Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 26, 1880, Page 9

- ° THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, ° ECEMBER 26, [880—SIXTEEN PAGES. RELIGIOUS. Ritualistic Conflict Be- Churcli and State in Engiand, The tween Ab Interesting Summary of the . [aws and Changes Since Henry VII. i potrinal Points‘Made Clearer by « Better Biblical Transla- j - tion. ‘The Revived Jewish Prosecution in Germany and Its Causes. General News, Personals, Sun- day Smiles, Services : _ To-Day. GUIDED. Up the long, sippery slope we toil and strain, ‘4mid the ice and snow, Tatrodden hights above us to attain, Tatrodden depths below; Danger to left and danger to the right, ‘All wearily we gO. Cruel and beautiful the blue crevasse ‘Yawns close beside the way, Mhe avalanches topple o'er the pass, ‘Their cold. white torrents stay Only a moment ere they roar and plunge, ‘Jo rend, and whelm, and slay. Bach following each, we mount, as we are led, Tp the long, steep incline; QurGuide walks calm end fearless at the head Of the long. faltering ling, 4nd shows the narrow path where safety is, * By word, and look, and sign. Marking His footsteps, treading where He trod, Close following on His track, We cannot faint, or fail, or miss the roxd, Though deep the snows, aud black The precipices yxwn, and rough, and steep ‘The forward path and back. pe ee] Intent on Him, we do not mark or see ‘These hard things by the way. tis enough that we are led, and He ‘Whose guidance we obey Has gone before and knows how hard it is; qq“ What He hes done we may. Above the mist we catch 8 faint, far chime, And glimpses heavenly fair Shine through and seem to beckon as we climb— How distant, bright they are! Dear Guide, lead on! We do not ask for rest. Would God that we were there! BIBLICAL TRANSLATION. w= DOCTRINAL POINTS MADE CLEARER BY A> MORE INTELLIGENT KNOWLEDGE OF THE ORIGINAL. ‘To the Baitor of The Chicago Tribune. Cmicaco, Dec. 22.—The discussions theo- logical of the present day remind me very forcibly of the old story of the question pro- pounded many years ago to the scientific savants of a certain Kingdom. The query raised was: “Why does a fish weigh more in ;the water than out of it?” Much time was spent, and various theories advanced, to answer the postulate, until some matter-of- fact fellow thought he would actually try the experiment, and so demonstrated the au- | dacity of the proposition. Now I conceive the same common-sense test will prove many of the so-called theolog- ical propositions, and the theories and dis- cussions which spring from them at the pres- ent day, to bo equally foolish and absurd. I suppose it may be safely assumed that all Christian theological propositions rest upon fome first premise of authority, and that au- thority the so-called *‘ Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament.” Before we theorize and discuss any longer, therefore, let us try a common-sense experiment,—an experiment, by the way, thatany scholar who is really honest in histruth-secking, and who has the time and patience, can try for him- self. It is simply weighing in n common- sense manner these so-called “Scriptures” in the grammatical scale of language accord- ing to fixed standards, and discovering whether one so-called translation from the original will stand the commonly accepted teas graramatical and exegetical. Why do we need to wait longer for a con- sensus of prejudiced theology to agree as to What they will allow us to have in the way ofarevision? If tho first premise assumed fs frue, that “The Scriptures are the in- spired word of God,” we want it, and we want it all, and we want it just as it is, un- tifted by the sieve of theological prejudice. Now I propose to translate from the Greek of the “Septuagint” and from the Greek of the best text of the New Testament a few “pivotal” passages, end, placing them in taposition with the same passages as Ten- ered in the present version, let them speak for themselves to sincere truth-seekers, I shall avail juvaelt only of the usual classical ‘ests of translations, rejee ‘ing all adventitious aids of so-called theologic comment, and the grammars’ made to support the conclu- sions of preconceived opinion and prejudice, satisfied that 1 cam defend myself from ad- Yerse criticism, standing, as1do, upon the Yantage ground of a general harmony of Scriptural teachingand the common classical usage of language. ‘The first three verses of the first chapter of nesis read in the King James version as follows: In the she pesinnlag God created the heaven and And the earth was without form and void; and the spiritot God moved upon the face of ‘MEd Go aaid, Let there be light, end the ere re Was light. Correctly translated they read as follows: git Sovereignty God made the heavens and Now the earth was invisible and unfitted for Inbitetion, and darkness was upon the abyss. And God’s epirit moved upon the water. went said, Let there be light, and there The first and second clauses of the twenty- path verse of this same chapter reads as fol- ws in the King James version: on God said, Let us make man in our image, r our likeness. Correctly translated this passaze reads: igitd God said, Let us make-man accdrding to ‘sur image and according to a becoming like, ~Le, according iv a process of conformity. we seventh verse of the second chapter Genesis reads in the King James version Wfollows: gid the Lord God formed man of the dust of fround and breathed into bis nostrils the freath of life; and man became a living soul. Correctly translated the passage réads: eAtd God molded the man dust from the earth Qebreathed into his face a breath of life, and man became a living being. same language is used of all the ani- be bird. insect, ‘and fish ereation in the pre- chapter, i. e., they all, man includ- wi beeaine living bemgs or organisms in ich life resides, ‘a life which is common to the twentieth verse of the third ' e . chapter “Genesis in King James’ version reads a3 And Adam called bis wife's name Eve, be- she was the mother of all living. aya translated this reads: lam called hi: a ne she was mother of. all the. ane a met Greek word for life is “Zoe,” not an Thee name now in this country. FR le firstclauseof the twenty-first Verse of the eeond chapter of Genesis reads in ane, J omnes version as follows: @ Lord G "aa ‘Aten Ord ices eet a doep sleep to fall verdad translated it reads: ‘od Cast stn, mle sere ecstacy [or stupor] upon in word: ecstacy. is used frequently in the wes to indicate a trance state of mind raw has brought upon an individual ‘ ole nation in lis dealings with them, of the Dassaze must be studied in the light Rages US Of this word in these other pas- The last clause of the ninth verse of this eune chapter reads in King James’ version: 9 tree of life also in the midst of the gard and the tree of knowledge of good and en, Correctly translated this reads: And the treo of the life in the midst uf the arate ead ihe eee of the perceiving 2 know- and bad [I. e., Jel Kr ee eae Ba @ tree of knowing that A very important difference when you solve tu consider the metaphysical bearing The twenty-second and twenty-third verses of the third chapter of Genesis in King James’ version read as follows: And the Lord God said, Behold the man is’ become as one of us to know guod and evil; and now lest be put forth his hand and take also of the tree of lite, and eat and live forever. Therefore the Lord God sent bim forth from the Garden of Eden to till the ground from whence he was taken. Correctly translated these read: And God said, Lo, Adam hath become as oné of us in respect to comprebending good and bad: and now let him not some time stretch forth his hand and take from the tree of the lite [what life? He al.endy bas natural life], and ent and live forever [or tor the ever]. And the God Lord sent him forth out of the Paradise: of delight to till the soll out ot which ho was taxen, Now turn over to afew “ pivotal” passages in the New Testament. The first seventeen verses of the first