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4 NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, MARCH 15, 1868—TRIPLE SHEET. RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. CHRISTIANS AND PAGANS. To rue Epiror oF THE HeRaLp:— The Christians are said to bear to the total population of the earth the proportion of twenty- seven per cent. The accuracy of the summation giving that result may, however, be %ela open to question. The ratio of Christianity to Paganism is not what mathematicians term a constant ; it is, on the contrary, @ variable. It is, for example, to some extent a question of health. ‘When the devil was sick, the devil a saint would be; ‘When the devil was well, the devil a saint was he. The yellow fever is a great evangelizer. Let the cholera come across the sea, and, behold you, it comes reeking with the odor of sanctity which it picked up from the ragged pilgrims of Mecca. The fold of the faithful, such as they are, presents then a remarkable increase of animals of one de- scription or another dressed in the clothing of sheep. The oscillations in the per centage of Christians are subject to considerations other than general. Mohammed, for instance, gives up to its embrace for, at all events, @ cruise or tayo, some of his most radiant votaries at the bidding of Yankee skippers, who, doing business in the waters of the Euxine, stand off and on near the shore of Circassia, Even Abraham’s bosom contributes to the number of Christians when, for instance, American Consuls play knight errant in the Holy Land by giving ‘protection’? to maids of Judah, with eyes melting as those of Ruth, and lips that, more luscious than Esther’s, would have set kings, as they appear to have set consuls, mad. The Western Governor who offered rewards for the scalps of Indians did something for the in- crease of the per centage of the faithful. The colonel who massacred squaws and papooses ‘‘out West,”’ has he not done ge service to the cause “whose lamp is lighted with wisdom from on high,” by having, in that practical way, reduced the dimensions of the darkness to be lit? But who are the Christians? The difficulty of solving this question makes the figures of reli- ‘ious arithmetic almost worthless. A writer of the rst century says:— Behold these Christians, how they love one another.” That description leads to the conclusion that no two of them have been left to our day. Behold how they love one another’s wife would—when the lady is good looking—be a more successful ground of search now, save only that in even that case it would be impossible to guard against questions of mis- taken identity which would give offence to the better class of heathens. Let us glance at subjects of religious arithmetic with the view of showing its worthlessness by special cases. How do the statistics of belief class John A. Hoffman? Is he a Jew because of his broad phylactories? Is he a heathen because he dances war dances and counts time by moons as a Tammany Indian? And Judge Hilton—can he be supposed a Christian in his ministerings to the committee of the counter at the altar of Mammon? What of his committee—men who look for the Grant of a millenium of brown wigans and ten- forties. » Those trading politicians will no donbt comply with the conditions of Christianity to the extent of selling all their goods ; but how say the religious census takers, will they give the proceeds to the poor? What of the politicians of ‘’ammany generally? Can they be said to believe i thing whatever save ina devil provided at various places in the New England Stites by the ministers of the New York and Pian teen ‘The Rev. G. A. Schmidt, lg mang nae Sea ized another at Southington, Conn.’ In Newton, Towa, between eaniy ont: thirty Lutherans are active in the projeet a new churvch, An Episcopal parish was o1 ized in Hudson City, N. J., February 24, c] rigid and vestry men Mare Sectad, and Rey. J.M. Thorpe was chosen otor. THE LAMBETH CONFERENCE. Lecture by Bishop Whitehouse. ~_On Tuesday evening, March 11, the Right Rev. Henry J. B. Whitehouse, Episcopal Lishop of Illi- nois, delivered a lecture on the “Lambeth Confer- ence, or the Anglican Communion,” at Trinity chureh, in Chicago, Ill. He said:—In order to convey any proper idea of the weight of that solemn assembly it would be neces- gary to go into the details and the condition of the events that had brought about that con- vocation of bishops. The Lambeth Conference was a convention of the bishops of the Anglican communion. It derived its name from the place in which it was held, which was the Lambeth Palace, the residence of the Archbishop of Canter- iow In the chapel of that palace the assembly “had met—that chapel from which for years the Word been sent forth. Those know of that place could at once feel the sacred associations which the name of Lambeth carries to the heart. The Angli- can communion would require @ more lengthy explanation. There was the Church of iton, the Eastern Church, which was the Greek, and the Western Church. These churches were at one time practically united on the little isle of Britain and sent out the doctrines which were to convert the world. The Church, therefore, of the British Isle was one of the great branches of the Church of Christ, and has ever retained its purity and the creed of the Church, and preached the great truths of Christ. There is a tradition which says that on one occasion several of the Savon maidens were taken captive to Rome and offered for sale as slaves in the slave mart. They were seen by the incumbent of the zeval See, who admired their beauty, and hearing that they were heathens felt compassion for them. This led to the sending of a missionary to the Saxons. The mission was under the charge of Augustine, who was consecrated a bishop—not for the Italians, but an Anglican bishop. Shortly after his arrival in that country dissensions had sprung up between the Anglican and the Roman, and the Roman and the Anglican churches were for a long time distinct and separate churches; but the breach was final divine who nation of Rome. The Church of the Anglican communion never had severed its connection with the true Church of Christ, The Anglican Church had been noble and energetic in her mission, which had spread over North, South, East and West. No sooner had she firmly established her faith at Rome than with the true Chris- tianity of a dear mother she hastened to spread the truth of Christ over all parts of Europe. It had been said in connection with the Reforma- tion that it was the original of our Church; that it began with Henry VILL; but it was not. It_had been the custom of the Romanist to ask, “Where was your Church before Henry the Eighth?” The true answer is that the Church is one body, that it has always been the same, not having severed its connection. Henry the Eighth died in communion with the Church of Rome. He had only prevented Rome’s jurisdiction within his realm that he might preserve himself. The Church of England reformed as a Church, asa branch of the Church of Christ, throwing off foreign domina- ally for the benefit of excisemen? Turk, or heathen; what says the authentic of the world’s creeds as to John Morrissey the Hit-ite? How do they classify Fernando Wood? Is he a Turk because of his sublime port, or a Catholic because he blows the bellows of the Mozart masses? Of Edwin M. Stanton, how say the cen- sus takers? Is he not a worshipper of Janus— with a family likeness to that god in the matter. of a double face—who, having kept that deity’s tem- os open during war, shows a piety worthy of neas in his determination, now in these pipin; times of peace, to hold it against all comers, shut? What say the statistics touching Charles Sumner? Whether does he te’ with the mystery of an vracle as a priest of Delphos to a votary, or in the sinister explicitness of the Old Man of the Moun- tain, speal ing to_a follower when, with his eyes fixed ae the President, he tells Stanton’ to “ stick ? What say the religious statistics of the saint whose liturgy for appointing missionaries to the pretty ones of the gentiles contains the injunction, “Be sure to Bring-’um-Young ?”’ His canonization, precedent tells us, does not make him a Christian, and who, in view of the army of sweet Amazons that have been disciplined in his household to rate of arms, would dare to set him down a urk ? PROGRESS OF THE RELIGIOUS ELENEXT IV THE UNITED STATES. During the past fortnight information has been received of the dedication of forty and the organi- gation of twenty-seven churches in this country. Fourteen of the new edifices have been erected iby Methodist societies. In New Jersey, at Mount Horeb, a honse of worship costing $10,000 and one at Lawrenceville, worth $3,200, were lately dedicated. On the first Sunday of the month, at Gloucester, in the same State, the Oakdale Metho- dist church consecrated their new edifice. In Ohio, last month, at New Dover and Washington, Metho- dist houses of worship were dedicated. Two church edifices in Pennsylvania, one at Montours- ville worth $13,000, and another at Tannersville, have been recently consecrated. In the vicinity of Clarksville, Mich., during last month, the dedi- cation of three Methodist churches — is reported. Also four more new churches at Ontario, ind., Genesee, Il., James- town, W and Dodgeville, lowa, have been lately dedicated. Of the eight Presbyterian church edifices recently completed, the most costly and imposing is the one at Indianapolis, Ind., erected at an expense of $75,000. The dedication of the chapel of the First Presbyterian church in Hart- ford, Conn., occurred on the 28th ult. At Waynes- burg, Pa.; Solon, Ohio; Dayton, W Lexington, Til.; Hartford City, Ind., and Jamesburg, N. J., Presbyterian houses of worship were dedicated last month. The Beceeaey of the Baptist denomi- nation in Iowa is indicated by the recent dedication of three church Quasqneton, Anamosa and Jordan’s Grove, while two other edifices, each at a cost of $15,000, are nearly completed in Mar- shalltown and Cedar Rapids. the Bethel church, of Marion connty, Pa., and other new Baptist churches ES) man, N. Y., Belvidere, N. J., and Wau- ., have been consecrated within the last few weeks. The Congregational society in Pent- -water, Mich., was organized two years ago with five members, and since that time they have beea growing in strength and numbers, and a few weeks ago dedicated their first house of worship, erected ata cost of $3,000. A church edifice of another sort, worth $60,000, was consecrated the 27th ult., at Pawtucket, R. L The Third church of Chico- Ze Mass., has dedicated a new chapel. Also in North Adams, Mich., Seward, Ill., and Ripon, Wis., the Congregational societies have lately dedicated new houses of worship. The Union church of the Lutherans and German Reformed at Delaware kun, Pa., receutly consecrated their new edifice, At Lebanon, Pa., Humberstow, Canada, and Brenham, Texas, Lutheran churches have been built and consecrated. Kight Presbyterian churches have been recently constituted. A colony of thirty-one members from the First church, West Ctiza, in this State, have united to form a new society. cbarch has been organized by a colony from the Presbyterian society of Du‘ Quoin, Hlinois, In ‘the same State, through the efforts of Rev. C. W. Seaman, a church of seventy-nine members was lately formed at Lebanon, aud another of sixty- eight members, only six miles from Lebanon, at ‘Trenton. Nineteen new converts, the fruit of nt revival in Dempseytown, Pennsylvania, nited to form a Presbyterian church in p Churches have also been organized vt lors town, Indiana, and in the Far West, at Decatur, Nebraska, A Cumberland Pres- byterian church of twenty-one members was or- ganized February 1, at Bethel, Ill. The recogni- tion of eight new Baptist churches is reported. A strong society of seventy-three members was or- ganized February 12, in Cleveland, Ohio, and another much smaller, consisting only of four taut Another | tion, and she had, by diligent research, gone back for ages and sought out the faith of Christ, and had not cast aside truths because the Church of Rome held the same dogma. And now, having brought the Anglican Church down to the present day, we will look at what constitutes that hureh: Bishops from all parts of the world had met to de- termine that question. There were in the Anglican communion 175 bishops, presiding over 25,000 or- dained clergy, who were spread over the entire universe, to preach the Church of Christ. This is what composes the Anglican communion. He enumerated the different churches of the Anglican communion in the world, and said that they all reflected back with credit on the mother church. The church that had come to this country had been trying experiments, and, thank God, these healed, and the whole again came under the domi- | by one! or more 4 3 next> wilt: the fulthflly, your obedte tein efoto of fow curdinan tthe New World, Dr President of th ¥ ee. Oooh ial tha Ww Avausra, Ga., Feb. 2m tae ee noeniiins learn rang dt son the ery con: Th of Phi :—'The | nected | with ge’ Mission, where Mr, e_Episco, churches of our city are still: ‘ious concerning Bishop Stevens. Accounts arereceived from him daily, His injuries are more ‘erous than was at first believed. That disease which is known b the name of railway-spine is one to which it % feared the sufferer will be a ti for life. At present he is unable to leave hisecouch, Prayers are offered for his preservation continually, and special request was made for him at the clerical Dryer meeting on Monday.” | e funeral of Mr. Hudson, an English octogena- rian, is reported by the Mi des Pyréwes have taken place at Pau ‘“‘avecle céremonial usité dans le secte jpuseiste * * * Les croyances du Pusey sont ceux qui se rapprochent le plus de Véglise, romaine.” The London correspondent of the Dublin Express says:—The second portion of the report of the ritual commissioners is about to be presented to the Queen and laid before Parliament. It relates to ornaments, and it is ramored tat the recom- mendations of the commissioners are such as will be acceptable to all well wishers. of the Church. ‘The report was delayed in consequence of the in- tervention of the proceedings in the St. Alban’s ritual case. It was thought by some of the com- missioners that a transcript oft the shorthand notes of the learned counsel’s speeches on that celebra- ted case might aid them. The speeches occupied ten days in delivery and the perusal of them must have involved enormous labor. Whether the re- turn for that labor in the way of illumination was adequate is a matter which may well be questioned. There are those who think that some of the learn- ed gentlemen ‘darkened by elucidation and mysti- fied by explanation.’ One thing is certain—that if the commissioners re; themselves as Protest- ants they ‘will find themselves abused and de- nounced to their hearts’ content,” The Manchester (English) Guardian says the justice of the Supreme Court of Natal, who has ronounced for the validity of Bishop Colenso's letters patent, is called “Cope. This is a great blow to Bishop Gray and the ritualista who sup- ort him, It is a case of Cope against Chasuble, almatic, Alb and Tunic all put together. ‘Ham- mer and tongs” is a trifle to such inter-vestment- ine warfare ! The Observer of this city (Presbyterian) says it “was announced that avery great defection from the Church of England to Rome was about to take place. It proved, however, a false alarm. Seve- ral women who had been acting as a ‘sisterhood,’ and were nominally in the Anglican Church, went to their own place. Yet there are Episcopal min- isters among us who think it a good thing to form sisterhoods and brotherhoods after the Romish idea of exclusive devotion to religious work. Their tendency is always Romeward.” LUTHERAN. The congregations of the Missouri Synod in Chi- cago, Ill., are growing rapidly. Commencing with less than a dozen poor families, twenty years ago, under Pastor Selle, now professor at Addi- son, Ill., they have now four churches and five puier, the fifth, the Rev. A. Wagner, having just een installed as assistant minister in the Emman- uel German Lutheran church in that city. The Lutheran and Missionary publishes an ac- count of a church dedication which took place at Humberstow, in Ontario or Canada West, on “Pentecost Sunday of last year.” What gives special interest to this little flock, consisting of but nine families, is that they are descendants of two members of our Church, named Hans Near (Nehr) and Nicholas Michael, who emigrated to Canada West, from Rhinebeck and Claverack, on the Hudson, New York, in 1797 or 1798. One per- son, Mary Catharine Michael, is yet living of those who first came from New York. Though now more than eighty-eight years of age, she makes use of her old German Lutheran hymn book, prepared by the patriarch Muhlenberg, printed in aie Pa., by Christopher Saver, in 1760. Another of her household treasures is a copy of Luther’s Cate- chism, paaatee in Philadelphia, by Cari Cist, in 1791. These families were in no connection what- ever with the Lutheran Church, except through these invaluable little manuals of doctrine and de- votion, for more than sixty years, and yet the re- sult of a few years of missionary labor in their neighborhood Was the organization and establish- ment of an Evangelical Lutheran church. experiments had been successful. In Africa, we have been said to look upon the horrid spectacle ofa net? that had strayed from the church, and who, by his philosophy, had tried to convince the world that it was sinful to pray to God. The colonial churches took ames at this, and called for a conference of the bishops of the church to meet in the land, where they could be gathered under the protecting wing of the mother church. Then it was that he was permitted to be present at that Lambeth Conference, where our own vigorous church was admitted to join with the mother church in distributing to the world that true gospel as preached by the Anglican communion. For reason was the Lambeth Conference called. The apostacy of that Bishop of Africa was the principal source of the Lambeth Conference. That convocation of seven- ty-six bishops had issued an encyclical letter, which he thought was one of the most wonderful productions of the age. There was not a line in that precious epistle which ought not to make every one praise God that he had lived to see the day when such a loving and Christian document had been given to the world. When that pastoral letter was read every bishop rose to his feet. That was the assent that was given to it. He said that he eo detain them much longer by enterin, into the details of the numerous ramitications o the subject, but he only wished them to give their Sa attention to one subject, the unity of the church. ANABAPTISTS. The Chamber of Deputies at Berlin has recently been engaged in discussing a petition signed by several Anabaptists, praying that the provisions of the federal law for the afmy should not be ap- plied to the Memnonites. The principles of this mob interdict them from accepting any military uty. By an Ecclesiastical Council, of which the Rev. Jonathan Brace, D. D., was moderator, and the Rev. L. L. Paine, scribe, the Rev. W. L. Gage was installed as pastor of the Pearl street Con- gregational church in Hartford, Conn., on the 26th ult. As Mr. Gage had formerly been a Unit- arian minister, he was subjected to a very close and thorough examination on doctrinal points by the moderator for nearly an hour, and then ques- tioned by the council, after which he gave a fall statement of his religious experience. The éxami- nation was perfect) porte? meeting of all the Congrega- The first fellows! tional churches in Newton, Mass., was recently held in the church and vestry of the mother aud grandmother of them all, the Congregational church at Newton Centre. There was. quite a large attendance. After spending an hour or more in social intercourse, all seated themselves in the church and listened to remarks by the differ- ent pastors of the place, and by others from vari- ous parts of the town. The Union park Congregational church, in Chicago, has adopted a rule allowing all its mem- bers to vote. The measure was carried by an ex- clusively male vote, in the ratio of four to one. Protessor Haven advocated the movement, but Professor BarYlett made a strong argument against it. It appeats, however, that women have hereto- fore voted in this church without hindrance. EPISCOPALIAN. i} es ~ The New Bishop of Georgia. According to the following circular the conse- cration of Bishop Beckwith, the new Bishop of Georgia, will occur on Thursday, the 2d of April next. The Right Rev. Dr. Atkinson, Bishop of North Carolina, is to act as consecrator, by the bishops of South Carolina and Alabama. The sermon is to be preached by the Right Rev. Dr. Wilmer, Bishop of Alabama, Bishops of other dioceses are expected to be present, and large numbers of distinguished visitors from ail sections. members, was formed on Washington's birthday, at French Grant. Two Baptist societies just re- cognized at Jessup and Winthrop, II. erecting houses of worship. At New Hampton, N.J.; Mount Sterling, Pa.; Jackson Grove, Ill, and Keystone, Minn., small Baptist churches have been formally constituted. The Fifth avenue Con- gregational ‘church, Brooklyn, bh nt out @ colony to form ® nhew society, and at the Atlantic avenue Mission another Con- | gg ong church, consisting of forty mem- ers, has apo been organized. The first Con- gregational society ever formed in Arkansas was Fecently constituted at David’s Lake. It has forty- eight members. In Mini township, Til.; in Hart, Mich., and in Oswego, Kansas, new Con regational churches have also been organized. German Lu- theran congregations are in course of organization are already The circular is as follows: — To Tas Currey ano Laity or THE Diocese oF Groreta:— My Drax Berrirex—t am glad to inform you that all necessary