The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1876-04-05

missionary in Brazil, after fourteen year s ex
perience saws: at is my honest conviction that
the Church of Christ will furnish the necessar.
men and means in ten years this great country ma.
be converted to Christ, and in less than twenty
years will cease to be foreign missionary held
Baptist Church in ROme.-The English Baptist
have recently purchased a site for another Baptls
church in connection with their mission IN Rome
The area measures five hundred square yards, snC
is situated close to the ancient Basilics OF Santa
Pudenziana, of which Cardinal Wiseman was tltu
lar. and above part OF the remains of the House
| Pudens. 10 connection with the church Will be 8
school house, minister's residence, an establish
ment for sale of religious publications, &c. Rev
Paul Grassi, Catholic convert, is to be the pastor
Good News from the Holy Land.-We hear good
news from the Holy Land just now-at least from
Syria on the North, where Mr.. Wood (son OF DR..
q. w. Wood has charge Of the Abeih Seminary;
There are forty young men IN the Institution, and
ten Of these have become decided, working
Christians, and the whole number were deeply
Interested in spiritual things. Of greatly less In
terest, yet nevertheless of note as prophesylng
that the physical as well as the spiritual sterilty
of Palestine shall by and bye give way and the
desert literally blossom as the rose, is an item 10
the same letter, referring to the safe arrival and
vel. doing OF box Of plants sent all the way
thither by our friend, Z. p. Roe, Of Cornwall on
the-Hudson. We respectfully offer this last as a
straw for the next volume of the prophetic Regent
square diViue.-Neoo York Evangelist.
1t seems that previous to his writing his "Popu-
lar History Of France" NJ. Gujzot undertook on
the same plan and completed = Popular History
of England . which lay in Ms. unknOWu until his
death. Like the other work, it was taken down
from her fathers diotstion by Nine De Witt, and
1t will now be published in three or four large vol
umes, to match the elegant style Of the companion
work, by Hachette, Paris; Low, London Estes x
LSuriat, Boston. The history extends from the
earliest times to the reign Of Victoria. -
The highest inhabited spot 10 the world is the
Buddhist cOister OF Hsple, In Tibet, where twenty
priests live at an altitude Of l6, 500 feet. The
brothers Seglaeintweit, when they explored the
glaciers Of the Ibi-Gamin in the same country, en-
eamped at q 900 feet, the highest altitude at
which EarOpean ever passed the night. Even
at the top Of Mont Blanc, Professor Tyndslps
guides found it very plea ant to do this, though
the Professor himself did not confess to feeling so
bad as thew, The highest mountain in the world
IS Mount Everest (Himalays,) % 600 feet, and the
condor has been seen "winging the blue air" 500
feet higher. The air, By the by, is not blue,
or else, as De Ssussure pointed out, I" the distant
mountains, which are covered with snow, would
appear blue also Its apparent color being due to
Iuo EtuiotlOn OF nEnJ. w nat ngnt can no. ana
does is marvellous and not the least is its power
OF attraction to humanity Chambers Journal.
The Bible Work in Greece-Rev G. L Leyburn
says:
Acting as Agents of the American Bible So.
clety for the Kingdom of Greece, and having
charge OF the UOited Depot of the British and
American Societies IN Athens, we have disribu-
ted the Scriptures in various parts Of the King
dom. Some Jour thousand copies of the Bible, in
whole or in part, have been sold during the year
by both Societies. While this is not larger num-
Der than has been sold during some previous years,
yet for the labor bestowed the return he's been fully
as great, aud there have been more copies of the
whole Bible sold this year than ever before"
The work Of revising the English translation of
the Bible proves to be much greater task than
was expected. Rev. DR.. Schaff says the American
Committee on the Revision of the Bible is not
quite half through With its lsbors, and the Eng-
hsh Committee has completed about two thirds Of
the work assigned it. The Doctor thinks that at
the present rate four years more will be required
to complete the undertaking.