Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1879-12-20
RELIGIOUS NOTES.

JEWISH Sy ndSOSu0 has paIaliel. On tne same
day at Kalamazoo, Mich, the Unitarian and
Jewish Congregations of the place united in the
service which was held in the synagogue, the
Unitarian pastor preaching the sermon.
old Father Taylor, of Boston, was strong
and far-Seetng man. Standing on hilltop
hich overlooked the village he noticed six lit
tie wooden boxes called meeting houses, and
knowing that there were only as many hundred
Inhabitants in the place said. SententiOuSly:
'.Ah, l see you have had religious war here"
The organization of new religious sect Is
reported The Dallas Herald says of It: 'The
Sanctificationtsts are gathering here again, and
it is whispered that they are holding dark
lantern meetings This fact was brought to
light by MI. William Buchanan, prominent
and respectable farmer Of Navarro county coming
to this city search OF his wife, she having pre-
band. He is an old man, and she is represented
as being rather young woman.
ON recent Sunday the Rev. Phillips
Brooks told his congregation that there was
need OF new organ in the Sunday school yes
try Of the church, the cost of which would be
about 81 900. At the close of the service one
man subscribed the entire sum.
-Four hundred and seventy shopkeepers of
Zurich, Switzerland, have signed petition to
the city council, asking that all trade on Sun
butchers and bakers may transact business, but
that all other stores and shops may be closed.
AS long as some OF the stores are kept open, all
must continue business, or else suffer by COM
petition. The petition has been referred by the
couLcil to the police board. The ShopkeeperS OF
Geneva have also presented to their council
similar petition.
: The Supreme Court Ct Pennsylvania, in an
opinion ON a suit arising out of a church debt
said. Corporations, like individuals, must do
without convenienceS when they have not the
money to pay for them"
A definition of Papal tnfallibility which is
said to be authoritative has just been published
by the Cardinal Archbishop OF MalineS in pas
toral letter. He says the Pope is not infallble
when he expresses only his own thoughts; but
that he is tnfallibe when he defines, as head
Of the church. truths contained in Scripture and
tradition. The Pope is not infallible when he
judges questions OF personS-queStions purely
personal; but he is so when he judges questions
OF doctrine which concern faith and morals, re-
vealed truth or revealed law; as the Pope IS in
falllble he observes, only when he is sustained,
not by the testimony OF men, but by the testt-
mony of God.
The "Waste Not" Society is composed OF
Sunday school children at Brighton, England:
Its members saved In twelve months about 1925
worth OF refuse paper, and sold 1t for the bene-
fit of two little girls, who were thus supported
at the Orphanage.
Thanks to telephone connection between
the parsonage and the church, the invalid wife
OF pastor at st. JOhnSbury, VT, heard him
preach for the first time in nearly twelve years.
MIR. George Macdonald's dramatkation of
"The Pilgrims Progress" is severely criticised
In the LOsdOn Christian Age, which says: "The
PRESERVATION OF the different parts was in bad
taste, especially the pretended message from
the King OF Kings summOning the departure OF
the pilgrims across the river and the conse-
quent feigning of death, and we came away
and ought never to have been permitted. 1t
Is a most unbecOming pandering to the
love OF sensational display now So prevalent,
and differs fronDthe ordinary theater only by
being more shocking to Christian feeling and
culture"
According to DR.. Dollinger, who is good au-
thority upon the matter, the Mohammedan re-
l1g1on is making Roadway. He says: 60 At Sierra
which are being educated a thousand young
men whose lives will be as absolutely surren-
dered to the cause the school represents as were
the lives OF the early soldiers Of the crescent,
field Of battle. In China the followers of this
ancient symbol have increased beyond compu-
tatfon fifty thousand residing In Tonquin alone.
Among the Mayiayans and the islanders of the
eastern archipelago is Is reported that 1S 900 900
have been won over to its support: and still one
fifth OF the jewellers on the earth are enrolled as
its army, OF whom so 900 at least are subjects
of her Majesty Queen Victoria"
"A few Sundays ago young lady barrlcaded
her pastor in the vestibule of Trinity church,
New York, and kept him from his dinner while
She gushed and raved over his lovely sermon,
upon her impassvely from his superior height,
and when her raptures ceased for moment he
said: ''YOu think it was a good sermon, do
your" "Oh!" said the damsel, lifting her hands
and her eyes, and preparing, to .gush again.
Then act on 1t, )" said her adored pastor, and
brushing by her he walked of, and left her
rooted to the spot till the sexton told her he
wanted to lock up.
Il LIDO not want the walls of separation be-
tween different orders of Christians to be de-
stroyed but only lowered, that we may shake
hands little easier over them o,olan1 HUI
The discomfort OF church pews Is COM
mented upon by the Christian at Work, which
says: concerning pews and chairs, why is it
comfortable pew or chair The bench of the
ordinary church pew Is fourteen inches wide,
whereas 1t should be eighteen inches; then 1t is
place on straight level perpendicular to the
way, and pews to be comfortable should Goa
form to human anatomy-the seat should slope
Downward s.IM IN toward the back, making fan of
away from a vertical line fully four inches at
the top, and the distance between the peWs
should never be less than three feet.'
- The Sunday School Times opens Its batteries
against what 1t styles the absurd attempt to
bring the church and the theater on to a COM
mon plane. Particularly Objectionable the
Times thinks Is the now popular movement to
secure Sunday school children for perform lncc3
at the theater, and theatrical exercises for per-
Torrance in the Sunday school. In view of the
aid given to theaters by Christian people com
mend1ng the Sunday school ''Pinafore" COM
panies, the theatrical managers are actually ad-
vertising for Sunday-school children to siar
Moody and Sankey hymns in the moral drama;'
and Sunday-school workers are preparing
dramatic cantataS, with or without costumes"
for use in church and Sunday-schoOl festivals.
The Rev. Charles Scott gives the following
statistics of ministers in Great Britain: Epis-
copal, 25, 1885, Congregational, 5246; Presbyter-
ian, 4,951; Methodist 1909. Total, 50, $40.
Three members OF the organization known
In England as the salvation army, have come
to this country and begun to hold services In
Philadelphia. Their meetings are largely at
tended and numerous conversions are reported
They expect re-ehforcementS from England.
The government OF Austria, in response to
the petition presented by deputation Of the
Evangelical Alliance, has issued an order re-
moving the disabilities under which Protestant
missions have been laboring In Bohemia, and
extending the lights and privileges asked for.
Bishop Stevens, of Pennsylvania, continues
to improve slowly but steadily, and Is able. to
give some attention to the affairs of his diocese,
through the standing committee The COM
mittee, While acting upon the decision that the
illness of the bishop does not vest 1t with those
judicial functions which he may impose upon 1t
IN his absence from the diocese, is dscharglng
the merely routine business OF the diocese within
the canonical powers OF the committee.
The Germany Reformed Church has rltu-
alstic wing, and to settle the troubles between
the wing and Its opponents peace conference,
including twenty-five commissioners was lately
held In Harrisburg, Pa. Twenty-three were
present, and have made areport, reaftirmlng the
Heidelberg Catechism in its historical or oriyina,
sense as the standard OF the church, dlscla m
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