Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-12-11
RELIGIOUS NOTES.

London Methodist calls religious labor With in-
DIV .duaiS-
- Professor David o. Swing talked about
lew ng Chicago ior New York, but his cDnyre-
rafion having raised MS sal iry from 81, $50 %
sla e00 he will stay With the WICKED OF the west.
Key Dr.. Armitage 81 New York CONDEMNS
pastoral visitation as "A system, believing That
while ministers are helpful In 5pectli CASES ~
sickness or spiritual need, general caiuag tends
~ gossip or sCanCa!.
-Ferc Hyacinthe has begun d series Of les-
t1res On God and France" His object Is TO
establish trat, without gotliness, there will be
E,fber POLITICAL. moral, nor material great
nesS LOr liberty
-rhe following qultrain is id to pass ma-
steal currency in Detroit sunday schooI:-
eh, MD AL the banks o. England break
Should kn-lsnd bank be -Inashed,
Ir,U-, IL your checks to Zicn's b.nx
Ana you vii get Them casHId.
-TIs British Colsreg ttlolal Union has de-
cIaTe5 thai its Objection TO al estabiislei
eduIcu - not against any particular cnurc1
put hat II feels DJGui 10 prO.esc against the
sO.uau3hct OF a ttiolal establish m1nt or re-
nst n, Independently of any consideration of
gland aud iTs work, a9I would Do sorry
se'- rs Sp,El!'lal rlTce weak mel
- Td- Language y; tha Thanksgiving Pfocla-
n4ttr1 80 The Governor or PENNSYLVANIA In
W IcI u. y -te Is 5 % zen n a5 Comm IN
woa % NJ Free mo- ilS,ead u az a "Chrtsiitn
e IA . on ss.tith was eXcaptpd TO by In MIS-
10 OF different denominations In the state.
D. Grct'S~Ad. EIIhetan. OF lancaster.
Pre- Chr Il Il ss-fBI0I uyJn It, which mas O6en
pu9i ND; AM Il VS. one OF tine topics OF dis
e. h a. the VI tao rs, Preachers meeting M
PHi.aIE Plaza.
The Second Baptist church OF Rochester
has departed froH liz Usual routine OF holding
feif, and adopts The improved meuno1 or
having a Spanish care IS q nesiHS or regiSn-
fShing i some .FiGt exhausted treasury.
Tweny-fouT young lady members OF the
al Fr. & utrf how col IN antl
tune, serve coffee and other good things TO
eat. These Young ladies' endeaVOr 70 initiate
"a ciosely as possible the manners o. the
Spanish senoritaS. IL connection with the
cafe a series OF Spanish ttb.edux by the ladies
makes the time pass pleasantly aud assists in
b.iDgibg In the money.
- America lent Moody and Sankey to Eng
land and now the deoL Is repaid oy the appear
aDce In this country on preaching tour OF
Rev. &r. kHoX-Littla He Is said TO be both
Ike and unlike The NOrtantid evangelist He
Is Eot Moody dressed IN an Episcopal snrpiice.
nut he Is Moody transformed into an edu:iUe1
refined ana dIgniiied English clergyman. He
Possesses all the aoJunding physical energy,
TIE pungenJ way OF setting forth truth, the
fnoiSiye aJeInent OF the cardinal doctrines of
religion, AID the intease earnestnes5. s0ns-
uIncS becoming almost terrible, that cn4rac-
1eriZe Brother Moody.
The Faith Prayer Cure Mission, OF Spring
field. Mass. anoints with OIL as well as
prayer. The amounting consists simply 10 Dip
ping the finger IN oil and piaclny iL on the fore
head ofthe patient and the sisters find tseir
authority for this In Ja'aes ', II and Is: IFS
any sick among you? Let him call for the
elders OF the church; and let them pray over
him, amounting him "ith oil in the name of
the Lord; and the PRAYER OF faith shall save The
sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he
have committed sins, they shall De forgiven
him." Other passages also confirm their BELIEF
LII the htaling power OF faithful prayer.
