Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-08-14
MINOR TOPICS.

MINOR TOPICS.
BIsHOP HARRIS, who has visited nearly
all the missions in tho world, says that
| Mexico has tho hardest of all.
THE Sacramento people arc forever poE-
ing fun at tho legislators. A saloon keeper
near tho capitol recently placed u box of
live snakes in his window, above which
hung tho rcassur;ng placard: "Don't be
uneasy, gentlemen. These arc real Snakes -
HENRY WARD BEECuER's CHristan
Union thinks free trade is Il Christian duty
| since neither nations nor individuals have
right to grow rich at tho expense of
others, aud will not profit by it event
ually.
TIE New York independent confcsscs
that it has had confidence in: Leo XIII from
tho beginning VIC have confidence in him
still. From tho hour Of his coronation he
manifested liberal spirit, and what is of
supreme Importance, has shown himself to
bc possessed of u good endowment of com
mon sense"
MOODY and Sankcy have not yet selected
the place where they will open Gin October
ncxt) their next series Of meetings. They
have received Il large number Ofinvitations.
Among these the most pressing ones come
from Washington, the South, Cali fOrna,
and England. The invitations from Wash,
ington was from fifty churches.
THERE arc 1926 Young Mems Christian
Associations in North America, 2S5 in
Great Britain and Ireland, 65 in France,
13 in Belgium, 293 in Germany, 4O6 in lIol-
land, 2O4 in Switzerland, 70 in Sweden,
in Italy, 8 in Spain. 1 in Austria, Is in
Australia, in India, in Syria, Bin South
Africa, 2 in Japan, and each in NADIA
cascar and the Sandwich Islands.
THIS is n psychological problem that
botlcrs many a boy: Father, did you
used to lie when you were boy?" "No,
my son." said the patcrnal, who evidently
did not recall the past with any distinct
ness. ''Nor mother, citllcr?' persisted
the young lawyer, ''No; but why ?''
"Oh because don't sec how two people
who never told lie could have boy that
tell as many as l do.'
A REVIEWER in AppletOn's Journal con-
trasts the late Rev. DR.. Bushnell and Rev.
DR.. w. A. Muhlenbcrg, and finds sharp
contrast on nearly every point of tcmpera-
ment and destiny between the most cmi-
nent practical philanthropist that the
Episcopal communion has nurturcd and
the bold and turbulent New England theo-
lOgian who had doubts, differences and
questions that never disturbed the serene
temper and settled convictions Of the gen.
tic Muhlenberg.
The population of our whole country
may now be set down rs $4,000 600. The
church edifices are estimated to he suffi-
cient to scat 5000, 600; but on an aver
age Sunday probably less than 5000, 600
are found in these places of worship. AL
lowing IL, 000, 900 to be detained at their
homes, We yet have Is, 600, 900, or more
than one-third of the nation, and these of
sufficient age and ability, who do not hab-
itually meet for worship, but likely devote
themselves to something quite alien from
worship.
The editor of tho Christian Recorder
who is colored man, complains Of the
industrial ostracism" against his race,
North, South, East and West-more in the
North than in the South. As Fred Doug
lass used to say the negro lad can more
easily get into lawyers Office than a car
penter shop. A Republican religious edi-
tor admits that the ''Solid North cherishes
deep prejudice against the colored man and