Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-01-03
MINOR TOPICS.
The Pirates of Penzance threaten to
capture and sink the Pinafore.

THE statistics of the Baptist church in
Pennsylvania for 1879 show the total men,
bership to have been Ga, ,S45, which is 1,256
more than 1873. There are 592 Baptist
churches in the state.
THE Queen of England has presented an
organ to the church ON Pitcairn's Island,
in the Pacific, and the first air played upon
it after it had been put in place VAS "God
Save the Queen"
OK the recent occasion Of the twenty
fifth anniversary of the feast of tho
immaculate conception, Pope Leo received
in special audience body of Italian
pilgrims numbering over 600, and in reply
to an address presented him delivered a
speech defining the dogma.
In his prayer meeting talk last night
Talmage pronounced Governor Garcelon
''from personal knowledge to be ''as
pure man as can be found in public life, :"
and said it was ''unfair and unchristian to
question his motives.''
A WRITER in the Christian MteNigencer
speaks of Robert Bonner as "the enter
prising editor who introduced Edward
Everett, DR.. Tying and Sylvanus Cobb to
the American public, and got Henry Ward
Beecher to dance a literary hornpipc in
the CLOGS of a novel writer''
A COMMITTEE of Ursinus college, Mont
gomery county, met committee of
Palatinate college, Myerstown, at the
First Reformed church, Reading, yester-
day, to consider the question of the
consolidation of the two collie
giate institutions. The meeting was
a preparatory one and adjourned to mature
plan to be submitted at future meeting
| to be held at such time as events may
| determine.
1880 will be celebrated as the semi-ccn-
tennial of the organization of the elder
ship of the Church of God. In 1920 Elder
John Winebrenner was settled as pastor OF
the German Reformed congregation OF
Harrisburg. In 1926 his pastorate closed,
and he commenced preaching in the court,
house, market-house and board yards.
Great revivals followed his labors as well
as in other places adjacent to the city.
| Churches were formed under the title OF
| Church of God. In 1880 six ministers met
| in Harrisburg and organized an eldership,
From this small beginning some fourteen
or fifteen elderships were organized, cov-
ering territory from Maine to Texas,
with laity membership of from forty to
| fifty thousand.
people ought to marry it is intended that
they should according to nature. But love
always must must be tempered with pru-
dence, and it is all the better-and very
much bctter-if both love and prudence
we're tinctured with religion. Do l think
that man ought to have a fortune before
he marries? No. The prevalent senti-
ment that man must acquire his fortune
before he marries, that his wife shall have
no share or sympathy with him in the
work and struggle to gain a footing, and
in the pursuit of it (and in the pursuit a
| great deal of the pleasure is really found
| to consist is absurd. Then, too, it is
thought necessary that young married
couple should set out with as large an es-
tablishmcnt as is enjoyed by older people
whom they seek to showily equal, who
have perhaps been married for twenty
years, and in that time have built up COM
| mercial success and social respect. The
idea that a man must be wealthy before he
weds fills the community with fortune
seeking bachelors and unhappy spinsters
it endangers virtue, destroys true economy
and design, and the bcneficent intentions of
the home. 1t promotes vice, idleness, in
efficiency and imbecility amongst females,
who seem from an unsympathetic outset
thenceforward to expect to be taken up by
fortune and passively sustained, and with
out any concern Oh theirpart. 1t is thus
| that a man finds it difficult to obtain a
hclp-meet.''
In almost every "hymn and tune book
published within thirty years the ''Adcste
Fideles'' Ga tune which is otherwise known
as the Portuguese hymn is attributed to
an English music-composer, Redding, who
lived two centuries ago. The real author
of this celebrated, impressive, and now
worldwide tune was Marcos Portugal, a
Portuguese composer who was born in the
last century, who was chapel master to the
king of Portugal, and who died at an adj
vanced age in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in
1884. Marcos Portugal was well known
in his native land and in Spain and Italy
during the first quarter of this century for
his sacred and secular music. Some of his
operatic compositions were fora time quite
popular in Italy, and in that land of song
he was known as Marco Portogallo. In
1908 the king of Portugal was driven by
the French from his kingdom to the then
large Portuguese possession of America,
Brazil. At Rio de Janeiro the king, Joao
W., established his court in 1908, and
thither came not only his royal household
of noblemen and gentlemen in waiting, but
his chapel-master also repaired there to
conduct the musical services of the royal
chapel in the new world. In 1921 Dom
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