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Show LATEST DISPATCHES, GENERAL. The Kpiscopul t ongros?. New York, 6. At the Episcopal Congress, the chairman said that the aim of the Church Congress was to litt up the mind of churches to that sphere where ditBcullits and quarrels oease. Tho congress had invited men ol all doctrines and cretds to meet for discussion on the important questions that tended to unity. Ho announced the subject for discussion for the afternoon session, wus "The proper limils of legislation as to doctrine and ritual. The first speaker was Rev. Dr.John Cotton Smith, of New York, llo ro-garded ro-garded special legislation on these subjects with great distrust, and as calculated rather to retard than to aid the progress of the church. "We are the only body," he said, "which it can be claimed to hve a comprehensive compre-hensive church, offering no obstacles to fellowship and communion.' Rev. Dr. Hugh Miller Thompson, of New York, read the next paper. He Eaid the dogmas of immaculate conception and infallibility were never tauuhl by the church, therefore they were nothing to her. This was the age of dogmas, and it behooved the church to guard herself. He thought Calvinism tended to foose living in the Christian religion. Rev. B. S. Huntingdon could not see why he might not do pwuy with the terms " High Churchman " and "Low Churchman," and unite on the broad basis of Cathulio Churchman. Church-man. A celebrated clergyman had said that if he wero allowed to alter fifteen words in the prayer book he would have fifteen thousand converts, and ho (the speaker) would say that if in one of tho forms of baptism service ser-vice ho whs allowed to change the. word "shall" into the word " may," much good would result in the church. Bishop Whipple ol Minnesota, said there was one great doctrine on which all agreed the doctrine of atonement; atone-ment; he believed wo had too great a number of canons to-dav, to tell a minister or bishop what He was to do or not to do. At tho evening session the subject of the discussion was a " clerical education," edu-cation," upon which able papers were read by several clergymen. |