Religions World Abroad. EXUUND. Evangelization in London. —During the week of prayer, evening meetings were held in Freemason's Hall for the encouragement Of voluntary Evangel ic effort. Mr. Kobt. Baxter made an address At nne, reviewing the spiritual demand and supply in. the metropolis. Of the three millions of the popu lation, one million are suffering from the depression of trade, and tens of thousands are in deep distress, bast winter sqme died of cold and hunger, and he (eared it would be so this winter, .'fho tone of the city ii Big%#f than that ofaby ddpital on the continent, and the word of life may-be preached in every quarter with perfect freedom. He estimated that one-sixth of the population never enter a place of worship, and the churches will only accommo date six-tenths of the people. Whole districts live like heathens, wifchßUt ft'viifSble trAfce of Christian influence, in the faca and manners Of the people. Whole streets are filled with the criminal classes. The moral, ruin of is being accomplished by drunkenness and otber criminal pleasures and by class-isolation Whioh leaves the poor man to himself destitute bf all Help and Sympathy. Yet there are laboring in the city, besides the regular ministry,! 400 city missionaries, 200 Scripture readers, 200 Bible women, and 200 open-air missionaries. The theatre services draw many to hear the word of life. There are also earnest men like Carter in the south of London, Booth in the east, and Varley at' Notting-hill—men who are A type of about a hun dred of less influence who are similarly engaged as unpaid Evangelists. Many business men .prpach-Jthe Gospel after their day’s work ,is done. He asked that the 1,200,000 heads of families—of whom at least half are professing Christians—-would come forward, not with money only but with personal ef fort for the good of souls. If only one in ten were found to be qualified, and would take part, how great results beeXpSectfed.- > “"Will'the Liberals IliseStablish the Church. of England 1" Not at pf-esent nor for along time to come, if ever. Mr. Gladstone opposes the Irish Church bn the 1 groniids'whieh (hemaintaink) do not apply to the English'6hurch., Ne says .in sub stance: , ■ /. - ■. - . , , “It could not be-done* and ought’hot to be dofre; It cannot be done; beeiuse if done on principles as liberal as those offered to the Irish Establishment, —and none less liberal could ofebufsd bfe offered; — the English Church would be set up with a property of £BO.OOO 000 dneoh'tirtfHed bytheStafe,—an ifn perium in imperio which no statesman would venture for a moment to contemplate. It ought not to be dis established beoauee the Englieh'Ghurch .ia> rooted in the nationalhistory, and her ciaimon English af fection is an historical claim ; wHile even the best members of the Irish Church'are compelled to en treat Irishmen to forget her! past,-—to forget the time when she endorsed all the horrible penal laws under whioh Catholic Ireland groaned. The Irish Bishops voted for the penal laws in the House of Bishops,, pay, jrawLfor, them., .’Jhe.lrisb.Qhuseh lias, therefore, no history to which it dare appeal. i men’s Regard giving tip tije once.” The llwtin >r«. this case, which came, before the Prjvy Council by ap peal of the prosecutor, from the Court of Arches, the incdrhßerJt'of Sf/Albarls,' taken to task for (1) the elevation of the elements in the Communion Service; (2) kneeling 'before them 5 (3) using lighted caudles on the altar; (4). using incense; (5) mixing water With the tfine. The Judicial Com mittee ruled all these pradtices illegal, on theground 1 that all the ceremonies-not ex’presbly fcfttiiined by the compilers of the Prayer-book, are by thatfaCt abol ished. The commotion- caused among the Ritualist paijty is extreme. A conference was held by them soon after the decision, and the rumbas of their pro gramme are conflicting, It was said that they fear-, ed a general secession of their female adherents to Rome; also that they proposed to secede and estab lish a Free Cljurch withßisKdpbf l!trne,dih][td < lj',ew Zealand) at RjS hedd; Some'denptjcfe-the Privy Council as having >no authority in be ing the creatureof Parliament aud never recognized by the Church ; others .