preliminaries to the consecra- tion of @ successor to the late Bishop Elliott have been completed. The Rey. Dr. Beckwith accepts the office, tendered him with entire unanimit the Convention of our own diocese, and all the standing committees and bishops whose replies have been received, and the presiding bishop, ac- cordingly, St. John's church, Savannah, on the 2d April, 1968. The bishops of Mississippi, South Carolina, Carolina, Alabama, Louisiana and Florida will 1 assisted | ton o' has taken order for his consecration, in | tian de Goyeneche y Barreda, Archbishoy North | the Pera perigee in the solemnity. It is desirable that | new laity of the different parishes be represented ! ure, MORAVIAN. The Moravian gives the annual statistical table of the congregations in our northern province, as compiled by the secretary of the Provincial Board. The increase as estimated by the confirmations and admissions, exclusions deducted, is 699 (in 1866 it was 583), or nearly twelve per cent, which is also the same rate as that of 1860. The number of Sunday school scholars has increased 790 (in 1866 the increase was 806). The number of com- municants in the southern provinces is 1,177, so that the whole number of communicants in both pro- vinces is 6,656, or nearly 400 more than in 1866, and the whole number of persons in connection with the Church.11,696. The whole number of ministers is 66, of congregations 51. A compari- son of the statistics of the continental, British and American provinces presents the fol- lowing figures:—Continental province (1866), com- municants, 5,248; total, 7,211; British province (1866), communicants, 3,252; total, 6,552; Ameri- can, Northern and Southern, communicants, 6,656; total, 11,696. The whole number of communi- cantsin the Unity is, therefore, 15,156; and the total of persons in connection, 24,459. In the foreign missions there are 70,311 souls in connec- tion with the Chure! The Moravian :—The African Methodist Episcopal Church and the Unitarians have formed an alliance, the members of the former Church agreeing to dissemmate the tracts and other pub- lications of the Unitarians, the favor to be repaid by assistance in money and men to the theological schools of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. The Assembly’s Committee (Old School) on Freedmen now have sixty-three missionaries in the field, and thirty-one colored students in Biddle In- stitute, all of whom look to the Assembly for sup- port. Three thousand children are gathered in the Sunday ‘schools. Fifty-six churches have been organized ; twenty houses of worship are in pro- cess of erection. The committee are in debt to ‘the missionaries for salaries, due February 1, ae and appeal urgently to the churches for aid. Rev. Joseph H. Robinson, pastor of the Presby- terian church at Cornwall, N. Y., died at that ages onthe 4th inst., in the thirty-third year of is age. He was a brother of . Charles 8. Robinson, D. D., who has An resigned the charge of the First Presbyterian church, Brooklyn. Rev. H. M. Garnett, now of this cit; form- erly for three years 3 missionary in Jamaica from the Scotch Church, has agreed to take charge of Avery College (for colored aoe in Allegheny, Pa. ‘It is expected that he will also officiate the colored church lately organized in Pittsburg. Rev. Thomas 8S. Vaill, of Newtou, Jasper county, Iowa, has accepted a unanimous call to become pastor of the church at Weat Jersey, Stark county, Ill., in the Presbytery of Peoria. ‘The Rey. A. V.C. Schenck, late Professor of Metaphysics in Westminster College, Mo., has be- come settled over the First Presbyterian church of Manayunk, Pa, Rey. William G. March, cf Canfield, Ohio, has accepted a call to the church (0. 8.) at Marysville, in the same State, ROMAN CATHOLIC, The pustor of the St. Charles Borromeo Catholic church, Brooklyn, which was recently destroyed by fire, has engaged the hall of the City Assembly Rooms, in Washington street, alongside the new Brooklyn Post Office. The sacrifice of the Mass will be offered at seven, eight, nine and half-past Yelock in the morning, and the usual High Mass with the choir of the church will take place every Sunday at half-past ten A. M. In the even- ing @ lecture will be delivered by the Rev. Dr. Freel, pastor. The new church will be at once commenced. Cardinals for the New World. Tt is well known that Pius 1X. had marked out the illustrious Pishop Portugal, of Mexico, for a seat in the College of Cardinals; but the sudden death of that prelate about the beginning of the French intervention puta stop to the measure. 'Y | Some time afterwards the Pope, who seems de- termined to confer the purple on some prelates of the New World, selected the Most Rev. Jose Sebas- for the dignity; but the sudden wi van Legation from Rome and the recognition by Peru of Victor Emanuel’s kingdom put a stop to the mea It is now reported oa good authori- Lowder has labored go zealously for many years have the Ghtreh of Rome, and be. will most unjustly be blamed for the occurrence. The Revs. G. Akers and J. Hammand have been named in the papers, but we have heard (we wish it wero untrue) that Mr. Shapcote and Mr. Windham taken a similar step. THE TYNG CASE. | Sentence of Admonition Publicly Pronounced on Rev. Stephen H. Tyng, Jr. by Bishop Potter=Transfiguration Church Crowded with the Friends of the Schismatic—Protest of Rev. Dr. Tyna. Atan early hour yesterday the space in front of ' the Church of the Transfiguration, on Twenty-ninth street, between Fifth and Madison avenues, was thronged by a quiet though earnest appearing gathering of ladies and gentlemen, for the most part sympathizers with Rev. 8, H. Tyng, Jr., and who were desirous of listening to the language of the sentence which the Board of Presbyters—appointed for the trial of Rev. Stephen H. Tyng, Jr., convicted of having violated a canon of the Church, in that, without formai permission, he had preached and participated in religious services in the parish of another rector—had enjoined Bishop Potter to utter in open church against the recalcitrant, At nine o'clock, the doors being at that hour opened by the sexton, the body of the sacred edifice was presently filled by an audience which, in low but excited tones, discussed the merits of the crime and criminal, ecclesiastically speaking. At half-past eleven o’clock the Rev. Messrs, Tyng (father and son) entered the vestibule, attired in plain black frock coats and pantaloons, and walked to- gether up the central aisle to the second row of seats from the altar, where they sat for some moments im- movable and with downcast looks, as if engaged in prayer. When at length they turned their faces to- wards the audience both gentlemen inclined their heads in a dignified manner whenever each or both recognized the face of a friend. In this manner they sat—sometimes interchanging in low tones words with each other—until twelve o’clock, when there emerged from the vestry, preceded by she rector of the church, @ procession of clergymen, which was closed by Bishop Potter, who, upon kneeling and reciting a prayer, advanced to the chair of state, where he sat during the reading of the ante-com- munion service by Rev. Mr. Houghton. At its con- clusion the Bishop, in front of the communion table, signified in a low voice his desire that Rev. Stephen H. Tyng, Jr., should