Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1879-11-01
RELIGIOUS NOTES.

RELIGIOUS NOTES..
Rev. Oh. John Hall, Of New York, In hts SER
mon last Sunday, in referring to the contrivances
by the conductors-the punches, bell-reglsters
spoilers, and the like-said: "If these men work
fftsen hours day and seven days in the week.
and are robbed Of the instruction and influence
! of the Sabbath, do not wonder If they say,
Diamond cut diamond Release these men, 1
say; put the restraint Of honesty into their
Mrs Harriet Beecher Stoves son Charles
has engaged to supply the Congregational pulpit
at Milton, N. H., for year.
The Church Ne,cs says that Bishop Whit
tfngham left no property save his library and
household effects
In sermon DR.. Card says:-'It is not the
! fact that man has riches that keeps him out OF
| the Kingdom of heaven, but rather the fact that
| riches have him"
| A colored church. In fits annual letter to the
Long Island Baptist Association, last week, said:
Satan has not been neglectful OF his duty among
u.s."
Now that Robert Collyer has taken charge
Of the Church of the Messiah a new valuation has
been put on the pews. The selling value aggre-
yield about $l4, 500 The rent or tax at the Church
Of the Messiah ranges from $40 to $3.50 year for
pewS on the ground floor. and from $50 to $50 for
those in the gallery. Mr.. COllyer'S preaching
has already attracted congregation which fills
| the church.
The Free Church Of Scotland has interested
several thousands of its young persons In course
OF reading and study, which includes, for the
| coming year, such topics as the Life Of Paul."
Paleys Hore Pauline, ;" % The Conquest of ca
naan Under Joshua, and T." Thomas Chalmers"
Examinations are held simultaneously in each
| preSbytery, and prizes are awarded for the best
| examinations and essays on the various sub
| jectS-
| The Sunday Society have just held confer
ence at Manchester England, which was attend
| ed by representatives OF most of the religious
denominations of the city. as well as by dele
gates from other parts of the country: Ad-
| dresses were delivered by Mr.. Mark II. Judge,
Sir Coutts Lindsay, the Bishop of Stafford,
Canon Toole and several other speakers,
cleric 5!e,b, and lay, and the following reso
"That this conference rejoices at the success
! which has attended the Sunday opening OF the
| public libraries in Manchester, and accepts it as
evidence that the day is not far distant when all
public libraries, museums, art galleries and gar
dens will be open to the public during part Of
| their weekly day Of rest.'
The exposure of the Rev. DR.. Lorimer's use,
in Chicago, of somebody else's sermon, as his
own, fncites clergyman to write to the Boston
| Herald about an earlier instance of the same
kind. The writer says that, Immediately after
reading discourse by the Rev. DR.. Fuller, the
| noted prO-Slavery preacher of Baltimore, he
| went to listen to Dr. Lorimer in the Shawmut
| Avenue Church, and was aStounded to hear a
long passage Of DIR. Fullers repeated without
credit II went home," he continues, '.took
Dr. Fuller's sermons from the shelf, turned down
the corners OF several leaves, marked also pages
with my pencil, and there is that book this
pastor Of fremont Church, and one Lords day
said to myself. will go once more and hear
| DR.. Lorimer, and so did, He gave out the same
text. Out came my pencil and paper, and, be
| hold, he preached the very same sermon de-
| scribed above; and when he came to the solemn
| language Of DR.. Fuller he stopped for about five
| eyes and hands raised to heaven he repeated, in
| a low and solemn manner, the words and BRAIN
| work OF DR.. Fuller as his own"
| At this years Church Congress a rather
Henry r. Pierson, of Albany. The topic up at the
| time was positive Christian Education" and
| after the clergy had read their essays, Mr.. Pier
| son spoke. He asked how were they to have
| positive Christian education unless they had
| positive Christian educators? The trouble was
| in the pulpit. The lack OF positive preaching
| was due to the lack of positive belief on the part
| OF the preachers. When they believed thorough
| ly and preached courageOusly, the education OF
| the pews would advance apace. Public men had
been detected in grave mIsdemeanors but the
| pulpit had been silent. For one, Mr.. PerSon
wanted his spiritual instructors to denounce
these crimes In plain language to rebuke them
unsparingly, and to do it at the time.
| Robert Collyer has had little tiff with the
congregation of his new church at New York.
People In the metropolitan churches, 1t seems,
have got into the vicious habit OF rushing out OF
| church after the sermon without waiting for
hymn or 6enedietlon: Mr.; collyer has not been
|
Sunday, but the next week. after the usual
| stampede, he addressed himself to the few who
a the 6oowng yg fG% End
the people in New York very much better-man-
| nered than those had been among; but must
say that In the long years OF my pastorate in
ing as has been shown me in the two Sundays l
| have been among you. do not wish to become
manned will say to the friends who have left to;
night that cannot stand it, and will not stand
| 1t, they will have my thanks"
| "A large "agttation meeting" Of Hebrews
| was held in Baltimore last Sunday night, under
the auspices OF the "SOciety of Laws and
| Rights" Of that city. DR.. Sale, Of Har Sinia
| Synagogue, urged the modification Of the Balti-
more Sunday laws. Sunday in Europe, he said,
is the day Of the Lord, and it is celebrated la a
way in which 1t should be here, not binding the
body and mind down as they are bound down In
| this land, but permitting rational relaxation
and pleasure. He did not advocate the entire
| abolition OF Sunday laws, but certainly it is
no more than right that they should be modified
to conform to the spirit Of the age. AS they
stand at present they are relic of the old
Puritanical blue laws, which are enete even In
| England. In Germany Sunday Is a day OF the
people, and he believed Americans would make
1t day for moderate indulgence in pleasure
in Germany, and never saw drunkard but
the first object that met his sight on coming
out of his house in Baltimore Saturday
Mr.. Simon Wolf, of Washington, said he be-
lieved in a government OF the people and for the
people, not of the church and for the church.
The question now before the people is whether
they are living under a government Of law and
right or one suitable to the spirit OF the dark
ages? 1t is the bounden duty OF those who are
fighting this battle Of the people to continue
this agitation in favor of their natural and God
given rights. 1t behoOveS them as well to edu-
cate the people to this way OF thinking, and te
show by their conduct that the advocates OF
law and right are the only true advocates Of
temperance in its every form. The man who
believes in enjoying Sunday as day of rest anG
pleasure Is just as good man and citizen as
the one who sits in his pew and listens to &
thousand dollar choir singing anthems to thu
Lord. Every man should be left to live unmo
Tested so long as he does nothing to conflict witt
the rights OF others. They should have the same
enjOymentS on Sundays as on week days, re
strained only by the same laws.
| The Late jamaica
Everything in Jamaica is always late. Tit
| whole island moves along in such a happy-go
lucky unpunctual fashion that am sometimes
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