The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1871-12-23
RELIGIOUS.
Keep your long prayers for your

There are thirty thousand gods
III the Chinese religion.
Tie Italian Catholics have re-
solved OH holding a General Con-
gress at an early day in one of the
principal cities i'll Italy.
Henry Ward Beochcr deals with
Earwinism afer his own fashion.
He declares that it matters not SO
much what mans origin might have
been as what his future will be. If
Heaven is mortgaged to the Saints
it will bc 10 bar to foreclosure and
possession that the Saints ancestors
had hair all over their bodies; that
they made the prehistoric ,junglcs
of the Eastern world hidcous with
their gatherings, and that they had
no higher Intellectual pas time than
occasionally hanging by their tails
from the top of the loftiest trees.
a notable reunion of religious
sects lately occurred in Salt Lake
City. The Methodist, Presbyterians
and Godhe Mormons united in
Thanksgiving services at the Lib
eral institute, the Rev. Josiah
Welch of the Presbyterian Church
delivering an impressive sermon.
Evidently not Only religious tolera-
ton but religious fratefhity is the
day at the Capital Of the Saints.
The New York Tribune re-
marks that "the readiest way for q
mediocre man to get notoriety is for
him to proclaim himself an intidel
and attack the Bible. His blows
may be rs feeble as a hens pecking,
but they are sure to attract notice,
because of the holy and tender re-
gard in which the object that he as
sails is held by the noblcst parto of
the race
God did not take up the three
Hebrews out of the furnace of fire,
but he came down and walked with
them in it. He did not remove
Daniel from the den OF lions: but
sent his angels to close the mouths
of the beasts. lie did not answer
to the prayer of Paul, to remove
the thorn in the flesh but he gave
him a sufficiency of grace to sustain
him.
An Evangelistic Society has been
organized i'll France, with M. Hor-
ace Monod at its head. Commit
tees to labor in it's behalf have been
appointed in all parts Of the coun-
try. Every one can be a member
OF this society sswho believes i'll
Jesus Christ as his Saviour, dying
for his offences and raised again for
his justification-in Jesus Christ
such as the prophets announced and
the apostles preached-and who
engages to labor personally for the
advancement of the kingdom of
Jesus Christ"
An analysis of the contribution to
the Presbyterian Memorial Fund of
| last year shows that twenty-five out
of one hundred and sixteen Presby-
terles gave $50 per COMMUNICATE,
and twenty churches have contribu
ted $3.50 and over per communi-
cant.
DATE OF THE CRUcIFIxIoS.-
Herr Kalb, the German savant, in
work recently published, shows
that there was total eclipse of the
moon concomitantly with the earth
| quake that occurred when Julius
| Caesar was assassinated, on tie 18th
| of March, B. G. IL. He also calcu-
lated the Jewish calander to a.
d, Al, and the result of his re-
searches fully confirms the facts re-
corded by the Evangelists of the
wonderful physical events that ac-
companied the crucifixion. Astro-
nomical calculations prove, without
! doubt, that OH the 14th day of the
Jewish month Nisan April g., there
was total eclipse Of the sun, which
was accompanied in all prot ability
by the earthquake, "when the veil of
the Temple was rent from the top
to the bottom, ard the earth did
| quake, and the rock rent" Mathew
xxi, sly. While st. Luke de
scribed the eclipse in these words
"And it was the sixth hour 10
noon), and there was darkness over
all the land till the ninth hour 6
O'Clock p. N.Y., and the sun was
darkened." Luke xxxii., 40 This
mode Of reckoning corresponds per-
!! fectly with the result of another cal
cuiation our author made by reckorl-
ing backward from the great total
eclipse of April, 1918, allowing fol
the difference between the old and
new styles, which also gives April
6, as to the date of the new moon III
the year A. ID. 81. AS the vernal
equinox of the year fell on March
/ )S an6 tho TauSs afo fhoir Raster