OUS LOUDON OOESESPONDENCB. London, Dec. 19th, 1803. Ae appointment of Dr. Stanley, as Dean T(\ estminster, is not to be suffered to unnoticed by the Evangelical party Church of England. ' It wasscarce ly that it would be so, since Dr. ty’s published opinions indicated his mind was far from correctly bal between orthodoxy and rational was notorious that he did not in relation to Scripture, those -s which are considered by the Churches, essential to the main -1 the authority of revelation, the sanction of religion, of the very of Christianity. But it was cer , he had published bpiiions difect- 1 " rary to the canons of“thfe Church bf he was a member, and although the' iar legal and political position of that enabled him to sustain his relations with perfect immunity, no man of mable impartiality could deny, that principles were not always concurrent h those of the articles of the Establish it. Under these circumstances it was inful enough to the people of England see this man made the spiritual adviser (1 companion of the Prince of Wales; still more painful to those who vene ed the Scriptures and the doctrines of ristianity, to see him, on account of bis jOnal connection with the heir apna 't, appointed to one of the most impor offices of the English Church. It was iding too great a premium to the tad Church Divines to elect one of to a high position, and thus give to a prominent status, as well as an iragenient to more extreme views; it is not singular, therefore, that a pro- .. should have appeared, and that from high quarter. Canon Wordsworth, in a ir to “ The Times,” impeaches the pro iety of Dr. Stanlfey’s-yippolntment, and r es voice to the opinion of a great ma in the English Church. Canon /dsworth cannot fail to acknowledge the illiant abilities of the Doctor—his “pic •esque gracefulness of style and attrac 'e charms of manner.” But he clearly leives that Dr Stanley’s opinions ren biin incapable of properly and con tiously filling the office, to which he been assigned. He considers him be tainted “ with' erroneous opinions irning the fundamental truths which Church of England is commissioned to .; ” to have uttered opinions “ tending unsettle the faith in the truth and inspi ion of the Hofy Scriptures.” On this *und Canon W. has felt it necessary to. k candidly and boldly regarding the dntment, and has done so in a letter ich he will, I am sure, never see rea to regret. I have before, in relation 11 Good Words,’! given utterance in your tmns to niy belief that the greatest dan ■.o the Christian cause in the present day ,n extreme and unreasonable idea of istian charity. Toleration, which shines a virtue when governed by moderation 1 reason, becomes a crime when it is car to indiscretion 5 ; and if it is execrable to ' religious opinions by iron bondage bloody persecution, it is equally weak criminal to overlook and permit infi opinion on the p retence of a wide and im bracing charity; Ohristianity. means ler a league nor a truce with the of evil .:' it.is, so long as the world a perpetual' and uncompromising with them all. I think, therefore, that iver may be said, by the English free ing Christians (?) abbiit the odium \.um, Canon Wordsworth has only trged a grerit religibah and public in thus objecting to Dr. Stanley’s ap tment. Dr. Stanley has made state which “ create an uneasy suspicion, when science has made farther pro , the Bible must recede from the po mitnow occupies.” If so, and if these Dr. Stanley’s opinions, how can he it an office whose whole meaning and •t is the maintenance of Scriptural re ? We eannot tellj; but the day has yet come for giving up an iota of our le—it stands still irreproachably the and direct revelation of God to his ires; time has riot impaired it; <;e has not corroded its fine arid noble jents; reason has become demented endeavors to attack it; while through ue ages wheroverman bag felt his in 'ty and instability, he'hasfound en uragement and strength in the recesses this invincible tower. So that to-day i man who would profess to be the mi ster of God in a Christian Church, must iarily and chieflymaintain the integri md authority of the Holy Scriptures, tially should it be so when he is to and influence many of his brethren. )r. Wordsworth was quite right to venti ,te the question, and as he is resident lean, his attack comes with considerable Uce. " The Times, ’’ professing to re present public opinion—\frhich is a thing tftener invoked than ever really obtained— eembdto think the Canon’s cnvil uncalled or, io Question tiie propriety of his otionkaf But it publishes a letter this aorning which well answers its criticism}: The letter is from Reginald Smith, Rector of Stafford, and I give you the greater part of it as it brifly exhibits the objection to Dr. Stanley. I have not a shadow of doubt that an immense majority of the clergy agree with Dr. Wordsworth in deploring the appoint ment of