ture of the world which expresses a conviction of a life beyond the grave. Books Received For the week ending October 14 PHILADELPHIA AMERICAN Baptist publICATION SOCIETY, Taylor, George B., D.D. Italy and the Italians. $2. Tomlinson, Everett T. Ward Hill-The Senior. $1.25. Childhood Songs. Edited by Mira and Mabel Rowland. 25 cts. AMERICAN BOOK CO., NEW YORK Carpenter, Frank G. North America. 60 cts. THOMAS Y. CROWELL & CO., NEW YORK Miller, J. R., D.D. Young People's Problems. 75 cts. Farrar, Frederick W. Very Rev. Great Books. $1.25. Goss, Warren Lee. In the Navy; or, Father Against Son. $1.50. DODD, MEAD & CO., NEW YORK Finley, Martha. Twiddledetwit. $1. Holder, Charles F. The Treasure Divers. $1.25. Douglas, Amanda M. A Little Girl in Old Boston. $1.50. Champney, Elizabeth W. Witch Winnie in Spain. $1.50. Turrets, Towers, and Temples, Edited and Translated by Esther Singleton. $2. DOUBLEDAY & M'CLURE CO., NEW YORK Johnson, William Martin. Inside of One Hundred Homes. 50 cts. 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The question of Church Unity, which has for twelve years been a burning one, constantly forcing itself to the front ever since the declaration of the four principles of possible reunion were set forth by the bishops assembled in 1886 in Chicago, has again assumed supreme importance, so that matters relating to the provincial system, to marriage and divorce, and the jurisdiction of bishops, which were expected to fill the hours, are for the time subordinate. The question came to the front on Wed nesday afternoon, upon the introduction of a motion by Dr. Huntington incorporating into the fiber of the new Constitution of the Church a provision whereby individual bishops may receive congregations not desiring to use the Prayer-Book, provided that they have received orders, professed the Creed, and that the sacraments of the Church be administered with unfailing use of the words of Christ in their institution. The terms of the Quadrilateral distinctly look to some such practical advance along the lines that in the thought of the Church lead potentially to unity. Nor is the occasion faced by the motion of Dr. Huntington an imaginary one. Dr. Greer has, in connection with St. Bartholomew's Church in New York, seven foreign congregations using distinct languages, who cannot yet be expected to use the complete liturgy. In Minnesota several Swedish congregations have sought entrance to the Episcopal Church, while retaining their familiar and valued liturgy; one congregation, at least, of the Reformed Episcopal Church has been received, and pleas for similar accommodation come from the colored race in the South. In Minnesota, as in New York, the situation has been met by the wise statesmanship of the respective bishops acting, it is claimed, without or against the law of the Church. In Dr. Huntington's view their action should be made legal, extension of Church unity be pressed in this direction, and the principles of the Quadrilateral be firmly embedded, not in any canon or accidental action of diocese or convention, but in the fundamental law of the Church, which this revised and enlarged Constitution will be come. Dr. Huntington, opening the debate, explained his motives in introducing this resolution which had been rejected by the House three years before. Many things had in that time happened both at home and abroad. The Church was shut against reunion with Rome by an impenetrable wall. The appeal has been made in vain to the organized religious bodies of Protestantism, which are justly proud of their history and traditions. The way lies open for the reception of individual congregations. He pleaded for liberty, for legalized liberty. In the course of the five sessions of debate it became evident that the temper of the House was distinctly in favor of reaffirming the Quadrilateral, whether in this shape or in some other. Twelve years, it was said, is as nothing in the history of a Church. Dr. McKim noted the discussion as a historic one; Dr. Greer urged that emphasis be placed on the Scriptures, the creeds, the sacraments, the apostolic ministry, as the sole fundamental necessities of the life of the Church; the Rev. Mr. Nichols, of Minnesota, supported the resolution as offering a large prophetic and patriotic outlook to the coming Church of the American people; Dr. McConnell commended the motion to all who do not insist on keeping select the organization of the Church of the living God, whose first principle is propagation; the Rev. Leighton Parks, in a noble address, admitted that the "provision is contrary to our traditions, but the opportunity is opening before us to enlarge the bounds of our beloved Church, not by slow processes of admission, but by welcoming with all their traditions great bodies of men to the new way of our united life." Many others spoke in favor of the motion, saying, in effect, "If you invite men to make their home among you, do not tie up the knocker and muzzle the bell." The strongest opponent of the measure was the Rev. Dr. Dix, who had grave fears of the result, and wished the Church to remain the great conservative element in the community, caring little whether its members were many or few. In response to a suggestion of Dr. Dix, who is President of the House of Deputies, elected for the fifth time, laymen began to speak, but their addresses proved in the main inimical to the President's position and in favor of the resolution. Indeed, as the debate went on the growth of the Church in breadth became evident; so many speakers sought the floor that no conclusion was reached, and even at the close of the fourth session of this memorable discussion on Church Unity it was found impossible to limit the debate, and the matter was carried over until Monday morning, when Dr. Huntington accepted a substitute resolution, which was unanimously passed, embodying the principle of freedom in the Constitution, leaving details to the canon. Supplementing happily the discussion in the House, the triennial meeting of the Church Unity Society, held in St. John's Church, developed a height of enthusiasm and called forth a representative audience such as it has not before reached. On their knees the