The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-03-01
The Uir0inia State cSoarnaL
SATURDAY EvEN'G. MARCH |, 1873
RELIGIOUS NOTES.

Mature feels no loss, because God is
always present to her.
Whatever God gives men as stepping
stones they often make into stumbling
blocks.
The Rev. Charles Griswold, a Metho-
dist minister, is the Grand Master of Ma
sons In Minnesota.
The Vienna New Free Press has intel.
ligence from Rome that the Pope means to
canonize Mary Stuart.
The Rev. DIR. Potter, of Holliscroit,
England, accuses Mr.. Gladstone of being
Jesuit in disguise"
Infancy is perpetual Messiah. which
comes into the arms of fallen men, and
pleads with them to return to paradise.
An Orphans home, under the aus
pices of the Protestant Episcopal church,
has lust been built at Easton, MARYLAND.
The main building is SO by 80 feet, with an
addition 16 by 20 feet.
The members of the Methodist church
in Foochow, China, have written a letter
of greeting and good wishes to the Rev.
Bishop Harris, expressing their strong de-
sire to have him with them.
1t is said that during the last ten years
1856, 900 copies of the Scriptures have been
circulated in Turkey, for which nearly sls,
900 have been paid, the principal being
that gratutitous distribution was to be
avoided.
Mention is made of tall Episcopal
clergymen. The Rev. DR.. A. Vinton is
six feet tall. The Rev. Phillips Brooks is
more than six feet. The Rev. W. N. Nc
Vickar is also more than six feet, and he
weighs go pounds.
The Rev. W. @. Clark, of the Bethesda
Mission, Brooklyn, New York, has been
expelled from the New York Methodist
conference for undertaking to procure
money for a church building by gift en-
terprise or lottery.
The present number of members in
the Latayette-avenue Presbyterian church,
Brooklyn, is 1875. During the twelve
years of DIR. Cuyler's pastorate there have
been 2.230 members received, of whom
over 1000 have united on profession of
faith.
The ruin ofmost men dates from some
vacant hour. There is satirical poem,
in which the devil is represented as fish
ing for men, and fitting his bait to the taste
and business of his prey but the idler, he
said, gave him no trouble, as he bit the
naked hook.
"A good man, in great trouble, kept
repeating, "Why art thou cast down, o
my soul?" His wife at length asked why
he did not rehearse the rest of the pas
sage "Hope thou in God for shall yet
praise him." There are "songs in the
night for oil if they will but look to
Him.
The danger ofex-tempore prayer, says
an eminent Episcopalian, is that it may
degenerate into the ludcrous. Take, for
example, the case of the elder who was
invited to pray on the day after battle,
and who said: 80 Lord, never see such
day as it was yesterday, and | don't be-
lieve You ever did J"
--Jegge, after his appointment as Bish-
OPP of Oxford. had the folly to ask two
wits, Canning and Frere, to be present Mt
his first sermon. "Well," said he to Cam
ming, show did you like it?" swell,
thought it rather-short." "Ob, yes, |
am aware 1t was short, but was afraid of
being tedious" $50 you were," was the
eqnivocal reioinder.
Father Hyacinthe has new field open
before him. The Grand Council of Gene
VI having decided that henceforth the pa
rishioners shall elect their own curates, the
Liberal catholics there have voted, by a
large majority, to offer the eloquent pere
the important living of that city, and are
confident of securing him. He had already
been expected at Geneva, to deliver a Sc
iies of lectures on the present state and
the future of the Roman church and the
Papacy.
When Madame Guyon was imprson-
ed in the castle of Vincennes, in 1895, she
NOT only sang, but wrote songs of praise
to her God. ut sometimes seemed to me, -
she said, ''as if were little bird whom the
Lord had placed in cage, and that l had
nothing now to do but sing. The Joy of
my heart gave brightness to the objects
around me. The stones of my prison
looked in my eyes like rubles. Iesteemed
them more than all the gaudy brilliancies OF
vain world. My heart was full of that
Joy which thou glvest TO them that love
thee in the midst of their greatest crosses, -
sentiment which she embodied during one
of her imprisonments in touching little
poem, which begins thus:
"a little bird I am,
Shut from the fl lids of air,
And In my cage sit and sing
TO Him who placed me there;
Well pleased pI isoner to be,
Because. God it plpa seth thee