Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-10-02
RELIGIOUS NOTES.

r E l. IGIOUS NOT s.
Mr.. Moody will begin work In San Fran
cisco, CAL, in about three weeks
Mr.. Sturgeon has recently suffered another
attack Of his old malady, rheumatism In the
knee.
The Rev. Hugh o. Penteeost, of Hartford,
Conn, brother of Mr.. Pentecost, the revival
preacher, who has been working with Mr.
to Miss Ida Calling. Of Hartford, daughter Of
the inventor OF the Calling gun.
There are eighty parishes In the diocese OF
Virginia, paying salaries which average less
than s400 year.
Two clergymen of New Haven. Conn.,. when
In the Alps met Prof. Tyndalf and quote him as
expressing admiration for President Porter. of
fate College, and saying that President Porter
had laid the lash On him well, referring TO arti-
Gies nom -. PRESIDENT Porter's pen vigorously
handling the position OF The agnostics
The time was when 1t was almost heresy
for clergyman Of any denomination TO wear
any mar upon his face. and even now L. Is said
that no man wearing moustacne was ever
elected Methodist bishop
cause for alarm says the PRESBYTERIAN
Banner, as it contemplates with sadness the
IalllDg Oh In the number OF additions to the
chuTcheS by conversion. This discouraging
state OF things Is found IT says, not only Ia its
own denomination. but in nearly all the
churches in the United States.
divorce and the taxation Of churches were
among the topics discussed last week at the au-
nual meeting Of the New Hampshire general
association OF congregational churches Ia Ports
mouth. In view OF the alarming increase of
C1Vorce liz the state. action was taken for
movement TO modify the laws in the direction
Of greater stringency; as concerns church taxa
t1on The justice OF the principle appears to
have been admitted.
Mr.. 1lliDgWorth, an English member OF
Parliament has been telling the people OF
Liverpool that as national church controlled
~ Devil iavrn <ln oh,
longer reta aims the confidence OF the great body
OF EDglishmen. Nowhere in the New Tesla
n ent would his hearers find a usIihcation for
state church, and its history In England was
one long and painful record OF failure and folly.
On its state connection the established church
either produced persecution or what vas worse
formality and hypocrisy.
Joseph Mayr, who represents the Christ OF
the Oberamn ergau "PasSlonspiel," is more
than six feet high, has large, dark eyes, f1ne
complexion, and long, brown hair falling over
his shoulders in curls English ladies gen.
orally throng his cottage. where he lets the
spare rooms. He is married to rather plain
woman, good housewife, and the mother OF
his four children, who fears however that some
English duchess viii elOpe with her husband
Il Is popular error to suppose that Joseph
Mayr was called away from acting Christ to
join In the war Of 1870. He never left his vii
lage that summer. Influence In high quarters
obtained respite for the clever and ptOuS ar
tflicryman.
The Anglican bishop OF Manchester re-
Gently presided over meeting held at New Is
lngton. Manchester, England, In connection
WI, win me art exhibition, and In the course OF
his remarks said that he was happy that the
time was so chosen for opening on Sunday as
Lot 10 interfere with the hours of worship
some people would think such opening a desc.
Grafton OF Sunday; but he could not so regard
IT, People were not made saints necessarily by
singing songs about heaven. He would rather
believe they were made holy men and accept
able to God by trying to do their duty as hus.
bands and heads OF families in that station be
1t high or low, In which Almighty God had
placed them.
- In view Of the determination of Mr. H. E.
Abbey to produce the Passion Play at Booths
Theater during the coming winter, the opinion
OF manager as to the purely theatrical quality
OF this entertainment Will be read with inter-
est According to this authority, who has been
studying the Passion Play at Ober-Ammergau,
the entertainment Is now, whatever 1t may have
been In the past, merely grand ''shoW." Its
motive may not be like those OF the great
amples OF arD The Black Crook or White
Fa"n; out In style, manner OF working,
methods of producing effects the comparison
holds good. In scenic display, as far as posi-
BILE. in elegance brilliancy and historical truth
fulneSs or costume, in manipulation OF stage
tricks. and In the adoption OF all the new me-
Passion Play have a right to real rank, profess
sionally speaking."-N. Y. Times.
In his inaugural address at Auburn, the
Rev. DR.. Epson spoke With strong sense and ex-
CcLeuO upon Uno subject: "Rlo-
t0r1cal Training for the Pulpit: Its Limits and
Possibilities" The giSt OF the matter lies In
the following sentences: II venture to say that
the vast majority Of preachers engaged In the
practical work OF the ministry Will tell you that
experience has taught them the urgeat need OF
that kind of rhetorical training that will prac-
ticaly fl them for the proclamation OF the truth.
Il sounds like the cruelty OF despair to say that
al such training will do more harm than good.
Livery minister cannot become an orator. but
every minister can be trained to preach. In
the training process, he will learn The kind OF
preaching for which he Is best fitted Every
preacher addresses his own class Name the
Iaost eminent and useful preachers In the world,
and you Will recall audiences more or less
peculiar. to which their preaching is specially
adapted."
The phraseology Of the revised New Tesla
Hent will not differ materially from the one
and those whose meaning has greatly altered
will be changed. 1t may be there Is sort of
supersiit1ouS reverence In the minds OF some
for King James version. 1t may strike them as
strange that the Bible should be changed In any
particular Such should remember that the
version OF King James is only translation OF
the Bible, and that translation is the work of
uninspired men. The revised Testament is the
samoa translation OF Gods Word. On that
ground simply 1t Is Of equal authority with the
old version, ana In addition to this it has the
advantage OF all the light $50 years OF scholar
ship can throw upon Biblical criticism. It
should be received, then, not because 1t is new,
or because 1t Is to Suppant another but be.
cause 1t Is the work OF the best scholarship of
the age.-Centrdl Baptist.