TIE RELIIIOIS WORLD Mil!
GREAT BRITAIN.
Within the Church of England, a defi
nite step has been taken toward the em
ployment of Lay Agency in public spiritual
efforts. Dr. Hale, the Archdeacon of Lon
don, has undertaken to receive the names
of gentlemen willing to enter upon the ser
vice, and he announces that, in taking such
a step, he is acting under the authority of
the Archbishops of Canterbury and York,
and the Bishop of London. The desire of
the last-named prelate for the inauguration
of such an enterprise has, for some time
past, been well understood. The precise
ecclesiastical relation of these contemplated
lay workers is not yet determined. Arch
deacon Hale explains their duty as consist
ing chiefly in assisting the ordained minis
ters, but be acknowledges a difficulty in
the question of what authority shall be
committed to them. It is not likely the
difficulty will be very serious, even if not
settled by the programme. Practice some
times shapes a system better than a prear
ranged plan would do it A number of
qualified persons, have been found willing
to enter the service.
The good people of Scotland are just now
alarmed by an expected increase of the
desecration of the Sabbath —an alarm which,
we are pained to say, is increased by the
unintended, but real, counter influence of
Dr. Norman Macleod, chaplain to the
Queen. Dr. M., in a recent speech before
the Glasgow Presbytery, denies the contin
ual obligation of the fourth commandment,
and bases the Christian Sabbath upon the
authority of the Apostles, derived from our
Lord, but intended, he considers, to be dis
tinguished from the Jewish, and observed
in a method adapted to Christian liberty.
This view has been common in England,
but has hitherto been little mooted in
Scotland, where the continued obligation
of the commandment, as such, haS scarcely
ever been denied 5 while by many such a
denial would be considered as sacrilege.
This attracts more attention, as at present
the Sabbath question is exciting much dis
cussion, on account of the recent opening of
the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway on
Sundays. A large and influential meeting
has been held in Edinburgh, to consider
thd best mode to put a stop, if possible, to
this innovation. There is a great fear that
the peace of the country will be soon dis
turbed by pleasure trains, and that much
injury may ensue to the religious character
and habits of the people.
In London, the enemies of the Sabbath
have met with a decided check in what
they regarded as their strong point — i. e.,
among the working classes. Some time
since Lord Granville was waited upon by a
deputation, claiming to represent the ope
ratives, urging that the Kensington Muse
um should be opened on the Sabbath, that.
being their only day for recreation. This
led the working men in the South of Lon
don to send another deputation, with Mr.
Hughes, the new member for Lambeth, and
that indefatigable friend of the working
classes, Mr. Murphy, at their head, to deny
the right of the former deputation to. be
considered the representatives of the. work
ing classes, and to say, for the section this
deputation represented, that they desired,
above all things, the Sabbath should be
kept holy, as the greatest boon that could
be conferred upon workmen. The dispute
which of the two deputations was the pro
per representative of the working men, led
to the holding of a public meeting in St.
Martin’s Hall, for the purpose of comparing
strength. The meeting was a large and
exciting one, and 'the members were so
equally divided that no conclusion could
be reached—a stinging defeat of the anti-
Sabbath party so far as this, that it puts an
end to their hitherto almost uncontradicted
claim, that this class are almost unanimously
with them, and have groaned under the
grievance of Sabbath laws.
The excitement is spreading to other
spheres of society, and the project of closing
the Crystal Palace—not the grounds around
it, but the building itself—on the Sabbath,
though for the present defeated, is gaining
ground. A renewed effort will also be
made to stop the running of excursion
trains on the holy day.
The subject of the union of the unen
dowed Presbyterian churches in Scotland,
is experiencing some revival under the
championship of Dr. Cairns. The Doctor
believes that at last, after long deliberation
by the friends of the measure, one great
practical difficulty—that of providing a
method of ministerial suppport which shall
be acceptable all around—oan be harmoni
ously disposed of.. We do not find the
plan stated, but it is claimed as a happy
combination of the two existing modes —
that of the congregational principle and
the central sustentation fund system, with
out the drawbacks of either. Dr. C. states
that the unanimity on the subject is such
that he has heard do word of dissent from
any one of the churches concerned, minis
ter or layman, to whom he has suggested
the scheme.
“ Innovations/' a term which means the
introduction into churches of organs and
hymn-singing, are gaining ground among
the Presbyterians of Scotland. In the
Glasgow Presbytery of the Prec Church,
Professor Gibson attempted to stand against
them, by proposing an overture to the Ge
neral Assembly. Dr. Buchanan took the
other side, and the Professor’s proposal was
defeated by a majority of one. An organ
is about to be introduced into Dr. McDufFs
large congregation, in Glasgow.
