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and Jerufalem. If to thefe we add the whole of the Ruf- 
.fian empire in Europe,, great part of Siberia in Alia, Af- 
tracan, Calan, and Georgia, it will be evident that the 
Greek church has a wider extent of territory than the 
Latin, with all the branches which have fprung from it; 
and that it is with great impropriety that the church of 
Rome is called by her members the catholic or univerfal 
church. That, in thefe widely- diftant countries, the pro- 
i'effors of Chriftianity are agreed in every'minute article 
of belief, it would be rafh to aflert; but there is certainly 
fiich an agreement among them with refpeft both to faith 
and to difcipline, that they mutually hold communion 
with each other, and are in fafil but one church. 
Under the prefent republican government of France, the 
Roman catholic mode of worfhip has been abolilhed, the 
gold and filver images have been melted down to f'upport 
the exigencies of the war, and the churches have been 
new modelled and new named, upon the following prin¬ 
ciple : The church of St. Philip has been confecrated to 
Concord, in allufion to the walks and gardens with which 
this feftion abounds ; as the Thuilleries and Champs 
Elyfees, which .are fcenes of focial meetings and feltive 
affemblage; the church of St. Roch has been confecrated 
to Genius, in allufion to Corneille, who is buried there; 
St. Euftace, which is near the corn-hall, has been con¬ 
fecrated to agriculture; St. Germain, to Gratitude, the 
national palace of the arts and fciences being in this fec- 
tion ; St. Lawrence, to Old Age, the old man’s hofpital 
being near; St. Nicolas, to Hymen, it is, like Stepney 
church, a very wife-market; St. Mery, to Commerce, it 
is near the tribunal of commerce; St. Margaret, to Li¬ 
berty and Equality, it hands in the fauxbourg Saint-An- 
toine, the grand nelt of the revolutionilts; St. Gervais, 
to youth ; Notre Dame is dedicated to the Supreme Be¬ 
ing; St. Thomas, to Peace, becaufe it is near to St. Sul- 
pice, which belongs to victory; St. James becomes a 
temple of Beneficence, becaufe it is near to many chari¬ 
table inftitutions; St. Medard, to Labour, becaule the 
induftrious claffes live thereabout; and St. Stephen, to 
Filial Piety. It is very probable that ere long all thefe 
churches may be re-baptized, and once more .receive 
Chriftia'h names : for it is pofitively afferted, that Bona¬ 
parte is now in treaty with pope Pius VII. to reltore the 
. catholit; religion in France; no doubt it mull be efta- 
blifhed on a very different plan from what it was for¬ 
merly ; priefts can never expeCt to be in number and 
power as they have been ; and Bonaparte will in all.pro¬ 
bability be head of this new church as well as of the llate. 
(May 1801.) 
“ The nearer the church, the farther from God.” Fr. 
Pres de Peglife, loin J.e Lieu. Spoken to thole who neglect 
an advantage when they might ealily have it. The Ita¬ 
lians lay likewife, Vicino alia chiefa, lontana da Dio. It is 
likewife applied to thofe, who living near the church, or 
having every opportunity of frequenting divine lervice, 
do yet negleCt it. 
CHURCFI-ALE, f. A wake, or feaft, commemoratory 
of the dedication of the church.—For the church-ale, two 
young men of the parifh are yearly chofen to be wardens, 
who make collection among the parilhioners of what pro- 
vifion it pleafeth them to bellow. Qarevj. 
CHURGH-ATTI'RE, f. The habit in which men of¬ 
ficiate at divine lervice.—Thefe and fuch like were their 
difcourfes, touching that church-attire, which with us, for 
the molt part, is uled in public prayer. Hooker. 
CHURCH-AUTHO'RITY,y; Ecclelialticai power; fpi- 
ritual jurifdiCtion.—In this point of church-authority, I have 
lifted all the little fcraps alleged. Atterbury. 
CHURCH-BAY, a bay on the fouth-well coafl of the 
ifland of Rathlin, near the north-ealt extremity of Ireland. 
, CHURCH-BU'RIAL, f. Burial according to the rites 
of the church.—The hilltop has the care of feeing that all 
Chriltians, after their deaths, be not denied church-burial, 
according to the ufage and cultom of the place. Ayltffe. 
