Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-01-31
RELIGIOUS NOTES.

"A letter from MI Spurgeon to his congrega-
ton, dated at Mentone on Christmas day, states
that the delightful weather in the South Of
that he feels much better.
| In the japanese Bible it has been found
necessary to transfer from the English only two
words for which an equivalent could not be
ound-"hyssop" and "amen."
| The Bishops of the Southern Methodist
Church are growing old. Bishop Pain is 80
Kavanaugh, e; Pierce, 60; Wightman, Y; Dog
| gett, 50; keener 50 and McTyere, So
The notion prevails that the Episcopal
Church has pulpits and places for all the minis
tiers that desire to go over to that fold, but &C
| d. D., Of ST. Marks Church, Frankford, Pa,
there are 525 unemployed Episcopal clergymen
of the $500 In the United States, and only 1900
| hold rectorships.
The pastor of a Roman Catholic Church at
Greencastle, Ind. publicly reproved and dis
| charged his choir because the members had per-
petrated fraud in the rafting of piano at a
| fair.
| The Free Baptsts are increasing in North
| Carolina. They have now about $4,000 men,
| bers, besides II zoe cOlOred members. They are
| in sympathy, but not in connection, with the
| General Conference of the Free-will BaptiStS of
| the North.
| Archbishop Perche, Of New orleans, Is pass.
ng the winter in Rome, for the benefit of his
health. He expects to return In August or
September next
Archbishop Gibbons, of Baltimore, contem-
plates paying visit to Rome shortly after
Faster. his first visit to the Holy See since his
elevation to the primary OF the United States.
1t is customary with primates to make the jour-
ney at least once every ten years, and make
statement to the Holy Father Of the condition
Of affairs under their charge
The Rochester Democrat suggests that
young men who stand in front of church doors
waiting to see the congregation come out
might be used as stands to hang wraps and UNI
brellaS on.
The Hottentots are generally considered an
ungodly and ignorant race, but this is by people
who know little about them. About 10000 OF
them are processing Christians, having become
converted by means of missionary labor.
Three members of the organization which
is known in England as the Salvation Army"
have arrived in Philadelphia and begun series
of meetings, which thus far have been largely
attended. Conversions are already reported,
and further assistance in the work is expected
soon from England.
- The Presbyterian Church in Baltimore in
which Rev. Dr.. Leybern ministers presents on
Sunday nights the rare spectacle Of congrega-
tion of which at least twO-thirdS are men, The
spacious galleries are exclusively occupied by
men, many of them being medical students.
In one of his st. Louis meetings, Mr.. Moody
recently remarked that the telling Of individual
experience in religious matters was not only as
cases it was positively harmful. The expert
enceS of different persons varied according to
their constitutions, and in no two persons were
the feelings induced by conversion the same.
- Leo XIII has again been urged to proceed
with the Qualification Of his predecessor and
has replied that while 1t will be well to proceed
with the collection Of any precise facts bearing
on such claim, 1t Is not desirable to make any
exception to the usual method of procedure
which insures deliberate and dispassionate judy
ment.
- The Bishop of London has written a letter
on the Mackonochfe case. in which he says that
Mr.. Mackonochie "has by his action marked
out the way by which man capable of preach
ing terrible hereSy might. as far as appears at
present, maintain himself in the possession of
his benetice, his church and his pulpit, and,
while still retaining his position as parish
priest of the Church of England, do infinite
mischief to it by his teaching"
- The Baptist Year Book for 1880 gives sum-
mary of the strength of this denomination in
lions, 1898; churches, "a, 1874; ordained minis
tiers, 15,4O1; additions by bapttsms, 1894; by
letter. 33,095; by experience, 5,232; by restora-
9h s5a b1 o5 pV 9y
5,so9. Total membership, 2,lsa,o44, as compared
with O34 for 1878.
"A paragraph having appeared in an Ohio
paper to the effect that ''the Anglican Church
writes to the editor that the Church of England
is entirely supported by its own property, and
that the fair way to put the case is that 'the
Church Of England supplies religious privileges
Of SIS, O00, 600 per year."
Mr.. Moody, featuring on the Lords Prayer.
in st. Louis the other day, and dwelling much
on the forgiveness of trespasses, noticed that
while he was speaking fifty or more persons
rose and left the church; whereupon he said that
he had known persons who had heard about
this requirement for forgiveness hastily to leave
the church and seek out those they needed to
forgive and he hoped that those who we're then
leaving the congregation were prompted by
such spirit.
The trial of Rev. Hamilton A. Chase, OF
Tully, N. Y, for alleged undue intima hey with
young girl. named Mccarthy, it is said, will
have to be postponed. The trial was to have
come Off about the close OF the present month
but friends Of the reverend ge1tlenan now
claim that he is insane. They aliege that his
insanity is Of recent date, AMI it has been
caused mainly by his anxiety in regard to the
approaching trial.
The observance of Christmas is increasing
In Scotland. Many congregations which last
Christmas did not venture upon regular ser
vice celebrated the day by holding recitalS of
sacred music appropriate to the season.
In certain quarter there are three churches
in which the dressing of the ladies Is 50 sump-
tuOuS as to strike awe into the hearts of humble
Christians who see them entering the house of
worship, but still there are distinctions in the
style of their luxury, as DART found out the
other day. His wife and himself were struck
low passengers in a horSe-car, but as she walked
out the partner Of his bosom dryly said, Il
knew Sneu go Jnere, uQe women al - KNOW
enough to tie their crimP protectors under their
bonnets, and the women at - never wear SO
many colorS" and then she preened her own
modest plumage and the pair proceeded to
church Number Four, at which the dressing Is
too modest to have metropolitan reputation
Ne,r YORK World.
We were in prayer-meeting not long ago,
where the pastor read a chapter of thirty
verses, made a prayer OF eight minutes, and
then talked twenty lone minuteS-after which, he
called upon good brother to lead in prayer, BY
which time forty minutes were gone, and then
he had the GOODNESS to tell the brethren the
meetings was theirs; but they did not appre-
ciate the remnant, and, after one more prayer.
the benediction was given and the people went
home-tne minister discouraged because the
brethren were so backward in helping him. He
did not see that he had given the people no
chance. Thus multitudeS Of prayer.meetings
are strangled because the minister occupies so
much time that the people have none left; or
he squeezes the topic until 1t is dry. His breth-
rem have no chance, the time and the thoughts
are all taken from them.-GDJden Rule.
- The Unitarian Reuie,u for January contains
the lecture on preaching which Mr.. Emerson
recently delivered before the students Of the
Divinity School at Harvard. A striking passage
in relates to atheism. ''Unlovely, nay, fright
full ~ he says sis the solitude of the soul which
is without God In the world. To wander all day
In the sunlight among the tribes Of animals.
unrelated 10 anything BETTER to behold the
horse, cow and bird, and to fore5ee an equal
and speedy end to him and them; no, the bird,