Dr. Stanley, and that because they cannot reconcile his published opinions with reverence to our blessed Lord and his inspired Apostles. lam myself of a different school of theology from Dr. Wordsworth ; but, in common as I believe with the whole body of the Evangelical clergy and laity, I feel indebted to him for the stand that he has made; I maintain that both in his opposition and in his man ner of offering it he has combined faithful ness with charity, according to the rule laid down by St. Paul, 1 Cor. xvi, 13 and 14: Dr. Stanley and his friends attribute our opposition to. the odium (heologicum, and to a .narrow-minded exclusiveness: .and a dread ojf free criticism, .’they are wholly mistaken. We by no means wish to nar row the broad basis of the church as a na tional establishment; but surely, sir, there must be sbme limits to the latitude of opi nion in the authorized teachers of Chris tianity. The spiritual interests of the laity are at stake. It is essential, to their pre sent and eternal welfare that those who are appointed to teach them should be preachers of the gospel—men taught by the Holy Spirit, and sincere disciples of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. We do not attempt to sit in judgment on the individual relationship in which Dr. Stan ley stands to the God and Judge of all. We speak of him only as a public teacher, and we protest against his appointment to a place of high dignity and influence in the church, not because he differs in opinion from ourselves, but because he lias shown by his writings that the authority of the Old and Hew Testaments, and that of our Lord Himself is to him a matter of small moment if it comes into colision with a rationalistic theory. To refer to one instance only:—Abraham is upheld by our Lord Himself as an example of true faith. His conduct in the offering of Isaac is specially commended by two Apostles, Heb. xi., 17, and James iii., 21. It is farther stated that Jehovah Himself spoke to him from heaven and said (Gene sis xxii.,) “Because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, in blessing I will bless thee.” Dr. Stanley sets all this aside, and represents Abraham as having acted ’from that impulse which" led the heathen to offer human sacrifices, and which the whole Bible declares to have been abominable superstitions most offensive to God. We are unable to re concile such a treatment of Holy Scripture with even a low degree of the reverence due to its Divine author. On this account we are grateful to Dr. Wordsworth for his protest. We should be sorry indeed that the church should lose the genius of men of learning and talent such as Dr. Stanley; but better. da>withoo*- j we can do'without Christ and the Bible. To us it is not a question between Dr. Stanley’s views and Dr. Wordsworth’s views, but between German rationalism and faith in the Word of. God. Whether Dr. Stanley will take no notice of this attack and proceed to accept and be invested with the Deanship, does not yet appear. Certainly Canon Words worth puts it to him strongly, whether or no he can take it in conscience: and it is a capital stroke which he makes, when he says that he will pr esume that Dr. Stan ley’s acceptance is a “public retraction and recantation of whatever in his writings can be shewn by fair and reasonable de monstration to be at variance with them.” This puts Dr.' Stanley to the test : as a paper says, he must either “ explain or re tract” I fancy, however, that he is more likely to take the post and do neither 1 And so wide is the dissemination of these “ libe ral” or "tolerant” opinions that in a few days his heterodoxy will be forgotten and he will be left- to his own conscience. The way in which the Scotch “ Modera tor ”, answers the charge of the Strathbo gie Presbytery, against “ Good Word,” is by trying to prove that the district of Strathbogie is " eminent even in Scotland' for unchastity!” The argument is this: Ais a minister: A says that B’s views are un-scriptural; B replies by saying that A’s son is a rake; ergo, B would have us believe that he is thoroughly orthodox ! We live in curious days. lam sorry to see the course the " Weekly. Remew ” is taking with regard to “ Good Words.” I know and respect the editor too much not to regret thb violence and bad taste which sometimes darken his columns. It is not, as he seems to think, a Question as to whether " Good Wordk ” Is better reading than foul novels, but as to whether “ Gpod Words ” is good reading for faithful Chris tians, And I think Mr. Alexander suc cessfully settled that it was not. It is very important, in these days, that a rell gious newspaper should be moderate in tone and expression, for the world judges of Christianity very much from the temper of. its; ministerial or printed exponents. We have had during the last fortnight, a hot battle between Mr.; Gobden and Ihe Times,” in which gross personalities have