"A new "Bible revision comm ittee" has
been discovered by the S'sFstry S,h0O! Times.
which says: "a recent attempt N this line Is
shown IN the following rendering OF family
text. as given On Sunday school programme
which comes TO MS from the west: 'rralnup a
child In the way he or sac should % and Enen
he or she is old ne or sue will not depart from
It II ne or she who made that change In the
text thinks that he or she has thereby given TO
those words an added force 10 his or her
scholars or TO the parents Of his or her schol-
ars, or 10 anyone who knows OF mis- or her
work. he or she viii flnd that be Or she has
been very much mistaken"
Object teaching has penetrated the Sun
day schools along with the use OF the black
board. AT the fourth annual convention of the
Kings county Episcopal Sunday schools
Frank Beard mentioned the fact that In a
Brooklyn Sunday school, the figure OF an angel
drawn By person OF manifPSLly good iuten-
tons, had caused the assembled Children to
falter In singing II want 10 De an angel" The
Children did not seem TO long TO carry a harp
after the modern Italian fashion. Objections
were made IL this convention to the usual goot
little books put on library shelves. It was as
serted that the DAY for these impossible stories
Is past.
DIR. Tyng'5 sermon Oh the miracles at
Knock has made great connection. The Ro.
man Catholics regard il III a friendly Spirit
Thts is not the case, However, with the Nq,r
FORK O5SerFef'. which says that even the Ro-
man Catholic Bishops do not take as much
S.Ock in The miracles as DR.. Tying does. Tue
Chttrchg}Ga, which IS Hlgh Church. while Dr.
Ttng Is Low. critiCise, him somewhat S.
yeIely. The MethodisJS or those OF them who
believe IN clires b. prayer AMI faith and tae
having on or hands. are inclined 10 believe that
there NAV De something IN the Roman Catho-
He miracles, although they have greater faith
Ia such prayers as those which at Asbury
Park healed the lam 'peS5 OF Brother Platt
than III ali the Cement from the walls OF Knock.
Most OF the churches which are ever WILL
Ing to go into the fair ana oyster supper bus!-
ness are nov actively engaged Ia enterprises OF
this sort. The height OF the church fair season
Is rom now TIL Christmas eve, after which
time the demand for Christmas presents drops
on and the far business slackens The Old
practice or merely holding quiet safe OF the
things which go oy the name or useful and
fancy articles Is thing OF the past fair
which Is only q sale OF dolls and pincuShions
and the Ike would be voted a bore and nobody
would attend II except q few retired Old ladies'
with no money. To be at all successful the
promoters or the church fair OF to-day must
provide Punch and Judy show and q SET Of
taeleaux with red and green IRE. They muSt
and something either 70 be rafliad for or got
nd OF by voting at SO much a vote The
churches which 90 no- allow railing are very
expert az voting their goods away. Al iced
cake as large as a grindStone and quite as d.
gesJiole Is too heavy for any one person 10
buy. Therefore II Is set up to be voted for, the
most popular person receiving the greatest
number or votes and taking the cake. X some
times leads 10 unpieaSa utneSS for the pastor
and the sunday school superintendent to be
piIled against each other as 20 popularity on
cake vote al a dollar a vote. But the cake
must 20 on and the money must BE- raised
even II Zion mouTlS IN consequence The
church fair business Is d costly Way 10 dodge
benevOence, 05 n generally costs a good deal
more than II comes jO.-N. J.. S.fl.
One OF the chief nutsauce5 which pastors
OF churches are called on 20 encounter is the
pGTfpatetic evangelist who wants TO come and
help the pastor have revival. Some OF these
peTtpatetlcS are well meaning msR and some
are humbugs. some are Simply iniuiiciOu5
while others are men who have mistaken their
Calling and were made for clock peddierS and
scissor grinders. A shTcwd correspondent OF
the P'eSbyteTtGH, who has suffered from this
Glass OF laborers. carefully sums up his expe-
Hence and conclusions, which may De or ad-
vantage 10 many ministers who are be5et With
applications from stray evangeliStS: u. Evan
Selists do not seek the proper places In which
10 employ their special gifts Very few of them
select destitute fields. where churches are dis
from the weak aud feeble churches from the
utterly destitute points. to churches that have
a pastor. session OF godly men, and gathered
a