The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1872-03-27
FROM THE NORTHERN STATES.

The Bible Revisers-Prof Day, of Yale College,
has an article in the College Courdnt on the - Pre-
sent state Of Biblical REVISION In which he says
that the British revisers have been lndustriously
at work, and have completed the revision Of the
Gospel according to Matthew and nearly the whole
of Genesis and Exodus AS soon as printed copies
of these are received, they will be placed in the
hands of the American revisers for consideration
and criticism, and The proposal OF any other
changes which may De thought desirable. The
whole work at the present rate OF progress Is not
expected to be completed in less thar seven years,
and may not improDaDy occupy ten; but whether
the time required be longer or shorter, there Is
every reason to believe that it will be steadily
pressed forward to conclusion, and that In the
end we shall have translation which, while agree
| ing substantially with our venerable English yer
sion, will present the best results of the learned
study of the Scripture for the last two centuries
and halt.
The Protestant Missions of the World in their
Aggregate "A recent work entitled The Land OF
the Veda," by William Butler, d. d., OF the
Methodist Church, gives the latest published sta
tistics of all Protestant Missions in various lands.
There are fity-two different missionary organiza
tons at work on the foreign field, not to mention
various auxiaries Eighteen of these are in the
United States, twenty three in Great Britain, and
fourteen on the Continent of Europe. A con-
densed statement OF the worlds missions would be
as follows
Whole number of Missionaries (male) ,S2l
| So - Z" - (female) .........1 70o
Native Preachers and 500
TOTAL of Christian Laborers. 10 l2S
Native Church Members. .... 265, 344
Native Christian Community. ...........l, ia, $40
Total Scholars of both Sexes...... 1888, 642
Total Receipts ,9iZ, 04Z
All but five of these ifty-two societies and
boards have been established within the present
century, and all but ten within the past fifty years,
and yet, how grand an aggregated
Burdened with Titles Theodore Schnitzler, of
Wisconsin, calls himself United Evangelical Pres
| byterian, Episcopalian Reformed, Lutheran) free
Christian Bishop of the United Protestant and
Catholic Free Brethren at II mission stations on
Green Bay and Lake Superior.
The Spirit of Extreme Symbolism. Lutheran
| Visitor devOtes a column to notice OF the
'Denkschrift" of the late Synodica Conference
at Fort Wayne, and after noticing its criticism OF
the General Synod NORTH characterzes its spirit
thus: g One thing is patent and that is. Lutheran
! Symbolism has, according to this document, the
spirit Of e,oiSh erctuSiUeneSs and the Righteousness
Of the Phartsee, rather than the spirit of Christ"
See Mark tx: $3.50.
Catholics and Protostants in New York,-The New
York correspond ent OF the EpiScOpaLiaa states
lation of New York amounts to 100000 souls, for
whom there are only forty churches. The COM
bined so-called Protestant population to-day
amounts to 600 900, to accommodate which there
are no less than $50 churches. La other words,
Protestants have one church ediice for every 800
persons, while the Roman Catholics have only one
for every 4 400 persons. But this is not all The
actual accommodations OF the forty Roman Catho
lie churches amount to only Sc, 600 slttlngs. Our
ahurol oIona hoe 81 00O If clear
therefore, that there are physical reasons Tor 10
man Catholic crowds With the same church ac
commodations, it is very questionable whether
Roman Catholics would maintain that aspect OF
superior devotion which some quote.
American Bible society-William HI. Allen, L.
d. president OF Girard College, Phiadep hia, was
unanimously elected President of the American
Bible Society, at the March meeting of the mana
gers, to succeed Mr. Robert Lenox, who has for
some years occupied this position.
Remember the sabbath.-At the recent annual
meeting OF the New Jersey Methodist Conference,
at Trenton, the Committee on Sabbath Desecra-
tlon urged frequent preaching against Sabbath
breaking, reported against holding camp meetings
on Sunday unless in enclosed grounds, and recon-
mended the appointment OF committee to urge
the discontinuance of running trains on the rail
roads on the Sabbath.
College Rowdyism.-The following account of
the late breaking out of this nuisance at Princeton
is given by The Press of last week:
Again have the Princeton students disgraced
themselves. and disgraced, too. the venerable in
stituton Of learning of which they are such sorry
representatives. On Washngton's birthday a
horn spree" came off, large number of these
Over-grown children parading the town to dis
cordant accompaniment of horn-blowing, the af
fair winding up by the theft of some twenty-five
gates, which were brought to the college campus
and symmetrlcally arranged around the old cannon
These boysh pranks might be overlooked, but an
other recent performance of the hilarious youths
is OF so grave nature as to demand the severest
penalty that it is within the power of the faculty
to administer. In consequence of certain perfectly
just regulations made by Professor Hart, the sc
Nor class ''rebelled and on entering the recita
ton-room proceeded to fire off crackers and torpe-
does, many of the latter being exploded against
the Professors person. After vainly endeavorng
to quiet the pandemonium, Mr.. Hart was obliged
to dismiss the class. This was undoubtedly one of
the most disgraceful scenes that ever occurred
within college walls
Quite in keeping with the above is the recent
movement among the boys at Amherst, who do
not like the college rule requiring them to attend
church on Sunday to procure decision from
the highest legal authority in Massachusetts," as
to the right OF college to compel them to attend
church We hope they will get decision to suit
them; and that the faculties Of our colleges every
where will abdcate their governing authority and
let these nice and wise and hopeful youths make
their own regulations, and run their institutions
The Lutheran.
State Agricultural COllege-Dr Harvey Black,
of ~ Of hn Pros