been indulged in ; but what is one’s sur prise on opening the “ Weekly Review” to find such writing as this by a Christian hand? ; "The person who. could first listen to an eavesdropper, and then write ‘T. D.’s’ letter, is not -only no gentleman, but unfit for'the'society of gentlemen. There is a .pkftyinJhe Frees Church at present which jsasUoMems immjXjit ways and PHILADELPHIA, THUDS DAI, JANUARY 7, 1 8 64. means of rendering itself conspicuous by want of sense, want of manners, want— we say not of Christianity—but of the first principles of worldly honor. We cannot help adding that we wonder our contempo rary polluted his columns with this exhi tion of spite and baseness. Our views as to the admission of correspondence into a newspaper are, our readers will admit, not wanting in tolerance; but no journal, with a proper sense of its own dignity, would lend itself to the propagation of beggarly scandal, or an attempt to intimidate a com mittee in its work.” There is no excuse for savage attacks like these, and in a religious paper they are lamentable. Presbyterian union still anxiously exer cises us all. It is prayed for, hoped for, worked for,., and must come at last. " The nature of the discrepancies is such, how ever, that I almost despair of their being assorted until the generations now living have gone to the tomb. There are men alive who have taken part in some of those struggles whence the divided sections re sulted, and they cannot easily swallow theiri prejudices. Did these men see in its true light the grandeur of the scheme, the importance of it to all Christendom— could they but forego their private preju dice for the benefit of Christ’s universal cause, many of them would, before they died, see a wondrous result which would make them die jubilant. The concentra ted power of -the strongest,, most Scriptu ral of all denominations—the corporate zeal of a United Presbyterianism would be progressive beyond all conception. To draw away the attention of the people from these minor differences, and prove the paradlftunt ad van trges—political, reli gious, denominational, international—of a United Presbyterian Church, seems to me to be the best course that we, who appre ciate and believe in these advantages, can pursue. The discussion in the Joint Com mittee, on the relation of the civil magis trate to religion and ; the churchy has only resulted in the remission of, the subject to the consideration of each separate section of the Committee. The Manchester Pres byterians are determined not to let the subject rest, atd" had their third meeting the Bth inst. I agree with one, pf*rae speakers in advocating a general, frge, un endowed Presbyterian 'Church for the Em pire. “Such a church John Knox would have gone for. Such a church the Apostle, Paul, if he had been living in London, would have desired! There was riothing to be gained un]ess;'%ey 'preBenfce fairs, succeed ing each other, after a year of .interval, whose object was to raise funds for this great charity, and with the memory of these fairs, and the associations of the Home, 'will come the- recollection of one who was the presiding genius of the occa sions, and whose energy and 'industry worked faithfully the vast machinery‘foear ihg upon the ndblfe object, and whose sudden death has clouded the day of its completion. Anna M. Hobs, after a life of devotion to others, has gone to meet the reward awaiting her at her Master’s hands. ' She has spent her life in earnest seeking after God’B will, and resolute leffortSftß -fhlfill it faithftilly; every charity found in 'her an Retire and untiring, co-operator; her hand was ever ready to minister to the suffering and needy;; her warm heart was ever open to loving charity, and her pure‘Christian words always‘ waiting to pass the portals of her lips. - In the first hours when :tfte call was made for woman’s labor in . the cause of patriotism, Anna Ross took her position as nurse, and principal of : an institution for the suffering 'soldiers, and' from the ment when she first undertook the oner ous duties appertaining to the position she has never faltered, never wearied'. Day and night found her at post ; no disease was too dangerous, no wound too loath some for her hands to minister to; no suf ferer was tQp rude;for her, gentle, sympa thy ; no discouragement too' great," to un nerve her heart, and when the'way was opened for the foundation of a Home for the discharged soldiers her whole energy and life was thrown into the enterprise. She visited all who could give aid or in, fluence to tho scheme, travelling over the State, canvassing the city, and, while still constant at her old position, her earnest endeavors were ever bent , toward the for warding ef the noble scheme. The E«rfe^t:self-sacrificeof her life can °^? s .