chapter of John’s Gospel in King James’ vision read as follows: In the beginning was the Word, and the Word ‘was with God, and the Word was Goi, ‘The same wus in the beginning with God. All thmgs were made by Him, and without Him was not anything made that was made. in Him was Life, and the Life was the light of inan. And the light shineth in darkness, and the darkness comprehendeth it not. ‘There was 2 man sent from God whose name was John, . ‘The same came for a witness to bear witness e the Light that all men through him might be- jeve. : He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of thet Light. ‘That was the true Light which lighteth every mun that cometh into the world. He was inthe world,and the world was mude by Him, and the world knew Him not. Re came unto His own, and His own re- ceived Himnot. . * But as many as received Him, to them save He power to beconie sons of God, even to them that believe on His name. Whicn was born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. ‘And the’ Word was made tiesh and dwelt among us (and we beheld His glory, the glory 13 of the only begotten of the Father) full of graco and truth. Jobn bare witness of Him, and cried, saying, This was He of whom I spake. He that cometh after me is preferred before me. For Ho was before me. And of His fullness have we all received and grace for grace. For the law wasgiven by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. fs Correctly translated this passage reads as follows: In sovereignty was the Word, and the Word was according to God and the Word was God. ‘This was in sovereignty according to God. All things through it became and without not one thing became that did become. In it was life, and the life was the light of men. And the lightshinesin the darkness and the darkness did not comprehend it. yi peers. was a man sent from God, his name john. ‘This one came for testimony, that ho might testify concerning the light, in' order that all might believe through it, ‘ewas not the light, but that he might test!- fy concerning the lignt. It was the true light which enlighteneth every man who cometh into the creation. It feame into its own [realm] and its own [peo- ple] received it not. But as many as received it, to them gave it ower to become children of God, to trust in (is name. < Who were begotten not from blood [llter- alls bloods}, nor from a will of fiesh, nor from a will of mau, but from God. And the ‘Word became flesh; full of good will and troth, and tabernacled among us, and we beheld His glory, glory as of an only be- gotten from a father. Joun testifies concerning him, and be cried, saying, This was He of whom I said,"Tke One who cometh after me hath been preferred be- fore me, because He was my chict. ‘Because from His fullncas we have all re- ceived, and good will in return for good will. Good will and truth became through Jesus Christ, because the law was given through Moses. Colossians, second chapter ninth verse, King James’ version, reads: Because in Him dwelleth all the fullness ofthe Godhead bodily. It should read: Because in Hir-dwelleth ali the fullness of the Divine nature in a body. * ‘The first chapter of the samo epistle, fif- teenth to the nineteenth verses, both in- elusive, King James’ version, reads: ‘Who ig the image of the invisible God, tho first-born of every creature. For by Him all things were created that are in Heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominiuns, ali things were or principalities, or powers; created by Him and for Him. And He is before all things, and by Him all consist. And He is the head of the body, the Church, who is the beginning, the first-born from the dead; that in all things He might have the preiminence. For it pleased the Father that in Him should all the fullness dwell.” Fi This passage should read, correctly trans- lated: Who is an image of the invisible God,—a first brought-forth of the whole creation. Because in Him were all things created, those in Heaven and those upon the earth, things seen and things unseen, whether thrones, or lord- ships, or authorities, or powers, all thi through Him and for Him were created. tAnd He is superior to all things, and in Him all things have been established. And He {s the head of tho body, the Church, who is a sovereignty. a first brought-forth from the dead, in order that He might become in all respects preéminent. Because it waa satisfactory that in Him all the fullness should dwell. ‘The thoughtful reader will observe how careful the inspired writer is not to con- found the sovereignty of Christ here spoken of with the sovereignty of God, the efficient cause of all things. The twenty-fifth to the twenty-seventh verst both inclusive, of the same chapter, King James’ version, read: ‘Whereof I became a minister according to the dispensation of God, which is given to me for you, to fultil the Word of God. Even the mystery .which bath been bid from ages and renerations, but now is made manifest to His saints, ‘To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory. : It should read as follows: Of which I became a sorvant according to the stewardship of God which hath becn com- nee tome for you, to fully set forth the Word of God. Namely, the mystery which hath been hidden from the ages, and trom the generations, but which hath now been made manifest to his saints, To ‘whom God purposed to maxe known what the wealth of the glory of this mystery among the nations is, which is Christin you, the hope of the glory. Titus, second chapter, thirteenth verse, King James’ version, reads: ‘Looking for that blesred hope and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Savior Jesus Christ. It should read: Waiting for the blessed hope and appearance of the glory of the Great God and of our Savior Jesus Christ. There is a vast difference between the “appearance of the glory”? of God and the “ glorious appearing” of God, at Jeast to the metaphysician. The fourteenth verse of the same chapter, King James’ version, reads: Who gave Himeelf for us that He might_re- deem us from all iniquity, and purify unto Him- self a peculiar’ people, zealous of good works. It should read: ‘Who gave Himself for us in order that He might redeem us_from all unlawfulness, and might purify for Himself 2 most excellent peo- ple, zealous for good works. ‘We have all of us seen “peculiar” people who were not excellent people at all. The writer also understood Christ’s relation to the law and expressed it in this passage. The fifteenth verse of the same chapter reads in King James’ version: a ‘These things speak nnd exhort and rebuke with all authority. Let no man despise thee. Should read: 7 These things speak and exhort and argue slong with every precept. May no one disre- Pthe six ¢ the third chapter of The sixteenth verse of the third chapter o: L Timothy reads in the King James ver- sion: ‘ And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness. God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the spirit seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, re- ceived np into glory. It should read: - Apes and as Se eh ee a t 8 myste! 5 Gin who was made manifest in flesh, justified in spirit, seen oy mmessenferts heralded hore] the nations, believed on in the world, receive’ up in glory. 3 oe The thoughtful reader, I think, will dis- cover several important differences between these two translations,—differences which |. Timothy, and hi have an important bearing upon doctrinal views. ‘The fourteenth to the sixteenth, both in- clusive, of the sixth chapter of the same Episile, King James version, reads: iar thou keep this commandment without zi able, un Lord Jesus Christ. 