The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1877-02-07
FOREIGN ITEMS.

very interesting SOiree Of the Barony congre-
CATION, Glasgow, has been held recently. Rev.
Norman Macleod was the pastor of this church
Rev. DR.. Marshall Lang, the present pastor, who
presided, called attention to the fact that the rep
resentatives of Eve generations Of pastors of the
Bsrony Church we're on the platform. Many in
teresting "reminiscences were repeated, as that the
records show that the people were in the habit
years ago of petitiOning the Session for leave to
get married, and that on some occasions that body
prevented marriage until the bridegroom had learn
ed the Ten Commandments, the Greed, and the
Lords Prayer. Absentees from the kirk without
good excuse were fined twenty pounds, and were
required to stand for two days at the pillar. One
of the early ministers was the famous Zachary
BOYD, the author of a hundred volumes, and poet
withal. He translated the Bible in verse, and the
following specimen was given:
''Jac0b made for his son Josie
tartan coat to keep him eose;
And what for MOI it was nae harm
10 keep the lad bath safe and warm"
Christian Iatelligncer.
| Mountain Weather station.-The French Gov
eminent has placed on the top of the Puy de Dome
meteorological observatory which, as that is the
highest land in France, answers to our stations on
| Nc Washington aud Pixies Peak. 1t is, however,
constructed in style very different from those
| S0lleWLAE GDUNOcs At lu5 lOp l5'hu w
| sergstory tower, placed on a platform, and upor
this Is placed TIE thermometer, especially construct
| cd 10 Withstand the force of the storms. Within
the tower is we'll hole fifty feet Deep which lead:
| 20 tunnel more than hundred feet long, at The
end of which is placed the keepers house. Thi
Is massive building, situated short distance from
the top, where it is partly protected by rocks
/ The whole work cost $45 900 and $50 600 more
will be spent in supplying it with apparatus
The decline in the importation of Swiss watche
Is one of the most striking incidents in the indus
trial revolution which has followed the panic 0
1878. La 1872 We received 300 900 watches iron
Switzerland; the number imported has since de
creased annually, until last year, according to tn
telegraphio report, It fell to 76 400. This result
traoaabls manly TO cur rapid progress 10 watch
making, which gives cur factories command of III
Fhcme market, and enables them to sell from 20 90
to 80 600 watches yearly in Europe and Australia
A Bap.ist missionary writes to the London Ms
sioaayg Herald review Of the progress Of mission
in Ceylon. he says If the fathers Of the Evange
osl missions in Ceylon Of fifty or even twenty year
$50 could have foreseen the results of the presen
day thew would have been greatly r. Diced IN u
hers OF native churches subscribing largely to ID
snnnort Of their pastoyate and several Of them eI
, tireiy independent Of foreign aid numbers of ne
tive missionaries as thoroughly devoted to the WoT
of the ministry as ever t0oSe pioneer mlsslOnaAlS
themselves were Christian schools spread as
network al over the land, and filed not only Wit
bows out also With girls Aud all this in little MOI
3 than half century. One Of the very earliest mi
sioparies in the north of the island has only late
9 passed away the first convert who Joined the mi
a sion churches stil lives girls in hundreds, VII
Z could only be enticed to the boarding schools
brides, ere not yet old women, and are now glad
nav that their grand daughters may enjoy the PR
Q ileges which they themselves got for nothing.
e The native missionaries connected with the Anne
? lean Baptist and Wesleyan missions have more thi
IT doubled in number in the last ten years, the pr
sent number being seventy. In the last decade i
r native ministers have greatly increased IN iEhuen
is and usefulness They are now becoming settl
Of pastors over native churches and are more IN
le filing the missionary's place.
lie Each pastor in the anguish Presbyterian Chur
receives CO shoasand dollars per annum from
IS C5otral SustentatlOn Fund. To this sum ea
Sc congregation adds whatever it may be able, OF n
a. plesse to add, and thus the Vexed question OF "a
isterial support is satisfactorily settled in Il
K Church. Some salaries go up to four and
thousand dollars year,