present himself before him for ecclesiastical admonition, in accordance with the finding of the Board of Presbyters, before whom he had been tried and convicted of violating the canons of the Church. Tn response to this request Mr. Tyng rose to his feet and stood before the congregation, while the annexed address was read to him in sonorous tones by his superior:— STEPHEN H. TYNG, Jr., Presbyter:— REVEREND BROTHER IN THE LORD—We are here to-day, in obedience to the law of the Church, for the formance of a painful duty, It is to pronounce upon you the canonical sentence which has been recommended by the Board of Presbyters duly ap- pointed to try the presentment found against you for certain acts of’ yours complained of in the diocese of New Jersey. It appears that on Sunday, the 14th day of July, 1867, you officiated, by preaching and reading prayers in the morning andagain in the evening, in @ Methodist meeting house in the city of New Bruns- wick, in the diocese of New Jersey; and that you did thus officiate, not only without the permission of the two presbyters, whose joint cures, by the terms of the canon, included the whole of sald city of New Brunswick, but in defiance of their protest, and in disregard of the warning conveyed to you from the bishop of the diocese. The complaint of the two resbyters of New Brunswick having been laid he- fore their bishop, was by him duly forwarded to the ecclesiastical authority of this diocese, according to the provisions of the eanon applicable to such cases. The ecclesiastical authority of this diocese (being at that time, in the absence of the bishop, the standing committee) appointed, according to the seventeenth canon of this diocese, a committee of inquiry, consisting of three ge ge and two lay- men, to examine the facts of the case. The said committee of inquiry unanimously report- ed a presentment against you for a violation of section six of canon twelve, title one of the canons of the General Convention. That presentment was allowed by the stand- ing committee as the ecclesiastical authority for the time being; and twelve presbyters were named to im that you might, if desirous toexercise the privi- select the names of five presbyters to constitute the for the trial of the presentment. You having declined, after some delay, to exercise the peiviese of selection, that duty was performed by he bishop, who accordingly gave notice to five presbyters—presbyters who were among the most intelligent, calm and _ dispassionate their order in this diocese—that they were selected to constitute a board for the trial of the presentment found against you. The board discharged their duty with great lence and with a fairness and judgment that will generally pos my when the case comes to be fully under- st 7 allowed to you a large number of ab counsel, and they listened with commendable forbear- ance to arguments and discussions, which carried freedom of speech to its utmost mits and left no form of appeal to popular prejudice and passion un- tried. After careful consideration the boaad report- ed to us their conclusions and the reasons for them— conclusions and reasons which we believe will com- mend themselves to the judgment and right feeling of the great body of the Church in this country. They were unanimous in finding you guilty of the offence charged, of violating the canon already referred to, and they were also unanimous in stating “admonition” as the sentence which, in their opinion, should be pro- nounced upon you. Having taken ample time for review and consideration, and allowed sufficient op- portunity for further pleas in your behalf and for the examination of them, we have now to express our approval of the finding of the Board of Trial; and we do here, in virtue of the authority conferred upon us by the great head of the Church, and in accordance with the recommendation of the Board of Presbyters appointed by us, deliver to you this our admonition for the offence of which you have been found guilty by your brother presbyters: the offence of officiating, in violation of the law of this Church, within the joint parochial cure of two presbyters of a neighbor- diocese, in ego d to their expressed wishes, and in disregard of the warning of the bishop of that e8€. We have said that this is the performance of a painful duty, It is so, not because we deem the law of the Church, which has been violated, harsh or un- reasonable; nor on account of any want of fairness, or want of thoroughness in the proceedings which have resulted in this sad conclusion; but because of tha | ioe which we feel in finding ourselves constrained utter words of censure where we would so gladly speak only in the voice of loving commendation. But in administering our weighty office we are bound, no less than others, to guided by the re- Sarai of law, and we have to take heed that we jo not allow feelings of tenderness for individuals to interfere with lawful and necessary measures for preserving the order and discipline of the Church. We believe we do not ex the limits of a widely truth when we express our conviction that scarcely bishop in this country has exercised in equi sure towards a presbyter the kindness, forbearance and generosity which have been shown by the pre- sent bishop of the diocese toward zou, and toward those connected with you. In reviewing the yee we feel no regret that gentleness and kindness have been thus conspicuous in our bearing toward you. And while we are iree to say that we do not mean to allow discipline in the Church in this diocese to h through our own be ed or our tenderness toward individuals; yet we do mean to continue to make it our earnest endeavor, with humble prayer for the assistance of God's race, to stand ever ia a indly paternal relation go all our clergy; to keep out of our mind all bitterheas of feeling—all undue harshness of judgment towards those who deal in- considerately with the doctrines or with the order and law of this Church. We mean to distinguish, so far as may be possible, between the individual and his official acts; to make allowance for the erroneous views and wrong impulses which have resuited in part from jucation and other partial in fuences; to cordially recognize every good quality and really useful service, thus keeping ourselves in a condition to be just in our judg. ments, and kind in our personal feelings, in spite of all waywardness of individual ya but at the same time holding ourselves ready to be firm in the exercise of whatever discipline may be called for by the law of the Church, and rendered necessary for the maintenance of its order and well being. The interpretation of the canon under which the complaint was lodged against you in the diocese of New Jersey, and under whieh in this dio- cese you nave been presented, tried, and found ity, has been with great vehemence disputed, but disputed, as we think, with very little reason. The Bishop of New Jersey, the Standing Committee of this diocese, which, in the absence of the bishop, received the complaint from New Jersey and acted upon it in the appointment of a Committee of Inquiry; the Committee of Inquiry itaelf, which unanimously presented you for the vio- Jation of that canon, and the Board of Presbyters ap- pointed to try you, and which unanimously found rou guilty, all concurred, as it is believed, that