The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1870-01-05
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perseverance have succeeded in laying the founda-
ton of Christian church at ROme-nOt within its
walls, for no Protestant sanctuary is allowed within
its walls A writer in the Evangelical ChriStendOnl
says:
after negotiations, a site has at length been
secured in the locality in which Protestant worship
is tolerated. The foundation has now been laid,
and the whole building, which includes church and
adjoining rooms, for congregational library and
veStry is expected to be finished before the middle
of next summer. The cost, including grounds, will
not exceed slS00. Mr.. Lewis has already sue
ceeded in raising the whole sum, with the excep-
ton Of e4OO, which, it is hoped, will be raised by
the united contributions of the visitors to Rome
during the season.
BY the order of the Irish Presbyterian General
Assembly, sermons on temperance are to be
preached in all the churches on the 18th inst. In
many districts of the country drunkenness is said
to have increased Of late years keeping pace with
the growth of agricultural prosperity and there
seems to be hearty and vigorous crusade against
1t. The Assembly also appointed the Sth OF De-
cember as a day olgious service, and
the Rev. Dr. KirA atrlck, Uonvener of the Com
mittee on Religion, has issued letter on the pro-
per observance of the appointment. He pleads
for remembrance of the crisis through which the
Is pdSSluSt anu vi the next Ineetlug VI lle
Assembly, and suggests that as 1t is the day fol
which the Gcumenical Council is convoked at
Rome, in development of an active and aggressive
Romish policy, the position and influence Of Ro-
maniSm in Ireland should be considered on the
previous Sabbath Thus, within fortnight, the
attention of the people would be fixed on two OF
the mightiest obstacles to the gospel drunken
ness and Romanism.
Probably the Oldest missionary in India is Rev.
George Pierce, who has been for 43 years laborng
for the English Baptist Society. He says, in a
late address, that idOlatry was never more vigorous
than when be entered India-even the English
supported it. The East India Company met the
expense of idol festivals. Government officers
headed idol professions Lord Give offered 81
100 at an idol temple. Juggernauth was annually
decorated with 5000 yards OF brOadcOth sent from
government stores The Governor. General, Lord
Auckland, though brother to an English bishop,
presented offerings, with the Hindu rajah, to the
temple at UmritSur. The professions were crowded,
and public obscene orgies were shameleSSy indulg-
ed in The suttee was regularly practiced, and
government provided the police to protect it, nc
less than 200 widows being burned every year in
Bengal, part of India most under the eye of the
government. Since that time, almost entirely IN
der religious influences, all bloody rites have been
suppressed, superstitiOns have been torn away,
and the dawn Of a new era has risen.-Nelo York
Independent
1t is only few years since Sunday schools Of
the American pattern were introduced into Ger.
many. A Lutheran journal says that the move
meDt in their favor is becoming quite remarkable,
At the late meeting for home missions in Rhenish
Prussia, held at Bonn, several pastors who had al
first opposed Sunday schools now spoke in theil
favor having seen them tried in their own par
ishes. The system was approved without dis
seuting voice. One Of the most decided advocate.
of the American system, as it is called, was Pro-
lessor LANCE, the Bible commentator
The important work of Froude, 'The History Of
England, from the Fall of WolSey to the Defeat Of
the Spanish Armada, has been completed by the
appearance of the eleventh and twelfth volumes
which are the fifth and sixth of those comprising
the reign Of Elizabeth
The Pope has decreed that in case of his DEATH the
Gcumenical Council shall be dissolved, and that
none but Cardinals shall take part in the election
OF his successor.
The Spanish Government has communicated Its
desire to join the convention for the promotion OF
a uniform system of coinage, to which France,
Italy, Belgium, and Switzerland have already given
in their adherence.
Cardinal POntini has died at Rome, and there are
now eighteen cardinals hats with no heads in them
The Pope has them all in his gift and with touch
of diplomacy worthy of an American ruler, he pro-
poses not to give them away until after the COun-
Gil is over This puts all aspirants on their good
behavior, as it would be too much to expect that
the Pope would give a cardinal throne to bishop
who does not sustain him in the Council.
The Japanese.-Hope College, at Holland, Michi
gan, has lust received japanese student who is
to be educated for the Christian ministry, after
which he will return to Japan, and cooperate with
our missionaries there.
Advicss from Kingston, Jamaica, say the Church
there has been diSestablished and disendowed and
many clergymen have resorted to manual labor fol-
support
Excavations on Mount Palatine, the private pro,
perry of the Emperor Napoleon, have brought tt
hight nearly the whole palace of the Caesars, the
walls of which are covered with fresco- paintings o.
genii, BIRDS flowers etc.
Tsnnysons new volume, The Holy Grail ana
Other POEMS, promises to have an enormous salt
in England. Seventeen thousand copies of tbt
work were subscribed for at MeSSrS. Strahan 4
Co. 5 trade sale and the retail publishers are salC
to have fled orders for thirty thousand copies,
A Sixth Church has been organized in Brazil by
the Presbytery of Rio, in the field of the Presby
terrain Board. SOrocaba in the new position,
town sixty miles S. w. Of Rio,
The Irish Disestablishmeut-Th disestablish
ment of the Irish Church is not likely to prove ST
disastrous to the cause of religion as its enemies
prophesied. The Lirhg Church says:
1.-THE revolution in the Irish Church is advanc
ing with well-ordered steps to satisfactory result
All the signs 90 to show that it has gained i'm
menSey BY the dreaded change. 1t is thrown up
on its own resources, and forced to Independent
life. 1t is no longer the protected and petteC
offshoOt of the English establishment nor demora
lied and enervated by protection; but is set VI
alone TO fight its own way by its own strength. Il
is thereby freed from the obligation to perform
those political services for the protecting oivi
power which have In the past been the worst stair
on its history and it is left to dots legitimate work
as a church.
The entrance of the Emperor of Austria int
Jerusalem was highly solemn. A little distance
from the city the cavalcade halted, tents were pu
up, and the Emperor assumed the grand uniform
of Marshal, with the broad ribbon and collar Of
the Order of st. Stephen All his suite put them
selves into full parade uniform. Then they
mounted and rode toward the city. On the frs
hill deputatiOn Of Hungarian Jews awaited his
Majesty. Then deputaton after deputation wei
coined him, thousands of people lined the road
endless CneerS arOSe, anu uDuer tue uIst uAuulp ud
arch the clergy received him. As he entered the
city ne dismounted, and like Godfrey de BOuillou
kissed the ground where the Saviour's footsteps
haG fallen. He was atterward taken into the
Church of the Holy Sepulcher.
China.-There are more than fifteen large Chi
nese cities in which missions are established Ii
all these there are l29 ordained missionaries % lay
missionaries 10 ordained native assistants; 36S
unordaiued native assistants; 800 stations and out
stations; 200 chapels; 275 boys in boarding
schools; 354 girls in board schools; S,55S boys il
day schools POP girls in day schools; STAB com
municants ,446 catechumens; and S4,289 Il
of benevolent contributions Fifteen years age
the entire number Of converts connected with Pro
t,sto,+ ,,;,,;,,,s Sooroalv avcaeded ono hupdreA