The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1878-03-02
RELIGIOUS GOSSIP,

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DIR. Gibson, of Erie, this State, has given
$4,000 in buildings and lands to the
Board of Foreign Missions of the United
Presbyterian Church. This donation is to
be devoted to the publication and free dis
tribution of the Scriptures in Palestine and
and Egypt.
In nine years the Presbyterians have
organized u hundred churches, on the Pa
cifc coast, all but five of which have regu-
lar preaching.
The New Jersey Sabbath Union has
presented memorial to the Governor of
the State, in relation to the illegal Sunday
railroad traffic. The Union maintains that,
according to the statute, no road has q right
to run more than one passenger trim each
way on Sundays.
The American Bible Society announces
that thus far during the current year the
expenditures have exceeded the donation by
$jO,OOO The society has made grants of
100000 copies of the Scriptures during the
year, and has appropriated $4,000 to the
foreign field
Professor Dana says of the first chapter
of Genesis: Examining it as a gcologst, l
find it to be in perfect accord with known
science; therefore, as Christian, assert that
tle Bible narrative must be inspired"
No one should leave a church, and es-
pecially while minister is delivering his SER
mon, unless the person has very good reasons
for doing so. This is something which seems
to have become a general practice with
some people. The habit does not show
good manners. 1t is disrespectful to- a
minister to leave church while he is
speaking.
Rhetoric sometimes flaps its gorgeous
wings in our faces IN a very unpleasant
fashion. 1t is almost as serious q matter to
choose words as to choose IDEAS DR.. Tai
mage recently spoke of the Lord as "the darl-
ing of heaven" The expression was intense
ly pre7Raphaelite and disagreeable. Theol-
ogy ought to be popularized, but let there be
some intellectual decorum in the choice both
of conceptions and oflauguage.-N y. Her.
aid.
Charity, administered judiciously and
in moderate doses, will do a great deal to
relieve the poverty-stricken portion of
humanity found in nearly every communi-
ty.
Few people recognize the moral grand
eurot the digestive apparatus. When Hux-
ley talks about the physical basis" of life
he has reference to the ralation between
roast beef and good character, and the i'm
portance of this relation cannot be exae-
gerated. You may talk about your inGuen-
tial and automatic nerves, utthey are all
powerless except through the regenerating
power of "iour-and-twenty blackbirds baked
maple" Eating is a kind dofnntural religion.
The baby begins with it and the old man
dies when he looses his appetite. The want
of dinner opens the door for the entrance
Of every undesirable quality, and if this
want continues the man becomes cross, sour
tempered and given TO the use of the strong
est adjectives which dead or living languages
afford. The fifteen minutes before the gony
sounds is the one supreme period when
beggars are turned from the door without The
conventional cold potato, When missionary
should not ask for a contribution, and when
religion itself almost ceases to have any ef.
feet or any consolation. After the dessert,
however, the curtain rises on a very differ
ent scene A filled man is serene and even
tempered. He is ready to give money 10
the heather and perfectly willing to sign
subscription paper of any kind, whether he
pays or not. He is revengeful before dinner
and forgiving after. Faith, hope and charity
are all after dinner virtues. We agree, there
fore, with Byron, who sings Of
That all-soitenng, overpowering linell,
The tocsin Of the soul-the dinner bell.