a very large proportion of the whole Church in this country would concur in the same plain and obvious inter- pretation. The history of the canon and its language, a8 well as the reason of the thing, make It clear that the Church designed, in section 6, canon 12, title 1, to confer upon re exclusive territorial jurisdiction, 80 far as might be necessary to protect them from in- trusion and disturbance oiter ministers of this rayers in or. withi the pa- colt Bebe et rs e for U rene or, Inte ataence wanlens and yestrymen, ra majority of them.” And it © fin reference to a previous para- graph in reference to boundaries and subdi- Visions of towns, dc.) “that if there be but one church or con tion within the limits of such village, town, township, borough, city or such divisions of @ city or town as herein pro- vided the same shall be deemed the paroclual cure of the minister having charge thereof. If there be two or more oy Pes or charches therein, it shall be deemed the cure of the ministers thereof, and the assent of ihe majority of such ministers shall be necessary. Now, in the city of New Brunswick, where the acts complained of were done, there were two churches or congregations, and a minister in charge of each of them. By the terms of the canon nothing can be more clear than that the city of New Brunswick, for aul che parooeeect this canon, was the joint parochial cure of these two ministers, so that no clergyman of this Church could rightfully oMiciate in any part of that city without'their consent, It is obvious both from the terms of the canon and from the reason of the thing that if a clergyman of another place desired to officiate in one of the two parish churches in New Brunswick the assent of the minisler of that church would be sufficient; but if he desired to officiate in some other place within the city of New Brunswick which was not one of the parish churches nor an edi- fice especially Spporetne to the charge of one of jose ininisters, but a place wholly unrecognized by this Church, then he must have the assent of both the ministers in that city. The canon law of this Church is for the ministers and people of this Chure: and has no relation whatever to the ministers ans people of other religious bodies, To say that the lit- eral, natural, and usual interpretation of the canon in question, ascribing to the two ministers of this Church in New Brunswick @ jurisdiction over the whole of that city, for the purposes of the canon, is to claim for them an absolute jurisdiction over all the ple and over all the religious houses of that city, to something so fa- grantly unreasonable and unfounded that only persons who wish to be deceived can be deceived by it, As well might we say that the canon law of this diocese, because it extends over all the territory of this diocese, so far as the clergy and arishes of this church are concerned, must there- fore be considered as applicable to all the ministers and people of other religious bodies within tho geo- graphical limits of this diocese. Such a perversion of plain facts may possibly answer the purpose of an appeal to headlong popular prejudice and passion; but surely it is unworthy of considera- on before an intelli gens Board of Presbyters of this Chreh, engaged in the grave duty of inquiring into the law of this Church and into the conduct of one of her ministers. ‘The canon in question is designed to prevent intrusion by one minister into the parochtal cure of another. It is intended to prevent disturb- ance from rivalry and conflict and from the officiating of a strange clergyman under circumstances calcu- lated to give trouble to a peaceful minister and to interfere with the quiet and order of his parish. We know. from history that this was the design of the canon in its present form, and that its later modifica- tions were suggested by the rude action of a minister of this Church im another diocese, who refused the invitation of the parish clergyman to preach in his parish church, and persisted, in spite of his remon- strance, in going to preach in a neighboring place of wee of another religious body. But if this canon be designed to afford protection from intrusion and disturbance, how could it do so if cH allowed a minister of this Church to go into a city like New Brunswick and preach in any place he could find open to him, in spite of the ld of the two rectors, and in spite also of the kindly warning of the bishop, provided only he did not push violently into one e parvcl churches, or into one of the houses of one of the xoccepiised parishioners. Suppose that a ours clergyman, with the rashness 80 natural to youth and a fiery temper, and to nar- row views of Christian truth, should determine in hig own mind that the two ministers in New Brans- wick were not preaching the pure Gospel of Christ, and that it was his duty to go into that city, and, re- gardless of fear or favor, to lift up the true standard of the cross, Suppose he should betake himself to a Methodist meeting house in the near neighborhood of the two ministers of that city, for the pur- pose of using that edifice from time to time asa secure citadel from which he might launch forth his burning arrows—send out his more than ambiguous words to destroy, if possible, the contidence of the eople in their pastor—to turn their heads with new led ideas of religion, to inflame their passions, and in time to stir up and organize a violent oppost- tion against the peaceful, steady-going ministers of God’s Church, would such a thing be proper to be allowed? And knowil what we do of human nature and of certain phases of religious opinion and character, could we ive that Church credit for wisdom and fore it which provided no safeguard against sucn a peril—which did nothing in advance to check and restrain turbulent and heady tempers? If there were nosuch canon in existence in this Church it would be her duty toenact one with the least possible de- lay. So longas she should continue without it she would be an gee ger to all the true branches of the one Catholic and Apostolic Church since the time of les, She would be leaving both her shepherds and her sheep e: to wolves. And stil that if the Church had no canon on this sul it were really one of doubt- ful begs age ge would yet be the duty of a minis- ter of this Church to abstain from acts which must needs be led as intrusive, disturbing and im- pertinent towards his brethren. Had @ clergyman of this Church a hundred times the amount of talent and energy usually found in any one man he might yet ex all his talent and all his energy to the extremest bounds of his bok in ‘and lawful fields of effort and duty, without once violating any canonical law or over- passing any one limit of fraternal courtesy or Chris- tian kindness. ‘The apostle exhorts us to be “courteous,” to “look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the of others’’—‘to let nothing be done through strife or vain glory;”’ and we inay fully recog- nize any plea of zealand seif-devotion, and yet affirm that there is nothing in the gospel which requires or encourages Christian ministers to be rude and in- trusive toward each other. But if we have a canon which in the most express terms meets en just referred to and provides a safegui it—a canon which has history, explicit ology and cogent reasons, all point