8 BEREATING OF “ORF Pavioc A a Himes He shall abet eg the S86 only Potentate, the King of Ki and Lord of Lords. . a Who only hath immortaiity, dwelling in tho light which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath seen nor can see; to whoin be honor and power everlasting, amen. It should read: That you keep 'the commandment spotless, blameless, until the appearance of our Lord Jesus Christ, which (appeurance) in His own ap- ointed time, the blessed and only Potentate, the of. Kings and Lord of Lords, tho only one having ‘deathiesness, the one who inhabiteth light unapproachabie, whom no man hath.seco or can see, will ehow forth. To Him belong honor and everlasting power. The above is a partof Paul’s charge to 0 as an important doctrinal bearing. He says in another place, First Corinthians, eighth chapter, fifthund sixth verses, King James’ version: For peenes there be that aro calicd gods, whether in Heaven or on carth (as there be gods. many and lords mauy). But to us there fs but one God, the Father, of whom are all things and we in Him: and one Lord, Jesus Christ, by~whom are all things and be by Him, It should read, the last verse: To us there 13 one God, the Father, to whom are all things and we for Him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and we through Hin. _Here we have distinctly stated the rela- tion existing between God, the efficient cause of all things, Christ, the mediator, and man, the creature. Many more * pivotal ”-passages could be given, and [ think any sincere truth-secker will adinit that those given adove turn much more smoothly upon their doctrinal pivots than they do in our King Jaines version. At any rate, it will serve my purpose in the in- terest of truth if l awaken others to search the Scriptures for themselves; “for in them +3 think ye have eternal life,” and, so far as have gone, I am confident Lhave i ihe above the thought of the inspite Caas. GARDNER, CHURCH AND STATE. THE PROSECUTION OF RITUALISTS IN THE ENGLISH CHURCH. Last Sunday evening the Rev. F. C. Ewer, D.D.,Rector of St. IgnatiusChurch,New York, preached a sermon in defense of Ritualism and the incarcerated English priests, Dale and Enraght, in which he declared their persecution to be illegal, unconstitutional, and vindictive, and urged them to persevere in their martyrdom for conscience sake. In reviewing the historical connection between Church and State in England, the reverend speaker gave the following summary of the acts of Parliament: i ‘3 Under tho terms of 2th Henry VIIL all ecclesiastical causes were to be determined by the spiritualty and not by the temporality. At that time there waz a court culled the “Court of Delegates,” which by the appointment und admission both of the State and of the Church had spiritual tunctions. Forsny court thus to have spiritual functions constitutionally it Is necessary for it to be created and established . not only by Parliament, which is the legisiutive body of the Stute, but also by both convocations, thut of Canterbury und that of York, which are the legislative bodies of the Church. In the course of time, however, this Court of Dele- gates was abolished, and Parliament erected in its place as a court of tinal appeal _the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. What was the status of this Court? Was it erected by the consent of the Church? No!_ When the chanyo took place the Church of England was in a comatose state; the houses of convocation were practially, nil; uobody cared anything about loctrine; there were no ecclesiustical causes; fn short, tue Church was not considered in the matter at all. Sometimes a machine «has to work for a while before its fatal defects are discovered. It was so with this new court. For when subsequently the Courch awoke from her lethargy, when she began to put off her starch, buckram, and intolerable respectability, and go to work herself; when her children bo- gan to take un interest in what sho really tuught, and when serious ecclesiastical que3- tong, going to the very root of the Christian faith itselt, began to arise, the Church wis startled to find that without her will or consent causes of doctrine, discipline, and worship had been transferred by the State to a court of tinal appeal which was of purely Stato creation, It wns a court on which every singlc Judge mignt be personally and violently prejudiced against the Church's doctrines, might be actually an in- fidel, or, to ny the least. might be anything but an expert inchurch theology and ritual, howover jJenrned he might be in State law. Lord Prougham, who was the author of this chango of the court of final appeals from the “Delegates” to the ‘Judicial Committee.” declared subsequently that he bad no idea ut the time that his act involved a transference of ec- clesiastical causes from the court with spiritual functions to the purely temporal court. The worst of thas beeu ail along that the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council bas bad “a ghastly semblance of Ing something to do with the Church” because it contained power- Jess episcopal assessors. However, though the Upper Court was a State Court, there wns still leftto the Church for a while a Lower Court, with spiritual jurisdiction, called the Arches Court. For atime ecciesinstical cxuses went to this Court firet; but when they were decided against Kationalistic and Protestant views and in favor of Catholicity, as set down in the Pruyer- Book, they were invariably appealed by our friend. the enemy, up to the Stute Court, of final appeal, where the Catholic decisions of the Church Court below were almost invariably reversed, until the Judge of the Lower Court, who was tho of- ficial principal of the Archbishop of Canterbury, was compelled In new cases brought before him to sic humiliated, morally handcuffed and forced, according to the rulings of the Court nbove, to decide against what he knew to be the law, the rubric, and the doctrine of the Church of England. From the first the State Judicature did noth- ing in its relationship to the Church but deny jn its decisions _uearly every article of the Church’s faith. Tt began by rendering its heret- ical decision on baptismal regeneration in the famous Gorham case. This lost us Cardinal Manning and many others, who went off to Rome. At once all the Bishops, save two, signed adocument reaflirming the doctrine which the State Court had denied; and recently Isisuop Cummins actually went off into the sin of schism because buptismul regeneration was the doctrine of the Chu: As things went on and were coming to 2 more and, more sorry pass, Bishop Bloomfield begged Parliament, but in vain, to give the Church an ecclesiastical court of final appeal which she could accept and au- thorize in place of such un Incompetent court as the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, Finally it eventuated that by the decisions of the Intter 2 man could remain a priest ot the Church of England, even if he did not believe 6uch futdamental doctrines as tho incarnation and the resurrection. And we have tho xnoni- aly to-day of a Colenso, whom the entire Anuli- can communion, American, English, and colonial, has formally declared to be a heretic and ex- communicate, holding nevertheless his Cathe- dral and Bishopric in Africa in spite of the Church and by the authority and power of this Stote Judicature. At first Cuthotics roally and seriously tried to conform themselves to the rullugs of this Court, notwithsanding it was mere State Court, and notwithstanding the deciston in their own favor by the Lower Church Courtof Arches, Butas it was found that the Court, in order to put down one point of ritual would adopt a principle, and then, when unother point came up, would adopt another inconsistent with or diametrically op- posed to the first, ag it was found that at Inst the whole thing was drifti into an inextricable not to say ridiculous muddle, they gave up at- tempting to comply. For thirty years the Church suffered under a continued series of mis- carringes of justice. She bore it patiently, simply, protesting. against it, But atlast the ultima thule was reached. Parliament actually nbolished the final vestige of an ecclesiustical court which the Ciurch still held; it-took away from her the Arches Court and the Official Prin- cipal of Canterbury. It set up