The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-04-22
RELIGIOUS ITEMS.

cost of 100000.
The Baptist Missionary Union have es-
tablished mission In Greece.
Over twelve hundred churches were
built in the United States last year.
The Quakers in this country have 65,-
900 pupils in their Sunday -schools.
The new Baptist church in Rome is COM
posed of Italians and is in the heart OF
the city.
There are about 5,250,000 commune
cants Of the Roman Catholic Church in the
United States.
The theology of the conscience and not
of the clergy is to be the christianity of
the future.
The Greek Church in the Russian Baltic
provinces are prosecuting the Protestants
of those regions. .E-l.
There are said to be $1,000 clergymen
in the United States, their average pay
being about $500 year.
There are in the United Kingdom thir-
ty-five Roman Catholic peers and forty
nine Roman Catholic baronets. E laa
In India there are at the present time
100000 Protestant Christians, 1000 ma.
tive preachers and twenty-five missionary
presses. sr ts1eA
The recent Methodist Conference at Will
mington unanimously denounced the prac-
tice of holding "gift enterprises" and the
other forms of gambling INDUCED in at
church fairs.
DR.. Bellows, in bis leader, has very
strong words as to the Unity of God: s..e
We do not hesitate to say that the decay
of the dogma of the Trinity is absolutely
essential to the continued held of Christian
ity upon the thinking mind of the new
age. The Trinity and Deity of Christ are
getting to be as offensive to men of sense
and rightmindedness as polytheism was to
the heather philosophers, after the days
of Pluto in Greece and Cicero in Rome.
Beecher discourses eloquently of man
hood, womanhood, or childhood business
or pleasure, all proper things in their way.
His advice yesterday was very good
"Don't fret" Mr.. Beecher does not often
speak in parallels, but here is one:
Isay that If God averages as well as an Or
binary man or woman then He does med
die with natural laws. Wool was made to
grow on sleeps back, but is natural law
violated when 1t is drawn out from the house.
wife's spindle s
Here now is something palmer
The whole experience of the world goes to
prove that the man who aims at the highest
manhood will secure the most of all things
that lie below. The power of being happy ia
not measured BY the things that you have,
but by the number of chords in the nature that
vibrste with joy. In the man that lives fon,
noble ends airy fingers touch strings, of whose
existence gross men never know. Take the
lives of the most successful men in politics,
men who have risen even to be Vice Presidents
land that Office usually finishes q many, and
write out all the jealousies, the heartburning,
the envy and the worry, and all the plotting
and contemplating, and reading the record,
who would wish to pay the price OF their sue.
cess All this lifelong they are going to be
happy. believe that Garrison, accommoda-
ted with eggs that nobody else had a use for,
felt more exhilaration and joy in the days Of
his persecution, to say nothing of his serene
old age, than these so-called successful men.
MARRIAaE.--Re Mr.. Hepworth, Uni
tartan, discoursed on Marriage. His con-
illusions are that
Converts and monasteries would do better to
make good wives and husbands of their in
mates, and introduce deeper religious ele.
ment into the Church, than to teach men and
women that home is not the hottest place in
the world. Still, there are so many unhappy
unions-marriages of body and fortune rather
than of soul and sympathy-that some plain
talk Oh this matter may be of service to young
men. There are SO many divorces now-a>days
that we are led to the Irresistible conclusion
that there is something wrong in the way we
look at marriage. A true man Graves the
sympathy of good woman, and his happiness
cannot be complete without it; good woman
needs the protection and watchful love of
true man, and beneath its influence will develop
into a rarer and nobler being. First-Keep
the romance of your.youth as long as you can;
but in so important step as marriage use your
sense. Mere romance is apt to ultimate in
misery. When man Is so desperately in love
that he begins to write poetry and to quote
those lines of Moore beginning,
Alb, ever thus from childhood's hour,
I've seen my fondest hopes decay,
and meditates suicide unless everything goes
that bis love is kind Of counterfeit. Though
I delight in the abandon of such romance, in
which the hero forgets everything in the uni
verse except the person of his heroine, l cans
not help feeling that, when man and woman
make up their minds to live together all the
rest of their lives, it is serious step to take
that it should be looked upon carefully, DELHI
erately, prayerfully, and from the standpoint
of common sense. 1t is far better to be care
full now than to repent at your leisure. Se~
condly, in the name of Heaven beg of you to
marry for love and nothing else. Let
neither the acquisition of money nor
place enter your thoughts. Are
not our girls too often brought up to
feel that their first duty is to marry rich
man, and their second duty is to love him il
they can The girls of the period flirt their
hearts away, and when they become wives
End themselves untitled for wifey duties and
sacrifices. The first object in life is not to be
belle, with a long train of admirers, but a
true and noble woman. After that, the rest
comes naturally, and happiness is sure to follow.
man nowadays offers his hand and his for
tune, instead of his heart, and both man and
woman are destroyed by the bargain. heard
girl say, the other day, al love him
but he is poor, and cant afford to marry
him." Such sentence contains the rankest
heresy. Years ago girl was willing to accept
man and his poverty; now, it must be man
and his money. Then, the couple began in
humble lodgings and worked there way up to-
gether; now, the girl must be supplied after
marriage with oil her father has been able to
give her, and as much more as possible. When
you build home for yourself live in 1t, and
work to make it the asylum of your troubles
and the hottest spot on the earth. How fire.
quently after marriage the husband seeks re-
freshment at the clubhouse and the wife
becomes a social butterfly Before marriage
the two were turtle doves, and after they are
two bears. naa