gathered people sought, in the words of the "Veni Creator Spiritus," inspiration and direction in their distinctive work of seeking to heal the wounds of a divided Church. The solemn service, which has been used at the Lambeth Conference, over, the several addresses indicated that the bishops are still firm in the purpose of the progressive action which their House inaugurated, that the Church has, for the present, turned its eyes from possibilities of reunion with Rome, and that the Society has done a steady work of education throughout the year. Calm, firm, and insistent was the admirable address of Dr. McConnell, who directed the thoughts of the people to the immense Protestant area common to the American churches, wherein community of national and social life, of ideals, of personal religion, of religious emotion and devotion, led to the belief that most Christians have two doctrines, a technical creed and a working creed, the one making sectaries, the other proving the common meeting-ground of the every-day Christians. He believed it to be impossible to exaggerate the evils of division, asserted the necessity of Catholic order, but claimed that it is not on the Catholic essentials that American Christianity is divided. The body of man is sometimes afflicted with a disease where every faculty is strong, but through lack of correlation the man is a helpless impotent. The trouble in the Church is not with its spirit but with its body. There is lack of correlation. He urged courtesy and humility of bearing toward the Protestant bodies who have received with seriousness and entire courtesy the propositions for unity. Bishop Thompson, in prophetic hope for the future, saw possible reunion along the line of self-sacrifice, the giving up of every non-essential that hinders the prayer of Christ that all may be one. The House of Bishops has been working up the matter of marriage and divorce, with results not yet made known. After many suggestions, it is about settled that the Deputies will face this matter with open doors on account of the educative influence of its debates. The Missionary Boards have been busy. A new missionary jurisdiction for which a bishop will be appointed has been created in Japan, another has been carved out of an existing diocese in the Northwest, and others are suggested as a result of division of older dioceses. A most tender and graceful scene was that when Bishop Potter, both Houses sitting together as a Board of Missions, tendered to Bishop Hare a silver loving-cup in commemoration of the completion of his twenty-fifth year of service as Missionary Bishop to the Indians. “Only a missionary bishop" was the phrase used by an English bishop—a man since passed to his deserved oblivion—of Bishop Hare. Only a missionary bishop, in Bishop Potter's phrase, meant only devotion, only courage, only enthusiasm, only spiritual strength, only self-sacrifice of the highest order these were the qualities of devotion which have marked the quarter of a century; and in response Bishop Hare received the homage as given to the people on whom he has rested as the dome of the Capitol rests on the sure foundations beneath it. The loving-cup, which Bishop Potter guaranteed would never hold anything stronger than cold tea, was taken by the Woman's Auxiliary next day and filled to the brim with money and pledges for schools and churches to the value of $3,000. Both Houses have voted to hold the next Convention in San Francisco. The Convention went on pilgrimage Friday, visiting Richmond and the historic region of Jamestown, returning Saturday night, The Broadway Tabernacle The work for the year in the Broadway Tabernacle under the new pastor, the Rev. Charles E. Jefferson, opens auspiciously. A church paper called the "Broadway Tabernacle Tidings" has been started. It is to be the organ of the work of the church. Two or three items in the paper are of special interest. One is a notice that arrangements have been made for the checking of bicycles in the basement of the church, so that all bicyclists who wish to attend church may have their wheels cared for. Another innovation is a Sunday afternoon song service at four o'clock to be led by an orchestra selected from the band of the Seventy-first Regiment. We do not understand that this service will take the place of the evening service, but will be additional. Special speakers will be selected for each day. Still another innovation is a class to meet at 4 P.M. on Sunday afternoons under the leadership of Dr. Philip W. Ayres, a graduate of Johns Hopkins University. This class will discuss Present Day Problems. Dr. Ayres will be assisted by the ablest speakers and teachers who can be secured. These new plans indicate that the Tabernacle is not only to meet the wants of the class who have always made it a church home, but that it is also to minister to the large and growing class of thoughtful young people among whom it is situated. The Fifth Avenue Church and Dr. Mackay Whatever concerns the Fifth Avenue Pres byterian Church in New York interests many people. The session, as we reported last week, has recommended the calling of the Rev. A. Connell, of London, to the vacant pulpit, but it was well known that a large number of people in the church were proposing to urge the calling of the Rev. D. Sage Mackay, D.D., of Newark, N. J. When the proposed action became known to him, Dr. Mackay wrote a letter declining to allow the use of his name as a candidate. We go to press too late to know whether his request was heeded at the meeting. We publish his brief and manly letter: My Dear Mr. Campbell: From a newspaper which was handed me yesterday, after the morning service, I learn that my name is being mentioned for the vacant pastorate in the Fifth Avenue Church. While I most heartily appreciate the kindness and loyalty of the friends who have so expressed their inclination, I hasten to ask you on their behalf to withdraw my name absolutely in this connection. Mr. Connell is an The Ritualistic Controversy in England No survey of the religious world in these days can be even reasonably complete without giving a large place to the ritualistic controversy in England. We have referred to it many