Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-03-06
RELIGIOUS NOTES.

| uunlnlSneQ."
! The Supreme Court Of Indiana decides tina
| the legal name of person consists of one Chris
| tian name and surname. Any one may havt
as many middle names or initials as he chooses
| to take.
Brother Gardner (eolored) has very sllgh
opinion OF human nature. He says in effec
that you can't tell what a man is until you have
| gone over mlldam In the same boat with him
and even then 1t Is better to keep the storeroom
door bolted.
Christ will come and the millennium begin
| In September 1851, according to the calcula-
lions OF the Rev. Mr.. Rounds an Adventist, Of
portsmouth, N H., who has devoted seven years
to figuring out the matter on chart $50 feet
long.
The Emperor of Austria, 1t is said, has ex-
pressed his intention to carry out to the letter
his promise to grant complete religious liberty
to the NoncOnfOrmiSt SectS in his dOminiOnS.
1t is added that an official announcement to
this effect may be anticipated at an early day.
In Augusta, Ga, the colored Baptist church
has been split upon the colored line. The
blacks claimed that the mulattoes were too as
Stunning; and they, In turn, held that there was
not enough Of consideration paid them. Re-
suit: two churches.
In London there is a sect called the 'sPe-
culiar People," and one Of their doctrines is the
essential evil of permitting their sick men,
Ders to be doctOred. But The courts have in
terfered, and some whose children have died
manslaughter.
"A Scotch preacher confesses that while ap-
parently preaching without notes he really is
reading from manuscript which he sees men
tally before him. He sees even the stops This
ours when he has written sermon and read it
carefully before going into the pulpit.
Prayer Of South Sea Islander after Sab
bath service: 80 God, we are about to go to our
respective homes. Let not the words we have
heard be like the fine clothes we wear, soon to
be taken of and folded away in box till
another Sabbath comes round. Rather let thy
able till death"
While Sturgeon was sick. at Mentone, In
France, he preached to the smallest audience he
ever addressed. Fourteen persons were gath
cred In his room. His text was from the epiStle
Of James, Eye have heard of the patience of
job" He represented patience as a reasonable
ttce it to the utmost Spurgeon has been great
suffe rer from rheumatism and govt. He Is now
In London.
The Methodist says very neatly: "Win
not the allegation by one of our beloved Metho-
dist contemporaries to the effect that the pres
ent Secretary OF the Interior is disqualified from
holding his high Office on the score of being a
foreigner and an inf1del be regarded by the un-
fact that deposed Commissioner Hayt was both
native and high churchman?"
New Zealand has representatives OF one
hundred different sects and denominations. One
sect, called 1.-The Church of the Future" has a
Another, styled "The Church Of God" has
seventeen members. The leading religious
bodies are; Episeopaiians, l7e, ss7; fTesby-
terians. 81, lo3; Roman Catholics, 5s,ss1; Metho-
5,555; Lutherans, 5,643.
- The Catholic ReUie,1 Is alarmed In the in
terest Of the church over the effects of mar
riages of the faithful with Protestants. The
incalculable amount OF harm done to the Cath
1nn
mixed marriages Is appalling. For example
In 1919, there came from Ireland a young Cath
Ole couple who became the parents Of eight
children, seven Of whom were sons. The only
daughter married Catholic, the sons married
Protestants; and to-day the children of all these
men are either Indifferent or Protestant.
The Romish church must be credited with
inf1exfble adherence to the sc1ptural law of d.
vorce, and a commendable regard for the sane
t1ty OF the marriage relation. While Protestants
do not exalt marriage to q sacrament, they do
recognize it as religious as well as civil con-
enforcing its obligations as Romanists The
grounds for divorce which are coming to be
widely sanctioned among us are clearly un-
Encyclical letter on the sanctity of the relation
much more is there need Of a strong Protestant
deliveraHce on this subject-Baptist Weekly.
The Baptist Yearbook exhibits the strength
of that denomination as follows: In the United
States and territories there are 1,O95 associa-
lions, a. 1874 churches Is 401 ministers and 1884,
O44 members; baptisms reported for the last
year, 7s,924-22,s12 less than the number for
1873 There was gain of 20 associations, 295
churches, Al ministers and 30, O10 members.
Three hundred and fifteen associations failed to
send In their statistical reports. The number OF
Baptists In the northern states and territories,
as reported, is 595, 427; In the southern states,
1853, 6l4. OF those In the south $780, 739 are white
and646, 974 are colored.
The ingenious person who advised the mob
what to do with an unfortunate wight toward
whom their wrath was excited BY shouting
fairly matched by a Church of England vicar In
Rosshire, who recently said to his congregation
Of one man, three women and a boy: my
are some designing, cunning, sneaking villains
going about. They go into churches and tell of
how few are there, and they crfticise sermons
1t is my opinion that If they should get their
skulls cracked on the highway they deserve it.
do not intend to take any steps against them
leave God to be their eXecut1Oner."
There are at present In France no fewer
than 265s parishes unprovided with pas
tors. and this Notwithstanding all the efforts of
the bishops to obtain candidates for holy orders,
and although old priests anxious to retire from
their cures are kept in harness. At the same
time the Able Bougaud bewails the fact of their
being some 5000 parishes in which there Is
neither church nor cure nor any regular SER
vices. The state, he says will only build some
thirty chapelS OF ease year, and so this lament
state tie OF W S9ag But
government seems justified In not proceeding
faster.
j Dr.. Curry, In concluding his articles on the
Methodist itinerancy In the Independent, glort-
fies and advocates the system In these words:
The itinerant minister that appreciates his posi-
ton receives from it an inspiration and enlarge
ment of thoughts and feelings somewhat CORE
spending to the greatness Of che system of
which he forms part. He instincttvely claims
an inheritance in its achievements and history:
a poSsesSory right In all that 1t Is and an heir
ship to the reversionary greatness OF its future.
II his soul is in harmony with the soul of Meth
odism, he finds his highest freedom In bearing
its 'yoke" and feels himself to be dignified and
ennobled by his position; and, since the recog
niZed design OF the Methodist itinerancy is evan
gelical prOpagandism he is impelled by the sense
Of what he is to engage actively In that work.
In this more than In any other single condition
may be found the secret OF the success OF Meth.
odism, and this would be impossible but for the
it1nerancy.
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