instead anen- tirely civilcourt, with Lord Penzance as its Judge. If both convocations had accepted and consented to this new court, it would perhaps have had ecclesiastical jurisdiction, like the old Lowtr Court of Arches, and it might have been competent to decide. subject to appeal to the ‘State Court, cases of doctrine, discipline, and worship. But not onc only but both convocations, that of York and that of Canterbury, distinct- ly rejected this asa Church court; go that ut last the Churcb was entirely handed over to the tender mercies of the State. Three years azo Mi Iadstone published the following words— Yiz.: * We churchmen bave long been suffering from a gross violation of the trie constitutional and tegal order of things in Church matters, and, therefore, of our strict rights_as English- men.” The facts, “the State of England de- nies the right of the Church to manage her own atfairs in ber own way.” rd Penzance bas at last boldly pro- nounced it to be illegal to obey 2 distinct direc- tion of the Prayer-Book. And now at last priests have arisen, and after years of patience, after seeing Mr. Purchas rendered penniless and hounded to his grave, after secing Mr. Tooth broken In heaith so that ho can no longer take charge of a parish, after secing targe and flour- {shing congregations broken up, and many im- rtant works .among the poor SLOPES, after seeing their church buildings mobbed and their Sisters of Mercy spat upon in the strevts by ri- bald Protestant roughs, priests, [say, bavearisen and will endure not another day this tyrannical usurpation of the State over the Church, hound- ed on as the State is by the mob. The English Church Union has now called on 2,500 clergymen, who are Catholics, but who have not yet adopted the yestments, to futroduce them at once. The Bishop of Manchester—I quote from un English newspaper that came last mail—said that the action of the 2.80) clergymen who were that day at the call of the English Church Union to introduce certain vestments was one which would wreck the Church and lead to anarchy. ‘This, of course, is the wild talk of a man who is alarmed at last. The Church will bo saved, not wrecked,—saved from those Who have tried to wreck her for thirty years. — - One of the most sinazing facts of all has re- cently transpired. One of the. ininority on the Supreme Bench, no less aman than the late Lord Chief Baron Kelly, has boldly‘and indignantly exposed what wenton behind the judicial curtain while the worla was waiting for one of the Inte iniquitpus decisions. He informed the public that {t wna resolved by the majcrity of the Bench to decide the matter not recording to law, but according to public policy and popularity. ‘It is abluck stain on the English judicial‘ermine which will vever come out Some uncient ju- dicial committeo sald_nmong themselves behind tho curtain at a Privy Council, * What do we care? for if we let this movement go on ali the poor laborers a3 well as inany of the rich will be- lieve in it, and ‘the Romansin diszuise’ willtako nway our names from Parllament..Go to; yo kuow nothing at all, nor consider that it is expe- dient for us that one or two prfests should go to prison. i ‘$0 far os the ritual aspect of the case is con- cerned, itcan bo expressed id a few words— namely: the Privy Council, aftqr solemn detiber- ation behind curtains, not as to what wus law or constitution, but #3 to whet was policy in view of the mobs, and in view of the dissenting votea outside the Church and of the Low Church yotes izside, has decided that the first rubrical command in the English Prayer-Book, which declares that lights, yestments, cte., “shall bo retained and shall be in use,” means shail not be retained and shail not be ¥n use; and that her Majesty Queen Elizabeth had after all re- peaied that rubric a hundred years before it waa written. Bishop Abraham, writing from tho Litchfield Cathedral close under date of tho 16th of last month, says: “Relyins on these statutes of Church and Realm, Englishmen bave been in- duced to tke holy orders in the Church of En- giand. Whereupon the State, having obtained the services of gentlemen to minister to the well-being of the people, violated tho compact; and, being physically stronger thun the Church, destroyed ber eourt of judicature, substituted another purcly parliamentury court instead, and sent the ciergy to prison if they resisted. We were just2s much bound to protest against this violation of justice, truth, and honesty us Hampden was when Kini Charles I., supported by the Judges of the land, made the unconstitu- tonal and illegal demand upon him, Alas! that others of the Bishops must be crit- feised. But they are men; and there is nothing special In the imposition of orditining hands, whereby a fallible priest suddenly rises a niitred and infallible Bishop. Sorry day is it for the Hberty of priest and layman in their re- speotive and just subordinatespheres [f any mun or men jn tho Church are too lofty for criticism. ‘he English Bishops ure appointed by tho Stat ey mre nauvied by the Preniier for consecra- tion, with a prudent forecast 'to the naturo of their votes in Parliament subsequently; they are creatures of the State, and, as a body, they would be more_or less than human were not many of them Erastian to the core, In this siruggle botween tho State and the Church they have waited till the State Courts have legislated a“not” into a law of the Church, because they think it for the public good that that law should not exist, and then some of the Bishops have stepped [a and ncted, not as Bishops, but as Dumbailiffs and State Constables of. a State, Court, to enforoe its docisious. Thus they hare proved to be fathors tu law and not fathers in God. They do not claim obedience to them- selves, but tu the decisions of the civil courts. ‘This has been their uniform language, It ig not the first time in history that tho defense of the liberties and rigbts of the Church has fallen upon the priests and laymen. > But, it may be said, a not yield these points of outward ceremonial commanded by the rubric? why go to jnil for then? It does not strike the pubic to ask, Why if these mat- ters of external ceremonial. ure so utterly friv- oloust do not our foes cense attacking them 80 violently and spending bundreds of thousands of dolinrs as they have to put them down? Why do the Protestants themsclves make such an udo over them? Catholic churchmen do not claim all the wisdom in the world; but certainly they may be permitted modestly to be wise enough to seo that if it is worth the Protestant while so bitterly and stubbornly to attack these externals and to exhibit so much feeling about them, it ig quite as much worth tho Catholic while just as firmly to defend them. These ‘thi mean, and are set up by the Church in ber rubric to mean, and by us, in our obedienca to her. to mean, the most vital principles of Christianity itself. We see the incarnation de- nied; we gee baptisinul regencration, the real resence of Christ in the Eucharist, the absolv- Tne power of the priests and prayers for the dead trampled under foot. We see tho whole Divine power of the sacra- ments scouted. And all this involves itself of the the car tt existence _ Anglican Church. - it is this-and this only, that differentiates her from the sects. Christianity as presented by the sects and Christinnity as presented by the Church aro not alter- nate forms of one thing; if one true the other is false; there is an irrepressible conflict between thom. We are struggling for the very existence on earth of our Church, and of Christianity itself as it was cnforced on the world dy apostles and early fathers. It is life or death With us as asysten. It is simply astounding thaf, at this close uf tho first halt century of this Gatbolic movement, men will still ctfatter abouttits frivolousness, ‘that they do not realize that it has deep springs. Adopting mere prettiness in the services of God for mere prettiness’ sake Js playing child's piny. Itis astounding that people should think the venerable Pusey, the calm and solid Liddon, the strong giant Littledule, and the saintly Keble, and Carter, and Lowder, and the aged Dale, are mere children and idiots, glecful_over a color and tickled with a lighted candle. But patience, atience and loye; the world learns—the world earns. John Bright says that 3fessrs. Dale and En- raght bave gone to jail merely for disoveying the luw, and that it is nota question of cun- science ut all It was merely for disobeying the law that Daniel went to the lion's den and the three children into the flery furnace. It was merely for disobeying the law of the Koman Empire that St. Ignatius went to the Coliseum and wus devoured by wild beasts, and that every single martyr of the ten persecutions was slaughtered. It was merely for disobeying the Jaw that John Hampden went to prison, and, 2s the Church Times puts it,some ancient Jobn Bright, come anclent Archibald Tait, said, “Wo havo a law, and by that law we ought to die.” JEWS IN GERMANY. A DESCRIPTION OF THE MOVEMENT AGAINST THE HEBREW RACE AND ITS CAUSE rrespondence Troy Times. Beruiy, Nov. 26.