THE PROTESTANT CONFERENCE AT NEW YORK.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume V, Issue 221, 19 September 1870, Page 2

THE PROTESTANT CONFERENCE AT NEW YORK.

[ Communicated^ The 22nd of September is named for the first day of meeting of this General Conference. At a time when the chief political powers of Western Europe are rushing into war, when the chief Church of Western Europe has just reached the climax of its errors (as Protestants think) by promulgating the dogma of the personal infallibility of the Pope, it is interesting to know that in this month the chief city of the New World welcomes to its hospitality the leading men of the Protestant Churches of Great Britain, Europe and America to hold a general conference. A conference of what sort ? Not one to define and decide — but to agree on principles of union and on united action. Among the subjects to be discussed are Christian Union, Christianity and its Antagonists, Christianity and civil Government, Christian life, Christianity and popular Education, Christianity and Social evils, Missionary Enterprise &c. The principal citizens of New York have offered the most liberal hospitalities to the expected visitors from Earope, and have raised a large sum to defray not only the local expenses of the Conference, but also the cost of bringing over the principal Continental Protestant theologians, who have promised to take part in this assembly; and two of the principal steamship companies have conceded special facilities to intending visitors. President Grant has sent to the Secretary of the British New York Conference Committee the following letter of welcome: — Washington, May 10, 1870. Having heard of the intended General Conference of eminent Divines, learned professors and others, from foreign countries and our own, to be held at New York in September next, under the auspices of the Evangelical Alliance, we have great pleasure in expressing our interest in that important assemblage of great and good men, our approval of the objects contemplated by it, and the hope that its deliberations may tend to the advancement of civil and religious liberty and the promotion of peace and goodwill among men. (Signed) W. S. Grant, President of United States, Schntler Colfax, Vice President, Hamilton Fish, Secretary of State.