Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-10-16
RELIGIOUS NOTES.


only eight black sheep In list OF IA 600 MethO-
dist pastors In the United States.
The value of the church property owned by
the Baptists of the United States Is estimated at
$50 100000.
The French Protestants are somewhat
agttated over report that detachment of the
"Salvation Army Is about to visit France.
The detachment will not be welcomed.
"A New York paper says that church in
Brooklyn, whose paStorate Is vacant has thirty
seven candidates already on its list while mis-
sionary work In the Yellowstone river valley Is
earnestly called for and few respond.
The COngr'egdtiOndliSt asks: "Why should
a man, divorced from one wife on the ground
OF cruelty. be allowed to exercise the same
brutality on another, or why should woman
who has vexed one mans soul have chance to
torment another husband?"
Traffic In church nvings In England Is on the
increase. A well-knowp agent estimates the
Hv1Dgs annually offered for actual sale at about
200; another witness places the number at
least 100, or 10 per cent of those In patronage
The seating capacity of the Jewish temples in
Chicago aggregates 5000. The Israelitish popu-
lation numbers about %. 600 and the Jelrlsh Ad-
nance wants TO know where the other $4,000 wor-
ship.
In the Forty-fourth street synagogue In
New York city 1t is only recently that families
have been allowed to sit together, or that the
music OF the organ has been introduced
The East Anglican Daily Ne,cs, an English
Rev. Newman Hall was married at the regis
trar'S office. Great Yarmouth, in the month of
August, TO Richardson. the groom whose name
was prominently mentioned In Dr. Halls suit
for divorce.
Scientists, says DR.. Calderwood, who make
charges against the Christian religion do not do
SO as scientists, but as men; they are scientists.
but when so engaged are not doing scientific
work. and when they call IL science 1t is science
falsely so called.
The wife of Rev. Mason Noble, d. D., OF
Washington, d. c., who died recently, was the
mother of Rev. Franklin Noble. of Hampstead
Rev Rev. Mason Noble, r.. OF shenleld, Mass; Rev.
and Rev. Charles Noble. of Norwich Conn.
That mother,-what a life she must have lived
and how large pTopertyrght she w b has mad and
The AdrG1lce.
AT a sunday school picnic in England a
teacher asked her scholars how they liked the
sea. Very much miss" replied a child, .but
my child What do you mean?" "Why, you
know" the child replied again, 1.-The unnamtes
that go with the sea- You know the command
ment says, the sea and all the tlnnamies."
This was the way the child had been repeating
1.-The sea and all that In them is.s
Morality without religion Is only kind OF
dead reckoning-an endeavor to find our place
On cloudy sea by measuring the distance we
have to run, b without any observation of the
heavenly bcdies.-LOnafelloec
The Christian at Work diSagrees with Dr.
Stephenson, who announced at the Presbyterl-
an Alliance that infant baptism is essential to
infant salvation. The same journal also takes
DIR. M1lligan OF Pittsburg to task for saying
that "a man might better have no education
than to have one where the Divine lesson was
not taught that 'eGucation. unless the Bible
was read In schools, only made men greater vii
la1ns.
1t is said that one result of the Rev. Stop.
England Will be the publication OF an essay by
Mr.. Matthew Arnold, frequent attendant at
Bedford Chapel, In which he will endeavor to
show that those who deny all belief In the mi
raculous are nevertheless justified In remaining
members of the church.
The Catholic Standard calls attention to
the show bills posted up so profusely In our
cities containing pictures suggestive OF impur
able right to be protected from the exhibition
and obtrusIon Of lascIvious pictures, aud 1t
is the duty Of the civil authorities to suppress
what Is plainly injurious to morality"
~ don't believe there's any need of minis
ter going to college," remarked Mrs. Cooling
ton In disputatiouS mood, the other evening.
"a man can preach the doctrine Of salvation
without a universal education. IL is we'll
enough for a physician to have an epidemic
training; they need It, But man can impOund
the scriptures without being a college Column
bus, as Parson Jones son calls himself. The
Old parson was never known to go around talk
ing OF his alum ater." All saw how fast. the
good old lady'S knitting needles flew, aud all
knew it would be idle 10 take issue with her.
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Transcript.
The Rev. William Crosweu Doane, Protes
tant Episcopal Bishop OF Albany, New York,
has published a pamphlet entitled kindred
and Affinity; Coos Law OF Marriage" In which
he tries TO show that man In no circumstances
should be allowed to marry his dead wireS sis
ter. TO urge. he says, that such a marriage is
1.-The sweetest and most natural thiag'' Tor
w1dower Is mere sentiment and "often a sickly
seDsualism poorly disguised under a thin veil:
and against 1t Is to be set up the fact that the
tmpOSSiOility OF marriage establishes firmly the
sacred and most blessed relationship OF the
wife'S sister In the family. The very name by
which the relation is known involves the GER
tainty of this protection. She is a slster-in-law
!. e., in the law OF God; as our good English
speech defines it, a sister, with whom, because
marriage Is impossible, the wise intimacy of a
brothers relation Is possible and safe"
- Rev. Stopford A Brooke's address to his
congregation at Bedford chapel, London, taking
leave OF the church OF England, attributes this
step TO change OF view in regard to the cred
Utility OF miracles, particularly the miracle OF
the incarnation on which he conceives the
church OF England appears to have its form of
faith. While he no longer regards Christ as
absolute God yet he does believe that ICED
has specially revealed himself through Christ.
that the highest religion OF mankind is founded
on his life and revelation. that the spirit OF his
life IS the life and salvation OF men, and that he
himself Is the head and representative OF man
klnd,-Jesus Christ our Lord" How he can
associate even such character from miracle
is what the London Spectator cannot under.
stand.
The Methodist says that "the most notable
defect in the Presbyterian Council was that the
members did not partake OF the Lords supper
together. The anti-maSonic PreSbyterianS are
said to have prevented this service. 1t Is very
significant that the Cumberland PreSbyterlans
were courteously excluded This means that
the basis OF the union is severe Calvinissn, and
this was incidentally shown In several papers
and debates. These two facts-the failure to
commune and the rejection OF the Cumberland
brethren-will not have favorable effect upon
the Alliance. Sooner or later this latter asSoc-
| alton must come down to similar matters or
| disagreement The remedy seems TO US to lie
| In the progress OF all believers toward CON-
mon faith respecting essentials, which, In turn.
| will modify and soften the rigors of Calviutsm
| In the creed. CalVintSm has long been modified
In the preaching OF our Presbyterian brethren ~
| - 'Put him almost anywhere you choose, =
| writes the Northfield massachusetts, CORES
| pondent OF the Springfield Republican, ''Mr.
| Moody sees what Is to be done, how 1t can be
| done in the best way, and directs some one to
| do Ii. All the details OF the meetings are car
| ried out In the most admirable manner. AS an
| illustration OF the feeling among the guests, a
| lady from distance said TO me: i don't under
stand 1t; my husband and l never saw Mr..
| Moody before, and he had never heard OF US.
| Now, however, every time we meet him he
| calls us by name and treats us exactly as Ii we
were his personal friends and particular invited
| guests Mr.. Moody's remarkable executive
| ability, cOnsummate tact and keen knowledge
of human nature, mingled with his zeal for the