Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-06-26
RELIGIOUS NOTES.

| translated into more than sixty languages
and 100000 copies OF 1t are printed every
| year.
Without belief IN personal immortality
religion Is surely like an arch resting on one
pillar, like bridge ending In an abyss--Nar
| Muller.
A new society, 1.-THE Confraternity of the
| Holy Trinity" has been founded by the Spanish
.Iesuits for the purpose Of opposing the infiu-
ence OF Freemasonry.
The instruction given the Syrian Protes-
| tant College at Beyrout will. hereafter. be In
the English instead Of the Arabic language,
| the change having just been decided upon
| The change was asked for by the people them
| selves.
In Great Britain last year S. 900 900 was
contributed by private donors for church edu-
| church schools were opened and there was an
! addition OF 53,4,2 to the number of children in
| average attendance.
The Salvation Army, as it is called, has not
been an agency for good in this country, what
| ever 1t may be In England. In Philadelphia its
operations nave been OF questionable value for
| some time past and in Newark it has been de-
ciaTed nuisance, and is to be suppressed as
| such.
1t has been wisely decided by the English
and American branches Of the Bible revision
| committee to print the revised edition OF the
bloie IN paragraphs according to the sense,
| ratner than In chapters and verses as Is now
done, and also to print the poetic parts In poetic
| measure.
| The Women's Foreign Mission Society of
| the Methodist Church has in the eleven years
OF It's existence sent out fifty ladies as mission
aries and employed two hundred native teachers
and helpers In the various countries where it
has done its work. The sum of $500, 900 has been
raised and spent in doing this work.
1t is reported that Charles Reade desires it
| 10 DE announced that he abandOns writing for
| Inc stage In consequence of his conversion by
| Dr. Graham. the Hammersmith Congregational
| munster. He is constant attendant at Bible
nfiYrrc u
| preaching.
| TO make our reliance on Providence both
piois and rational, we should In every great en-
| teIpfise we take In hand, prepare ali things
WIN that care, diligence and activity as If
there were no such thing as Providence for us
10 oepeDd upon; and again, when We have done
This, we should as wholly and humbly rely
all.-SOuth.
Seven thousand dollars, which were be-
queathed to the Roman Catholic church some
time ago by an Australian merchant. have NOT
been paid by his executors. The money was
le1t 10 the church 'for del1verence OF my ThisI
SOU nom purgatory," and the executors refuse
10 pay me money until proof is given that the
testator's soul has been released.
"A well-known English Wesleyan minister
VINO mas high rank among his fellows Is re-
ported as saying he does not remember a single
instance where Methodist minister has for
Saken MetnodiSm for the religion of Rome He
adds that the names of all the members of the
denomination whom he ever heard of as toin.
Ing that church he could more than count on
the fingers OF one hand
Mayor Kalioch, Of San Francisco, has been
INDICATED. The congregation over whose
company he rests from the labor5 Of the magis-
terlal week, has done for him that kind and
much needed service; They have adopted reso-
iutIonS approving his pure and exemplary"
me. This can only be regarded as a striking
lllustla alton OF what the Greek poet meant when
ne SAD that evil communications corrupt good
morals. oO0"
AT the London Yearly Meeting of Friends
some exception was taken to the singing of
hymns at general meetings which had been
ned II was characterized as very unquakerly,
ana as not Ia accordance with the practice 300
years ago. In reply, 1t was held that good In.
huenceS accompanied singing as well as silent
incubation, but the meeting drought that ST.
better without singing.
1t seems to the Golden Rue that the man
who processes to be very devout Christian.
giving his money only where his name will 90
lhtO the newspapers, being prominent at the
cnuIcn meetings. browning upon everything
that he does not like and upon everybody thai
does not agree With him, yet taking his IL DER
cent interest, foreclostng every mortgage he
has when he can get some poor mans PROPERTY
for half its value or falling every few wears and
paving 10 cents on dOllaT-such man is more
Thepa g s to the Almighty than an outspoken,
oolt sheplic. GOd does not want any Shams or
pIetenuers, put Christian men VINO are true
clear down to the core.
Some one draws this parallel between
preaching North and South: The southern pul-
PIT confines itself more strictly than the north.
ern to what may be called the theory of the
gospel, and aims in every sermon to present
some central doctrine OF our theology while the
nor nern minister takes far wider range of
ordinary life, and Judging them In the light ar
our religion. The southern preachers as one of
Tue most eloquent among them said not long
ago, link now 10 IeState effectively the old
truths, and venture little beyond the thoughts
they have learned from their predecessors, While
ane ndrnern preachers try to be original and
their churches. The southern preacher is fiery
and energetic, as his temperament and the
Iastes o, MS people require while the northern
sober and quiet methods OF speech with almost
equal hope Of hearing.
DR. Hitchcock, laborer In the Protestant
cause In Paris, is alarmed over the progress of a
society Oh atheists lately formed in the French
oership of $4,000 In Paris alone. They have their
conferences TO discuss and glOrify atheism and
sing s Inc Marseillalse. They are socialists OF the
worst type. Their influence is not Simply
negative They make aggressive war upon the
churches: The municipal counselors OF Paris
some OF them at least, would be glad to seize all
lne church property-cathedralS churches tenn
pies, SynagoSueS, preSbyterieS-and sell them
lot me benefit OF the city treasury. and so voted
awhile avn. ago This society OF soclalistic free
thinkers is veritable propaganda, scarcely less
active than the Jesuits themselves, though
lacking their self-den1al and singleness OF mir
pose. Like them, they are ambitious to Oh
tain control OF the educational Institutions They
would surplant and suppress all dIsttncttyely
religious instruction In the schools and HAVING
done that, 1nculcate their own principles.
Professor David Swing approves OF the ac-
tion OF the Methodist conference &C Cincinnati
toward Colonel 1ngersoll. That conference had
rented the Opera House for their services. and
colonel Ingersoll wanted IL for the evening. he
nad no alternative but to apply to the Metho-
dist clergy and as they did not themselves want
the nall on the particular evening In question.
they gave up the room to the use OF the sharp
and eloquent anti Christian orator. Professor
swing thinks '1t will always be safe to TEMPER
with sunshine OF friendship the blasts that
blow around the extremists of all Schools
social, political and religious Our era Should
tolerate an immense amount OF free speech
After tossing up the cap a hundred years in
praise OF freedom CT speech, we would better let
men speak on, even when they differ with MS
and then II possible make amends for some bad
speeches by showing the public what good
thoughts also may come from the full liberty of
mind and tongue"
DR.. Curry has been summing up the recent
Methodist conference at Cincinnati In the Iade
prudent, and concludes that sit Is becoming
very manifest that the enormous proportions to
which the church has grown demand some ad-
JuStment OF its methods of action, to adapt IL
TO its changed conditions The business Of ad
mlnlSter1ng Its affairs has become too wide and
TOO much complicated with special and variable
conditions to allow IL to be effectualIy done nv
a single central body, sitting for q month once
III four years. Some way should he fOund Out