AMERICAN SUMMARY.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2218, 23 June 1891, Page 4

AMERICAN SUMMARY.

Religious circles in New York are disturbed by a new departure takeA by eminent divines in matters of faith. Dr C. Dewitt Bridgeman has left the Baptist Church and joined the Episcopal, because he accepted belief that God’s punishments werh remedial and not endless. Dr Heber Newtoa, of All Soul’s Episcopal Church, preaches the perfect freedom of everybody to put his own inter?pretation on the Bible, and complete release from creedal obligations. Professor Briggs, an eminent and leading Presbyterian divine, bas been psraoised from the communion for advocating, greater breadth in the Confession of Faith.

It is generally understood in Mass., that the vestryman of Trinity Episcopal church in that city will extend an invitation to Canon Farrar, of London, to come over and accept the pulpit made vacant by the elevation of the Ear. Phillip Brooks to the Bishopric, Mr Brooks wishes to have Canon'Farrar associated with him in Church work.

Eeports of May 10th from Ohio and Mississippi Talleys mention that the Hessian ’fly had appeared. A negro woman in Washington, Georgia, killed her daughter, coeked the body like veal, and gave* a hot supper, and made ISdols out ®f the affair. While the dance was proceeding subsequently another child disclosed the horror, and the negroes excited threaten to lynch the fiendish woman. A fight between Corbett (California) and” 1 Peter Jackson (Australia) took place at San Francisco. After sixtyone rounds the contest was declared a draw, and all bets were off. It was a scientific affair, but as a professional fight was votid a failure. At Ducktown, Tennessee, a young bride named Mary Williams was whipped to death by a party of masked

women on May 12th, It appeared that the girl had become the second wife of an old man named Bell, and his daughters by the first marriage objected to her. There were three of them, and, assisted by some, of the women of the neighborhood,'' the^ ! lured the young wife’ into a w’ood, on the pretext of going to gather berries, andt hen‘tortured heir to death in the manner stated. A fight grew out of the affair among the men folf, end several were shot to death. The three daughters whe did the whipping were arrested; but a strong party was immeformed to prevent them being taken to gaol; .„. .