Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-01-03
RELIGIOUS NOTES.

| prleStly ceuDacy. -
| Canon Lindon is regarded as perhaps the
Church OF England. He appears at his best be
! fore cultured audience at st. Marys, oxford
The Most Rev. Archbishop Segher was
lately mistaken for gambler while looking uI
the stray Catholics In Idaho.
| = Miss McNeal, the conductor of a japanese
teachers desire true stories rather than the fic
ton which Is usually offered to Sunday schools
The Philadelphia Baptist clergymen wert
divided at their last Meeting ON the question
whether Christmas and Easter should be recog
| niZed by services In the churches. Several tool
the ground that there should be no churchly OBJ
| servance of these days. One speaker said thai
| he never held services on Christmas or Easter
| and he never would.
| i Brother Adirondack Murray's church, In
Boston, has been set In motion again as an indie
| pendent enterprise under new leader, Rev. III
! A. Shorey, CongregationaliSt minister.
| -"Carissa," who is getting up little Christ
| mas party for her Sunday school class, wants
to know chow to make good lemonade?'' swell
| we can't give the recipe exactly, only YOU put
In plenty OF water, and then sweeten it with
anything but sugar, and make it tart with any.
thing except lemons
| = The National Btptist refuses to print mar
| rtage notices or obituaries Of an old date, but
the English Wesleyan Methodist Magazine fol
| November has several obituaries of persons who
| died In 1876, and none later.
Rev. j. S. Inskip, of the Christian sand j'a
| announces that he and his friends will start
on their eyangeliStic tour round the world in
June next, or possibly in May. Liberal coatri-
| buttons have been received to defray the eX-
| penSeS.
An old verger at oxford uttered, perhaps
unconsciously. sharp satire on the favorite
style of preaching in the University pulpit,
| when he replied to the congratulations Of an
old student: ''Yes, 1 have heard all the SER
mons here for the last fifty years. and thank
GOD, be1{ere IN christianity SttH'
Joseph Cook says in the Christian Union:
1.-THE dull city boy is In the midst of more
temptations than the dull country boy, and
nothing but the most earnest training on the
part OF his parents or instructors will prevent
him from forming taste for coarse amuSe-
ments, and so negecting the deluge of oppor-
tunlties about him."
"A society has been organized In Boston
with the name ''New England Theatre Reform
Association" 1t has endorsed certain dramas,
and some companies are travelling through the
country districts, playing in halls and lecture
rooms, backed by the society.
One or two members OF the original band Of
jubilee singers of Nashville are doing mission
Marseilles that evangelical missions are pros
porous in that city. At first, one hall accommo-
dating 400 persons was hired for meetings; now
four halls.are occupied and many children are
being taught.
BY slip of the tongue, Joseph Cook read
from his MS in a recent lecture 'children Of
priests" for children of parents" and the acct
dent raised a breeze in the Roman Catholic Cir
cleS.
An odd sort of lawsuit has been brought
against a church in Westfeld, Mass. Nearly
two years ago young lady named Alice Wes-
ton, while attending temperance meeting at
the church was unable, owing to the crowd to
pass from the vestry into the audience room
and while standing in the doorway the ropes
which held the hanging door gave way and the
door itself fell down, breaking one of her legs
1t was nearly year before Miss Weston could
walk, and she Still uses crutch. Soon after
the accident the ladies Of the church gave her
sos, but notwithstanding this a suit has been
brought bro for dsin9ges Her lawyer, It is sad
The Pope's Nuncio, Mgr Jacobini, is ex-
pected to visit Prince Bismarck again, to confer
about new project OF law by the PrusSian
government for the regulation OF the relations
Of Church and State
The opening Of st. Louis Jewish syna-
gogue to the temporary need of a Baptist
church, achieving notice because of a furry of
UNCONVENTIONAL diSapprObation thereat, calls
out the fact that similar acts OF courtesy have
lately been done by the Jews to one Methodist
church in Nashville and to another in Dallas.
Texas and the southwestern Presbyterian
commends 1t by saying that "our Hebrew breth
rem are setting us an example of generosity
which is worthy Of admiration
- Philadelphia churches have raised 5000
toward the expenses Of the great Presbyterian
council to be held In their city in $780, and will
raise the whole $15, 600 If necessary.
- Bishop Bedell, of the diocese Of Ohio, has
printed in The Standard Of the Cross the follow
Ing: 1.-TWO cases have occurred within one week
where clergymen have unwittingly married per-
sons unScrpturally divorced In neither case
was there any suspicion on the clergyman'S
mind as to the fact, nor any ground for creating
suspicion. 1t seems proper, therefore, that
should advise the clergy that when called t.
officiate at marriages they should Invariably asa
a question which may satisfy them that neither
party is already married. That such question
should be necessary is deplorable proof of the
decentralization of the community In respect to
the SacredneSS OF the tie that binds hush md and
wife in the sight OF God"
- The recent departure of an English clergy-
man for Natal, South Africa, to work under
Bishop Colenso, revtves the old feud between
him and Bishop Marjorie; especially since the
Ge% WORKER fo ReV iha GGey reeeyed warm
and other church dignitaries. Some years ago
Bishop Colenso published books on the Old Tes-
lament, attempting to show that the letter OF
the Bible was not always historically authentic
and for this the EpiScOpate of Great Britain de-
posed him and put in his place the Rev. Mr..
Marjorie. Both men: therefore, claim the
Bishopric, Mr.. Colenso being recognized by thc
state, and Mr. Macr0rie by the church. That
the head OF the Anglican Church should now SO
warmly encourage a man appointed by bishop
whom he has so long considered without author
1ty In the church, has caused much surprise in
England.
DR.. I.orimer, the Chicago clergyman who
was accused of being saturated with Dr.. Par
ker's phraseolOgy and thoughts, has produced
the following sentence in recent discourse thai
no critic has as yet identified as plagiarism ::
"When the sun OF hope IS eclipSed and a panum-
bra OF ScepticiSm alone remains; when the
Zimmerman desert OF worldlineSS, the Stygiau
stew OF ViclouSneSS or the tenebriouS shades o:
cypress melancholy forms its heritage then tina
soul calls upon Christ with plaintiVe pleading
for life and light. Until the murky clouds OF
sin have gathered thick and heavy and the me-
teoric blaze OF delusive expectation has expired
and the glow-Norm effulgence of false gospel,
has gone out, 1t viii not seek the presence OF
Him who Is able to diSperSe nocturnal shadows
and bring in eternal day."
Mr.. Rilskin, writing of some inconsistencies
In the services Of the Anglican church, says ::
Surely our church need not be surprised at
the daily increasing diStruSt In the public mind
of the efficacy of prayer. after having so long
insisted on their offering SupplicationS. at least
every Sunday morning at II O'Clock that the
rest OF their lives hereafter might De pure and
holy, leaving them conscious all the while that
they would be similarly required to inform the
Lord next week, at the same hour, that there
was 10 health in theml' Among the much
rebuked foliieS and abuses of RitualiSm, none
that have heard OF are indeed so dangerously
and darkly Ritual as this class OF authorized
| mockery or the most solemn act OF human life,
| and only entrance OF eternal life-repentance. "
A Dogs Movements Photographed.
1t will be remembered that some two or three
years ago Mr.. Muybridge, the photographer,
| took a series of pictures OF eXIGOv. Stanford s
| celebrated horse Occident, wherein was delin-