—The all-absorbing topic of discussion in Germany isthe “Jewish question.”? Few foreign questions are more worthy of universal consideration. It affords an insight into the whole spirit and condition of the Fatherland; it involves the discussion of a principle which forms a recognized part of the great European system; it is of special interest to the student of civilization, and to every lover of liberty and toleration. Tue agitation is nota mushroom growth. It had a feeble beginning in 1875, and has since been gradually gaining in strength, though until within the past few weeks it scarcely seemed. worthy of serious public attention. It appears to have originated in an at- tack which the Kreuz Zeitung made on the financial and econemical policy of the Ministry, which, it is asserted, ‘was wholly influenced by a number of Jews. ‘The idea was to undermine the ministry by awakening the ancient and long-slumbering hatred of the people against the Jews, By the close of the year 1875 a score of papers, promintnt among them the Germania, had already joined in the plaintive chorus to which the I{reuz Zeituag had furnished the keynote. Then Marr and his pugilistic dis- ciples appeared on the scene and have kept the devi mean the printer’s devil—busy ever since, These doughty pamphicteers were inclined to make the Jews responsible for every imaginary evil, from Bisimarck’s rheumatism up to the failure of the annual crops. Last year the contagion spread to Court Chaplain Stoecker, and was by him communicated to the workingmen’s associa- tion. Then it lald holdof Prof. Treitschke, a representative of a more respectable circle. About the same time the “anti-semitic league” came into exist- euce, and has tried to systematize the whole movement. For number of months all remained quiet, and it seemed as though the elown had said his last word and the cireus was ended, But afew weeks ago the anti-semitics drew up a petition and began circulating it for signatures. They demand of the Government: 1. That the immigra- ticn of foreign Jews be prohibited, or at least limited. 2, That the Jews be excluded from all places of authority, and, especially, that they be not allowed to act as single Justices. 8. That in the public schools only Christians be appointed instructors. 4, That the official statistics ot the Jews be again introduced. About three weeks ago two learned doctors, Jungfer and Foerster, teach- ers in one of Berlin’s most prominent zym- nasien, undertook, in « very loud tone, to descant on the merits of the petition, and, being rabid anti-semitics, they vented the venom of their spleen upon the Jews. Sev- eral of this persuasion were riding in the same ar, and one of them at length told the worthy Doctors — that their conduct was not becoming to gentlemen. The descendant of Abraham was answered with another supply of abuse, for which one of the Doctors was wamnly cuffed. This and afew other trifles created great excitement in Berlin; and the political friends of the Jews under the lead- ership of Haenal determined to stem the cur- rent and put a stop to such disgraceful scenes by appealinis to the Ministry for its attitude onthe subject, and by having the topic thor- oughly renovated in the Diet. Meanwhitean appeal to the public was published, signed by alarge number of the most prominent men in Berlin, among them about twenty of the ablest Professors, such as Mommsen, -| privileged classin Germ: Droysou, Virchow, Gneist, Wattenbach, and Scherer. They warmly entreated all’ who ‘ad the honor of Germany at heart to keep aloof from a movement so disgraceful to the Fatherland. ** Men are meddling with Less- ing’s testament,” they. said, who should proclaim from the pulpit and the elass-room that our civilization no longer isolates. that eople who gave us the worship of one God.” Treitschke published aletter the next dayand asserted that he rather suspected this to be a personal allusion to him. Mommsen, than Whom Germany possesses few more cele- brated names, answered that, ns far as he was concerned, Treitschke need entertam no further doubts on the subject, for he, Momm- sen, surely had Treitschke in view when he signed the document; and that it was a dis- grace for a Professor occupying Treitschke’s position to substitute passion for science in the class-room of a German university. Thus squabble the erudite over the Jewish ques- tion, and the interesting passage-atarms has created great excitement among the stu- dents. Haenal’s interpellation was discussed jast Saturday and Monday before thronged houses, Huaenal opened proceedings with a very animated speech in defense ofthe Jews. le emyhasized the clause of the Berlin Con- gress which was the condition for the admis- sion of Bulgaria, Roumania, and Montene unity of the European ces of belief and con- m can be made a ground for the ex- clusion of any one from the enjoyment of the rights of a citizen, from admission to the public service, offices and positions of honor, or from the exercise of any vocation or business, in any place whatsoever.” This clause Bismarck had strenuously detended against Gortschakoff, and it pertained par- ticularly to the Jews in these countries. Now a movement is on foot in Germany itself to deprive this people of these very rights, Maenal, therefore, besought the Government to act consistently in the mat- ter, to express their hostility to the petition In question, and thus give the Israelites that feeling of security which as citizens is due them. The Alinistry answered that no such petition had as yet been received by the Gov- ernment, and hence its contents could not be officially considered, Still the Ministry had no intention of making any change in the Jaw which gives to all creeds equality of rights, ‘The subject was then thoroughly discussed, Stoecker being amongst tnespeak- The interpellation, however, did not accomplish much. The situation remains unaltexed, and the petition continues to be circulated, Such in brief is the history of the “Jewish question.” A strange phenomenen it surely is; a layer of thick darkness amid the blaze of noon, a spectre from the grave of the Mid- die Ages stalking about in the nineteenth century, Nor is iteasy to ascertain just what has conjured forth this shadowy form. Va+ rious causes, the one perhaps conditioning and reacting upon the other, have combine to bring about the given result. Religion ean scarcely be called a prominent factor, although a significantly large proportion o! nemes on the petition are those of ‘elergy- men, and Stoecker continually pounds away on the assertion that the Jews, through the is- agency of the press, are undermining Chri: tianity. But these are rather exceptional cases. The German Constitution is at pres- ent too thinly streaked with religion for any display of fanaticism. The organ of German orthodoxy, the Gemeindebote, con- demns the anti-semitics in the