CHURCH-CREEK, a town of the American States, in 
Vql, IV. No. sui. 
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.Dorchefler county, Maryland, lies at the head of Church- 
creek, a branch of Hudibn river: feven miles fouth wef- 
tcrly from Cambridge. 
CHURCH-FOUN'DER, f. He that builds or endows a 
church —Whether emperors or bilhops in thofe days were 
church-founders, the folemn dedication of churches they 
thought not to be a work in itfelf. either vain or luper- 
flitious. Hooker. 
CHURCH-MAN,/. An ecckfi.ifl.ic ; a clergyman; one 
that minillers in facred things. An adherent to the 
church of England: 
Patience in want, and poverty of mind, 
Thefe marks of church and church-men he defign’d, 
And living taught, and dying left behind. Dryden. 
CHURCH-MU'SIC, f. The folemn mufic ufed in cathe¬ 
drals, and forne other churches, in the performance of di- 
vinC lervice. For its hitlory and origin, fee the article 
Music, 
CHURCH-ROCK, a rock in tjie bay of Bengal, near 
the coaft of Ava. Lat. 17. 32. N. Ion. 94. 14. E. Greenwich. 
CHURCH-SCOTT,/. Cuftomary oblations paid to the 
parilh-prielt; from which duties the religious fometimes 
purchafed an exemption for themfelves and their tenants. 
CHURCH STRET'TON,afmall market-town inSlirop- 
fhire, fituated in the moll hilly part of the country, on the 
turnpike-road leading from Shrewlbury to Ludlow, thir¬ 
teen miles fouth of Shrelbury, twelve miles weft of Wen- 
lock, and fixteen miles north of Ludlow. On the hills, 
which nearly furround the town, an immenfe number of 
flieep are fed, which produce large quantities of good 
wool, fold moltly to the dealers in York (hire. The malt¬ 
ing bufinefs is carried on here very extenfively. The poor 
of the town are employed in making a coarle linen cloth, 
which is generally fold for the purpofe of packing hops 
and wool. Within two miles of the town is the hill called 
Cair .Caradock, or CaraCtacus’s Mount, on the top of 
which the old Btitilh camp is Hill vifible, with its double 
entrenchments. The prolpeCt from this hill is delightful, 
and fo extenfive that feveral counties in England and 
Wales may be leen. 
CHURCH-WAR'DENS, f. Anciently ftyled church- 
reeves or ecclefuc guardiani ; officers inftituted to protect 
the edifice of the' church; to fuperintend the-ceremonies 
of public worfliip ; to promote the obfervance of religious 
duties; to form and execute parochial regulations; and 
to become, as occafion may require, the legal repielenta- 
tives of the body of the parilh. The office was originally 
confined to fuch matters only as concerned the church, 
confidered materially as an edifice, building, orplace.of 
public worfliip ; and the duty of fuppreffing profanenefs 
and immorality was entrufted to two perfons annually 
chofen by the parilhioners,,.as aflillants to. the church¬ 
wardens, who, from 'their power of enquiring into of¬ 
fences detrimental to the interefts. of religion, and of 
prefenting the offenders to the next provincial council, 
or epifcopal fynod, were called quejj-men. or jfnods-men, 
which lall appellation has been converted into the 71 a me 
of Jides-men. But great part of the duty, of thele tejles 
fynoaales, or ancillary officers, is 1 now devolved upon the 
church-wardens.; the fphefe of whofe.duty has, fincethe 
eftablifhment of. the overfeers of the poor, been confider- 
ably enlarged ;,, and is alfo diverted into various channels 
by many modern aCts' of parliament. 
Church-wardens are generally chofen by the joint con- 
fent of the parilhioners and minillers ; but, by cultom, (oil 
which the right of choofing thefe officers moltly depends. 
2 Aik.650. 2 Stra. 1246.) the minifter may choofe one,- 
and the parilhioners another; or the parilhioners alone 
may eleCt both. 1 Pent. 267. But where the cultom ol a 
parifh does not take place, the election lhail be according, 
to the directions of the canons of the church, Can. 89, 90. 
which direCt that all church-wardens or quelt-men in every 
parifh, lhail be chofen.by the joint conlent of the minifter 
and the parilhioners, if it may be; but if they, cannot 
7 H ' agree. 
