, 1870-03-20

teaching OF e1Ccouon, Nr1ItnK OF noVelSs ana
acting Is correspondent for The Morning Post
Las lately found new vocation. He has been
playing Hamlet after quite novel fashion,
entirely his own invention Tho reverend gen
1eman redtes the words, and group OF act
ORG accompany him with gesturee, they 'front.'
ing the audience and he Fitting behind The
effect is said to be decidedly odd. This yc1sa-
tile minister Of religion waa Fechter's instruc-
tor in elocutiou.
Tho Chaplain Of the California State Senate,
in the course Of : recent morning prayer ex-
patiated on the beauty Of sotue national flags
Manufactured cut Of California silk, which
we're on exhibition in The State House.
A novel enterprise in church matters Is the
erection Of nest union church ediace st
North Paris, Maine, TO be occunied every third
sabbath by three ditf..s':: f. .:ninahons-
Bsptiet, Methodist, md EniyetsA1iHt.
The ernan feet question ii being asltated in
the uiseion circles Of China Can small foot
woman be admitted into the sxnctuzry7
The Cumberland Presbyterian dsnounces the
preach, custom Just introduced, IS unchrls-
tian and unauthorized By the Bible, confession,
In an article in the Radical org4n OF tho
most liberal typo of Unitarians, styled. ~e BE-
lie!c, "Come cutters, on Lost sinner t We
hinners. 'Just ~ certainly rs resson forbids
belief in being Holoch] commanding babies
To be roasted Tor the worship in this world
iust 80 certainly does it forbid belief in one
who vii himself roast men and women IN the
next world"
A correspondent Of the New York EIpress,
writing from the Diocese Of Albany, and pro
fesaing to speak for the Protestant Episcopal
Church, gives the following as Eome OF the
articles Of faith held in common by the Greek
and Anglican Churches: The Eastern CAtho-
lies use the ordinary hsead IN celebrating the
fEnf "a
bread. is from afro, to raise. Generally. 50 We
do. They give the clements in both kinds. So
do We. They reject transubetautiAiou. while
believing IN the body and blood SO do We.
They circulate the Scriptures freely. So Do We; s
The Russian Bible Society disposed Of 900
New Testa1nents in thst language Last yesr.
They allow every nation = uturg in its oEn
topEue, So do ue- Their priests m4.Ty. So
do ours. They reject the AponEpha- 80 20
We. Bat It is needless to specify fmshe5. ~. "
WideN senarated by time And spuce. vo both
20 TO The only sure source Of truth aud groundl
az Chr;atixu peace-ApostoGc Ih3ndng and
te.chine. In coue1usion, I wonld add just one
thing. They have ritual to aH1espood,
rrco1nixes The majesty Of God and the sancti-
" OF the house Of His presence So haven't
We! And for the reason, 60 to tbs itrecon-
cilables who broke their way into the Church
with axes and hammers IN the time Of Gom-
uen."
The Rev. Widow Van cott has bsen preach.
ing in Massachusetts, and reports that sha EAs
converted III in Chelses, 17s m nockpart, md
150 in Wlbrahaln.
The persecution Of the Catholic converts in
Japan still continues. Mgr. Peht5eau, the
Vicar General Of Japan, w1itns that, On tha Glib
md 18th Of October. fifty Christians wero A.
rested and severely beaten, and q:dte mum.
Der Of othess baatinAdoed and tortured some
days later Ho SAYS: tOfRcsrs keep paying
them daily visits to indnee them to aposhtize
These czuelties do not deter our Christians oi
{! the isles 1.-THE Goto Islands. pro5ahly] f1or
| focEng to us IN crowds" Tho Japanese
when demonstrated with by foreign Ministers
clsim that the Catholics recognise the Pope, q
I the det1ment OF the Mkado. They deny that
the pa1secuiop d eeyeeo, ss they do not eePa