6. Mission rooms. 7. Endowment of old or new districts. 8. Endowment of curacies. 9. Building of churches. burial service, in the same house. He the control of the Bishop; or to be conthinks it very undesirable that the offi- fined to particular parishes. 2. Scripciating clergyman should be bound to ture readers. 3. Mission women. 4. declare at the funeral of a man who Clergymen's residences. 5. Schools. lived a life of licentiousness and died in a state of intoxication, that he has the sure and certain hope" that that man will rise to a blessed resurrection. This The good Bishop also invites unpaid every Episcopal clergyman in England volunteer workers of both sexes, and solemnly pledges himself to do in regard promises to devise a system in which to all baptized persons who have died each shall find a place of usefulness.— without being excommunicated by the The multiplication of schemes of 'home Church, and not by their own hands. evangelization,' both in England and The general subject of subscription this country, and the interest with which has been also agitated by the Convoca- this subject is discussed in the ecclesition of Bishops without any decision, astical bodies of both countries, furnish and with great diversity of opinion. It one of the most hopeful features of this is probable the question will not rest age. until some salutary change is made on more than one point. Yet it is an exceedingly delicate matter to touch, and very full of danger withal, especially in the present attitude of parties in the Established Church. A beginning of change in such a matter is "like letting out of waters." PROGRESS OF PROTESTANTISM IN IRELAND. We take a few extracts from statements made at the meeting of the "West Connaught Church Endowment Society." Missionary work has shown its fruit most prominently in Western Connaught, a region extending 100 miles along the Atlantic A NEW AND NOBLE WORK BY THE Ocean, including a great number of islands, BISHOP OF LONDON.-This dignitary, from the coast. Here the fatal system of and reaching from 20 to 30 miles inland seeing the crying destitution of religious withholding religious instruction and worinstruction in his diocese, has planned a ship in their native language from the peowork truly magnificent. It is no less ple for so long a time led to their alienation from reformed truth, so that the Bishop of than the raising and expending in that Tuam found only 13 church congregations diocese, within ten years, of five million in that vast and important district in the dollars (5,000,000) for the better reli- year 1837, and there were then only seven churches and 11 clergymen; but here, durgious teaching of the poor and neglecting the last 25 years, 13 congregations have The Bishop himself proposes to contribute ten thousand dollars of it in ten annual instalments. ed. The administration of this immense fund is not to be committed to one society, but the aid of several will be asked. The comprehensiveness and completeness of the plan is shown by the enumeration of objects for which subscriptions are solicited. 1. Missionary clergy, to labor generally in the diocese under become 57; 7 churches have run to 27; in place of 11 clergymen there are now 35; thus showing in this one portion of Ireland an increase of 44 congregations, 20 churches and 24 clergymen. Officers of the Government say "that wherever they found a straight-forward, honest man, possessing more intelligence than those around him, they knew him to be one of the new Protestants; and, having last autumn made a tour through the southwestern and north-western districts of Irevinced of the real, solid nature of the work land, he (the Chairman) had become conthese missionary societies were doing." The Primate said that "The Irish Church in Ireland, for nearly a thousand years, was entirely independent of Rome; and that the teachings of St. Patrick, Ireland's apostle, was as much opposed to that of Rome and as far from Romish superstition, as is the Protestant Church of the present day. Ireland was first brought under the influence of the Papal system by England in 1172; and by penal enactments against the use of the Irish language in official proceedings, and against the printing of the Scriptures in the Irish language, it was England who had been mainly instrumental in excluding from the sister country the blessings of the Reformation. Sir Robert Peel, M. P., in moving a vote of thanks to the Chairman, said he had read with deep interest the work' Good News from Ireland,' written by the Rev. Mr. Garrett, and he arose from its perusal deeply interested in the work which was going on under the auspices of the Church in West Connaught; for, no matter what might be said to the contrary, an immensity of good was being done there by its missionary agents." MISCELLANEOUS. PRUSSIA. The King of Prussia is trying to cause the shadow to go backward on the dial of civilization more than fifteen degrees. He has long persisted in ignoring the constitution given by his good predecessor. He brow-beats the deputies of the people, and is determined to lay taxes independently of their authority. William I. should be warned by the fate of Charles X. of France. But there is hope that the influence of the Crown-Prince, his son, will avert the wrath of the people. He took occasion in a speech at Dantzic, to say that these measures of his father were taken without his approval or knowledge. This has greatly irritated the father and his counsellors. Rumor says that the Queenmother has recently been in England to induce Queen Victoria to advise her daughter, the Princess Royal, to persuade her husband to retract those offensive words and side with his father. And dame Rumor, from different directions, brings two reports