strongest terms. A prominent theologian, Prof. Baum- garton, saysin a public letter: “The same spirit that prevailed in the massacre of the Jews by the Crusaders is dominant in_ this petition, only adapted to the style of the Nineteenth century.” Some politicians of the Clerical and Conservative party doubt- less favor the agitation in the hope of deal- ing the Liberals a deadty blow. This is ap- arentin the very origin of the struggle. ut to the unprejudiced American two other causes seem more prominent and more wor- thy of discussion. One of these is the green- eyed monster envy. The great economist Hoseher thinks that throughout the whole of the Middle Ages this, rather than Christian fanaticism, was the cause of Jewish persect- tion. Much as the German seeks to deny it, it surely is a factor in‘the present agitation. It is truly remarkable how much power the -Jews of Germany have managed to concen- trate into their hands. Some eighty of them oceupy professional chuirs in the univer- sities. Lawyer and Jew have almost cometo be synonymous, They occupy the highest posts of honor in the State. Other lights pale before them on the stage and in the press. in the midst of industrial depression they are always comfortable, if not wealthy. One thing is certain, however,—they are not a tain_a position of trust, it is becawse they are pre-minently fitted for it—because the posi- tion needs them more than they need it. Eliminate the Jewish Professors from the universities, and the Jewish Judges from the bench, and there would be a sad void to fill. I-know, on good authority, that Gernany, with all its boasted Lehrfreihett, will not advance a Jew unless he bea man of remark- able ability. This is apparent, too, from the fact that almost every Jewish Professor stands forth in his department as an_indis- pensable power. In the midst of commercial depression itis very trying to the middle class tosee the Jew flourishing. But to ascribe this as a rule to his dishonesty is itself the hightof dishonesty. ‘The Jew in business is to his fellow-German just whatthe American is to the German in the Fatherland, and that isasa goodly-sized quantity to zero. The Germans should be happy of the opportunity to assimilate such an element; a little more tincture of Jew would bea good thing for their constitution, Any one who is ac- quainted with the industry and tenacity of the Hebrew, and, more especially, hjs inner family life, which affords a peculiar in- centive to ambitious exertion, knows the secret of his success. Finally, this same cause is at work in the laboring classes. Demagogs of the sand-lots ply their voca- tion in Germany as well asin America, but the victims are the Jews, not their celestial brethren from the Orient. One clause of the anti-Semitic petition demands that their im- migration be prohibited. ‘They cry out that thousands of dirty Jewish “old clo?” men and tin peddlers keep pouring in from Polen ani starve out or degrade the German work- ingmen. Prof. Neumann, one of the most reliable statisticians In. Germany, has just published a pamphlet in which he conclu- sively proves that this ery is wholly frivolous and unfounded. From 1822 to 1840 Jewish immigration into Prussia exceeded emigra- tion by the small sum of 200; from 1810 to 1871, 35,106 more Jews left the country than entered it. ‘The decrease for the whole pop- ulation is 240 per cent; for the Jews 18 per cent. Conceding that all that has been said of the puwer of the Jews and their dishon- esty in attaining itis true, Germany should bitish for shame to confess to the whole world that it has thus been overreachea— nay, as some would have it, ground under the heel of a despicable handful ,of “Se- niitics.” ‘The last but by no means most important factor remains to be considered. ‘To the ‘American few features of German life are niore striking than the narrow national spirit that prevailsin the Fatherland. ‘here is a wint where laudable patriotism degenerates Inte narrow prejudice. The Germans seem to have reached that point. Deutschland, Deutschland, uber alles, the first words of their national song, is the keynote, and all good Germans hasten with auch gusto to swell a strain so expressive of asentiment that fills their hearts. Germany to them is the great “lam” amongst. the na- tions. America is patted on the head by the hoary-headed sinner with the encouraging words: “My dear little fellow, you are very young, wild, and inexperienced; but perse- Yere and you may at length be virtuous, hap- py, and great like me.” italy is but on infant barely out of its swaddling rags. Russia is a den of barbarians; and so on ina climax to France. Examine any universit catalog, and you will find that their historians rarely treat of any other country except Germany, Attend these lectures and you willlearn that the German Empire is the great solar centre around which the lesser lights move and from which they derive their light and life, Such, though not always in this exaggerated form, is the undoubted tendency prevalent in the Empire at the present day. Chauvinism is rampant in society and the Jecture-room. Now the transition from that which isforeign outside of the State to that which has a for- eign flavor within its frontiers is an easy one. In their yery midst they sco a people with a different worship and genius and different customs. “Out with the Asiatics!” “Down with the Semitics!” they ery; and beginito or- ganizeand petition to deprive the Jewsor their rights. Thisis not mere theory. Itis well known that the persecution of the Jews in 1819 was chiefly dna tothe rabid nationalism of the party called the “ Teutonists.” ‘Treit- schke is a prominent example of this class of dJew-baiters. He is thorough! permeated with this spirit. He preaches the gospel of war against all other nations. He would shut them out from Germany by a circle of fire, and pitch all un-German elements, such a3 the Jews, into the flames. Itis exceedingly strange ‘that an-historian shoula use such an argument. Noone will deny that the Jews have many disagreeable trairs, a heav: slimy secretion from many centuries of persecution. But this has rapidly fallen off in countries Where they enjoy full freedom of action. the German _ Israelites How Jong dull Tights to citizenship? On aper since 1848; in reality since aye 1869; nay, to the present day they are tacitly excluded fromthe enjoyment of commissions in the army. Whit fs a gen- eration—nay, 2 century—in the assimilation of nationalities ?_ But a drop in the bucket. For two and a half centuries the Lansitani- ans have been under Gernian rule, yet to this day they preserve their Sclavic nationality and language, though they have nos behind them a great history, and literature, and a religion different from their rulers. And yet Prof, ‘freltschke desires a greater trans- formation among the Jews, and that, too, in asingle decade. An historian should like- wise know that these differences are strengthened rather than eliminated by the employment of such means as are prope: In conclusion, it may be added that if half million of Americans, with their superior business tact and barbarous (!) customs, should settle down in Gernyariy and compete with the phlegmatic Teutons, they would be in much greater danger of persecution than the Jews are atthe present day. P. Dao. EGYPTOLOGY. WAS THOTHMES If. TIE PHARAOH OF THE MOSAIC ERA, New York World, Dec. 22. 