The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1880-06-16

Harvard College has established a
null and permanent Professorship of Sanskrit
and called thereto Professor Charles R. Lanman
OF Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
An old lady heard one of her daueh.
ter laws callers say "My father was an am
bidexter." After the visitors departure the list
ener expressed her indignation by saving: "That
stuck up hussy was lying all the time. I knew
her father year in and year out, and his name
was Smith. Boston Post
The curate of South London church
whose pronunciation is more pedantic than pro
per, has been very justly snubbed for alluding
to the helr-apparant as though his name IyoSS
written Awlbert' Edward One of his par.
lshioners asked him the other day why he 50
significantly excluded the Prince of Wales in his
the curate asked, quite surprised what do
you meanY Why she said, "you ALWAYS
pray for all but Edward, Prince of Wales. :"
oliver Wendell Holmes has lately
told the world what he thinks the mission of
onitarlanism Is: 1t Is the harmonizing of
rehglous 6arbarism, the republicanizing Of &C.
clesiastlcal despotism, the Americanizing of
Aslatlc conceptions of the infinite and its Tela
lions to ourselves. The Americanizinp" pro
cess may be illustrated perhaps by a result set
forth by another speaker when he said, " IF
Robert Collyer had not been at work in Chicago
there would have been no Thomas or Swing, SO
far as 1 can see" o. -
while. the Presbyterians of the
North are discussing Forms of Worship" the
fresbyterians of the South are engaged in re-
yislng their Directory for Worship, and their
late Assembly sent the revised form to the pres.
byteries for criticism. No legacy of the mast
seems altogether to suit the present All NAV
De assured, however, that any changes made by
the Southern Church will leave no gan omen foyy
rampant Ritualsm
The Watchna0e of Boston saws =
The Presbyterians have Just held their two
Assemblies, North and South, and have not
escaped the question of changing their creeds so
as TO bring them into closer conformity with the
actual belief of to day" Will the WatcHpran
please TO inform us IN what particular the Pres
6yterlans have added to or subtracted from the
Westminster Confession of Faith, which is their
creed? If any change was made it quite escaped
our notice.
INFLUENCE OF THE SABBATH-It
huence which the Observance of the Sabbatb
eXerts over the people, when Count Montalem-
pert, one OF the most eminent of French states
men, SAID " Men are surprised sometimes bv the
ease with which the immense city of London is
Kept In order by garrison of three small bat.
tallons and two squadrons, while to control the
capital OF France, which is half the size. 40 600
troops of the line and 10000 National Guards
are necessary. But the stranger who arrives in
London on Sunday morning, when he sees
every thing suspended in that gigantic capital
in obedience to God-when, in the centre of that
colossal business, he finds silence and repose
scarcely interrupted by the bells which cali to
prayer, and by the immense crowds on their wav
to church. then his astonishment ceases. he
understands there is another curb for Christian
people besides that made by bayonets, and that
the law of God is fulfilled with such a solemn
submisslyeneSs, God himself, if dare use the
words charges himself with the police arrange