The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-08-23
RELIGIOUS ITEMS.

Another commission on friendly intercourse
with the church Of Sweden has visited Sock
holm, and also prepared a report to the conven-
ton.
A Scotch minister, when asked whether lac was
dying, answered, Really. friend, | care not
God, and, if live, God will be with me-"
| DIR. Prime says that dyspepsia is great foe to
grace. 1t darkens the sky and breaks tie hopes
of many Christians. They think the trouble is il.
| their hearts, when it is i'll their stOlnachs.
/ The sub ect of intercommllnion with the Russo
Greek Church has also been referred to COM
mission, which has visited Constantinople, and
laid the subject before the patriarch of that
| city.
The Empress Eugene has given $4,000 for
new church in London, near Covent Garden,
which Is to he erected by way Of expation for all
the outrages that have been inflicted on the
" Blessed Sacrament" since the Reformation,
The establishment of Beechers guilt in
nocence Is secondary i'll Importance to the in
| finite detriment done the cause of Christ by the
horrible scandals set ahoat by the depraved
participants and witnesses in this unhallowed
| investigation.
| Here is description of a mean church. which
has moral with it s'After the old pastor died
the deacons went about for Northumberland
tifty-'loar minister, and you can get about
| much minister for that price as you can get
| psalm tunes out of file"
petition is before the House of Bishops
| a-king for the conservation of number Of adj
| ditional missionary bishops for the West and
Northwest. The project has also been agltated
in the same Hou for missionary bishop to the
Indians and another to the blacks OF the South.
The call tor a church congress, to meet a few
DAYS In advance OF the general convention, to
discuss various church topics, has met with
varied reception. In some quarters the idea is
strongly urged, while in others the project is
looked upon as an attempt to unduly influence
the convention III its work.
THE Protestant EPISCOPAL CONVENTION
(IeupIaI nj prOtpcf-
ant Episcopal Church, to be held in New York
city in october next. will be one of the most i'm
portant i'll the history of that large and wealthy
community. Twenty-six permanent commissions
and joint committees, appointed at pr. vious
slons. Will submit reports embOdying the results
OF their la oors.
1t is said that i'll Sinigaglia, Italy, the Pope's
native town. the humble cottage where he was
nursed is still owned and occupied by his foster
brother, who has erected tablet setting forth
the fact of Pic Mono having been brought up
there by the dear mother Mariana Chinarini.
When the old peasant visits Rome the Pope ex-
tends to him quite a fraternal welcome. His
Holiness has founded in the town an hospce for
fifty old men.
Ike Bishop of Lclfield states that there arc
156 bishops in the Anglican communion who
eau scarcely be said to be under any visible
head. 1t seems to me-, he continues, that
there should be a centre Of unity throughout the
American communion, and that the Archbishop
of Canterbury should be looked upon as the CEN
.'S' ~
name." The subject is expected to come before
the Protestant Episcopal General Convention in
New York this fall.
In a recent speech on ritualism in the House
Of ommons, Mr. Disraeli made remarkable
declaration. Alludirg to The fact that a large
maj ritv of the population of Ireland are of the
Roman Catholic faith, he added: 81 have always
expressed, as L do now my respect for their faith.
| cannot conceal from myself that the OrganiZa-
ton of the Roman Catholic religion is most
powerful organization perhaps if may say so,
the most powerful now i'll existence l will say
tins, that it is not the less powerful because the
head OF that faith has been deprived of his CAPT.
tai and Il few 2 ovinces. l believe his power has
Increased"
There a remarkable religious disturbance in
the extreme southern portion OF Brazil. A sect
scented as the savior of the world, and whose
uncle has set himself up as Judas. The wife and
child OF seceder from this sect have been shot
by the Faithful who also burned his house. The
sect, three hundred strong, were at last accounts
strongly ntrenched and successfully resisting
Don Pedro's soldiers, who had been ingoriously
repllsed 1t Is not stated whether Judas is
among the besleged; but if he is the chances
are against them, for the Brazilian commander
VIII be very certain to hold out inducements to
HIM. The sect are part of the German emf
grants who have settled in Brazil from time to
time.
good example Of muscular Christianity is re-
corded OF Father Lynch, an Irish priest, formerly
attached to the Roman Catholic College below
Niagara Falls, ard who was afterward Bishop of
Toronto. Returning home one 6ark night on
horseback, Father Lynch was accosted by a foot
pad with bludgeon, who ordered him to dis
II cunt and surrender his horse and purse. The
reverend father did as he was ordered, and in SO
DONG sprang Oh his ass ilant and laid him fat on
his ba ok. Are you Irishman?" 81 am, sir"
"A Catholic!" ''Sure that | am" s'Wcll I am
tather Lynch, and shall take your punishment
out of the hands of the law saving which he laid
his riding whip upon the back of the astonished
offender with such vigor that the latter probably
regis tered vow that his next assault should be
Oh a layman.
PRACTISING WHAT He PREACHED story
IS told OF Rev. Mr.. Herrick, once settled at
Worthington Mass. He collected his own sala-
ry, for which every voter i'll the town was az
sessed and calling on Mr.. D., the blacksmith,
one day, he said Il have small bill against
you." And for what 2" &c For preaching. " For
said Mr.. D. 81 have heard none
Of your preaching" ''The fault is your own,'
said Mr.. II. "The doors have been open, and
H. one day passing the blacksmith shop, Mr..
D., hailng him, said, " / have small bill against
YOU ''And for what" said Mr.. II. 'Fer
,hoeing your horse, replied Mr.. d. "FOr shoe
ng my horse? have had no horse shod here"
said Mr.. Ii. "The fault lis your own" replied
sIr D. THE doors have been open, and YOU
night have come ill.," Mr.. H. payed the bill and
passed on.
An Illinois paper reports that romantic
Iacoupin country girl thought to Maud Null
erie and rake the meadows sweet with
nay. She stood over red jackets nest as
he swung her little rake. First jump from
he score eleven feet Distance Ia the hOuse