Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-11-05
RELIGIOUS.
A colored man in Tennessee has given
$1,000 to build church.

The Pope's new journal the Aurora,
ten months old, has a circulation of
5000.
1t is said that among the ministers
of the Church of Scotland there are many
converted Jews.
Amherst and Williams colleges have
graduated 40 per cent. of all the foreign
missionaries of the American board now
in the field.
The venerable DR.. Tying, Sr., of N. Y,
now in his slst year, has a pension of
$4,000 a year from St. Georges, of which
he was pastor thirty-fve years.
The late Nathan Bishop, L. L. D., exc.
cuted upon his death-bed at Saratoga,
N. Y, the deed which gives property
worth $40 900 to the American Baptist
missionary union.
Wickedness almost always runs to
cruelty. A bad heart will be cruel
heart. 1t is bad heart that can endure
to infict suffering even on an insect,
much more to tease or torment other
people.
Pope Plus TX directed in his will that
not more than S40O should be expended
for his monument. Pope Leo XIII, de-
string to fifty honor his predecessor, will
erect over and around the S40O monu-
ment magnificent one, at the expense
of the princes of the church of the late
Pope's creation.
Bishop A. Cleveland Coke vehemently
denounoes the passion Play" at Ober.
Ammergau. "At best" he says, "what
is 1t but fearful materializing of what
we are to behold by faithp Is it conceiv-
able that St. Paul would have acted in
such scene as that of Ober- Ammergaup
Over the awful scene itself the Almighty
drew down a VEIL"
Miss Annie L. Shaw. who was refused
ordination at the New England Metho-
dist Episcopal conference last spring. has
applied to the New York conference, of
the Methodist Protestant church, and
been received. The conference, by
majority of four, elected her to orders,
and she was ordained, though the presi-
dent of the conference, the Rev. A. B.
Woodwork. refused to have anything
to do with it. The Rev. Miss Shaw has
a congregation in Massachusetts,, which
she has built up so that it is able to pay
her salary of $1,000 year.
The American theater, be it observed,
is concrete institution, to be judged as
totality. 1t is responsible for what it
tolerates and shelters. We, therefore,
hold it responsible for whatever of SEN
sual impurity and whatever of irreligion,
as well as of whatever of occasional and
sporadic" benefit, there may be bound
up in its organic life. Instead of help
ing Christ's Kingdom, it hinders; in
stead of saving souls, it corrupts and de-
stroys. We pastors know too well that
when our churchmembers are enticed
within its walls they do not find there
recreation of body and soul for a more
vigorous service of their Lord. Their
spiritual garment is not always brought
away ''unspotted by the flesh" They
have given their public sanction and Pc
cuniary support to an institution whose
doors open downward, and not upward
toward Christian home in the heavens.
Can a servant of Jesus take Goals of fire
in his bosom and not be burnedP The
average theater is giloed nastiness.
Can we handle pitch and not be defledp
What concord hath Christ with Belial9
Wherefore, come out from among them,
and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and
touch not the unclean thing DR..
T. L. Cayler.
To claim credit for going to church as
duty is very like setting up a pretense
to liberality when collared by a police
man and made to disgorge stolen goods.
Love has feet to run, wings to fly, hands
to serve, heart to feel; duty is bailiff
to drag. We know the ministers teach
that it is better to go to church from a
sense of duty than to stay away, but they
know it is low motive, after all. One
ofthe most rational reasons for church
attendance is the rest which it gives to
the mind. The person who is actively
engaged, during six days, in the absorb
ing and devitalizing activities of this
rushing age finds, if he is rightly made
UP, that it often does him more good,
mentally and physically, to go to church
than to stagnate at home. The hour or
two that it occupies by the change
which the service gives to the current
of his thoughts, and the peaceful and
ouieting influence of the occasion, makes
him only the better prepared to utilize
to his highest needs the remainder of
the day. The dissipation of two or three
services and Sunday-school we regard
as Sabbath breaking; but the man who
goes to church for rest and refreshment,
and is able to find 1t, does good thing.
The lesson to the church, If we may ven-
ture to draw it, is the same as that de-
duced from the former topic. If the
church wishes to hold or to help the
people who for these diversified reasons
attend its services, it will study their
wants as we'll as what it regards as theii
needs. If 1T wishes to reach those who
are outside, it will, in imitation of iti
Master, seek them. The first condition
of ,aving man is to get hold of him.
Boston Herald.