to one obvious interpretation—then what are we to think of the clamor with which that interpretation has been assailed? What are we to think of the Christian judgment and temper of those who have chosen to denounce bishops and clergy and all in both dioceses connected with these proceedings—proceedings entered upon with much reluctance, and sary, to vindicate the law and to maintain the needful discipline and order of the Church? What, we say, are we to think of those who denounce bishops and clergy, complainers and triera, as if they cared nothing for the law and order the Church—as if the: had no conscience, no rectitude—and as their one great object had been to persecute and humble an opponent? Such imputations in such @ case would be little creditable to the rude conflicts of a secular court. Coming from clergymen they excited our special wonder. When the letter of the law and the reason and necessity of the case supply & very obvious justitication of the action of Chris- tian men the imputing of evil motives simply implies that prejudice and passion have blinde: e judg- ment if they have not done something still worse. It is no doubt true that offences against this canon have sometimes been allowed to pass without notice. Such offences be committed through inadver- tence and inconsideration, and form no part of a settled design or purpose. They may not be doue in defiance of protest and warning, or they may occur at a time when the individual offending stands almost alone in his disposition to trifle with the settled law and order of the Church. ‘he law may have been thought diMcult of application in a great city guch as _ this, where parish boundaries are almost obliterated, and where the effect of an lar act, in dis- turbing the peace of neighboring parishes, is almost lost in the vastness of the crowd of ministers, ghurches and people. In such cases, and in others like them, presbyters may not have cared to com- _ and the authorities of the Church may not. ve thought it necessary to interpose. But no one had any right to infer from such omissions to com- Plain or to prosecute, that the law was regarded 39 obsolete, or as virtually abrogated. There is abun- dant evidence that the law was not generally looked upon in the Church asa naility, and that it was con. sidered as intended to apply to presiesty such cases _ that which was comp! of in New Bruns- ck. But if some irregularities may be borne with and allowed to pass without notice im times when there is nothing like organized effort to break through the settled principles and usages of the Church. the case {s altogether different when there is an avowed de- termination to ignore or to change those principles and usages, en it becomes the imperative duty of those who are chal with the care of the discipline of the Church to see to it that her laws are respected. Then it becomes a ve question whether the private fan- cles, the seif-will and passion of @ few individuals shall be allowed to overrule the principle and gov- ernment of the Mathes a whether that government shall be maiutained, a? whatever cost to the mis- guided individuals who geek to trouble it. And if individuals suffer from these | patna or if the tranquillity of the Church ts tem; | dis- turbed by them, who is responsible for the suffering or for the disturbance? Surely those who, by their violations of law and order, have made an ene to formal tribunals necessary, and not those who have merely yielded, and yielded reluctantly, to the obli- gation forced upon them to take measures for the Maintenance of the Church’s order and discipline, Were it not for the stadied efforts which have been Made to mislead the popular judgment, it would be quite unnecessary to remind you that you are not censured for preaching the Gospel; that you are not censured for preaching the Gospel in another re- be edifice than one expressly devoted to the use of this Church. Had that edifice been in @ remote rural district, far distant from any clergyman af Place of worship of this Church, and ha you no- cepted an invitation to occupy the edifice for One or more services in order to afford the ministrations of the Church to that neighborhood, there wonld have been no law to condemn you for doing so, no Teason for com ning ot You are ceughred f ineeuding {nto the parochial manently destroy: at iy ents aie important , j uch object mpi enoug! astra exo verer measures and more troublesome p than ever these have been, should the Beceaaaty, We maintain the government ref order of the Church, i In the course of the discussions and appeals con- nected with the case.a great deal hag been said about the unrestricted liberty of preaching the Gospel, and the imperative duty of preaching it under any and all circumstances, These are fine sounding words, which find a ready entrance into the ears of unthink- ing people. But, as often happens with such harangues, they have in them very little reason, In every state of society in which We may be whether civil or ecclesiastical, we find ourselves abridged of some of our nat liberty. There can be no society without law and order, and if we would enjoy the blessings of the society, we must com) ‘with its conditions; ne must Be oe ru We cannot take in our Ne! rs house, nor sit down to refresh Ourselves at his table without hig ermission.. Lo appropriate to ourselyes anything In Which he has acquired a Property, is to ex] ourselves to condemnation and punishment. If we become members of the Church of God, and, much more, if we become its ministers, we must conform to its trath, its order, its discipline. Our liberty is re- strained We are no Loe gs independent thinkers, free follow any Yarran fancy of ourown. We are not left at liberty to preach kind of doctrine which our narrow and partial minds may invent. ‘The maja parts of our duty in the priesthood are all plainly and precisely set forth for us, and we are required 1o Keep within the limits prescribed to us. Under us solemn circumstances as any in which man can be placed in this world—that is, when we are be- fore the altar, just previous to’the imposition of hands for the holy priesthood—we make our vow, that by the help of the Lord we will give our faithful diligence always so to minister the doctrine and sacraments, and the discipline of Christ, as the ‘Lord hath commanded and as this Church hath re- ceived the same. “As the Church hath received the same.” We are tied up to that—we are not free. If we cannot teach her doctrine fairly and justly, as it is deduced from her formularies and taught by her great divines without false glosses and distorted interpretations our own, then we are bound to renounce her minis- try. And, again, if we cannot submit to her law in regard to the methods and limitations of our agency as her ministers; if we cannot preach where she ordains us to preach, and abstain from reaching where she forbids us to preach; (forbids, Becuuse even the preaching of the ‘gospel may be turned by men’s Ciayreran into disorder and sin, and may, under certain circumstances, become a breach of charity, and an olfence against God;) if we cannot minister in a spirit of dutiful reverence and obe- dience, keeping iar within the limits of law and or- der, “giving no offence in anything, that the minis- try be not blamed,” then better a thousand times would it