Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-05-01
RELIGIOUS NOTES.

RELIGIOUS NOTES.
-" Sanctuary shoes are advertised in the
Church Times and other English ecclesiastical
journals.
The Christian Leader intimates that sThe
were sent to New York as a repriSal for the
af1iction OF Talmage's visit to England
1t seems probable, from the action OF the
Methodist conferences recently held through
made at the general conference in Cincinnati to
extend the pastoral term beyond three years.
Judge Biddle, OF the Supreme Court of In
diana, has decided that 1t is no breach of the
laws OF that state for hotel clerk to sell cigars
on Sunday. he maintains that it is as neces-
sary for hotel to furnish cigars to a man who
Is In the habit OF smoking as to supply tea and
coffee.
1t is difficult in China to say to what reli-
gion man belongs. as the same person may
after sacrificing according to the ritual OF
Confucius, visits Tas-sse temple and after
wards BOWS before an image OF Fo In
Buddhist chapel.
The Christian IateIltgencer says that mick
elism is the next thing to Nihilism; it comes
within nickel of putting nothing into the con-
tri6ution box The disease is not confined to
l1-to-do pew holders, who thus keep up ap-
pearanceS at the smallest cost"
-"Has your husband shown any encourag-
Ing signs OF growth In the fear OF the Lord?'
asked clergyman OF New England woman.
the woman, II kinder think he has for have
lately noticed that he never goes out on the
Lords day without shotgun. THE Hour.
The Presbyterian Journal says Church
mortgages ought never to exist; but If for any
reason they have been allowed to spring into
being, they should without delay be exttn-
gulShed. They are disgrace to the house of
GOO, an incubus to the congregation, and
n 6iCOr, fnft do 81,
pastor.
The Je,rfsh Messenger makes the following
point against Ingersoll: ga recent dlctum of
MIR. lngersoll Is that God needs nothing from
GUS. 1t is true that God needs nothing from us.
but we need something from Him, and as long
as mat needs Is experienced by mankind He will
be worshiped."
The Journal OF Jurisprudence and Scottish
Ld,c Magazine has an account of curious case
or sunday law, where a servant refused to clean
gig On Sunday, and was discharged in conse-
quence. The sherff's court held his dismissal
justified, on the ground that in domestic service
1t must be very much with the master to deter
mine what is necessary Sunday labor.-Al5any
Lar Journal.
The Church Of the New Jerusalem. CON.
monty known as the Swedenborgian, has 116
congregations in America including five in
Canada In Pennsylvania there are II. Con-
siderable attention has been attracted to the
doctrines OF the Church by the lectures OF Rev.
and his present series of sermons on Genesis In
his church. at Broad and Brandywine streets.
The Rev. Robert Collyer preached ser
mon last Sunday morning in New York "for
good times" which he announced is at hand
lie cOmbated one prevalent notion that men
should leave large provision for the families as
personal duty. He hit one point we'll when
he said: 'Rich mems sons are not likely to be
Sometimes that Is all they are worth in every
sense, and If that is ost they are the poorest of
the poor.
"A writer in the Episcopal Recorder calls at.
tention to the marked division of topics In the
Lords prayer: In one part we pray to our
Father In heaven, hallOwed be Thy name, Thy
kingdom come. Thy Will be done; in the other
we ask for our own wants, and Us takes the
place OF THY Both in the ten commandments
given on Sinai and in our Lords recapitulation
or them, our duty to God DrepOnderateS over our
duty to our neighbor, and is placed first. In the
model prayer the same order Is preserved"
The Episcopal council of Wisconsin have
been holding heated meetings on the subject of
cathedral, with canontcal cathedral organ
ization, but committee have made report,
which the council will probably accept, to
as regular parish, but the congregation wor-
Shipping in it are to be liable for all diocese as
ssss 1e etc; IKE the different parishes In
and five laymen, who win compose the chapter
appointed by the bishop. Further legislation is
to be In the hands OF the bishop, who Will take
oVCpo " luI IucT IL DIS OCCdSlOn may require.
The ordinance of the city of Louisville
which makes misdemeanor any work done on
Sunday for which pay is taken, II strictly en-
forced, would close all the churches. Clergy
men receive salaries mainly as compensation
for the services they perform on Sunday. Tue
QuakerS are an exception to this rule. They do
not believe In taking pay for preaching. But
there are probably few II any Friends or Quakers
In Louisville. 1t is a paradOXical proposition to
close the churches In order to promote morality!
Indeed, it is only striki lg Illustration of legis.
lat1on run mad, of which the illustrations are
growing very numerOus.-N. Y. San.
Next month the Quadrennial conference o:
the Methodist Episcopal church will be held at
Cincinnati and $50 delegates, representing the
subordinate conferences in every part O. the
country, will assemble In that city to discuss
ana dtc1de important questions Of worship and
discipline. The old question Of determination
with the Methodist Church South will probably
DE revived, and the election OF several new
bishops will give additional interest to the pro-
ceedlngs. A number of important changes In
the discipline OF the church will be advocated.
One OF the most interesting Of these Will be the
proposition to extend the limit Of the pastoral
term. AT present Methodist minister cannot
remain at one place longer than three years.
The question OF having lay representation In
the annual conferences is also likely to give rise
to an animated and protracted discussion, and
a strenuous effort, 1t is said, will be made to
change the present system OF presiding elder
ships.