The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1878-07-28
sun DEANS.

books ana Of stained glass for church windows
At Lowell, Mass, minister's wife be.
eves herself to been cured ophthalma By
the scrptural method Of the prayers VI the faithful
cOmpnncd 10y amounting with oil.
The twOpenny edition OF Pilgrims
Progress. published at Gasiow. has reached its hun.
drcdth Thousand translation into the Russian Ian.
guagc has been published in ST Petersburg.
According to the state ment of tho Bishop
Of Manchester many OF the obscure clergymen in Eng
land : poor OF our Western mission.
aries aud glad to wear cast-uff clothing.
A Boston hackman has been arrested for
profanity and fined II this done to all the prosns
hackmen of this city the proceeds would give every ten
ement house child pair of new lsDots.
Francis Murphy was not in early life
known expert hymnOogst but rece ntly have
developed into one. for respectable publishing house
announces book Of temperance lyrics Of which he 10
the compiler.
--Baptists are lamenting the decease OF
their Quarterly which died from want Of support The
Publication Society promises resurrCt II on receiving
reliable pledges for 1900 subscriptions But the Ls0o
subscribers do not come.
The $4,000 which the venerable Mr..
Keso Of Baltimore gives to the Metropolitan Methodist
Church at Washington is windft to that debt burdened
concern. This is the church in whose behalf PM.on
Newman has done much occurring.
49," Can you give me tho music OF The
Song Of solomon" said fashonabiy dressed gentle
10 the clerk behind the counter OF musical publish.
ing house last Monday =" Our minister saysi Is gem.
and my wife wants to learn to play it."
The boys in the training ship Minnesota
happy fellows, yet when last Sunday evening they
marched 10 Christ Church at Filth avenue and
Thirynt street. three of them dodged out OF the rankf
AMI ran away Two were caught but the third escaped.
There were about eighty boys in ;he proce sson
Two vacations OF six months each wlth-
in two years to be enough satisfy any pastor.
Yet enough % Pastor 10 rs-
main with the First Congregational Church at Spring.
field, Mass. and so he comes to the Madison Avenue
Church, which Brother Lloyd perpetual holiday.
At Odessa three Wesleyan missionaries
three arrested by Russians attempt
ing TO teach their religion After proracted legal delays
they have had jury trial which suited In acqu
tai Hut the Russians follow up the verdict by kindly
advising the three weseyans 10 where else with
their Wesleyansm.
The Permanent Exhibition In Phladel-
pha again opens doors sunday hoping largely
Increased revenue No excitement prevails this sub
iect. the people Of Philadelphia have given the cold
shoulder TO their darling enterprise. For the most
part they not only do not that It is to be opened
sunday. but they Indifferent to whether 1t opens
or closes ON any day OF the week
Lord Gordon. who is Lord Advocate Of
Scotland want, to Ia London stately cathedral in
honor Of John Knox The cost OF such structure would
be about soooO Lord Gordon offers to give g. OO and
asks his fellow Scochnen TO give the other s2o5O The
canny Scots respond that they seldom IN London
on the sabbath that they cannot the good OF It, The
Thames embankment is where Lord Gordon wants the
cathedral erected.
A general conference on foreign mis-
sons is TO be held in London beginning the 2ist Of
October and ending the 2oth. The Earl OF Skates
bury. the Rev. Dr. WIN. NJ Punshon. aud other well
known friends ct foreign missions have charge Of II
Foreign missionaries from all parts Of the world In
ved to attend Contrary to the method adopted by the
Lambeth convocauon Of bishops. the proceedings viii
be open 10 the public.
The Rev. j. b. Mann is a Methodist min.
lister III Delaware who il endoavoring to discourage his
flock from the practice OF dancing He that q
the brethren are giving the dancing master SIS 500
year, aud contributing only 20 year the church And
he adds that dancing is low, vulgar amusement and
criminal waste Of time which leads children to their
ruin MI Mann says he would rather his daughter
| corpse than TO see her dancing in a ballroom.
An alleged smart saying Is reported t~
have been uttered by Dean stanley AMER lecturing
Presence OF Mind he was complimented with vote q
thanks lie replied. 81 am very much obliged TO you;
shall show my Of mind by silence" This 10
not quite SO smart as it at first sight appears Had the
Dean wanted TO give his friends lesson silence he
would have done better to bow To them with his ringer
| on his lips, and silence would not have been broken
AT Il recent college commencement Q
bouquet was thrown to clergyman who offered prayes
at the conclusion OF the The director Of
monies promptly rebuked the youth who threwit Ths
youth defended hiinsefby saving that he didn't know
the clergyman had been praying. but thought he was
making II few remarks That young man will not again
be put IN charge the bouquet business ON commence.
ment day The venerable clergyman looked with great
disiain on the bouquet, and refused to touch it
Fronting the principal entrance to the
Paris Exhibition is the " Sale Eyangelique.' where
daily prayer meeting is held at 10 A. NJ. continuing
hour Every Sunday morning and evening cergymen u
the Church Of England conduct service and preach. on
Tuesday and Friday evenings meetings of general re-
Asious character carried All hese are In the
English language. At o'clock every afternoon services
are held in French, under the direction of the Mr.
| Neal. whose labors in Paris have been successful
Last Sunday, in Baltimore, Il partially
nebrated person went into evangelical tent thinking
nwasa circus Services were going on and the
ment Of his entrance eminent clergyman was pray.
ing. The intruder mounted the pulpit thumped on ths
Bible and began an ncuherent exhortauon The breth.
rcn being persuaded that what he had say could Of
no importance TO the audience, stopped the DISCOURSE
and handed the speaker the police At the police
station he accounted for his strange conduct by saying
that lie was the Devil
Some OF the English religious papers
have even more curious ways Of putting things than
those which prevail in the religious press this
try The London Gis speaks about the people Of God.
and says there Is devil in hell that pluck the IN
out ol his hand They perfectly safe. Tor they are
washed in the blood OF the Lamb The paragraph
Is to the effect that bugs heas moths beetles. and all
other insects are destroyed by certain powder which
eau be had OF all chemists tor one shilling two sh.
hngs AMI Xpence according to the OF the package.
II Brother John Jasper feels at all un-
settled in Richmond. he ought to consider the work in
Japan In Yokohama there has Just been riot the
preaching OF two Buddhist priests who declared the doc
trine which asmade Jasper famous Some students u
what the Japs consider new tangled theology yentured
suou that IL the earth which round the
and not the which round the earth The people
maintained the old doctrines by knocking Of the
students on the head and fatally wounding them. rhs