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Show THS EVANGELICAL ALLIANCE. The Piut.-.-Luit .l'.euinenieal ixun-eil ixun-eil lias been in session for over a week, and if any important cireum-jtaneu cireum-jtaneu Coinettd witli it has not been telegrapheil, the gentleman who liiaki-a up t!ie Xew York di-paUhes hs our sincerest sympathy . From the anxir-ty which he has manifested to telegraph "the truth, the whole truth," and probably a few points t'nat .might traved somewhat beyotul the I.O'iuds of truth, we should be iuelimd to iuia-ne that if lie bad omitted anything there would bo danger dan-ger of suieide, on Ids part, from remorse. re-morse. Clergymen, of ditlerent de-nmuinritions, de-nmuinritions, from various extreme parts of tite world, met ill council, aniinaleit by a desire to show' how the theological iumbs and lions could lie down together in millennial amity, and a ealous detennination to pitch into "Anti-ebri-t, that Man of Sin," the Pope, ami all that pertains to Liie Church of which he is the visible head. They met and exchanged congratulations, con-gratulations, preached and prayed! together, and made food for retlec-tiou retlec-tiou to the various communicants oi their various denominations at home, who snarl at each other across the narrow ditch they have digged to separate their several paths to Heaven Hea-ven as hungry curs do over a .stray bone. How the worshipers with tho Kev. Killen, of Belfast, Ireland, Ire-land, must rejoice when they learn of the Christian fraternity which existed between him and the Dean of Canterbury, Can-terbury, whom they look upon as only a shade diflering from Cullen of the " Scarlet lady." Put this is tho first step to war I an "Evangelical Millennium," and why should we carp at the peculiarities manifested. Uvcii Wilhelru of Germany Ger-many writes congratulatory to the assembled council, and what wonder ! A reverend evangelical from Pittsburg, Pitts-burg, Pennsylvania, on Thursday last, in the midst of expressions of surprise that "such an aggregate of thought should be expressed without striking against tho thoughts of others," warmly declared that he blushed for the Constitution of his country that is, if the United States be his country. It was ft Constitution Constitu-tion equally applicable to. all sects and creeds, "even to the Mahome-dan, Mahome-dan, therefore he blushed for it ;" this "Christian Evangel" evidently evident-ly wishing ft Christian Constitution, molded altar the evangelical pattern, which would ignore all sects' and creeds, except the few that heTvould permit to cxiat within the pale of his Christianity. This same gentleman was the person who was anxions for a closer union between Church and State. . Ho no doubt adnutevl the prospect of a jiiun Dimum, for such an advocate of a State Church unquestionably un-questionably would desire a head for the State in the person of ft monarch, and a liberal support from the public -treasury for the Christian Church of which he would be one of the exemplary exem-plary pastors. If this be the kind of thing which h:is taken deep root among ,the "Evangels," wc do not wonder at Wilhchn sympathizing strongly with them , he being one of the most ardent advocates of kingly prerogatives; , nor that the Dean of Canterbury should mildly protest, by intimating that "what was practicable in this country was not practicable in England.3'" But wc do admire the sturdy sense, of Bishop Simpson of the Methodist Episcopal Church, who said "the Alliance Al-liance had not assembled to make, a Constitution for the United States, nor a Church for England.'' In this meeting of the "Evangelical Alliance" wc do not see the end of ' disunion among the different Trotest-; Trotest-; ant sects that some do, nor the illimitable illim-itable benefits to mankind which ' many believe they can descry. AYhik clergymen of the same creed cannot ' ; meet in synod, assembly, or council, - - without manifesting a cerbity of feel- ing, it is not to be imagined that this j newly-born alliance of disponlant elements ele-ments will long continue to work" har- ' moniously. " j But there is one point illustrated by ' j this Evangelical Alliance, which ; speaks of progress, and should not be ! overlooked. The Council in New - York shows that the walls of ignorant bigotry, of which just such men have 1 bc:n the strongest supporter., arc be- ing broken down. Yet there is much 1 1 still to be nceomplished in tins direc-' direc-' tion, us may be judged "from such exhibitions ex-hibitions as that of the Pittsburg man, and from the fact that the very bond of union of the Alliance is a treaty offensive and defensive against 3 another, and the lending, sect oi 1 Christendom, the Roman Catholic ' Church. |