Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-06-05
RELIGIOUS NOTES.

RELIGIOUS NOTES.
-Ebenezer Morgan, a retired sea captain
living In New London, Conn, has given SIS. 900
TO the fund In aid Of the translaf ion of the
BiDle into different languages for use by mis-
= Remember you cannot be any better than
God has made you, but you may be very much
worse. You can always ind more reasons for
cong as you wish than for doing as you ought
And 1t Is this tendency that separates you from
truth and purity and goodness
The English Congregational Aid society
aided last year some 514 churches and ISL mis-.
sion stations with SIS, $40 to the churches. and
ss5, 600 to the mission stations. The income OF
the society was $169, 45O. Some assistance was
also given in raising ministerial supends
- The Bishop OF Lincoln compares the new
British parliament to the one which sat two
hundred and fifty years ago, and counsels his
people to remember the deeds that were done in
CrOmwell'S days, when church yards were
Baptists '''NN
Canon Farrar, in q recent serman on for
eign missions. said that missions to the heather
| ourselves. partly in the indirect and the uncon
templated results of science, discovery and
commerce. and far more inestimably, by awak-
ening deeper religious life at home.
Sir Richard Temple, late governor Of Bom-
bay, In a recent speech, said that the exampe
OF missionaries is doing more good in india than
the British administration. The missions. he
SAID, are producing excellent political effects
In the great centers, English education is saak-
Ing the hindu faith to its foundations
The Rev. DR.. Girardeau has resigned as
Professor OF Theology in the Sou hern Prasby-
terrain Theological Seminary, at Columbus. s.
Z. The authorities OF he seminary Considering
the financial condition OF the seminary and their
solved to close the institution for time.
seventy-eight French bishops, out of the
eighty-four in France, have issued protests
against the ant1-Jesuit DEGREES, and efforts are
making to induce the others to follow the ex-
ample. It is intimated, however that the tar
dlness of three out OF the six is due to the fact
that they owe their appointment to the present
government
The mother Of Drs. John, Robert and VII
liam Breckenridge ef1ectually silenced her son.
ruled us with too rigid a rod in our boyhood 1t
would have been better If you had used gentler
methods" by the apt reply, ''Weil, William,
when you have raised up three as good preach
ers as have, then you can talk
- In the matter OF accepting and publishing
the revised edition Of the Bible, the American
Bible Society have resolved Ito wait the verdict
OF competent judges based not alone or chiefly
upon the high reputation Of the eminent men
VINO have devoted so much time to this work.
but upon the book which embodies the results
TONS"
gagged In newspaper controversy with a Uni
tarlan clergyman In New orleans. In his last
letter he said:-''They say that half the cOngre-
cation Of the Rev: Phillips Brooks, of Boston,
pest evidence that the cultured Unitarianism of
New England Is largely drifting into the Epls-
copal church."
-The1ncome of the American Church Mission
airy society for the last year, If not the largest
In the history of the society," has never been sur
passed or equalled but once before 1t amount
ed to the magnificent sum of 81, 1918, which
was sufficient to carry on the great mission of
tne society and TO pay of the large deficiency
which was accommodating during the two pre-.
ceeding years.
The Presbyterian General Assembly In ses-
sion at Madison, Wis, adopted resolution,
expressing "our gratitude to God for having
PRESIDENT and Mrs. Hayes such an example of
practical regard for Christian principles, and
mat we especially recommend to the women OF
america tne heroic stand which has been taken
Dy Mrs. Hayes In regard to Sabbath observance
and total abstinence"
The Rev. Father Ignatius. preaching at New
Llanthony Abbey, England, on the occasion of
The annual pilgrimage thither by. pilgrims from
all parts OF England. said that he was glad to
hear that Mr.. Bradlaugh had been elected a
member OF the House of Commons, because
when Christian Engltshmen saw this phenom-
inquiry would be excited, and when the world
had got to Its very worst, Christ would appear
- The authorities of the United Presbyterian
church have reported the statistics of the church
for 1850, showing that there are synods. SO
pIespyteries 695 m1nfsters-of whom $50 are
without charge, so l1centiates, &c students OF
theology, s13 congregations, SO mission sta
uons, ez,iI9 COMMITMENTS, and 100 Sunday
schools, with 1925 scholars. Some s43s,O0O
was raised for salaries of ministers, 1921, 4s7
for congregational expenses and Sis 1879 for
the benevolent boards.
SUNDAY SCHOOLS IN ENGLAND.-At a confer
ence held in London a short time ago to con-
slider plans for celebrating the centenary ri
sunday schools, In June about 200 ministers Of
various denominations were present. Sir Charles
Reed, In reviewing the history OF the schools.
PSI, 600 teachers were engaged In the gratutous
instruction OF the young and that they had
total OF los, 900 children in their Charge This
year the Sunday School Union alone was able
10 report no fewer than million children
within its organization while in addition there
are TO be reckoned the Children In schools be-
longing to the Wesleyan body and to the
TO revise the prevalent notion respecting call
to the work OF the ministry. Churches and
ministers are at fault In this matter and a mer-
cenary spirit Is quite TOO apparent In much that
ter finds that the way is not open before him to
field OF labor1n preaching it is right for him
to do something else for living. The churches
their vacant pulpits certain class of 1mper-
unent and persistent candidates defeat their
own purpose and bring reproach upon Others
by the means they employ to call themselves
where God does not call them. To listen to the
call OF the Lord Is one thing-tO call ones self
in the name OF the Lord is quite another.-Re-
ltgious Herald.
The condition Of our Baptist cause In and
about San Francisco is to the last degree melan-
choly, The state convention has Just met at
Sacramento, and the committee on resolutions
reported one expressing condemnation of the
course OF the two kallochs, father and son. But
on point OF order, raised by the elder Kalloch
the resolution was tabled by a vote of 46 to &C.
In ordinary circumstances no state convention
can be disciplinary body. But when one Bap-
list minister commits murder and another is
guilty OF promoting Sed1ttOn, it is within the
province of any number OF Baptist men meeting
together to express their adherence of the con.
duct Of such men. If there is no power in the
Baptist denomination of California to condemn
so great an evil as kallOchiSm. 1t is In so bad
way that it might flttingly receive the pity of
community OF kaffirS.-ErdDliner and CItrOni-
Gle.
Several religious and more secular papers
have the following statement: "It1sa significant
fact that New York city now has but twenty
SIX Presbyterian churches, which is lust the
number 1t had thirty years ago." This is called
"signtfcant fact" What it "signif1es' 1t
would be hard to say, but 1t Is very far from
being fact; 1t Is not the truth, nor anything
like the truth. BY the last report made by L.
u. jackson, esq, secretary OF city missions
there are at the present time In the city OF New
York 53 Presbyterian churches and rs Presby-
terrain chapels with pastors, making 81 Presby-
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