(seemingly the majority), counsel submission. Dr. Ptteey has ! come"to the rescue in a letter in which he charges the Judicial Committee with interfering with small ceremonies while permitt'jBg.;thiß in doctrine, even the denial .of the fundaq}|ntals the He says: “ Jit the union St Church- and State. in volves this ultimate laxity and more than rigidness in the construction of pur formularies, involving the denial of true doctrine, and the prohibition, of practice which represents doctrine, it certainly, will be the earnest desire and prayer of Churchmen' that the precedent now;being se( as to,the Irish -Estab lishment may be speedily followed as to the Ehg lish.” ' Foreshadowing the policy of shbniission' he j writes: " The loss Of the modes of outward explo sions of belief (if so be) only drives' pious souls more inward, and the inward devotion shines more: through. l ' - ‘.‘This certainly (retorts. The. Weekly Be- \ view) was npt .the opinion 0 f Daniel—regarding whom, Pr, Pushy has written so ably—or he would not, when threatened with the worst consequences, have qpeqed hiß window and prayed as times jt.'dijM says another cjm£|i-j porary, * ‘‘‘in the Peal Objective Presence, and yet, in of Lord‘Cairns, to ab stain from outward adoration, is very like denying! Christ befOffi mfPi” i‘-I id fry j The Churih' Tmee iaf f { ia a'fime, in thej Church as well as the State of England. for calm procedufe. Itaj&Bftw Fdfjge ofa preci pice, and one false etep- would be irretrievable. We do not say that the Qhureh should not l?? disestab lished—but we ought .not to jump at disestablish ment. We do not say thdtj tpe time. will not have come for secession Judicial committee gives a hostile opinion; Alhwe.(dead; fords consid-, eration of the situation inAlfSKs,* bearings- There, is not one alternative' twent r*; We may And the situation: 5 ™ e | may find a free church the best way outr‘bf tßS*dif ficulty ; we may hold our own; it to the Puritans to betake themselves to those with whom, they naturally range; ws may find that nO dorirSe is left but submission to not merely tßte ’trimacy, buttothe supremacy of Rome." THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN, THURSDAY, JANUARY 28, 1869. A Ritualist “ Church and State ” Pro gramme.—One of the Anglo-Catholic organs gives the following weighty reasons for holding fast to the existing union of Church and State : “The Catholic revival is an expensive work. And we Must insist that humanly speaking, the ultimate success of the movement depends on our maintaining the union of Church and State. We do not wish to Cath olicize a few persons here and there, but we aim at Christianizing the masses. We have to reach them, and we haVte hitherto failed to reach them from prejudice on their part and mediaevally-inclined, stiffness on oat side. But dissolve the union betwixt Church and Slate', and the National Catholic revival• ceases , England will never become Catholic through the -Roman part of the Church. The Roman Cath olics minister to their own people and to the Irish, and make a! good -many converts from ’the upper classes, but they can never leaven the lump and teach the people as we hope and intend to do, with the blessing of God. What Cardinal Wiseman said was o this y’ 1 England must return to the. Catholic Unity through the Established Church. fTkv Established Church, ‘(kin, mm! get hold of the people ; and hot only get hold of themj but Catholicize,them-’ As we mov,e onward and restore again, the sacrifice, of tlie mass, the con fessionkl;-\he se/esn-’Babi-atdentA, the -venera tion of Mary and the saints, prayers for the depart ed, the Catholic doctrine of purgatory, and the like, we must-remember that We-have' to' restore these rites, beliefs,, and practices, not as: luxuries for-a few, but asliving'realities to be held and used by" a 1 1” b:3X -sjEIVCA The Tablet, & London Romanißt organ, tells ns that “ Dr. Forbes, Bishop of Bfechiii, was on his way to make submission to the chair of St. Peter, when he was dissuaded.frqm individual secession fdrthe-mdmen't by/sdthe -of his colleagues, who urged.him to remain within ,thq. pale of the Angli can Church, so as to concert the best means for a retxaii on a large scale to (Mkoitc' Unity.” The Bishop of Durham,. finding that a candidate for “ orders ” belonged to the English Church Union (Ritualistic), refused to ordain him. done, Dr. Baring.