Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-02-07
RELIGIOUS NOTES.

An Anti-profanity Society has been started
| in Savannah, Ga. the members OF which wear 9
| white ribbon as badge.
The recent attitude Of Germany shows tina,
| not all ignorant men believe In the Bible, and
| not all scientific men reject it.
The anti-Ritualists Of New York city have
| established new Protestant Episcopal paper
! called the Guardian. 1t Is intended to wage
war against some OF the innovations Ia Episco
pal practice and worship which are becoming
| so popular.
The Russian church authorities have sent a
| missionary to San Francisco, who will go on tc
Alaska In the spring to labor there.
In Texas there Is a church which has forty.
five members and holds three prayer meetings a
| week. Only one of its members pays anything
| for the support OF the minister.
- The Chicago Avenue church, at Chicago,
has introduced the feature of pictorial illustra-
| lions OF the sermon, to give the discourse act
! uality and intensity.
! paper is carrying the personal" business too
| far when 1t announces the presentation by one
minister to another of 8 set of false teeth.
The Evangelist says that as 10000 of our
| 292, 600 Indians can write, and $4,000 are men,
| beers of churches, the fact is proved beyond a
| doubt that the Indian is capable OF being CIV
IL zed.
"A Chicago Presbyterian clergyman has
| be- en- preaching upon the wickedness of enter
| ing chuI CHI late and disturbing the congrega-
| i'Un, and his sermon has had the effect OF de-
| creasing the number of tardy worshippers in
| lis church.
- The Presbyterian says that the Iadepen-
| dent is dissatisfied with the account of the
| Create n In Genesis. and that 1t is getting quite
| rs much dis ;atlstied with the New Testament.
The new Roman paper, The Aurora. which
Is understood to be In many respects an expo
nent OF the policy and wishes Of the Vatican is
described as being thus far in point Of typogra-
ply the best journal published in the city. Its
n a rond md ont oy1i , 4
that it departed recently from the custom which
has long prevailed with the Italian clerical
press. and gave to King Humbert his title by
calling him the King of Italy,"
The statement that the Anglican Church
costs England SIS, 900, 900 a year has been taken
up by the Bishop of Ohio, who implies that the
Church of England entirely supports itself from
the income Of its own property. SO far Is it from
costing England SIS, 100000 that it supplies re-
ligious privileges and pastoral care free at an
actual cost OF that same sum to itself. TIE
bishop compares the case with that of Trinity
Church and that of the Collegiate Reform
Church, in New York.
A minister near Boston, who was called on
to marry two strangers lately. and gave them
S45 as change for f1fty-dollar bill, was dis
couraged to find the latter a counterfeit when
he came to spend it.
"A little boy in Troy, N. Y. who was sick
with scarlet fever, when told that he could not
recover, calmly said Well, this world does
and up where am going can look down and
see this world not bigger than pins head"
The son of the late Rev. Dr. Forbes Winslow
is vicar at st. Leonard's, England. He is angry
with persons who go to his church well dressed,
but do not contribute money. "When the aims
bag is passed to you" he said in a late sermon,
'you look at 1t as an unwelcOme and imperti-
nent intrusion upon your devotionS, as an object
rather of speculative curiosity than Of practical
import. and you pass 1t with an air of 1anguid,
superc1lfous indifference, down row Of equally
well dressed and equally langufd fellow-wor-
shippers, who do not SO much as contribute one
farthfng apiece to the service Of Almighty God.
Shame upon you! Would to God that l could
raise the blush of humiliation to your cheeks.
that could goad you out of your indifference,
that could sting you to proper sense OF your
fndescrlbable and contemplate meanness"
Theological students all have weakness
for getting married. The young lawyer, physi-
clan, merchant, mechanic knows better-know
the beefsteak and potatoes must be provided for
sylphide form, and house rent, and hrewood
And so he is content to labor, and she is willing
to wait for The golden future, for the cottage
ana all its pleasant furniture And it is good
for both OF them. He has a stimulus for his
energies which is found nowhere else IN nature
and battles upward, not for himself, but his
hearts idol And she learns to make the most
of the products of his toll. The theological stu
dent is too prone to depend upon congregational
cOddle for all these. Young man, show yourself
man among men, and then you Will have
something to lay at the feet of beauty which
would stir the admiration and homage OF a
queen.-ChicdgO Interior.
The following, from the Catholic Recie.r,
Is a statement of the position of the Church of
Rome regarding the public schools: ''We will
position OF the church toward the common
schools. For Professionals, for Jews, for tnfidels,
In fact, for all who choose to patrontze then,
they answer fairly well. 1t is none OF our bust
ness to what schools our nom Catholic netgnbors
send their children. But for Catholics they will
not answer. We are bound in conscience so to
train our young that they shall know theirfaith
and practice 1t. They not only cannot learn
their faith in schools where Professionalism or
sectarianism pervades the mental atmosphere
absolutely false with regard to II. To the ex-
tent, then, of Withdrawing Catholic children
from these schools, and of persistently bringing
before the public the injustice OF taxing large
ln1nority-Which includes most Of the only class
for whose education the state has neither right
or duty to provide for a system of education
which they cannot and will not uSa-We oppose
the public schools"
The strenuous efforts made by ecclestastl-
cal authorities in Russia to counterfeit the
spread of nthiliSm have brought about bold
attack on priest in st. Petersburg. The priest
day or two after he had condemned in SER
mon the methods of the revolutioni5ts, was
called upon at his own house by three young
men, who said they desired to make his ac-
quaintance. When they were announced, the
priest suspected their intentions were other than
good, and on entering the reception room he
took with him an attendant, who was directed
to remain while the interview lasted. The young
men informed the priest that in his sermon he
had fnSulted ''the better representatives of the
young generation" and demanded that he
should never preach any thing of the kind again
lie replied that his sermons would always con-
tain whatever his duty and his conscience die
tated that he ought to preach whereupon one
of the young men leveled a revolver at his head
The attendant at once seized the aSSailant and
wrenched the weapon from his hand. rescue
was attempted by the two companions, but all
the servants in the house rushed into the room
and the three men were firmly secured. They
eventually found their way into police station.
DIR. Rolleston's statement in the London
Times about the temperate habits of the Amerl-
can bishops Is answered by another correspond
ent In later issue OF the same paper 1T has
been my good fortune" says the latter, "to be
acquainted with several OF the American Dish
ops and to have partaken of their hospitality
On more than one occasion during three years
residence in the states, and also to have been
privileged to make some small return of hoSpi-
tality to them when they visited this country
for the late Pan-Anglican congress- AMI do
not remember to have met at the dinner table
single total abstainer among them. especi-
ally call to mind most pleasant dinner party
given some years ago by bishop in the south
ern states and at which three other bishops
and eight clergy wore present, when cocktails
were handed round before dinner and the cigar
box afterward and two or three different wines
were on the table" The Pau AtLu Gazette axes
this comments: Sydney Smith could not mag