New-York tribune., 1880-02-29

will never return to Palestine, unless forced
| back at the point OF the bayOnet."
Cardinal Newman has suffered bereavement
| i'm the loss of sister six years younger than
! himself, and to whom, though she did not
share his religious opinions, he was as deVOteuly
dren IN the Newman family, and it is recalled
! that when the Cardinals brother, Francis
| William, reached his mfjOrlty poem on thelr
/ mother which the Cardinal wrote for the occa-
! sion contained these tender words:
"Ip her affection all had share,
All SIX. she loved them all;
Yet on her carly chosen PAR
DiI her full favor fall;
Aud we became her dearest theme,
Her waking thought, ber nightly dream"
! For the first time in sixteen years the Amer
can Missionary Association is free OF debt
During the past year it paid off an indebted
| ness of $373s9. Among the cOlored people
of the South an important work has been ac-
complished by this association. 1t has at
! present In the Southern States eight chartered
! institutions, twelve high schools and twenty
! four common schools, with total OF l63
teachers and 7,207 pupils. III all OF winch
! Christian knowledge and character are fea-
! ture of the instruction. In addition there are
| about 5000 Sunday school scholars under its
! charge.
! Many wears ago theological student went
! to Emerson with complaint that wide differ
]
rian divinity students at Harvard Emerson's $
! rcplv is said 10 have been this: " am not
| much interested in these discussions, but SUI
/ il seems deplorable that there should he 2
! tendency in some people to creeds which would
! fake man back to the cllmpanZee. nave
! very good grounds for being II Unitarian and
! n Trinitaran, too. | need not nibble forever
at one loaf, but eat 1t and thank God Tor 1t,
| and earn another"
! 1t is proposed to build in certain districts on
! the Western frontier of Kansas churches made
of sods 4 few such already exist. The walls
are of sods the roofs are covered with s0ds,
and the floors are of earth. A church can be
| built, III size about 2GX36, for an outlay IN
money of only $40, and tins has already been
done IN at least one instance a wall OF eods,
| if ploprrly built and protected, will last
hundred years. Roofs of shingles ana floors
of wood are greatly To be desired, hut, OF
| course, they add very much TO the ccst OF
! church.
DIR. Henry Parr Hamilton, Dean of Salisbury,
| IL dead at the age of eighty seven, having held
the office thirty years. lie. was active III the
work of restoring the Cathedral, and OF the
! $3.50, 900 expended on 1t large sum came
from bis private purse. Two English dean
| ellcs are now vacant, York being the other.
The name OF Dr. FnTar, the author, Is men
toned IN connection with the succession, al
though it is we'll known that the BshOprlc of
| Liverpool would afford him more conGcnial
occupation. The patronage 0t Salisbury De-
longs 20 the Crown.
When the resignation of the Reg. c. II.
Parlhurst tie new pastor of the Madison
Snunre PRESBYTERIAN Church had been read TO
his people at Lcnox 4 fortnight age the
! HYMN &" Blest be the Tie that binds was
given out, but the choir did not respond.
On looking up the chorlster was was seen sGakilg ,
his head as If TO say no. Inc choir, IL was
learned, had been overcome by their feelings
and were unable to sing. Many persons III
the congregation were also III tears
Its proposed in certain Methodist quarters
TINT the number OF bishops III the church be IN
creased AT present there are nlne, the limit
which has prevailed since 1864, ana II nlne
were needed in 1864 it is held that twlce that
number are necessary now. But Whether lhe
chmrrb can support that number on the present
plan of work is another question. Inc matter
nr a bishop's travelling eXpt nseS Is OF ltseIl Il
considerable item. About l4.O0O miles Is the
average annual travel OF bishop
Eleven persons were recently baptized by
;,,mprsiOn at Bridgeport, Conn.,, under Tie
forms of the Second Advent Church. FIVE OF
tbnu, were men, three were women ana tnlee
were GIRLS a bright sun was shlnlng, out tiie
a,r was keen and cold, the thermometer lhdl-
cotinD only n few degrees above the freezing
I'M Each candidate, after immersion, was
kent waiting In wet clothes while lhc oVnets
wore immersed, SO that those VINO went III
first must have had anything uuI ""ih
time of 1t.
The number of Catholics i'll Scotland Is es-
,;mofed 10 he 800, ,430, the number IN the dl-
onnse Of Glasgow alone beng l99,73S. There
oTc 10 missions in Glasgow, 12l priests, 1l6
Jnnartments Of mission schools, z middle
cIass schools, industrial schools, retOTma-
| tory schools, 2 orphanage schools and l sem
! mary. while the churches and chapels number
| 10.
A Biblical history in use at Linz on the river
Rhine has this passage, Cain, the tratiicide,
was precursor of the Jews scattered over the
Whole world A considerable Jewish commu,,
nity exists at Linz, and they have requested
that this passage be cut out OF the Do0k-nOt, as
renorted TO illustrate Jewish arrogance, tDat
| the entire book be suppressed.
Bernardino PeyrOn, an Italian priest and
! nhiloLogist has discovered In the Dlnulng OF
| an ancient Greek manuscript belonging to the
lannon's library of ST. Ambrose on Mount
Athos. two fragments OF the Epistles oil 81
paul They are in Greek. Other fragments
If these Epistles, now in Paris, have long been
valued at great prices.
In connection with The rumors that Eng
lsh Rltualists are about to enter the Church
| g Don,a II ia atfirmed that the pOne has