—The English Church Xlnion has lost 137 members by aecessfon -within the year, mostly dissatisfied “ Church and State "jnen,—the , : msmr-• .Kg»T T# . notorious Dr. Lee orLambetn, being one. it num bere- 4',656 ! members. - f‘ The 'Association; for £Pro moting the Unity of Christendom,” i. e. of the An glican, Gfeek, Romish/ Armenian, Coptic (and Abyssinian;?)j Churches.numbers'l2,6B4 members ind'lihy emerefi*Qhl its-twgl&Vyeiiv Uf j thesAt*thSs.endAof 1868 they Ska.increase of 15l. li; MiWe^n&.pf.|thsr e. W,ere in - England and Wales 94‘1 churches, stdltdris; at the 'etfd >of 1868' 'they h’um'bfered'l,l22. The c(myents,havg*onft ;| gnj|te(^i ! Uy > ,iqg:epsing. Ai the end of 1864 they numWea IOT pandtberen,d,of 1868,214. “In Scotland the progress of Catholicism appears to have beerrVery’Btight indeedydurin'g thjeflast five I At the^tj^oy ? l?SiiWe'&nd and; 191 churctiVp'jn iheyWhptl of SfoMnlßlitain. At! the end of 186? ih!ey nutnbered 201 p'riests* and 20 l j churches or'chfjpels, at figures they.iemainl to the present tinre:” , **' j Religious . —The Eng- j glish Independent estimates;,.that it} jthe new,House of 5 Quakers, 2 Wesleyan Methodists, 1 CJalvimstic Methodiety \l7 >l© rtfitttriansy r lO' 'Prasbyteridns (non- 6 Jews} And-26iitom«n-,Catholics,•oflwnptn.oo.e only, i Sir aif English'cobsyituen- : cy. n a{li^t,of|welve: members 'oftheiSdclety'af'Friendselectdd to the House’ df.'Cdttfm^hS 5 ,! 1 diid'adds’:, 1 Ml '' ■Wif support Mr. Gladstone, ,R, : Kn is a Cons&rvftkive.'—iA.' Oorresppft'dettit MsWhA *Leede Mer cury Lord ; Chawodlldriof. Gteat'Bmttfki.vhaa for,db.eilast,thirty years'hden *a - sucdeSsfut teach^.’ A ■ ‘r&U A l lhd’Estubitehed'Chuch i of a: Free lOhnrph -fiQngregation in ''‘i}f’. ; sworBbip which" —^u man and divllfe-tTbiit to . which .they cocdd. not show a legal'-informality. a/ the; Establish ment 1 as ’.‘has '.slice th e days]b?;the A'hhioh M r heU, in the .vicinity of' which Ur. .Buchanan ( v !\apannie Scot "'-of ’whctae judgment- 'Dr.' Ghalniere highj|j[ n i but hedf-smotheredßiscontenftyiiich the Establish-! mentrlidd, caused ■by insisting oh eyery “tithe of mint,, secured .to it J>y es -; pecialiy to the moneys exacted of Free Ghurbh and: IJ. F'^^tprhfoCthe rfetihfeor i ire^tion ! ‘o'fßanees' and churches for the Cfe“rCh. 'He sprophesied' that ff-ateh' act's as 'this turttihg'Of WlFreto Church congregatfop they would soon raise such a stone ,p,ut them j out in their turn. Rev. Win. Arnott mainly hinted to Mr. Gladstone,tbat’ihe *Scd|.t£isk who* had gi%{i HM o sh6h'iAbria*‘d attff'fiha'nlmdds sup port, and wfib were found rdhtr&l~tl»e voluntary, Presbyterian churches, would expect of him a liber-; al policy as regards Scotland*- promi neu£’stoeakerß took silnilar'grounds; *■ t* j Tfeb Edinburg Annuity Tax is Che'of the; most unpopular burdens imposed for the support of the Established Church* It- will be renumbered that mtoiSthrs and elders of theTJ.-P. Churches in Edinburgh some years ago “took joyfully the spoil ing of their goods,” rather than pay for it, audthat no small excitement was raised in consequence. Duncan McLaren, M. P., is to introduce a Bill for its abolition in the Cknongate district, and to make sundry other provisions With reference to the pay ment of the stipends of Edinburgh pastors. The Patronage Question is again exciting muoh discussion'in the courts of the Established Church, which seems equally unwilling to forego the advantages and to accept the disadvantages of being “Ceasar’s Church.” In the Edinburgh Pres bytery, Mr, Gumming,,of Kewingtpn, stated