Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1879-11-08
RELIGIOUS NOTES.

- Inc ''Olu CatnoncS" OF EUROPE are tired OF
their name. They have thrown it overheard
and adopted that OF ''Chrfst Catholics
Duluth Christians are long-headed. for. re-
memberipg the Scriptural Injunction, to make
friends Of the mammon OF unrighteousneSs. they
built their churches so that, when the city began
TO grow, Gods houses would be turned into
grain elevators.
Rev. T. d. Talmage said recently:-"In
most churches we have three prayers-the invo-
cation. the long prayer and the closing prayer.
their apparel after coming to church, the long
prayer in wishing It were over, and the closing
prayer In getting ready to start homeward"
A DR.. Haygood Is reported to have preached
this summer at camp meeting in Georgia for
over two hours on foreign missions. He split
the book board, but not discounted, added as IL
easily"
The Christian onion says: 1.-THE culture OF
to-day is only another name for refined selfish
ness. Taste and refinement elevated into ends
unit one for the active work OF life disgust one
with the slow ana imperfect steps by which
ennui and disappointment"
Dean Stanley, in the october number of the
Nineteenth Century, has an article on baptism,
in which he says that immersion was undoubt-
edly the practice in the apostolic age, and that
infant baptism arose In later times.
The Christian at Work says" The whole
custom OF pronouncing funeral Grafton comes
to us from the French, and has in 1t not a little
nation they are remarkable. Would IL not be
better to return to the simplicity of our fathers
and substitute devotional exercises for a funeral
address,
-Nr Moody in a lot. serr,on of ru.ra,.,a
cold. Ihora oroot oar,,u.t;a,a e. 9. Wv .,,
woman who said that If the Lord told her to
jump through stone wall. it was her business
to Jump. and the getting through was Gods
Dusi.ess.
AS many as l,0O0 1eStamentS have been
sold in London on a single Saturday night from
the Bible carriage of Henry Moorhouse. the
evangelist For two pence he sells a package
which contains copy of the New Testament
and also some illustrated papers.
Robert Collyer takes pains to write to n
Cbicogo naner TO correct tho i,,nraSston thora
that he Is dissatisfied with his New York chmrch
This was occasioned by an Interview printed in
another paper with member OF his former Chi
cagO church. Concerning his recent rebuke to
the people who flocked out OF church before the
benedlctlon DR.. Collyer says: MY friend Is quite
mistaken, Also in his notion that we are all at
ODDS. because had to speak about touch of
disorder In the quiet sequence Of our services.
Ihat one word was enough, and was taken,
ana II was SAID. kindly. There has been no
mist aten in snnosimr this w os b,ht ~ was
Si,ani,r tho ,iSfpaalen f 49, ~ ~ ~ 800,
SnnaiaI trains or wbo var NOT d t or 49,
,,a T'J 49, nv $50 ~ o.a
me rev. II. II. Ha"eiS, preaching recently
at st. JameS's, Marylehone, London, on the
-, leglllIlaIe AlRllsementS OF society, SAID that
ture and that thav wn,Id MT hoya ,pVnnta5 ono
Muse for dancino and for noetrv and tho ANN
if there was not something hman and funda"
rental about these tbinlrss ,yhinh naithar evnIe
sectaTian nor ascetic cnnid narmanantiv cr,,sh
MIR. Vein in MIR Haweis,s oninion however
was wrong when In his naner at the Social
Science CONGRESS- he said thai tho Sto,ra noodna
no reform. The church the stana AMI The h9r
ard everything else was in constant and urranf
need of reform. Socially we had reached crfti-
cal period In the history of the stage. A new
public opinion was forming; prelates and play
acIOrS SHOOK nanQS: and the chllrrl. Which in
past ages had been more or less a rival of the
stage. was preparing Tor something like a
public and the stage managers whether we
should add the theatres TO our list OF elevating as
wei as rccreatlDg influences.
john B. Cough says that Charles H. Spur
peon is a thorough abstainer from all kinds or
alcoholic stimuIanfs. Sturgeon formerly drank
beer to some extent. but Of late wears has re-
linouIshed IT. SnurpeOn used To decline tn worl,
with the temperance men, because he thought
there were so many int1dels among them He
has now overcome his ScrupleS In this respect
and throws his influence heartily into the tenn
perance reform.
1t is estimated that the evangelical work of
tho yo,,nrr No., Shr,st,o, ,,aaiotiS, ,,ooa,,o,
Soo oo0 raiirnad men en- Gon cne,
1oo o0" te1, oo,9Io CohGse sIuueils ana
t tIaneieiS II IS also ollclly
zoo oSn ho nnai % iG III onU I vi
and of 5no oo0 vo,nnS noorad Mon f'on''
''iio VI VI 'oU'oo' youile ooloieu Mei'
line Rev. DO COOK breakfasts at I. and then
seeks seclusion In his study until 2. Then he
Dimes and after dinner receives callers. In the
afternoon he takes walk for exercise generally
consuming about an hour. After this exercise
he dictates letters to his WIFE, who is his alnanu-
enSis. For his supper Mr. Cook has slice Of
bread and glass OF milk. After this repaSt he
reads and writes until 10, and then goes to bed.
This is his routine when at home, and he OBJ
serves it with the regularity of clock work.
The Rev. Leonard Bacon, D. D., thinks the
Shorter Catechism ought to be studied more
generally than it is. Yet he dissents from the
idclatrous worship which is paid to it In certain
quarters. He thinks it should be used not as a
set of formulas to be merely Committed to
memory like the tables of weights and meas
IlrcS in the arithmetic nor as a standard by
which religious opinions must he measured and
tested. but rather as a series of doctrinal state
mentS to be diligently considered TO he freely
handled and to he accented or rejected as each
proposition shall or shall not commend itself to
teacher and learner in the Iipht Of Holy Snrtnt
ure and under the guidance Of the HOLY Shirt ),
THO resn1t n, n,ission ,rorl- In Ionon - 10
scrihad nv 5tor as aooI1 III =, ut
Ton Noars % " thero 1ero 1 t9 @ ~
tha @ a S .neio VIZ ieSo o, u eoineiGs
nneao; n4 t -, III vi Sa,iLeu, ~ naNe agency
~ ioi .ne u 'tniins VI SUN an agency,
~ l ti ue'oteu " preaching Only Glis
scalIleSI Cnrlsllan literature, ana ufaL derived
Ii i SniIla, placaTuS everyWnere denounclhS
oiie very ni,lne Oh CnIistlall, tl the ulterance
VI Ine Moiu ulancheu lne iace anu Sent tnrIll
VI noIIoa llIougn tne listener. Io-day more
GIan , zooV pIolessed oelieVels IN CnIlst recog-
hLeu evangsuGai community three t1mes
larger, me DOuy VI earnest ana natlVe preach