa platform ia b 08 candidature {s & menacs for {hose same intorests. Polinical party may Uikewise may sffect “aciiance of the o Judged dsugerous. o Ly ita antecedents, s T g its chish it priuciosl, members, sod a "l 6 whs dtvowi fnom, o rom, wlien, ha: herofrom, Oz‘h proviug hostile 1o the Chuid i, ther, isciass'al thg. aoly i feud {la adriiusl intecsal SF the souls ot LY hor? Lutthe Church speal her clorgy, and! to duny thess right deuy thom to tho Oburch. ope may then in all uld Ju wwlwm ratse thelr volae, o out'the dasger, " ot a:fih 1o the “‘““n':’“ hould speak, not ol an who o oty the Divios 10 A0 auch an ot makes 1) 2y d thie electors and candidsies, authorities, for the' di o mave E soul is m al leclares jusily ex all 6’.’;1;';'1?:".“ darae to clia any prl Civit Court far sy ¢ bnrd:uo. undu‘nu\‘c remaina according (o of the priesthood, *‘eriminsl usurpatios. To palliata {bis cpim O sru bik s tmace of b Proposs Loah the lpcn or Inbo { he dal lhs:“uo not prapose t«a Mrugal oz the elvil lawe Emplre. Tt alfudos to tha G~ tampt to bury Guibord r ok gainat the proles pai toral fs, tast d of politics s wd