Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1876-11-18
RELIGIOUS

any religion which is not personal.
The Mohammedan population Of the
world is reckoned at 15o.oOo.00o, and has
hitherto been untouched BY any energetic
or systematic Christian effort. -'4 p.
Rev. DR.. Hoge. Of Richmond, conducts
Bible.class every Sunday morning for half
an hour before service. 1t contains about
eighty members of his congregation, Of all
ages. 4 g.
The Roman Catholic University Of Paris,
one of the first fruits Of the new French
educational law, was opened in January,
withrelgious services. About sixty students
were present.
Last years circulation Of the Bible In
Spain amounted to over $4,000 copies In
Portugal, too, the sales amounted to over
. 5000 copies. In Lisbon there are several
congregations Of Bibel-reading Romanists.
Do not be troubled because you have not
great virtues. God made million spears
of grass where he made one tree. The earth
is fringed and carpeted, not with forests.
but with grasses. Only have enough OF
little virtues and common facilities, and
you need not mourn because you are neither
hero nor saint. rye.
The total number Of regular Baptist
churches in the United States, is 81 ,255 Or
dained ministers, 1917. Additions during
1875; by baptism, 1854; by letter, 32.5l5y
by experience, 1860; by restoration. 8,076.
Diminutions: by death, 12,76S; by letter.
34.5l7, by exclusion. 1861; by erasures,
s.7l9. Total meml ership. 1.Sl5.300.
DEAF IN ONr EAn.-Somebody has sald
that Noah was deaf in one ear, the one that
was turned to the world. But it Is fre.
quently the case that when one sense OF
organ is impaired others become more
acute; and so it was in Noah's case for he
heard and believed and obeyed what God
told him. Notwithstanding all the jeers and
SCOTS to which he WAS subjected.
The churches which support the London
Missionary Society are accustomed to make
an Offering on the first sacramental Sunday
of the new year for the widows and orphans
Of missionaries and the laborers worn out
in the service. Last year $l9,s70 were ex-
pended in this way and this year the fund
will be required TO assist 36 widows. 20
children, and Is retired missionaries.
A case Of conscience is mentioned in an
exchange. A man VAS conscientiously OPP
posed to the envelope system Of making
contributions, on the ground that we are
commanded not to let our left hand know
what our right hand doeth.. The system
being adopted by the church, he gave
nothing, for fear his left hand should find
it out In this way he kept his conscience
unspotted and got ahead of his left hand.
Afflicted Christian ), when you pass through
your Gethsemane, 10 not think solely of its
desolation, but also Of all its Divine beauty
since the Redeemer trave.sed it, and be
sure it is this gloom: grader of olives which
is nearest to the goal. 1t is is there that
the narrow gate opcne1 through which the
self respoiled and the self-crucifed pass,
kings and priests Unto the Lord. and have
found in the tears Of Addiction borne with
patience an anoii.tins more holy than
Aaron's.-Pressenss
The petitions of red up by the believer
who abides in Christ, and has Christ
words abiding in him, will be in harmony
with the will Of God. "The Spirit maketh
intercession for the saints according to the
will Of God" The Spirit taught breath.
ings Of desire. therefore, on the part of the
believerare the very brcathings of God with.
in him; and surly God on the throne in
heaven will no. be Indifferent to the
breathings of God in the human heart
Rather these brcathings are themselves
ful6lment Of the promise, and prelimi.
nary step on the partof God towards richer.
fuller, grander fulillinent Of it.
| WALKING WITH COP. - The difficulty
which most people have in religion is to
bring the thought Of God in their daily
lives. His very greatness makes it hard to
connect Him with holnely. everyday mat
tiers. We get some, sense Of Him in church.
| or in the prayer-meeting, or in rare hours
Of exalted feeling. But when we go into
the busy world, where most Of our life is
spent. God fades away into heaven that is
farther off than the blue sky above our
heads. This is a great loss to US. It 10
neglect on our part of our highest oppor.
tunity. God walks with US, in closest near.
rcss at every moment. There is in Him, il
we could learn to take it. provision Of
helpfulress, Of sympathy. Of suficiency, for
every sep in the whole round Of our daily
life. The very things that seem insignif.
cant and without spiritual meaning. are set
round us by God as part of our education.
And if we habitually recognize His pres.
ence in them all, the incidents Of business
and our household care and daily walk
would become threads Of gold, holding u
in thesweetest, noblost friendship with our
heavenly Father. ...., ,....i,, i $50 ..i !
The New York Tablet thinks II very
strange that for generations the Catholic
Church has never been in favor with tho
Government in Bavaria, although il il tho
only Catholic state in the new German EN-
pire. seeing that the majority OF the people
and the monarchs are Catholics. Until tho
persecution in, Prussia began there was no
country in Germany in which the rights
and liberty Of the Church have been 10
limited by the legislature as in Bavaris.
It finds the explanation in the fact that
mothers in general exercise a powerful in.
auence, upon the faith and religion Of .
child, and it is very rarely that this inau-
ence can be destroyed in soul. be 1t good
or bad. Neither rank nor fortune makes
IN exception to this rule. Now It has hap.
pened that all the Bavarian monarchs, be-
ginning from the great-slAndfasher Of the
present king, had married Protestant prin.
cesses. The mother Of the latter only en-.
braced Catholicism after her son had come
to the throne. The religious spirit which