the following:—“Since 1843 there had been forty-eight caste of disputed settlement:' It these .cost-mu'an average £5OO apiece, there must 'have been an ex penditure under this act of £24,00ft since 1843. If the average was; as is more likely £soo apiece, they, had spent on. these, since 1843, £43,000, which would have endowed a whole Presbytery of the church.” There appears, .howeyer, to be an unwil jfrobauly Decause there is no knowing when a xte formed and'RSfdrtnirig Parliament would leave off, if once they,began to-legislate for. this Tory .estab lishment. The Irish Church Dispfitablishiment , was more'easily resolved on than'drawn op. Mr. 'Glad stone has extraordinary difficulties Iri encounter in preparing a plan. It would seem impossible-that: any plan could be'ad vised which :woold not alienate some of \he pre'sent 'Libe’ral "party. jßut-Mr, Glad-' stone is a man ) was held ihjsiadrid,; at whiclli seven persons were follbwing dayj was the Sabbath, there was a religiqps meeting at tended by seventeen persons at a hotel, a'tid- on the same evening a meeting at the house of a Spaniard in which twbhfy took parUiTwety £ thousand tracts have* already been printed- at- Madrid, the circulation of which has coinmericed; and a tkngements have been*made for setting at worKA nktive medical mis sionaty-and several Evangelista, to take advantage immediately of the new freedom in religious things. ThesßfbPe’ihas rJlr'ehdytbeed'givdn to the.people in the Plaza Mayor of Madrid, the spot where, a cen tury ago, could be witnessed the favorite spectacle of. the auto da-fe. or-the burning of Protestants and J, Arf*. , - * v- i '4 'fi - •.- • V-i‘ Jews. ‘‘Public Protestant worship, (writes^ the correapon- New. York in has been or grftiiited bv' a'com'rhittde of fcfr Signers consisting of French, English; '■ Swiss, ■ and German" Protestants; the latter are very numerous., .Last Sunday morn ing at nine o’clock Don Antonio Carrasco, who shafeid'th'e dungeon and the'dungeon fjjpd with .the, Senor Matamoros, per-, formed the, Protestant service in the Spanish lan- ! giiage before a numerous congregation, who'ex-' pressed the utmost astonishment that Protestants 1 b,elie|e*d in the principles,?)! Chrjstiinljy-—dor Span ish* Callfoiics'are' tafrght J l‘roni 'Vk&t' (mildbbbd the, most monstrous of fables concerning; the creed of those whom they are exhorted to loathe as heretics. The i'Hpgstor” preached a v s ery,judicio,us ,> ; Mmon, : perfectly adapted to his ..auditpry.of, im’agipativei ' children of the South. Instead of fiercely de iiounc ing Roman Catholic dogmas, like that indiscreet enthusiast vho narrowly escaped being torn to pieces the Other §a| It Cartßagena', for ridiculing he Im maculate 'Conception, he expounded, in, words that proved his perfect Knowledge of tlieEpanish Asth-; giiage, from the text, “Simon Peter, lovest thou melj Feed my lambs.” He announced that Father Ruet,! aniex-Gatholic .priest, wouldofficiate' occasionally, but that he woiild go to preach the pure faith in the. The committee to whom I'll aye. alluded intend to build a Protestant phurcfi,.without' - delay. A London, committee, has .also taken, in hand the ! building of a Protestant church. A Spanish Pro testanbjo!ur^l‘,has,beien*istdfted5 t tbfe 'prospectus of VRfcß'ih'ffohmSes that the editor, Cordovay Lopez, and other Democrats, accept and proclaim the Re formation of Martin Luther.’’ Ecclesiastical Reform m Spain.— The tone ot of the liberal papers is strongly in favor of a reform of the hierarchy. It is stated that £343, L6O art expended for mere drones in the Church. There art occasional instances of outbreaks of popular feeling against the priests and even against certain forms of superstition. A priest in a village near Madrid has been stoned by the populace. The Impartial, a liberal paper, says that one of the miraculous ma donnas was taken down from its niche and shot in the public square. The Reformed Church of Spain.