Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-01-10
RELIGIOUS NOTES.

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Barring Brothers Co., of London, have
ordered q 81 900 bell for q church in Portland,
Me-, stas an expression OF friendly business re-
lations during many years with the citizens Of
= The Nitiondl Baptist makes a timely ap-
peal to the churches In this season of returning
prosperity to raise their pastors salary to what
1t was before the reduction made In hard times.
- AT the late Old South Fair in Boston no rat
fling was permitted at the table of the Church
OF the Disciples, out Of Difference to the wishes
OF its pastor, the Rev. James Freeman Clarke.
The Presbyterian calls the ministers who
have entered that denomination from others,
late in life, ministerial driftwood,' and en-
dOrses the saying OF Rev. DIR. Humphrey: "a
life Of hard study does not more than compen-
safe for the disadvantage of not having birth
right in the Presbyterian church."
The Episcopal Almanac" for 1880 gives the
following statistics in regard to that Church in
this county, BISHOPS 81 priests and
deaconS ordained, 104; priests ordained 81; bap-
tisms, 45,476; combinations, 1908; commlnl-
cants, 324, 995; Sunday school teachers, $4,000;
scholars, 2S2. $685. contributions, &c. ,979.6S.
"A religious newspaper reports that clergy
man near Pittsburgh has been AFFLICTED in the
death OF his father-1n-law;''
In Somervllle, Mass, the Broadway Congre-
gational Church is quarrelling over the alleged
neterodoXy OF its pastor. The church IS about
equally divided.
The Reformed Episcopal Church has gen.
orally set its face against the modern style OF
funny festivals for Christmas occasions, and has
confined its Sunday school jubilationS princi-
pally to the standard kind OF addresses and dis
tributions of presents. The Church OF the Cove
nant, in Philadelphia. has made an innovation
on the old style. Its Christmas celebration
treated the children to series of Mother Goose
representations, which were rendered in good
style. and which filled the children with whole
some hilarity.
Sidney Smith used to say that the common
practice Of the clergy In his day was to en-
deavor to draw sin out of men as Eve was
drawn from Adams side, by casting them into
deep sleep.
The Bishops Of the Episcopal church, Of
Scotland, dn synod have passed the following
resolution, which bears upon the case of the
Bishop of Edinburgh, who participated in the
communion service at Berne, with the old
Catholic Bishop and Father Hyacinthe few
months ago: ''fhat this synod declares, with
out reference to anything passed, that no
Bishop of this diocese Is authorized to recognize
any body OF Christians not recognized by canon
as In communion with ourselves, unless 1t be
after elaboration and assent of the Bishops in
synod"
DIR. Wtthrow, of Boston, is the latest inves-
tigator of "the Moody converts In that city,
him, that, with very few exceptions, the con-
verts have returned to their former ways. This
means that they have received spiritual injury,
for an excitement which Is followed by relapse
leaves scar which Is slow to heal.
-" Religion" the London World says, sis now
treated by its fashionable expostors from the
pulpit as thing more or less apart from the
daily life OF humanity. 1t Is studied from the
artistic point OF view, from the scientific, from
the mystical. But 1t is not presented to fash
ionable congregations as embodying code OF
ethical precepts which 1t is their business to
translate into the practice of daily life. The
common sense and the right feeling of mankind
have happily often been superior to the doc
trines OF their spiritual teachers, and the time
has gone by when the conduct or the aspirations
of humanity were controlled by the dogmatic
hOmileticS Of the pulpit"
Economy may be carried too far. Soma Of
the western churches are practicing it In the
extreme. In PreSbyterial meeting recently In
Missouri the remark was made that certain
tnat it was in arrears in its assessments for
PreSbyterial purposes. This brought It's min
lister to the floor in its defence. Brethren"
said he, this is one of the most economical
churches In the synod, not only in its relation
to the boards. but also towards its pastor" This
statement produced enthusiastic cheering.
Remarks are often made implying that the
ministers are overpaid or at least that such
men as Mr. che ana Dr. are extav
the New York Tribune, are worthy Of being
borne in mind: Beecher gets $50 900; Edwin
Booth $780, year; Dr.: Hall, Of 5th avenue,
sothern earns over $780, 900 as ..Lord Dun
dreary,' and John E. owens plays 80 weeks an
nually for go, 900. Talmage breaches for $4,000
and Joe Jefferson plays 40 weeks at Grip Van
Wrinkle" and earns S12O, 900. The scholarly and
gifted DR.. StOrrs has SO, 900 and Maggie Michel
earns $4,000 to $50 900. DR.. Cuyler works hard
and faithfully for s., 900 year, while Dion Bou-
cicault finished season as the 'Shaugraun,"
ETC., at s., 0O9 week. and his managers scolded
him in the public prints because he would not
play longer at the same price. DR.. Potter, OF
Grace church, has SIC, 900 and parsonage; the
eloquent DR.. Tiffany has $40, 600; the once Wig
prous, now venerable, DR.. Chaplin gets SIC, 900;
while pretty Miss Nelson makes over $50 900 a
year, and Fannie Davenport earns 81 900 every
week she plays
Rev. Edward Rice, In the Suad1y Shoe
World, puts forth his views of Bible study and
evangelical religion in Germany, in which, from
careful observation and conversations had
abroad, he comes to the conclusions: that not
In the chief cities but in a number OF German
towns the Sabbath is nearly, If not fully as
properly observed as in some large cities in
America; that religious thought Is drifting in
the direction Of rationallSm and away from
evaDgelicalism; that while DR.. Dorner IS a
staunch supporter Of evangelicalism, he is out
side the church, and can carry no considerable
body Of thinkers with him; that DR.. ChriStlieb
is doing good work. which, from the necessity
Of the case, is limited, and that the hope for the
future OF evangelical religion lies as much in the
Sunday schoolS-of which there are 1000 with
900 teachers and 100, 900 scholars-as anywhere
else.
THERE WAS SADNESS in every eye as the men,