FRANCE.
The Protestantism of France, despite the
embarrassments of the rationalistic strife,
gives Bigns of healthfulness and thrift.
The latest accounts are that the Young
Men’s Christian Unions are multiplying,
> and exhibit abundant activity. They have
commenced, in some of the large towns, re
ligious conferences, or lectures, which at
tract numerous hearers. The associations
on behalf of scattered Protestants are like
wise at work, and apply themselves every
where to the distribution of the bread of
life. The report of the Deaconesses’ In
stitution is filled with cheeriDg facts; all
human sufferings thi re meet with sympathy
and the best evidences of brotherly love.
So with the Colonie Agricole of Sainte Poy.
The report shows that the young criminals,
or .vicious children that are admitted, learn
THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN, THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 1. 1866.
to fight against their passions, and to enter
upon the path of duty, under the salutary
influence of instruction and example.
The Evangelical Church of Lyons has
just brought out an interesting half-yearly
report. This is a free church, clear of
state entanglement, and hence in better
condition for conserving the faith. It is
growing under the culture of orthodox and
zealous pastors. It has opened conferences
for the discussion of literary and scientific
subjects their relation to the
Christian life. It also employs Bible wo
men, who go from house to house, and
especially among the poor, to read and ex
plain the word of God.
event has afforded a singular
illustration of the embarrassing condition
ot the National Reformed churches, in re
gard to rationalism, as brought about by
their enjoyment of State patronage, on the
condition of surrendering a portion of their
independence. The Reformed Church of
Paris entered their new church edifice, the
first built expressly for Protestant worship
by the Paris municipality, on the 8d of
December. Dr. Grandpierre and Mr. Co
querel are joint pastors of this church—the
first highly evangelical, and ever seasoning
his instructions with the life of the Gospel,
and the other treating the Bible as in part
fable, and regarding with contempt the idea
of mysteries, miracles, and a Divine atone
ment for sin, as belonging to the Gospel.
On the day of the opening of the church,
each of these men preached a sermon,
bringing out his views on these subjects in
their extremest light. This from the same
pulpit, and where each alike had the claim
to be heard and heeded by the same flock 1
There are now eight National Reformed
churches in Paris, with fourteen pastors.
The whole Protestant pastoral force of the
city is fifty-four, and the number of churches
of all Protestant denominations is thirty
seven. At the beginning of the present
century, there was not one.
The progress of liberal ideas in the Ro
mish communion in the Empire is becom
ing more marked. It is true that ultra
montanism, with its suicidal stubbornness,
is in the ascendant, but a western policy
has been inaugurated, which is making
better headway against infidelity. The
Archbishop of Paris, a prelate who, from
the. first, took progressiveness into favor,
has now brought pulpit talent and fervor
into play, in the place of pieces of wood,
dead men’s bones, and pretended miracles,
to stem the tide of atheism. Father Hya
cinthe, a man whose qualifications seem emi
nently to suit this line of policy, has been
stationed in the pulpit of Notre Dame, and,
to use a term more popular than becoming,
he draws —has in fact become the rage.
The great church is thronged, jammed
even, with the cream of Paris fashion, and
large sumß are paid for the preoccupancy of
seats.
Father Hyacinthe is making the new sys
tem of independent morality his special
object of attack. This system has, how
ever, nothing new but the name. As far
as yet developed, it is a sort of common
ground for materialists, fatalists, and un
mitigated atheists. It proclaims God a
mere abstract idea, and makes what is use
ful to all in common, the basis of morality.
The Notre Dame preacher is vigorous, and
his blows are "telling, mote especially be
cause he has the ear of the classes from
whom the most has been feared.
In connection with these efforts of his,
there has been brought out the same dis
position' toward Christian -fraternization
which we mentioned last month, as exhib
ited by the Archbishop. In one of his
late discourses, Father Hyacinth thus ad
dressed Protestant Christians :—“ You are
my auxiliaries. Ah! doubtless I cannot
forget what separates us: there is a gulf
between you and me —the Church! But
neither can I forget what unites us. Do
you not believe in Christ as I do, 0 my
auxiliaries ? I look no more at the abyss
that exists between us; I extend a friendly
hand, and I thank you for the help that
you will lend me here, elsewhere, and
everywhere, when I defend religious mor
als.”