on this point. One that the son has modified his statements; the other, that under the counsels of his English wife he refuses any such complaisance. The Prussian people are not French, and it is well for William that they are not, otherwise they might take into their own hands the rectifying of matters without waiting for it to be done by the heir. We have received from the Presbyterian Boards of Education, a little duodecimo of 144 pages, entitled "Pictures of Hindoo Life; or, India without the Gospel and India with the Gospel." This little book, designed for children, is well adapted to show both the old and the young how much India needed the Gospel, and how great has been the change wrought by the Gospel, so far as it has prevailed. Also, from the same source, have been received two packages of tracts for sailors, the titles of which give promise of interest and usefulness. THE METHODIST.-This paper now enters upon the fourth year of its labor.— We regard it as one of our best exchanges. Its office is 114 Nassau-street. Subscription $2 a year in advance. REVIVALS.-In Rochester, N. Y., about 900 on one Sabbath united with the various churches. In Utica 600 conversions are reported. In Auburn over 100 united with the churches at the last communion, and a large number are expected to unite at the next. This work is connected with the labors of Rev. Mr. Hammond. It is said to be spreading into the villages around these cities. UNIVERSITY OF CALCUTTA.-This institution has been in existence little more than six years. Yet 2225 young men have been admitted to its classes, 200 have passed the first examination of arts, 89 have taken the degree of Bachelor of Arts, 6 that of Master of Arts; 20 have passed as Licentiates in Engineering, 21 in Medicine, and 54 as Bachelors of Law. What is remarkable in regard to these is that nearly all are Hindus. Only one Mussulman has graduated as Bachelor of Arts. The number of Christians is very small. A FRENCH COLENZO.-The Globe's Paris correspondent says that the French Empire is likely to witness a Colenso controversy of some magnitude, on the publication of Professor Renan's book, "Life of Christ," some few copies of which have already been handed about. The tone and tenor of this work may be pronounced serious, calm, and deeply reverential, yet very decided, in ignoring whatever is supernatural in the record. Originally penned in Palestine during a sojourn on Mount Lebanon, the essay is now given forth just as it was written. A JESUIT MAXIM.-" Calumniate-calumniate. Something will always adhere." This principle will not succeed in the long run; but for temporary ends it has wrought mightily for the Jesuits. A CLEAR CONSCIENCE.-How bravely a man can walk the earth, bear the heaviest burdens, perform the severest duties, and look all men boldly in the face, if he only bears in his breast a clear conscience, void of offence toward God or man. There is no spring, no spur, no inspiration like this. To feel that we have omitted no task, and left no obligation undischarged, this fills the heart with satisfaction, and the soul with strength. Receipts ON BEHALF OF THE AMERICAN AND FOREIGN CHRISTIAN UNION, FROM THE 1ST OF JULY TO THE 1ST OF AUGUST, 1863. MAINE. Portland. State-st. Ch. and Socy. fcr L. M. of Mrs. Eliz'th T. Woodbury, South Paris. Rev. A. Southworth, for a L. Greenland. Cong. Ch. & Soc. by E. Robin. W. Brattleboro, Cong. Church,. MASSACHUSETTS. --- 10 00 $25, Delia Perry $15, F. Mar- 155 52 27 00 Boston. Friends in Winter-st. Ch..... Milford. 1st Church and Society.. Stevenson $1.. 7th Pres. Ch., add W. F. Irwin Vine-st. Cong. Ch.. add Dr. Taft " 6th Street U. Presb. Church, R. th 1 00 chool.... 5 00 5th St. Presb. Church, add W. Su 3 00 66 St. John's Prot. Epis. Ch. in full Union Chapel M. E. Church, add reb inv 6th Street Christian Church, J. Col. Groesbeck $15, C. F. Fort T 25.00 [WE give below, from the pen of Rev. Jonas King, D.D., of Athens, Greece, an exhaustive scriptural discussion of the true position and claims to worship of the mother of Jesus. It was written in answer to an attack on Mr. King by a Greek Bishop, and is directed especially against the superstitious belief and practice of the Greek Church; but it applies with double force to those of the Romish Church, because it establishes a principle which sweeps away their theory of celibacy as well as all false notions about Mary. Whether the Greeks equal the Romans in their adoration of the Virgin we cannot say ; but of the latter it is affirmed that they offer ten prayers to Mary for one to the Father or the Son. Perhaps the idolatrous reverence of the Romish Church for the Virgin is no where more strikingly illustrated than in a certain picture to be seen in Venice. She is there represented with the moon under her feet, while a diadem is held above her head by God the Father and God the Son in the act of crowning her Queen of heaven. Such superstition practiced towards any mortal needs a scriptural rebuke, and it receives it in this article of Dr. King's, to which we now invite the attention of the reader.] JONAS KING to MAKARIUS, Bishop of Karystia. To-day, Jan. 20th, 1863, in a book store I saw for the first time a pamphlet entitled "The Two Clergymen,” by Makarius, Bishop of Karystia. In this pamphlet I notice that my name is mentioned in connection with two of my works entitled, the one "An Exposition of an Apostolic Church," the other "The Religious Rites of an Apostolic Church," both of which you pronounce erroneous and blasphemous. Then, instead of showing wherein the error or blasphemy consists, you begin to treat in chapter 1st concerning "the Perpetual Virginity of the Mother of God." But what error or blasphemy the aforesaid volumes contain, I do not understand. |