be for us, and for the Church, that we should turn aside from the munistry of peace and expend our energies upon the ob- scurest und lowliest mechanical crait. ‘Ihe for- tunes of any individual or set of individuals, in any one age or country, are of trifing importance compared with the permanent order and well being of the great spiritual body of Christ. How many ‘lorious saints of God have made full proof of their faith and love and self-devotion, in every age of the Christian Church, and left their bright examples for the joy and consolation of the faithful in all alter times. They shrenk from: no self-sacrifice; they braved every peril; they were mighty in their labors and often in their sufferings; but they found ample room and range enough for their almost superluman exertions, Without violating any law of the Church, and without exalting themseives above that precept which enjoins us to be “courteous” toward our brethren, and indeed toward all men, ‘These observations, extended much further than would have been necessary but for the eiforts that have been made to confuse a very plain question of order and discipline, must now be brought to a con- clusion. We have ielt ourselves obliged to be dis- tinct and emphatic, but we have tad no wish to be severe. We have no feeling "in our hears that would prompt us to be so. If there be any severity in appearance, it is the severity in which tue truth, in its application to individuals and cases, Will sometimes clothe itself. You will utterly mistake the whole character of these proceedings from beginning toend, the motive in which they originated and tue spirit in which they have been conducted and co} cluded, if you attribute them to any unkind person: feeling, or to any sinister motive connected with theo- logical opinion or party conflict, Indeed, the judg- ment and temper which could ignore the plain facts and principles of this case, and ascribe all these measures to narrow personal or party, pas- sions, would be little to be envied, Should ‘ou find it eran we your views ane feel- ings, We earnestly hope and pray you may, to prose- cute your work in e epirit of loyalty to the princl- ples, discipline and usages of the Church of which you are @ minister, we, for our part, and we beneve we speak the mind of the whole Church, would only unmixed satisiaction in extending sympathy, emcouragement and hearty commendation to every useful effort you might be ed to make. Tmregard ture stability of our branch of the Church—in all her great features—her doctrines, ministry, worship and discipline—we have the un- speakable comfort of resting in quict in the fullest ran assurance. ‘The ephemeral excitements of to-day are forgotten to-morrow. The shortlived and feeble individuals who fancy that they are inaugurating great changes, if not great revolutions, quickly pass away, and the city of God is seen standing unharmed; every walk and bulwark and tower unmutilated; only rising an expanding, and extending herself witha stri miracuious L acvinnd peopled with myriads of busy; hearts and hands;’ animated with the working of lofty spirits; vocal with praise; bright with a divin peace and joy; and becoming, beyond all humag antictpation, a nighty power in the earth. For tha Church we have no fear. She is safe under the card of her Lord, and in the strength of her great princi- ples. But for individuals we are often moved with an ous concern; how much effort may be wasted, how much good may be marred, how much indi? vidual Christian peace may be ruined, how much character may be lost in passionate undertakit which have @ show of zeal and self-devotion, bul which have a fatal defect as bemg misdirected and wrong in principle. ‘With a paternal interest and affection, which we have never ceased to feel for you since the day when: we had the satisfaction of receiving you into the sacred. ministry, we would expreas our hope, as we are very ad to intimate our trust, that your future career your high and most holy calling will be blameless and harmiess; bright and long continued in ever tn- creasing usefulness and honor, full of the fruits of righteousness to the glory ‘of God and to the enlarge- ment of His vlessed kingdom on earth. Bevassured that we shail ever be ready to sympathize with Jo4 in your trials, and to uphold you in every rightful endeavor to accomplish the work given you to doy Every feeling we have in our heart toward you wild prompt us to rejoice when you rejoice—to weep with you when ou weep. The all merciful Lord grant that your '$ of sorrow may be few—your days of joy and thankfulness may be many ! And now the God of who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus Christ, the Great Sueps herd of the sheep, through the blood of the evers lasting covenant, make you perfect in every work to do His will, workit in you that which well pleasing in his sight: through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen. Immediately on the conclusion of the reading Rev. Dr..Tyng, father of the “admonished” clergyman, roe to his feet, and, opening apaper, remarked that he desired to read a protest. He had commenced with “To the Right Reverend,” when Dr. Houghton’ began, as if perfect silence reigned, to read the prayers in the Institution office, commencing “O Almighty, who bas built Thy church on the founda- tion of the Apostles and Prophets,” &c. In this pro- ceeding the Doctor was encouraged by the Bishop, who, waving his hand in a decided manner, re- marked, ‘Proceed; go on; go on.” Perceiving. that it was the determination of the Bishop not to permit any objection being read in publicf Dr. Tyng ceased his prodest, and by the side of his son remained standing until the conclusion of the prayer. On the pronunciation of the benediction by the Bishop the elder Tyng advanced to the altan and handed to him the annexed protest, in which the rector of St. George’s church declares he will appeal to the general convention of the Episcopal Charch, and roundly denounces the whole proceeding as an outrage and @ farce, which was accepted, and the Bishop then hastily, without even glancing at the document, re-entered the vestry:— ‘ To the Right Reverend Horatio Porter, D. D., Bishop of the basa ed Episcopal Church, in the Diocese of New York: Right REVEREND ‘Sin—It has been your pleasure to “approve” of the “findings” of this court of pres. byters, and you have now inistered the sentence of admont ion” “recommended” by them against the resy nt. ‘This is your own act and your own responsibility. 4, Stephen H. Tyng, D.D., a presbyter in the Protest. ant Episcopal Church, in’ the diocese of New York, ‘and rector of St. George’s Church, in the city of New York, and one of the counsel for this respondent, do most’ 4 but firmly enter my solemn protest against this whole proceeding, now completed, from {te commencement to its conclusion, as false in ite just in its principle, uncanonival in its form, illegal its transactions, iniquitous in ita and voluntarily and tently persecuting: development. poe from this decision t val thereof, ne under the become most earnest sense justice with which this respondent hi been treated, to the supreme and final decision of the General Con- vention of the Protestant Hpiscopal Churob in the United States; to the a sonse of Justice and Tighteousness in the iudividual members of the