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

RELIGIOUS NOTES.
Rev. Dr. John Fan, Of new York. In hts SER
mon last Sunday, In referring to the cOntTivances
OF tne se-car companies to prevent cheating
spoilers, and the like-said: AT these men work
fifteen hours day and seven days in the week,
and are robbed Of the instruction and influence
of the Sabbath, do not wonder II they say,
Diamond cut diamond Release these men, 1
say 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.
tingham left no property save his library and
hOuSeh old 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
uS.r
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-
gates $l45 GOO, the rental on which is expected to
yield about $14 500. The rent 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 ofits young persons IN course
coming year. such topics as the Life of Paul."
| Paleys Horse Pauline, /" The Conquest of Ca
naan Under Joshua, and Thomas Chalmers"
| Examinations are held simultaneously in each
| presbytery, and prizes are awarded for the best
| examinations and essays on the various SUBJ
jectS.
The Sunday Society have just held a confer
| ence at Manchester, England, which was attend
ed by REPRESENTATIVES, of most reuOuS
| denominations of the city, as well as by dele
gates from other parts of the country. Ad-
Sir Coutts Lindsay, the Bishop OF Stafford,
| Canon TOole and several other speakers,
| cleric and lay, and the following reso-
That this Conference reoicss 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 elses 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. Fuller's repeated without
| credit. 81 went home" he continues stock
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
day. But this is not ALL He became
| pastor Of fremont Church, and one Lords day
| said to myself will go once more and hear
| DR.. Lormer, 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
| or Six seconds then, almost kneefng, with his
| 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 rather
notable speech was made by a layman Mr.
| Henry X. 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
| or 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 mls;lemeanors, but the
| pulpit had been silent. For one, Mr.. PlerSon
| 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
| hymn or benedictton. Mr.. Colyer has not been
used to this. He stood it patiently the first
sunday, but the next week, after the usual
stampede, he addressed himself to the few who
remained In the following vigorous language
"When left Chicago was told would find
| 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
| Chicago never suffered from as much ill-breed-
| ing as has een.shown me In the two Sundays
| have been among YOU do not wish to become
| used to it; and II the kind friends who have re-
manned will say to the friends who have left to-
night that cannot stand 1t, and will not stand
| It, they Will have my thanks"
| "A large 'ag1tation 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 Balt-
more Sunday laws. Sunday in Europe he said
is the day of the Lord, and it is celebrated Ia a
way in which 1t should be here, not binding the
| body and mind down as they are bound down In
and pleasure. tie did not advocate the entire
| abolition OF Sunday laws, but certainly 1t 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 a relic of the old
| Puritanical blue laws, which are effete even In
| England In Germany Sunday is a day OF the
people and ne believed Americans would make
1t day for moderate indulgence In pleasure
| as other nations have done. He lived five years
| In Germany, and never saw drunkard, but
the first object that met his sight on coming
| out of his house in Baltimore Saturday
| morning was man reeling along the street
| Mr.. Simon Wolf, of Washington, said he be-
UeS6u Ill u government Oh LIE people anu IOT Uilt
people, not of the church and for the church
| The question now before the people is whether
| they are living under government of law and
| right or one suitable to the spirit OF the dark
| ages? 1t is the bounden duty Of those who are
| lighting 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 to
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 and
| pleasure Is just as good man and citizen as
the one who sits In his pew and listens to a
thousand dollar choir singing anthems to the
Lord. Every man should be left to live unmO-
Tested so long as he does nothing to conflict with
| 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. The
| whole island moves along in such happy-go-
| lucky unpunctual fashion that am sometimes
| tempted to believe it can not reVOlve like the