Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-04-24
RELIGIOUS.

Theodore Monod, the eminent French
Protestant pastor, intends soon to visitthis
country.
Surgeons London Tabernacle has TWEEN
ty Sunday schools and 500 teachers and
1888 children.
In New York State the Baptists have So
churches, a fallen off of seven from last
year, and ll5, IA members, gain of 377.
The Rev. John McKim, who recently
sailed for Japan, is the fourth OF the clergy
educated at Nashota who have gone as mis-
sionaries to that country.
A leading elocutionist once said to an
ambitious young preacher 81 can do
nothing more for you. All that you need
now to make you power is some great sor-
row."
Deacon Richard Tufts, who died at Lynn,
Mass, a few days ago, was an officer in the
church for forty-six years, and during that
time was present at every communion
service.
Father Chiniquy recently sailed from
Sydney, Australia, to New Zealand. He
raised about co, 600, delivered $50 addres :
es, and scattered large number of books
and pamphlets,
Mr.. Sturgeon says to every person seek
ing admission to the membership in his
church ''Well, if you are received, what
individual work are you going to take up
and carry on for the Lord?'
Dr. McCosh says that of the | 900 grad
yates of Princeton during his connection
with the college, only four were skeptics,
and three of them have now become preach
ers of the Gospel.
Soon after Easter, st. Paul's Protestant
Episcopal Church, Rochester, N. Y, will
receive an altar costing IS, 000, as memo
rial presented by family formerly belong
ing to that parish.
The churches throughout Spain are dec
grated with the canvases of the early pant
ers, but SO hung, says correspondent, that
there is no hour in the day that a good
light can be found on them.
Mr. Railton and the six halelujah
lasses" of the " Salvation Army" assured
the New York authorities that they cared
nothing for the weather, if permission was
| given them to hold Sc vices in Union Square
Sunday afternoons.
A profane and blasphemous eoachman,
pointing to one of his horses, said to good
Henry Townley, who was seated on the
box by his side, ''That horse, sir, knows
when | swear at him" Yes, replied Mr..
Townley, land so does your Maker. ="
Louis TX, of France, punished any one
who was convicted of swearing by soaring
their lips with a hotiron, and when some one
complained that the punishment was too
severe, he replied, Il would to God that
by soaring my own lips could Danish out
of my realm all abuse of oaths.
OF the 100 600 men in the British army
who have declared themselves as belonging
to one or another of the various sects, over
sixty-six per cent. favor the Church OF
England, twenty-tw per cent. are Roman
Catholics, seven per cent. are Presbyta-
rians, and only four per cent. belong to the
Non-conformists and the other Protestant
bodies.
A letter, signed by the Archbishops and
Bishops of the ecclesiastical provinces of
Philadelphia, New York and Boston, has
been sent to Pope Leo XIII. expressing
their adhesion TO, and their cordial and
grateful recognition of, the opportuneness
and profound wisdom of his Holiness re-
cent encyclical commencing the philosophy
of ST. Thomas Aquinas, and enioining its
study.