The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-10-19
RELIGIOUS.

Nearly fourteen million people are in Sun
day Schools, either as scholars Or teachers.
Of the 10000 passengers carried from New
York to Europe this summer nearly, LOCO are
said to have been ministers.
To carry on the government of the Church
of Rome, Bishop Stafford, Of England, says the
Pope must have at least $2S0,OOO a year.
Mtesa, the Central African King, who
asked Stanley to send Christian missionaries,
has returned to Paganism from Christianity.
Chief Joseph, of the Okla tribe of Indians,
a sgood Indian" in spite Of his not being
dead, has translated the four Gospels into
Iroquois.
A La Crosse minister prayed for those "who
are smitten with illness, and those who have
gone a fishing, and also those who are too
lazy to dress for church."
Mr.. Spurgeon's fifteen hundredth sermon
has been translated into Japanese. Mr..
Spurgeon, by the way, has just had another
attack of his old malady-rheumatism in the
knee.
Dean Stanley's visit here during 1881, to
study the church system of the United States,
will probably precede declaration OF opinion
by him as to the separation Of Church and
State in England.
Mr.. Talmage has returned from the West
with this opinion of dishonest Indian agents
''In the day of resurrection l would rather be
a Modoc chief than a plundering United
States officer on a reservation"
Robert Collyer thinks Jesus Christ often
laughed, as does the little girl who replied to
a man who said the Saviour never smiled
"Didn't he say Suffer little children to come
unto Me" And they would not have come
unless HI had smiled"
The Marquis of Butte, Who'll has just returned
from his villa in Jerusalem, intends to es-
tablish a Roman Catholic monastery for
English mo ks on the property. Plans are
in preparation by the architect of the new
Brompton oratnry, the cost not to exceed
$4,000.
In the church where Martin Luther and
Melancthon both lie buried. the one to
whose door Luthcr's famous theses were
nailed, in Wittenburg, a Sunday school is
said to have been recently started, and its
rapid growth from 10 to 400 scholars has COM
PEELED its division and the use of a second
building.
Prof. David Swing, Of Chicago, says: GAS
the American can out-chew and out-spit and
out-talk the rest of the world, so can he out
swear the residue of humanity. Sitting be-
hind tive gentlemen for a day as our train
glided along from St. Pau towards Chicago,
the words tBy Cod came back to me 700
times, when bedtime made me quit counting.
The Bishop of G%reneble, France has just
been the victim of an audacious hoax. Hav-
ing read In a recent issue of a local paper a
rabid Republican speech made by a cure in
his diocese he published a letter declaring
him unworthy to preach the gospel any longer
and promising to have HIM dismissed. The
cure in question has been dead half a century,
and the speech which reused the indignation
of the worthy Bishop was made 1893.
"In closin' dis meetin' said the old man,
as the usual hour was marked by the clock,
"let cherry one of you bar in mind dat BLOWN
up a bladder doan' make a bar'l. Git it as
full O. wind as you may and its muffin but 8
bladder. De Lawd made each one fur
speshul purpose, an de chap who was Great
ed to use a shovel will get busted eDery tint
he beliebes dat he was cut out fur a states
man. We will now be scattered"
John Kelly, as a lecturer, is not admired b.
the Jewish Messenger, which says, concern
ing the Hebrew Association: "The prObabil
ity that Hon. John Kelly, Of New York City
will lecture before the association in thi
years course will be received with yarie'
feelings Of surprise and regret. We had sup
posed that its platform was reserved for me
of a different stamp, that its duty was to in
; still Judaism and q reverence for jewish hi!
! tory and culture"
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