Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-11-13


chief concern would be to find sena-
atorship lying around for the young man
who is about to marry DOn'S daughter.
MINOR TOPICS.
THERE arc 1000 pupils in tho mission
ary Sunday schools of Lucknow, India.
NEARLY hundred missionaries sailed
from this country for foreign fields in the
past five months.
SooS Jerusalem will be robbed of its
ancient attractions by the formidable van
dal Progress. The city is to be lighted
with gas, and horse railroad is to be run
to the top of tho Mount of Olives.
BuDpHIsMis Oh a rapid decline in Japan.
Since 1873, in single district, seventy-ono
temples have been diverted to secular
uses. It is estimated that that in the en-
pire more than 700 temples have been thus
secularized within nine years past.
The sale of the Penny Testament, the
cheapest edition ever published, has al
ready reached nearly 100000, and the
publisher, Mr.. Elliot Stock, confidently
expects that 1000, 900 copies will be dis
seminated in the course of twelve months.
A PREACHER in Syracuse recently told his
congregation that if the women would all
dance by themselves in a ten acre lot
surrounded by high board fence, and the
men in another inclosure of the same kind,
there would then be no harm in dancing.
Not much fun either.
A SOCIETY of Mormon girls, having for
its object the breaking up of the plural
marriage system, has been discovered and
broken up at Salt Lake City. The men,
bcrs took 4 VOW to marry no man who
would not pledge himself to be content
with one wife. Five daughters Of Brigham
Young had joined it.
A TALEAU after Millais familiar picture,
"The Huguonots," was part of an enter
tainment in the Baptist church at Cantor,
Kansas. The Rev. Mr. Banker, the young
ard handsome pastor was chosen to pose
as the male figure, but the question who
should tie the scarf and be hugged was not
easily settled. The pretty wife of a lead
ing member was finally accorded that fell.
city. The tableau is said to have been a
success but afterward some of the sisters
said that there had been a needless amount
of rehearsing, the husband got furiously
jealous. and the pastor resigned.
JUDGE MCKENNAN, of Pittsburgh, does
not want to be United States senator
Conger, Of Michigan, does; the gentle
men who are mentioned in the New York
newspapers and by politicians as aspirants
for Senator Kernan's place, are Congress-
man Levi P. Morton, Conkling's closest
political friend General George II. Sharpe,
General Grants brother-in-law; Ton,
Platt. Frank Hiscock, John II. Starin,
John N. Francis, of the Troy Times, ard
host of others, even including such posi-
tive opponents Of Conklingism as Ellis H.
Roberts, George William Curtis and Judge
Robertson.
A LADY who had heard a vigorous
charity sermon, and yet had given moth
ing when the contribution box was passed
around, had her pocket picked while she
was going out of church. On making tho
discovery she remarked: "God could not
find the way to my pocket, but the devil
did"' The Baptist Weekly argues that
while this may be regarded as special
and peculiar visitation, other people who
give nothing need not think that their es-
cape is owing to any merits of their own.
A clearer inference would be that the ser
vices Of an efficient policeman are urgent
ly required at the church door.
THE average pastorate grows shorter
instead Of longer. The evils of such a
brief service have been set before the
churches for thirty years with no effect.
All denominations are troubled in about
equal degrees, and no system of ecclesias-
tical government is exempt. The Baptists,
the Congregationalists, the Presbytcrians,
the Episcopalians, lament it alike, and the
thoughtful men of all perceive that it is
increasing. In one of the New England
states it is said that the average duration
of the pastoral settlement is one of the
largest of these denominations in two and
half years. In some of the Western
states it is even shorter. Taking the
country at large, we doubt that the aver
age duration of the pastorate in our own
churches will exceed three or three and
half years. The facts are amazing and
disgraceful, and disastrous as they arc
amazing.
All the Nihilists tried for being impli-
Gated in plots against the life of the Gar
have been found guilty. Five of them
have been sentenced to death and eleven