Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-12-04

constituents tell them that this is the
price of their elevation, and they propose
to have what they are entitled to-a liv-
ing eldership.
MINOR TOPICS.
THERE are 10000 students in attend
arce at the Catholic colleges in the United
States.
AT the close of the war there were two
Congregational churches in the South !;
there are now seventy-three.
TWELVE students in the Baptist theolo-
gical seminary in Burmah are anxious to
become missionaries among their heather
countrymen.
TWELVE Chinese converts have been Or
daincd to the ministry Of the Church Of
England. Nine of these are living and en-
gagged in the work of the church.
The Lutherans of Nebraska exhibit a
gratifying growth. The synod had in
1871 only six ministers. 1t has now "a
ministers, 30 congregations and /, 229 COM
municatiOns.
TIE Harrisburg Telegraph, \ valian:
champion Of civil service reform, says t
"All that the Democratic majorities in both
branches of Congress can do is to advise
its subordinates to look out for situations
elsewhere before the Forty-seventh Con-
gress is organized"
HARVARD has now 1864 students-S
more than last year. There are 15S in
structors in all departments. The most
noticeable gain is in tho scientific depart
ment. Last year it had only 16 students
this year it has 81. The number now
studying for the higher degrees is Sc.
BISHOP ELDER is making changes in the
music sung in the Catholic churches lin
Cincinnati. He aims to introduce as far
as possible in the VARIOUS churches of the
diocese solemn and souLinspiring church
music. 1t will be known as the Cecilian
music.
THE Hebrew Union college is to be es-
tablished permanently in Cincinnati,
where house has been purchased for its
accommodation. The institution is main-
tained by voluntary subscriptions. There
are three Hebrew colleges in this country
one in Philadelphia, one in Now York
and third is that in Cincinnati.
The vicar Of Claybrook parish, England,
Oh recent Sunday. announced that the
''prayers Of the congregation were de-
sired Oh behalf of the Rev. T. Pelham
Dale, now in prison for doing his duty
Several members Of the congregation OPEN
ly expressed their disapproval by at once
walking out of church, while others in
dulged in strong remarks at the conclu-
sion Of the service.
The Presbyterians arc showing great &C
tivity in Spain. There is presbytery
there-that of Andalusia. 1t is small,
consisting of eight churches, of which the
membership if small and oppressed with
poverty. Nevertheless, it proposes to
found a school for training pastors, evan
sclists and teachers, and has purchased a
building for a college and centre of mis-
sionary work.
Rev. FATHER BOEckX, the present gen.
eral Of the Jcsuits, has in his parlor straw
seated chairs, few portraits and a big
map of the United States. The unpreten-
tious residence is ut Fiesole, on the noun
tain north of Florence. The favorite 10.
sort Of this powerful leader is his small
flower garden. He is nearly eighty-six
years old and is very kind to strangers.
He is the twenty-sccond general who has
ruled the Jcsuits since Loyola.
REPRESENTATIVES, Of the various British
Methodist bodies held a conference re-
ce utly in London concerning the proposed
Methodist Ecumcnical Congress. The
bodies represented were the Wesleyan,
the Primitive Methodist, the United
Methodist Free Churches, the Methodist
New Connection, the Bible Christians, the
Wesleyan Reform Union, and the Irish
Wesleyan Conference. The basis of the
Congress, rs agreed upon by American
Mcthodists, was considered and adopted.
The fact that SO many sermons were
preached about the Passion play on the
very morning when the announcement of
its Withdrawal was made axcites facetious
comments i'll many quarters. The guns
were fired off after the target had been
taken down, and the ministes were unable
to train their artillery upon any other OBJ.
ject. The Albany Argus makes this sug-
gestion "Now let the sensational min.
listers show as much regard to public opin-
ion as Manager Abbey did. On demand,
he Withdrew his sensational play. On de-
mand, let them withdraw the sensational
sermons.
\ PRESBYTERIAN church of ninety-threc
members was recently organized among
the Nez Perces Indians in Indian territory.
October 81 fifty-nine of them were bap-
tized, and Nov. thirty-four more re-
ccived the ordinance. Among the con
vcrts is Tom Hill, who planned Chief JOS
epl,'s battles in the late Nez Perces war.
In his public confession he said Inc had
been very bad man, believing that he
must carry musket and make war on tho
whites. But he WAS now convinced that