Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-11-27
RELIGIOUS NOTES.

One thousand Congregational ministers of
England and Wales are set down as total alb.
staineTS.
The Brotherhood of Christ church parish.
Georgetown. has established mission room on
Bridge street. over Lundy's book store, for work
among the colored people.
The people OF Zahleh. Syria, sing the
Senkey hymns at al hours OF the day. says the
fore'gn Missionary, humming them when On
the road or while at tneiI work.
There are said to be 1,0e0, 900 Jews In the
world, widely scattered among every nation.
The United States has half million Of them,
'0,G0e of whom live In New York city.
The American Sunday school Union in
yites f1ve-cent contributions from Sunday
school scholars to the fund for the erection OF
monument to the memory OF the late Abra-
ham Martin.
The assaSSins Of Rev. DR.. Parsons, the
American missionary, who was murdered In
the Asiatic Turkish domlnions, have been
seDteDce d-one TO death. ana two others to
penal servitude,
The Chicago Standard tells Of Baptist
minister who replied TO the question how he
came to consent to hts daughter marrying a
Presbyterian: We'll, as far as have been
able to discover, Cupid never studied theology"
When the late Rev. DR.. Samuel Fl. Cox
was buried, by his request his well-worn Greek
Testament was buried with him. 1t had been
his inseparable companion during his ministry,
and he desired that 1t should have place In
his grave
Rev. DR.. A. c. George, Of Chicago, says
that the delegates from this country to the
Methodist Ecumenical Council In London must
combine "two qualifications: 1. Emtnence
tall enough to represent the greatest non-state
church on earth; g. Purses deep enough to pay
their own bills"
The series OF gospel meetings held at Salt
Lake city, by Moody and Sankey, closed on
Sunday. Nov. I. During the eighteen days that
the services continued there was no diminution
N al q
Sunday evening many hundreds were unable
to gain admittance TO the building.
Rev. DR.. McCosh, OF Princeton college,
states that OF 400 students who have attended
he knew, graduated skeptics. These he saw
individually In his study and prayed with
them, and now all Of them have become
Christians, and three are preparing for the
ministry.
In his recent letter to the Archbishop
Paris, the Pope says: "Without doubt the
Catholic church biames and condemns no form
OF government and the Institutions established
ther the management OF public affairs is en-
trusted to the power and justice OF one man Or
OF several
Every morning by s O'clock Mr.. Gladstone
may be seen on his way to the village church
OF HawaTden to engage tn mathis as a prelude
to the work Of the day. Even when Prime
Minister OF England he has been found in the
humblest homes reading to the sick or dying
C0nSolatory passages OF Scripture IN his own
soft, melOdiOus tones.
The latest novelty in religious Journalism
Is weekly publication called the Spiritua1ist,
which reports conversations said to be held with
the dead. lone OF these" says the Christian
I,atelliqencer, ''purports to be with Spensippus,
of the kind well known to the readers of such
affairs, at the close OF which he kindly an.
nOunceS his name and abode when upon earth.
The editor follows with an account OF the man,
drawn from biographical dictionary"
While boy was bathing at the opening OF
a channel connecting the Fountain OF the yir-
gin and the Pool Of Sloan, at Jerusalem, he
f9S upon Which
small and finely wrought, but unfortunately
not deeply cut. Part Of the stone is submerged
and hidden by silicate deposit: After the
channel has been drained and the deposit car
red away 1t is expected that considerable light
on the topography OF Jerusalem will thereby
be gained.
The plucky Chicago Alliance. David
Swings paper, Is catching 1t from his brethren
itself on Sunday. Even that great moral en-
CINE, the Chicago Times. lifts uD its voice
against SO shocking an Innovation. The Al
marks that 1t shall continue its Sunday de-
livery and has no special plea to make In ex-
cuse therefor. The movement needs no studied
defence, continues the editor. cit is
said an authority greater than any religious
newspaper, in whose ranks as popularity under
stood the Alliance no longer stands. 1t stands
the daily paper plan. will continue to give the
religious news while it is news the latest re-
ligious thought and the most eleyatlng relig-
ious ard literary reading matter.
There are four gloomy reflections" made
In an article OF the Methodist of this week
which. the writer believes, show tendencies OF
a serious retrOgrade movement In the world
First the writer observes that there is neglect,
are" ne says. '.men VINO hardly knew there
was Bible Ia the world until they learned 1t
Of Ingersoll. To multttudes In our cities
Christian1i Is perquislte Of wealthy people
who OWL the marble, and stone, aud brick edi-
fees where God is wOrshipped." He finds also
that plety has declined, because temperance,
doctrine, phiIaDthropic reforms and denomi-
national fidelity absorb every attention. He
to the observance OF Sunday. Charles W.
Super, Phi D., in the Christian Adp0cate takes
quite an opposite view. His article Is en-
titled as the World Growing Worse?" which
he answers In the negative. Our increased IA
cilitIeS for learning news makes daily crime
better known than Of old, and We are apt he
says, to regard 1t as on the increase, but that
public morality is almost infinitely higher than
1t was few centuries ago. He cites the higher
morality Of European courts, the Punishment
OF atrocities from our wars OF to-day and the
decrease of epidemic diseases. In proof OF his
argument.
"A French correspondent OF the New Or
leans Ptcoyune draws us picture OF one Of the
numerous explosions Of m.cnast1c orders now
going forward by government decree In
france: L nave seldom seen mos touching
sight than witnessed Sunday In the rIrancls-
cans convent. There was wide spread Opssu-
ION that the Franciscans would be expelled
from France and crowds went to see the last
OF them. 1t was next to impossible to enter
the yard-tO enter the chapel was impossible.
There was great animation In the convent;
friars came and went constantly In carriages.
Whenever friar appeared everybody knelt,
am; as with one voice. craved, Father give us
your blessing!" The friar would bless the
kneeler and say: "Pray for u.s. pray for us, ices
enfants." There was not dry eye l saw
generals, colonies, bronzed soldiers weeping
like babies. The frar5 are deeply beloved.
They all are thorough men Of the world, well
read. charming takers, are most charitable,
and exert an immense and very widespread
influence. have never before seen In Paris
such an assembly OF beautiful women as was
last Sunday collected in the FranciScanS
chapel. Everybody sent TO the altar to be
blessed, rings beads, medaliOnS There were a
great many old, poor men. who were s0bbing
bitterly and saying; "But US! but u.s. what Is TO
become of us: When we need anything we
have only to ask here to get 1t. Here we
breakfast. Here we dine. Here we get fuel In
winter. Clothes all the year round. When the
good friars go away where shall we apply?
Who will care for u.s."
GFOR THE EVENING STAR.