— Only since the Revolution has made publicity safe, do we learn how mfich has been done to spread the Wordfof Truth through the Peninsula. That a body of Spanish Prbtestalnts exists has been known for many years, and.has been in great part due to the labors of the late Rev Juan Calderon, a Spaniard by, birth, but a clergyman of the Church of England. For many years of his life, and until the day of his death, fourteen years ago, this gentleman was the editor and only, writer of a Protestant paper printed in London in the Spanish 'language. This paper, the name of which was twice changed, for the greater safety of its readers, used'to be sent by va rious routes to Spain, generally reaching its desti nation; but sometimes, unfortunately, seized and burned at the Custom-house; 1 Secret meetings, of converts, tocik place, at which the Bible and edifying religio.us books and papers were read; and. thus there are Protestants in Spain'at this day. Progress, in Portugal.-*-1 n Portugal, freedom of religious belief is now accorded, by law, and: perse cution of dissenters prohibited. Protestant English arid .Qermaps have their places of worship iri LiSpdn, and; the Bible is circulated without restraint. A Spanish clergyman , who is in. connection with sthe. Protestant. Episcopal Ghurch of the ..United States, Don Angel Herrero de Mora,.has been preaching in Lisbon for several months, and has gathered a considerable and fast congregation. His righJ,to bp|d religious s b,een upheld by, th'e Governmeht^andShe has been’ inoemnifieof for damage ,don,e property by a mob .—Perpornlra: The 'tfial young!ErigliShmari who was* lately arrested for bis labors to spread the Gospel in Oporto, has taken place, and the. local court sentenced him to'a from' : Portugal for-’sixySars.t’ • Ap peal has been taken, which will be heard at Lisbon, where greater liberty is thought to, prevail. ' t -., •• ‘ r ; .' . /. ; i \i r. A lit 1 i i I ITAIT. Gavazzi proposes 'an Italian “Evahgblical Alliance.” —Protestantisiff ha*i 'entered Italy in too many divisions. Besides the indigenous Waldenses, and the morte' recent hatred growth'of Reformed Catholics,; the Plymouth. Brethren, the .Methodjsts, ancj qtbers have been competing in the work with no visible bond of union or friendship to' oppose’to at,their w.ant.of ag?eein,ent.'Gavazzi, whS-basideritifiecl himself with none of these,' though t ificMtly‘ribopeijating’with 1 the.first, 'balls for “.ari Evangelical.Allidncei sjmil§,r to.ithat, as i t would ‘‘produce the same happy results” with out requiring any to surrender special denuftiibW tional.fojuns or particular doctrines of jininor ,nio rrient, but : *‘Wd.iild v hhco ! nie i r riefSohaliVyj'capable of guarding its own first act to be “the preparation of ’iriich a document as Would j; by aritipipatingltjkeih, .frustrate ;thef <}?§igns of the'eomingEcumenical Council," which will claim to be blindly obeyed but “will only interieffy*aU'tbe decisions of the Copncil,pf ’yrept,” fore, propose that all the Chiirbhes which'Shall join the EvangeljcatAHiaifce.Shall f s'end 1 deputies to a General Assembly,.to .be-held.in. May of the coming year, in one of o'urVemr&i'citiea; 'Whichever may be deemed the most convenient; The Assembly ought to prepare and,discuss.a complete renunciation of all the l ertofe fff Roftsaffi B&,*p'rbviiig‘them ’ t o'- b e an tagonisticiot® r aipg4lic*l: SSfJiich they should declare their determination to abide faithful. It sliould be a feaTaS'of’aciJusation, to show to the world the Bawil.eges l of,Jfomf t against. f the Word of ln6titutl(m.i : - JNO. G. BERGEN, Police LEWIS ROBE UTS, L. Roberts A Co., 17 South street, N. Y. JOHN'T; ■W ARTIN, 28-Pietrepont street, ■Brooklyn. JOHN HALSEY, Haight, Halsey A,Co., New York., THOS. CARLTON, Methodist Book Roqms, N: Y. HAROLD DOLLNER,’ Dolhzer, Potter AUo., N. Y. ' A. B. OAPWELL, Attorney and Counsellor, Na,Y. NEHEMIAH RNIGHT« Hoyt, Sprague A. Co., New York. a EDWARD. A, LAMBERT," Merchant,4s John street, N. Y. 4 JAMES HOW, Prest Onion! White Lead 00., Brooklyn. 'ln B- WYMAN Merchant. S 8 Burling Slip. New York, GEO. A. 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