The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1878-02-17
SUN DEANS.


No more prayers OF hymns In the Wiz
eonsin State University or Normal schools
If your church has q new minister On.
that you give him a warm welcome, and make h.hou..
as sunshnv as possible.
"A Baptist chapel is wanted In Athens
Greece. Funds being raised BY the sale Of pho,n
graphs of ancient Grecan ruins
what is an idol ?" asked the SUNDAY
sehoc teacher Of his boys. quick AZ wink one brish,
little shaver responded, Please sir. know, an iio,
a law fellow. sir
While Francis Murphy gets $50 night,
Evangelist Hammond has to content himself on the beg
carly sum OF 500 week Yet Hammond is growing fat
OIL IT, Hts recen, abors have been in Ohio.
Brother Adirondack Murray does not
writ his scrnons but dictates them to a lady
sis She Celebrates them on typewriter. and Murray
breaches from the printed pages nis handy.
what has Christianity done for the
state :" rumphantly asked col Bob Ingersoll Of lady
in railroad Chicago at has prevented you
from being Governor OF this state, quietly replied the
lady.
The Right Rcv. Bishop Spalding, Bishop
OF Peoria III. is in New York at ST Michaer,
church. lie will give OF Lcnten sermons b.
ginning the Sunday before Lent and terminating on IL
Patricks Day.
The singers in the choir galleries are In.
dignant at Moody. He has expressed himself very
strongly against the ungody who sing church
chor aud occupy the time Of the sermon in writing Iowa
letters and eating candy and peanuts
As If the figures = and had not been
suficicny twisted aud misu,cd some OF the paper,aro
trying make 1t that good old DR. Tyng Is 81 year,
old As he was born in the year 1900 the correc,
returns as to his make him only ~
--Talmage insists that Jesus Christ went
into the literal hell the place o everlasting t,neut fo
lost spirits Tie general acccptauon OF the passage IL
the Creed lie descended into hell" Is that Chiswm
buried. or into the state Of departed spirits"
DR.. McCOeh speaks his mind on crceds,
what is chiefly required in the present d,yu
intelligence and honesty in signing ereeds sundup
Tor orthoi' xy-that is. adherence to scrpture-in
church, but honesty Is still more essential virtue"
The Friends ReuieW bewails the fact
that Friends lacking in asgrcss,eness and so little
disposed 10 do anything to bring the world 10 their
OF thinking 1t claims that the Friends have mission
to ach the world and that nothing ought to stand in the
way oft
The Congregatonalsts are in a sort Of
family snar over their Home Missionary work and their
orgs dcvoung column upon column to the discus
sion The different sets Ut brethren seem to ind great
pleasure In crcising each others plans aud the
carrying them into operation
The confessional obtains some favor
from nuais,s In Til. country but the Archbishop Of
York IN reply to memorial from anti COME sona
is, says Il persuaded that any return " the prae
cc in the Church would be. the whole most unfavor
able 10 the spiritual HE Of the people"
Brother Schrack, who miraculously
TO life IN Philadelphia aner having been got ready
for his coffin is not teaching sunday school more
The church people siyc him the cold shoulder and call
him unpleasant names Habitua Fraud" is Of the
epithets most frequently and iorciby used.
The Rev. Mr. Rainsford. who has become
very popular evangelist IN the Episcopal Church. keer
his muscular system good order by regularly walking
ten miles day regardless OF the state Of the weather
Mr. Rainsiord who is twenty years old sty
ish side whskers and II greatly admired by the ladies'
The Congregational ministers are as
strict about excluding worldly reporters from their Mon
DAY meetings are the Mehodsts Yet Of the Con.
sregsona contain regular reports Of these meet
ings from clerical spondents who attend The dis
cussons at these meetings are often spicy enough to be
OF general public interest
The statement Is now freely made that
John Wesley was in favor OF electricity as curative
agent in certain OF disease. II " the
the part Of people who at loss for authority
various subjects to quote John Wesley. wc may next
expect 10 hear his quoted the suons Of sle
phones. horse cars aud rafies at church fairs
Trade dollars are still taken In church col.
ocon- that is TO when anybody chooses to put then
in Hut the lower denominations silver are more gen
orally used. The Objectionable little three
unpopular that most holders desire to get rid OF IT.
makesas respectable jingle in the collection basket
almost any other COIN aud therefore got rid Of IN this
way
-"What becomes good people when they
die" asked Sunday school orator who addressing
acrOwded anniversary assembly They 70 toheaven."
the prompt reply OF a number Of the children The
this being yOnd controversy the
orator naturally brought on his next which was, What
becomes OF tie hruics when they die" There was
momentary pause which broken by the exclamation
Of loud voiced younsscr Make en- into soap grease
Tile buzz enthusiastic mir,h which followed. punetu
| ated the speech wlll a full stop.
The Rev Leonard WOOlsey Bacon who
approaching Tor the Third Presbyterian Church OF Pitts
hursh says that he has seena city under such =
deluxe ormoral hltl ~ Pittsburgh Yet he has lived in
Geneva. which. according To rcre llyacnthe Is the
wickrd,stc lN IN Europe. Dr Scovcl. however, who
has lived In Pittsburgh many years contradicts Bacon.
and that the latter gentleman knows but little about
the city, has the particular regions into which
most oi the vice crowded Scovc says there is not
moral city the United states than Pittsburgh
The Protestant Episcopal Foreign Mis-
sion Committee wants slsorDo Tor this years work II
maintains lla stations IN foreign lands There three
foreign bishopsin Africa. Penmck, In japan Williams
aud in China. II he ever should get there. schere.
schewsk, The latter bishop has hcen Kent here much
longer than lac expected To be IN the work of raising
funds Tor the Chinese mission He finds that the church
look with great pleasure on the prospect Of evangeuns
china and OF having college there under his chars,
enable him TO train IN native Chinese preachers Buths
also finds general disposition to take iu peasur
able antcipauuns of coming rather than doni
tons sod cash The prospect Protestant Episcopal
work In cina is to say the best oft not maninesuu!
encouragiug.
One Of the livolicst Sunday school gather.
inss ever held the twentieth anniversary OF the
great Bethany SUNDAY IA Philadelphia Thurs
day evening Bethany ha, over 2,on pupils roll,
with an average attendance Of about lsn II has
NJ under John Wannmah.rs superiutsnlsucy to be the
leading school IN the country Twenty years ago he
started It hastily built structure. halt w.wam aud
hall shnnty in what thcn the part OF the city.
The boys d.iy thai e used % lend tLem combs,
with the special und' standing that they should moi
! bring them back AGAIN. The boys have srown into
thirsty men, tie n,.lboihood /, one OF the best rhils.
dclrla. ant the builde' occupied hv Bethany not
exceeded hy any ia the wOru Among the novel feature,
introduced At the annN er-ary, were some athletic aud
,uuasuc t,,i, ly ,oue OF t. young of Bethany.
An immense nstirc,, spread an the PLATFORM and
/ the athlete. went thfoush series Of performance
! which would have done credit 10 any hppodrome This
children voted ths exercise n thousand times int
c-tns than speech that could be made by the mos.
renowned sunday school orator. In sddiuon 10 this
gentleman who porsonatcd Roman soldier stood up and
was clad with the various parts of caalosusd by
Paul IN s epsto to the Rphc slams These articles
pat upon linn one 10y the scripture descriptive
oi them AMI illustrative Of their use. being meanwhls