We record,as one sign of hope for France,
that a number of the young men who raved
their blasphemies against religion in the
congress at Liege, (noticed under the head
of Belgium), have been sentenced by the
Senatus Academicus to be “ forever exclud
ed from the Academy of Paris.’’
Germany,
The death of the celebrated pastor,
Harms, of Hermansburgh, Hanover, is a
heavy affliction to the cause of vital godli
ness and evangelical enterprise in the
Lutheran Church.. With the unhappy
exception of his Church-exclusiveness,
which was carried to the extent of refusing
communion to any Christian outside of the
Lutheran Church, his was a model apos
tolicism. Though seldom from home, his
labors reached out to the ends of the earth.
His whole Church had become a missionary
society, which, aided by the voluntary
donations of his friends, fitted out a ship,
which has several times conveyed beyond
seas small armies of these messengers of
peace. By the mere torce of his Christian
character, Harms exerted upon all the
members of his flock an unlimited influence.
More than one ridh farmer of his Church
has been known to lay : all his property at
his feet, to be devoted to the work of mis
sions. To accomplish-such great things,
Harms never resorted to public collections.
He contented himself with making known
his work by means of a periodical which he
published; and the money flowed in on all
sides, as if given by the hand of God him
self.
The Austrian Government, notwith
standing the most solemn declaration
of' the sovereign respecting the rights of
different confessions, has just perpetrated
another act of spiritual despotism. The
city of Meran, ou account of its'baths, is a
summer resort for visitors, and the govern
ment has for three years been importuned
to permit the celebration of evangelical
worship there. Under the remonstrance
of the local spiritual authorities, the petition
has lingered without response until very
recently, when it was answered by a per
emptory refusal.
The new Sabbath-school movement is
becoming one of the most cheering signs of
hope for the redemption of German Chris
tianity from the deadly embrace of ration,
aiism. We see interesting accounts of the
progress which it is making in Stuttgart, a
city where two years ago permission to
establish a Sabbath-school was flatly re
fused Three schools are now in operation
there, giving Biblical instruction to between
three and four hundred scholars, and sup
plied by about sixty teachers. One of
them is under the immediate superintend
ence ot Mr. Hunther, the younger of the
two court preachers, who became well
acquainted with this form of Christian
effort by a year's residence in England and
America, and also by personal intimacy
with Dr. Schaff. A-school is about to be
opened in the parochial Church parish
which is the centre ot the city of Berlin.
From another quarter, Mr. Proeknow, the
successor of Mr. Gossner, of missionary
fame in Germany, writes that he had open
ed a new Sabbath-school, which on the
second Sabbath, brought together three
hundred children, with twenty-six teachers.
It is expected that the number will soon be
doubled, and the school will be divided as
soon as a new building now going up is
ready for occupation.
ITALT,
In the evangelistic department, while
nothing very stirring has recently occurred,
evidences of progress are constantly pour
ing in, in connection with schools, colpor
tage a&d enlarged facilities for bringing
Gospel truth to bear on the Italian mind.
Rev. Mr. Clark, connected with the
American Foreign and Christian Union,
writing from Milan, says that progress is
more rapid. He can plainly see a great
change in Italian thought, sentiment, and
religious conviction during the past year.
Things are not only moving,, but they are
in sympathy with a true religious reform.
Other accounts speak of the arrest and
punishment of persons for disturbing the
worship of the evangelicals. A- Wesleyan
chapel has been opened at Mezzano, where
a number of working men h ! ave espoused
the cause of Christ, and heartily given of
their labor and money for this new place
of worship. The two locales of the Wal
densian Church in Florence are. crowded
four evenings in the week to listen to Dr.
DeSanctis, who is carrying on four distinct 1
series of expositions, on the Apostolic!
Creed, controversy with Rome, ecclesiasti-j
cal history, and the harmony of the Book!
of Moses with modern science. Genuine
conversions to Christ, followed by devoted
Christian activity, are reported from Sar
dinia. A second Gospel journal, bi
monthly, has been started at Milan. It
proposes to report and further the progress
of the entire evangelistic movement In
Italy, without respect to denominational
differences. United meetings for prayer,
in which evangelical Christians generally
participate, are held statedly in Naples. 1
The more general view of religious affairs
in Italy is a political one, everything of in
terest being more or less connected with
the bridling, by the government, of .Popish
impudence. The government recently en
forced the examination, by its own commis
sioners, of that portion of the Italian semi
\ naries which are professedly for theological
training, but which are attended by many
youths destined to other professions. The
examination had no reference to the strictly
theological studies, but to ascertain what
other teaching young Italians are there re
ceiving. The - priests loudly protested,
threatened excommunication, and all that;
but Victor Emanuel has heard this too
often to feel his nerves disturbed by it.