times, and shall have to do so often in the future. The special reason for speaking of it now is the attention (or lack of it) which it received at the recent Church Congress at Bradford, and the strong utterance on the subject from Sir William Harcourt, M.P. The subject would have been ignored by the Congress if that had been possible. As it was, it was only grudgingly referred to by the Archbishop of Canterbury, but this silence was compensated for by the vigorous words of Sir J. H. Kennaway, who presided at a Conference of Evangelicals held during the Congress. He said that if the advance of ritualism was not checked, there was no escape from the breaking up into sections of the Church of England. "Disestablishment would be bad enough, disruption would be worse, but come it would, if things went on; for the Roman confessional was deeply abhorred by the English people." Other speakers did not hesitate to say that disestablishment would have to come if no confessional is the storm-center of the conremedy for the growing evil is found. The troversy, and it is amazing that it has been endured so long and made so great progress in the Church. One reason why a more determined resistance is not made on the part of the Bishops is thought to be the great age of the two Archbishops, both of whom are too old to undertake so serious a task, and who seem to be vainly waiting for the tempest to pass. Sir William Vernon Harcourt is very outspoken. He asks: "Will the Bishops, with a clear voice, a firm hand, and a straightforward mind, resist this lawless enterprise of assimilating the practices and creed of the Church of England to those of the Church of Rome, or will they continue to palliate and connive at, even if they do not encourage, violation of the plain law of the Church?" The motive of. Mr. Harcourt in asking these questions is impugned, but even the London "Times" says, "He is right in his law and in his main contentions," and that "sober Churchmen can echo his appeal." What the next step in this really serious controversy will be no one can wisely predict, but not far off a figure is standing whose name at this distance looks strangely like "Disestablishment." The installation services were conducted by the Presbyterian pastors of the city, the Rev. Charles Richmond preaching the sermon, the Rev. William F. Whittaker delivering the charge to the pastor, the Rev. David O. Mears, D.D., the charge to the congregation, and the Rev. George N. Karner the dedicatory prayer; the Rev. Dr. Olney, of Jermain Memorial Church, Watervliet, N. Y., presiding. Mr. Lawrence is a young man of rare pulpit power, and comes to a church which has for many years stood foremost in its denomination. Dr. Hall's Address in Chicago The Rev. Charles Cuthbert Hall, D.D., President of Union Theological Seminary, The "Sunday-School Times" Replies to its gave the Convocation address at the University of Chicago, Saturday, October 1, and preached the Convocation sermon on Sunday, October 2. Dr. Hall's address was on "Some Essential Elements of the True Academic Spirit," and is spoken of as a remarkable presentation of the subject. It will be published at once in the "University Record." On Convocation Sunday President Hall spoke on "God as a Worker Man's Ideal," and was listened to by a crowded congregation, which included, besides members of the University, some of the foremost ministers and theological professors in Chicago. The press the next day called the sermon "a masterly discourse." On Monday the evangelical ministers of the city and the vicinity, in a union conference held in Kent Theater at the University, listened to two papers by Dr. Hall, in the first of which, read by him in the morning, he discussed the "Christian Idea of Patriotism," the third division of the general subject "Christianity and War." In the afternoon the topic "The New Demands on the Ministry" was treated in a succinct, clear, practical, and suggestive manner. An Important Installation The installation services of the Rev. John J. Lawrence as pastor of the State Street Presbyterian Church, Albany, N. Y., were held on Wednesday evening, October 12. The new pastor comes to this church from Canandaigua, N. Y., where he has ministered with marked success and satisfaction to the congregation of the Presbyterian church for about five years, and where he enjoyed the love and esteem of the entire community. The pulpit of the State Street Church was made vacant by the resignation of the Rev. John McC, Holmes, D.D., about a year ago. Critics The "Sunday-School Times" continues to receive "Open Letters" from anxious readers relative to the danger of reviewing books on higher criticism and theology, which raise questions about our apparently “settled opinions in reference to the Bible." One wrote recently asking why the date of Creation, fixed by Usher's chronology as October 19, 4004 B.C., should be doubted by Christian scholars. More recently still one asksafter reading a discussion of the Asherah between two eminent scholars-why these scholars should talk "so widely" about the Ashera when "Peloubet's Quarterly " gives the correct definition? The "Times" re plies: "It is a pity that so many prominent scholars will talk 'so widely' on a matter where they ought to know better. Possibly not all of them have looked into Peloubet's Quarterly.' There is a bare possibility that some of them have the temerity to disagree with its editor, even though they have seen it. Certain it is that not all scholars accept any one definition of the Asherah as conclusive. . . . However much these differences among scholars are to be regretted, they do exist; and so long as such men write for the Sunday-School Times,' their 'wild talk' will be found in its pages, to disturb those who had found certitude and rest in their favorite quarterly." Conscious of the difficulties of the undertaking, we note with interest and commend most warmly this new task which the "Sunday-School Times" has begun—of bringing to its many readers "a general knowledge of the progress made in science, theology, and Biblical criticism," which many of them would get in no other way, and which the majority of them would accept from no other source. |