9 Princeton, with her superabundant endows ments and faculty and her limited field, reaches across the States, and either recklesly or ruthlesly — im- perils the success of the seminary of the Northwest, she ceases to be a cherish- ing mother, and becomes a tyrant. If Prince- ton Theological Seminary had had the King- dom of God at heart, and desired only he best use of means to its furtherance, She would have said, “Ihave enouzh to spare, and more than Fean employ profitably., This new hundred thousand dollars will do four- fold more good in Chicago than here, ‘Take itand use it toestablish your scholarships ;and Whatever elso. we can do to help you in the noble work which you are nobly tryi to perform that we stand ready to do.” Thai woull have had the appearance of generosity, but in good truth it would have only been the best use of trust funds con- fided to her hands by the providence of God. GENERAL NOTES. Constantinople has been selected as their future home by 100 of the Jesuits who were recently expelied from France. Thera are 176 colored Baptist Associations In Room No. 36 of the Cooper Union last,| in the United States, with 5,103 churches, evening Dr, David P. Holton, the Corre- sponding Secretary of the American Philo- logical Society, read before that body a paper prepared by Gustavus Seyffarth on “’Pho Alexandrian Obelisk in New York: Its Age and Inscriptions.” Prof. Seyffarth says “this monolith, at present 3,746 years old, is one of the oldest monuments of ancient art, literature, history, and theology. It is closely connected with the records of the Old Testa- ment. lt is one of twenty-nine obelisks saved from the barbarian hands of the Per- sians (500 B. C.) and the Arabians (622 A. C.). It was the sixth leftin Egypt by the Euro- peans. It belongs to the eight greatest obelisks erected by the Egyptian Kings. The pyramidion contains four ins¢riptions, On the right side of the shaft three long perpen- dicular tines are to be seen, each of the lat -ter containing about fifty Words. The whole of the obelisk must have contained 200 froups, more or less, and nearly sixty have been effaced. What have these hiero- glyphic lines to tell us? _ Who is able to translate them into English grammatically and logically? What is the real key to Egyptian literature’ so long sought after?” Prof. Seyffrath then gave an extended review of the attempt of aiffer- ent Egyptulogists to decipher. hieroglyphs and his reasons for believing that the real key to Exyptian literature was unknown to Champollion and his successors. He then continued: 2 “The Egyptian literature does not consist half of idealogie (symbolic) and half of alfabetic signs, but has 680 figures of natural objects—men, limbs, animals, trees, plants, implements, ete.—tor syllabieally expressing two. or three consonants con- tained in the respective names of the figures, No hieroglyph signifies symbolically a word or idea. it is erroneous to conclude that the Alexandrian obelisk concerned the sun-god. “fhe temple on the entrance of which both the American and London obelisks once stood was dedicated to the ‘Lord, the Creator of the World.’ ‘The language of the ancient Egyptians (the so-called sacrea dialect) was the ancient Coptic related with the primitive language, the Hebrew. On the pyramidion of this obelisk we. notice this inscription: ‘The King offering a mansion to the Almighty’ (being on one side called ‘the illustrious Lord,’ and on the other *the Creator.’) ‘This God gives in remuneration to the King his own government and power.’ ?? ‘ _Inorderto get atthe correct age of the nbe- lisk Prof. Seyffarth gave an extended history of Erypt from the earliest recorded ages, and then said: *¢In conclusion, we pro- ceed to the question of what years the Kings Rameses 1. and Thotlimes ILL mentioned on our obelisk reigned and died. Since the first king, Menos, settled in Egypt 2780 B. C., G6 years after the deluge, and since the tublét of Mydos- speciiies thirty-eight kings from Menosdown to the death of Rameses IL, and sinee the same thirty-eight kmes ned 1,106 years, itis obvious that = eses I. musthave died about the year 1674 B.C. My computation has been examined and confirmed by the late Director of the Dudley Observatory at Albany, _ Prof. Mitchell. ‘The age of Thothmes IIT. is tixed by the same historical and astfonomical certainties. He was the thirty-first king aft- er Menos (2780 B. C.), and since at that time each king reigned on an average twenty-nine and a half years, Thothmes IIE. must have been crowned 885 years after Menus (2930 B, C.),—that is, about 1895 B.C, and must have died in 1866 B. C. This result is much more important than the Champollion- ists from 1823 to 1880 have imagined, for the evidences that our Thothmes ILL was the same Pharaoh who perished in the Red Sea while pursuing the Israelites is placed beyond the reach of all con- troversy by Manetho himself—to-wit: in the tablet of Abydos referring to the eighteenth Egyptian dynasty four Kings, called Thothmes—namely: Nos. 42, 43,44, and 46. Manetho calls them also Thothmes, ex- cept the third, to whom he gives the strange name of Mispragmuthos. No such name ap- pearing on Egyptian monuments, it is evident that it must involve the description of Thoth- mes 1{L Indeed, Mi-suph-rag-muth-oth rep- resents five well known Egyptian words. Mi-supt (Qlesuph) is the notorious name of the Red Sea, so often called in the Old Testa- iment the sea of Reed-gam-suph. ‘Rag’ sig- nifies_both in Coptic and Hebrew bay or in- Jet, ‘Muth’ in both languages is the word ‘died. Asash, the Hebrew ‘ish’ gives man, and in short Mispragmuthos signifies the ‘man who died in the bay of, the Red Sea. Is it. not _a remarkable act, of Providence that after 3,746 years, in which 125 generations walked over the surface of our plobe, the name and figure of that Pharaoh has again come to light before whose face Moses and Aaron stood so often; who was the hero of a tragedy unparalleled in human.history; who gaye rise to the immortal hymn, ‘1 will sing unto the Lord, for He has triumphed glo- riously’? Is it not a happy dispensation that our city and our country is at_ present in pos- session of an obelisk to which the prescn and future generations may conduct their children and by it prove to them that the Old ‘Testament is no longer a myth?” MINOR TOPICS. ESTABLISHED CHURCH AMENITIES. The London correspondent of the Living Church writes: “A great misfortune befel the Church of South London a few days.ago inthe premature death of Mr. Cay-Adams, who had sneceeded Mr. Going at St. Paul's, Lorrimore Square. The patronage being in the hands of Dr. Thorold, the ‘Low Church’ Bishop of Rochester, that prelate has-ap- pointed a young gentleman who is under- stood to be a strong partisan of hisown. In fact, it has been the ‘Bournemouth case’ over again, The congregation had made the most earnest nppeal to his Lordship to have some regard. to their feelings and to their un- broken usage of two and twenty veal But the way in which he answered them was,—to go downto the church on Sunday evening and anuounce that everything that they specially prized would have to be given up. This extorted from the crowded assembly something like an involuntary groan. After the service a very remarkable incident oc- curred, A number of ‘rouchs,’—as we call them, I suppose that in America they would be ‘loafers,-—hearing that something was likely to happen, had collected; and, for once mistaking their side (for, with us, ‘troughs’ are always sound * Protestants’), they hooted the Bishop as he drove away in his carriage, smashed his windows, knocked otf his coachman’s hat, and went near to assault the Right-Reverend Prelate! Of course thes2 uten were not members of the congregation, by whom all knowledge of them is venemently repudiated.” PRINCETON’S SELFISHNESS. ‘the Intertor. Princeton Theological Seminary has an in- come of $50,000 per annum clear of rents and taxes, and is fully equipped in buildings and libraries. It has more than sulficient to meet the demands of its own proper field. Under such circumstances it ought to be the cher- ishing mother of theological education in every part of the Church. Its Directors, Fac- ulty, and friends ought to be especially i terested in theological education In Chicazo, which isa thousand miles distant from it, and thus beyond the reach of any possible rivalry. The men of Princeton Know that this is the gateway. to and the metropolis of the great empire of the West,—that it is now, and will continue fora generation, at least, to be the centre of the richest field for the extension and growth