, 1879-07-20
GENERAL NOTES.

The illinois Lutheran Srnod has instructed its
ministers not to administer baptism By immcr
sion.
This year fully $50 50camp-meetfnge will be held
this season under the auspices Of the Meth
odists. =
The next annual Conference Of the Nationa!
Local Preachers Association of the Methodist
Episcopal Church will be held in Troy next
October.
At the Pan-Prcsby:erian Council to be held
In PHILADELPHIA next year among the subjects
set down ior discussion are the inspiration ane
the authenticity OF the Scriptures and the future
rctribution of the wicked.
Fiji Islands, 100000 out OF a total population
of some 100000 Of the islanders attend the
Wesleyan chapels, and most Of the rest attend
some other place Of worship.
The Shakers at Enfield, c., are losing some
OF their prmitiveness. Their new buildings,
equipped with almost every convenience, sho"
that one by one the 1uxuries of social life arc
ments ot music, carpets, cushioned chairs, and
steam for beating, washing, and cooking are ia
their habitations.
A remarkable case of suppression of the de-
nominational instinct is reported from St. Paul,
Afinn.. where the Rev. E. s. Thomas, an Epis.
copal Rector, has been selected to instruct all
the Suuday-school teachers In the city. Some
800 teachers attend his Sunday normal school,
and the Episcopal liturgy is used in the pre-
1imiuary exercises
At recent entertainment given By Norman
Lockyer to Prof. It. Draper and his wife, in
Londun, Mr. Lockyer mentioned that he had
just received a letter from lady, in which she
asked If it was true that there will soon come
seven days OF darkness and after them the ap-
pearance of the Star of Bethlehem! TherumoS
is just now spreading widely In England.
The churchmen in England hold their OWL
we'll against the goddess schools which the Edu-
cation act has set I'D. Since lSi0, the Church
has spent, through the National Society, &c.
000, COO ia building schools, aud much more
through iudiyidua's, OF which no account can
the eiyen. They have an average attendance Of
1,360029 pupils; while the - Public Schools -
have only 59,O78.-Liuinq Church.
A work on the medicine OF the Talmud is in
course of preparation by Dr.. Israel Michael
Rabbinowicz, or Paris. As the author is both a
learned student OF the Talmud rs we'll as a
doctor of medicine Of the Faculty OF Paris, it
more complete than that published in 1872 from
the pen of Herr Wunderbar, who as tic Lon
don dlhez.tsu,n observes, is not medical stu
dent
Not far from the Ameer's palace in Cabu1
there is, and long has been, an American church
in Thich Christian worship has been permitted
uudisturbed through the mauy evil changes
and disturbances that have taken place in that
city. The number Of the Christians was for
merly considerable, but at present there are
not more ,nan twelve. on week days OF late
they have been worship;ng according to
Persian version Of the English prayer-book.
We we'll remember receiving . singular ac-
connt from the lips Of The late Bishon White
house, upon occasion Of celebration at which
be was present in Stockholm, the Archbishop Of
Unsa1 being cclebrant- BE described the chasuble
worn by that preja1e as being perfectly gorgeous:
and stiff with gold and embroidery. We know
the Swedish Church, the wafer is used tn jhe
Eucharist, and that it is not received iu the
hand, but placed by the priest on tue tongue OF