^-«8’88- r^§^!8 4 Mi by those who have watched her tebbrse, 'been'- taken into a place, in the same, warm heart that;,,cast no. one out,, jnd marked the daily and hourly toil for' the beloved object. '' At last the work was near completion. Aided by noble and patriotic friends, sus tained by the citizens of Philadelphia, en couraged by every well-wisher of the disa bled soldier, she saw the building opened for tfie reception of furniture, took her po sition as Vice-President of the lady mana- worked still faithfully to bring all to perfection, till worn down by almost superhuman toil, utterly exhausted by her unparalleled exertions she laid down her life dd the very day when the Home for which! she had given it was dedicated, her words of parting being, “I did not think my work was done, but God has willed it so ;(His will be done.” . Vet, though the heart that willed is for ever stilled the hand tLat toiled, clasped now in Death’s icy fingers'; the voice that urge 1 and persuaded, hushed forever, the Hoi lie stands a living monument of her enei jy and patriotism. She has raised her t|rn most sacred memento, and it now remi iis for the community to see that her men ory is indelibly engraved for future generations. Let the name of the noble woman whose life has been given for the work! be inscribed upon the walls, as it is written upon the hearts of the inmates, and the Ross Soldiers’ Home stand the token that siose who. .will take- the.work from hjj>ds cherish gratefully and justly the nienidfy of her noble philanthropy. Many members of the community have already suggested the propriety of the change of name/: and it is now respectfully offered to those Jvho eqntrbl the movement, in the hope tliat this act of gratitude and justice may 4«irk their appreciation of the noble lnquirer. ] - What is death to one that liveth i In the love of our dear Lord, When its summons only giveth j ßest, and peace, and large reward? Toiling, watching, waiting, serving, .: Blessing sad and suffering ones,— IjovinZeil«y, Mary Ijeister and' Ida Lincolors7,2s; CoU’n in 3d Ref. Dutch church, Phila,, 28,80; Mm Wilcox, Hoboken, N. J., 5; O. S.Pres.ch.,Monnt Pleasant, Ohio, 13; J. F. Caldwell and Mary C. Caldwell, 2,65; Zion Ger.. Ref. ch., Rhila., per Army Com. Y. M.JC. A., 14; Mrsh S.vC. Smith, 10; CoU'n per Rev, W.-T-. Rawsoh,-AHibo'i), Mich., 11,20; “E. J. Hr "..ft; widow’s Offering, 5; A Soldier, s2—s2,- 166,18 L } Thanksgiving contributions from churches, &c, : Rev. H. B. Scott’s ch.,: Central College,. Ohio, .16,80; Bef. Dutch ch., Key port, N. Y.,13,-25; • Coll’n Pres; ch., Phillips-: burg, N, J., 10,07; Ist Cong'l ch, Fairfield, Gfc, add’l, .4; .Danville M. E. ch.,-15; Hedding M. E.’ church) 3,50; ; C011’n SohthOtislie, Chenango co., N. Y., 32,17; Coll’n Oceola, Pa., 8,30; Bap. and Meth. ohe;, and citizens of Trevorton, Pa., 55; Ist Ger. Bef. ch. of Beading, Pa., 31,62; Congte in Perth Centre, N. Y., 28; Ref. Pres. .ch;,. Duanesbnrg, N. Y., $13,05 — $230,76—52,396,94. —Am0unt previously ac knowledged,•s22l’)64l,s7. Total, $224,038,51. JOSEPH PATTERSON, . Treasurer U. S. Christian Commission. The United States Christian Commission begs leave to acknowledge the receipt |of the following additional' hospital stores, up to the 24th inst. : • Pennsylvania Philadelphia, 30 “ house, wives,” Josephine M Wetherly and Nelly Hol land; one box, Ladies’ Aid, jCentral M E ch; two packages, AJex.Kerr; I box, donor un known; two barrels, do., do. Honesdale, half barrel, Soldiers’ Belief Association. Acade mia, 1 box, Ladies’ Soldiers’ Aid. Penning ton ville, one box, Ladies’ Aid Soc. Tyrone, 1 box, Ladies’ Prefek ch. Bridesburg, 2 barrels, one box, Bridesburg and Whitehall Soldiers’■ Belief Asso. : Blpomsburg, one keg; _ Mrs J Walker. , Jerqey Shqre;V3 boxeB, Ladies’ Aid Soc. Gettysb&rgf one parcel, Miss'Sample;' Holmeshurg,' : one;package, Bev A Hartpence. Wilkesbarre, 1 box, Mrs MW Norton. East Smithfield, 1 box, Allen Hill, Esq. Kishaeo- quillas, 1 box, Soldiers’ Aid Soe. Schuylkill, two boxes, dickering Ladies Aid Soe. Pino Grove Mills, 1 box, Ladies’ Soldiers ’Aid Soe. Oak Lane Station, N PEE, 1 box, MrsMears. Quakertowa, 1 box, Ladies’ Aid Soe, \V o melsdorf, 1 box, Win Moore, Esq. Springville, one box, Ladies’ Soldiers’ Aid Society. New York— New York, parcels, N Y Com U S C C; 1 parcel, Miss MacDonald; one box, Mrs J McKee. Troy, 1 box, resb and P Bapt cbs. Buffalo, one box, Ladies’ |Chris Com. Le Roy, 2 boxes, Ladies’ Military Aid Asso. Rus’pford, 1 box, Ladies’ Sewing Soc. Roches ter, 1 box, H R A Soe. Massachusetts —Boston. 22 boxes, 2 benk ets' 2 parcels, Army Com Y M C A. Connecticut— Poqnonnock, one box, S S. Portland, 2 barrels, 1 box, Ladies’ Loyal League. Ohio —Cincinnati, 11 parcels, Com. U. S. C. C. Norwalk, one box, Ladies Chris Com. Perrysburg, one box, donor unknown. Delaware —Wilmington, one package, Mrs Latimer; one box, Y D Normandie. Virginia r-r Wheeling, one package, 39 comfort bags, mission-school, Eng Luth' eh. 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