of our own Churei and of evangelical religion. Nowhere else is there so much need. of a training-schvol for Christian soldiers,—not carpet Knights, but for frontiersmen. For scores of such all our synodical missionaries are ealli an calling in vain. Princeton is not answering this call, and, from: the nature of the case, never can. Therefore we affirm that when “4 2,840 ministers, and 424,153 communicants. At the recent Pan-Presbyterian Council in Philadelphia there was nota single lay rep- resentative of tho English Presbyterian Church. The four Methodist bodies in New Zealand, with 120 ministers, are proposing to pool is- sues and unite for a more vigorous campaign against the Wicked one. : The movement in favor of disestablishing the Church of England is steadily growing. One hundred and fifty members of the Houst of Commons openly advocate it. The Free Presbytery of Glasgow, atter 4 lorg discussion, has voted not to condemo the action of the commission of the Assembly suspending Prof. Robertson Smith. ‘The vote ‘Was 96 to 50, It is generally reported in New York City that one of its prominent theatres is owned and conducted by an Episcopalian clersy- man, who also publishes a leading religious newspaper. In/3fay, 1864, the Norfolk Union Baptist Assdéciation, colored, was organized with five churches. Last year it had eighty-five churches with a combined membership of 24,486 persons and 109 ministers. In his forthcoming book. ‘The Land of Gilead,” Mr. Lawrence Oliphant will advo- cate the “repatriation” of the Jews by the planting of a colony in the country once oc .cupied by Reuben and Gad. In Sweden 30.000 people listen every Sun- day to Methodist preaching. Thirty years ago Methadists were imprisoned for attempt- ing to preach in that country; now they have i ty churches and not less than 7,000 mem- ers. ‘The Metropolitan of Canada, the Bishop of Nova Scotia, the Bishop of ‘Tas- mania, aud Bishop Jenner are said to have sided with the Ritualists against the decis- ion of the Privy Council under which Mr. Dale ianguishes in prison. The first number of the Reformed E; palian, the successor of the Appeal, has ude its appearance, and, without doubt, will be joyfully received by the communi- cants of the church. It is a bright, newsy paper, and contains a vatuable amount of denominational news at home and abroad. The convention between Russia and the Vatican, which gives such satisfaction at Rome, was largely brought about by Prince Cubril, Russian” Ambassador at Vienna, where Cardinal Jacobini wag Nuncio. The Prince is himself a Catholic. A Russian plenipotentiary is to be sent to Rome. ‘Tha convention ‘dues not include the Polish Catholics. The robing-room of the new Episcopal chureh in Austin is fast approaching comple tion, and to be used for the presentasa chapel. It is being done at the expense of Mr. Luson, the clerzyman in charge. It is furnis! hed with chairs, a small organ, a bracket wall- altar, and three maps, which are for the Bi- ble class and Dight-school purposes. ‘The ex- pectation is of finishing the main building by fer next, Agreat scandal occurred recently in St Paul’s, Walworth, England, a rituatistic church, vacant by the death of the Vicar. ‘The Bishop of Rochester occupied the pul- pit, and took occaston to say that. In future the ritusl used in the service must be changed so as tv conform to the law. There upon a great commotion occurred in the con- gregation, in which there were both hisses and applause. After service the Bishop was hooted at. The Interior says: “The Presbyterian Boards come in for a.very large share of the estate of the late James E. Brown, of Kittan- ning, Pa, Mr. Brown lett property valued at ‘$2,000,000. Lis will, after providing for var ous purposes with 15 per cen: of the whole property, dlirects-tiat 20 per cent of the re- inainder, or about $540,000, shall be paid to the Board of Domestic Missions; the same amount to the American Bible Society; same amount to the Bourd of Foreign Missions; 10 per cent, or $170,000 each, to the Board of Education and the Church Erecting fund; and $85,000 each to the Board of Publication, the fund for disablea ministers, the work among the freedmen, and the American and Foreign Christian Union.” Protestant Germany Is already preparing to celebrate three years hence the four-hun- dredth anniversary of the Saxon Reformer’s birthday, Nov. 10, 1485. 1t Is proposed te fix upon the Wartburg, near Eisenach, as the middle point of the celebration. Dr. Kuster, the Burgomaster of Eisenach, is the Presi- dent of 2 committee charged with making the needful arrangements. It was in the Wart- burg that Luther labored at the work which was the completion of his activity as a Re- former,—the translation of the Bible into Ger- man, ‘The famous “ Luther-room” has be- come the Fert of a Luther Museum, which will probably receive many accessions by the time the anniversary arrives. It is contem- plated to give the celebration an international character. The Catholic Emancipation act in England imposes restrictions on Jesuits and members of other existing orders, communities, or so- cieties of the Church ot Rome, declaring it tu be a misdemeanor punishable with banish- ment for lite for any such to come into the reaim without a license, or for any persons - to be admitted to mnenibersbip within the Kmgdom. If, although banis' tuse to leave the country, the sovereign in Council may order their removal, and if, a6 the end of three months, they are again found in the country they may: be convicted asecond time and transported. Penal serv- itude 1s now substituted for transportatio , but, says the Law Journal, the process oi conviction twice over before any coercive measure can be taken_is so clumsy, and the severity of penal servitude for life so far overleaps the object, that Jesuits and mem- bers of other orders in Engiand have reason to consider themselves tolerably safe. Charles L, Wood, President of the English Church Union, acting in the name of twelve Bishops, 2,500 clergymen, and 15,800 of the Protestant laity, has forwarded a tetter, of which the following is a translation, to the Cardinal Archbishop of Paris: ** Monseign- eur, In the name of the liberty so dear to Englishmen, we, the_undersigned members of theclergy of the English Church, or lay- men belonging to that communion, desire to express to your Eminence, and through your intermediary to all the Catholics of France the indignation with which we are inspire by the persecution to which. the religious orders are at present subjected in France. We cannot hear of violated convents of chapels profaned, and of men celebrated by their piety and their good works thrown into the streets without a refuge, and remain si- lent. Allow me, then, to convey. through your Eminence to the victims of such an un- just persecution the expression of our warni- est sympathy in the trials to which they are subjected, and assure them may be the differences which unfortunately exist between us on many points, and how- ever crave they may be, In this respect we are heart and soul with you and the noble cause you are maintaining for the sacred cause of freedom and religion.” Ina recent number of the Northern Chris- tian Advocate the Rey. Joseph Hartwell thus criticises Dr. Thomas: “Dr. Thomas has taken great pains to magnify the impor- tance of his speculative views. Ifthe has really thought they were going to bless the world, prevent evil, and turn men to God, we lament for him most sincerely. He has pleased aclass to his own advantage; we ope he will benefit them as much. lf some hardened one among them refuses to repent, consistent with himself he ean say, *If you. don’t repent here you will over there—you are sure uf heaven anyway.’ I do not think such a sinner would tremble as the jailer did before Paul Dr. ‘Thomas says: ‘Aly nature is delicate and sensitive’; and yet, in the same Hiseounie hoe about ie butcher theory o: atonement’—using language more coarse, and rapuisive than { ed, they Te- ; whatever ,