The examination has exposed this state of
things :—All the studies most demanded by
the requirements of the times—most needed
to prepare a youth for the part he might
have to play in after life, history, geogra
phy, natural science, and the like, were
either wholly neglected, or reduced to the
minimum, both in quality and quantity.
Most of the inspectors remark, too, how the
very natures of the youths seemed crushed
into a dull, formal, lumpish type—no
buoyancy, no free outcome of individual
temperament, no joyous overflow of young,
fresh life. Worse, too, if possible, was the
civil and political training. Everywhere
the portrait of the king shone by its ab
sence. In-one seminary, the rector con
fessed that he had not ventured to put it
up for fear the students should be betrayed
into some overt act of disrespect. In
another, a youth being asked what were
the principal political divisions of Europe,
knew nothing, or affected to know nothing,
of the existence of a Kingdom of Italy ! In
all, reactionary sentiments were more or
less directly inculcated. The government
now makes sharp and short work with these
seminaries. Their revenues are taken in
charge by the State, one-third to be assigned
to the Church for the training of its bona
Me clergy, and the remaind- r to be appro
priated to general education;!, purposes.
The Italian Parliament is employed on
schemes for the secularization of ecclesias
tical property, and the separation of the
spheres of the Church and State. Both
measures are popular in the kingdom, and
will probably be consummated at no distant
day.
From Rome there is nothing of special
interest. What little religious excitement
exists, is centred around the coming
eighteen hundreth anniversary of the
martyrdom of St. Peter, on the 29th of
July next. All the bishops of the Catholic
world are summoned to meet in the Papal
city at that time.
B£Lunm.
' At present the religious condition of Bel
gium is not hopeful. The irreligion of the
kingdom is rapidly assuming the phrase
now so common in other countries of the
continent —the undisguised atheism of the
days of Voltaire. The town of Liege was
recently the scene of the largest and most
violent demonstration in that direction
which has taken place since the fall of the
first French Republic. True, it is hardly
to be acounted as a Belgian affair, being an
“ International Congress/’ in which France
was much more largely represented, still it
reflected only too faithfully the character
and spirit of the anti-church influences of
the locality. Thi3 Congress was composed
of about one thousand five hundred young
men, chiefly scholars from different parts of
the continent, assembled for the discussion
of religions and political problems. Speakers
maintained that atheism is the ultimate
conclusion of human science, and that the
reformation, of the world is hopeless until
every religion is abolished, the churches
destroyed, and the idea of God exploded.
Frantic applause followed such declara
tions.
Unhappily, the so-called religion of the
kingdom is more likely to add fuel to this
devastating flame, than to do anything effi
cacious toward extinguishing it. The Pro
testant king is dead and Romanism is on
the throne. It is of the ultramontane type,
bigoted, intolerant, and using mainly curses
and lying wonders as means of aggression
against infidelity. The latter, as a retort,
is excluding all religious teaching from the
schools, thus insuring to vast multitudes of
the rising generation, of both sexes, a
thorough anti-Christian training
Just now an effort is being made in the
Chambers to reform the vestries, by bring
ing them out from under the immediate
control of the clergy. The object sought,
is a better administration of the temporali
ties of the Church. All the Bishops protest
against the measure as an unconstitutional
interference with the independence of the
Church.
RUSSIA.
A new step on the path of religious tole
ration has just been'taken by the Govern
ment. A series of reforms, looking to the
amelioration of the condition of the Jews of
Poland and other parts of the Russian em
pire, is in course of execution. The poor
Israelites have been shackled in their reli
gious, as well as other kinds of. development.
Among other things in their favor, an Im
perial Ukase has just been published, con
ceding to all Jews occupied in any indus
trial pursuits the right of traveling and
settling in all parts of the Russian empire.
It is hoped that this liberty will soon he ex
tended to all their co-religionists.
We are sorry to mar the above with the
record of a decidedly backward step. In
the orignally German province of Livonia,
now a part of the German empire, some
twenty years ago, during a severe famine,
great numbers of people, to escape starva
tion, were induced to forsake the Lutheran
communion, and enter the Orthodox Greek
Church. They have since bitterly Tepented
that step, and a returning movement, which
has been some time in progress, is now met
by a legal regulation affixing a sliding scale
of penalties, from six month's’ suspension to
perpetual banishment to Tobolsk, for any
Lutheran pastor who shall admit into his
communion, or give the Lord’s Supper to
a member of the Greek Church, administer
baptism to the child of any such member,
or who shall be convicted of. any act of
proselyting from the Greek Church, either
by preaching or writing. And yet, when
this Livonia, along with certain other Ger
man provinces, was subjected to the empire,
a solemn treaty stipulation guaranteed to
them liberty of conscience and worship.
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CABINET ORGANS,
Forty Different Styles, Plain and Elegant
Cases,
FOR DRAWING-ROOMS CHURCHES,
SCHOOLS, &a,
8110 to 8000 Facta.
They occupy little space, are elegant as furniture,
and not liable to get out of order; are boxed so that
they oan be sentanywhere by ordinary freight routes,
all ready for use.
HFXY-OJTE HIGHEST PREMIUMS
Have been awarded us within a few years, and ov
circulars contain printed testimony from
TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY OF THE
LEADING MUSICIANS
of the country that the instruments of our make are
THE BEST IN THE WORLD
of their olass. Circulars with full particulars free.
In obtaining a Musical Instrument, it is eeonemy
to get the best. Address,
Mason &* Hamlin’s Cabinet
Organs, in cases of Rose
wood, plain, or carved and
paneled: Mottled Walnut;
Jet. or Imitation Ebony, with
gilt engraving; and in Solid
.Walnut or Oak, carved or
plain One to twelve stops;
Si 10 t.o Sf>oo each.
M. & H. strive for the very
highest excellence in all their
work. In their factory econ
omy of manufacture is never
consulted at expense in qual
ity It is their ambition to
make, not the lowest priced,
but the best instruments,
which are in the end the
cheapest. The great reputa
tion of their instruments is,
in great measure, the result
of this policy. Circulars
with full particulars free to
any address. Salesrooms,
274 Washington Street, Bos
ton; 7 Mercer Street, New
York.
FIRE AND BURGLAR PROOF SAFES.
BURNING OF THE MUSEUM.
IETTEB FROM MR. BARNTTM.
New York, July 14,1856.
Messrs. Herring A Co.—Gentlemen: —Though the
destruction of the American Museum has proved a
serious loss to myself and the public, I am happy to
verify the old adage that “ It’B an ill wind that blows
nobody anv good,” and consequently congratulate
you that your well-known Safes have again demon
strated their superior fire-proof qualities in an ordeal
of unusual severity. The Safe you made for me Borne
time ago was in the office of the Museum, on the
second floor, back part of the building, and in the
hottest of the fire. After twenty four hours of trial
it was found among the debris, and on opening it this
day has yielded up its contents in very good order.
Books, papers, policies of insurance, bank bills are
all in condition for immediate use, and a noble com
mentary on the trustworthiness of Herring's Fire
Proof Safes. Yruly yours, _
P. T. BARNTJM.
HERRING'S PATENT CHAMPION SAFES, the
moat reliable protection from fire now known.
HERRING A CO.'S NEW PATENT BANKERS'
SAFE, with Herring A Floyd's Patent Crystallized
Iron, the best security against a burglar's drill ever
manufactured. HERRING A CO.,
No. 251 BROADWAY, corner Murray Street,
New York.
FARRELL, HERRING A CO.,
Philadelphia.
HERRING A CO.» Chicago.
fg|j ANOTHER TEST
ISS HERRING’S FIRE-PROOF SAFES.
The Fiery Ordeal Passed Triumphantly.
The Herring Safe used in the office of our ware
houses, destroyed by the disastrous fire on the night
of the Bth instant, was subjected to as intense heat as
probably any safe will eyer-be subjected in any fire—
so intense that the brass knobs ana the mountings of
the exterior of same were melted off, and the whole
surface Foaled and blistered as if it had been in a fur
nace, and yet when opened, the contents—books and
papers—were found to be entire and uninjured.
This Safe is now on exhibition in our warehouse on
Seventh Street, with the books and papers still re
maining in it, just as it was when taken from the
rump. Merchants, Bankers, and others interested in
the protection of their books and papers are invited
to call and examine it.
, J. P. BARTHOLOW,
__ Aggnt for Herring's Safes,
No. 558 SEVENTH Street Washington, D. C.
Cottage Organ.
THE MASON & HAMLIN
MASON BROTHERS,
506 Broadway, New York; or
MASON * HAMI.IN,
274 Washington Street, Roe ton.