Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-10-08
RELIGIOUS NOTES.

The Roman Catholic church claims TO have
100000 converts In China
a second Methodist Ecnmenical confer
eice Is To be held in the United States in 1887
- The So.oO Methodists In Iowa, 1t is stated,
are building churches at the rate of one every
fortnight.
DIR. Charles F. Deems having retired from
the conduct Of the Sunday Masuzine, DIR. Tall
mage will take charge OF it with the December
number.
The next general council Of the alliance of
Presbyterian churches throughout the world
will be held at Belfast, In June. 1854 The CON-
mittee Of arrangements is already at work.
- The Rev. Or. See who was some time ago
disciplined by the Presbytery OF Newark for An.
viting ladies to preach in his church. has now
embraced the doctrines OF the Swedenborgians.
and is editing newspaper.
A Mrs. Cooper. said to be a cousin of Col
onel Robert G. lngersoll, was lately expelled
from San Francisco Presbyterian church for
heresy, i'm that she denied the authenticity OF
the story of Jonah and the whale.
Francis Murphy, the temperance orator, is
in London with his son Edward. who is helping
him. He has been holding meetings as of old,
and denies the report that he is TO become a
Methodist minister. Mr.. Murphy is received
with great favor by British audiences.
The predestnation controversy has led the
following ministers to withdraw from the Mis-
sour Synod of the Lutheran church: Revs III,
Fischer and z. NJ. Johannes I'm Wisconsin. F.
Boehling in Michigan: +. III. Holternan i'm
Missouri; A. ii. wetzel i'm Minnesota, and j.
II. Dormann in Illinois
The California Methodist Episcopal confer.
ence has denounced the facility with which di-
vorces are grained i'm that state and has resolved
hnf re ntstA
for persons who have been divorced for other
than the Scriptural reason. and i'm any case will
marry none but the innocent parties to the
transactions.
The Wachusett Association of Baptists.
Massachusetts,, has passed resolutions protest.
ing against the Sunday business OF the railroads,
and asking the companies to give their men q
Sabbath rest and allow TO the people along their
lines that Sabbath quiet which they so much
desire, and to which by the laws of the copanon.
wealth they are entitled"
- DIR. Frazer, Bishop Of Manchester. I'm O "a
cent discourse, spoke as follows OF the rituals
tic controversy now raging In the church III
England 1T engendered strife and bitterness
and wasted energies which might be far better
employed i'm downright earnest preaching ard
teaching about righteousness. While they were
nghtlng and disputing about vestments and or
naments and chalices and incense the infidels
and atheists at their doors were trying to de-
strOy their peoples faith i'm everything that
spoke of God, Of judgment and the life beyond
the grave"
The Brahmin, says DR.. Scudder, has intel
lectually no superior. No man can mingie much
with them and not have his wits sharpened
They are the learned men of the country. The
Sanscrit, "queen Of languages" is their native
tongue, and its vast literature has been their
grand field of mental training. The Brahmin il
almost white, wonderfully neat. begins every
day in the water-tank. eats no animal food be-
heving that If he does he shall pass through a.
many transmigrations after death as there are
hairs on the animal Of which he eats. Physi-
cally these people are ofsplendid form, majestic
heads, and carry themselves grandly
The way they manage church debts in st.
John, New Brunswick, is somewhat different
from the way which prevails here Among rs
an insurance company or other corporation gem
orally holds the mortgage i'm one sum- Or
when II is cut into small amounts and held bv
individuals. ii is not i'm easily transferable
shape. But the issue of church bonds i'm ST.
John is such an ordinary thing that the follow
ing advertisement is seen i'm a paper of that
city: centenary church bonds 10y auction. On
SATURDAY, the 2sthin inst, at 12o'clock. at Chubb's
corner. 5 Centenary church bonds, $500 each 20
years to run. interest per cent. payable half
yearly at Bank of New Brunswick"
-" How do you explain all this" We at
tempt no explanation. In fact there is but one
mystery in the history of creation: that is. that
God should have allowed sin to exist i'm the uni
verse That is a mystery black fathomless, ILL
umined by no ray Oflight. And i'm that mystery
all other mysteries are included. That mystery
carries in its bosom all of sin. all of SORROW all
of VICE. all of tears all of suffering all Of DEATH
III ii were In our power to explain all Gods
dealings, then they would not be mysterious
then His way would not be In the sea: His foot
steps would no longer be unknown. The mye.
teries Of Gods government God will. i'm His own
time, explains We leave them to Him.-The
National Baptist.
A Connecticut correspondent of the Sunday
School Times, referring to some Of the earlier
choir troubles of little country church he is
says, in pleasant mood: Il sup
pose they are modern enough i'm that old church
now; that they have two sopranos, who are
very jealous OF each other and are not on
speaking terms through the week: an alto who
is pretty and somewhat worldly and who wears
red strings to her bonnet: tenor who wakes
his mOustache and sees the alto home-a long
time it takes them in those pleasant moonlight
evenings, and a bass who is quite upright and
reliable q sing bass). Queer places. church
choirs! Nice places, thought found my wife
there" Just SO with many choir i'm many
another church Human nature will worry its
way into the choirs in spite of all the bars set
mp by the church authorities to keep it out.
1t is seldom that Methodist minister ID
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it is sometimes the case. Two young ladies OF
Baptist parentage were recently converted at
Wise Point woods meeting and wanted to con-
Meet themselves with the Methodist church.
They expressed to Rev. Louis Il. Barrett FORM
erly OF Easton, pastor Of the Methodist Episco-
pal church at OnancOck, their desire to be ban
TIED by immersion. He readily complied with
their desire, and on Saturday afternoon last.
near the residence OF Captain John W. Marsh,
the rite was performed. I'm addition to the
young ladies youth named Isaiah ID. Northam.
at the same meeting was also i'm
nersed. Before immersing those parties the
reverend gentleman baptized nine children and
,ne grown person by sprinkling. the novelty
IF Methodist preacher practicing immersion
irew large concourse ofpeope. (lMd)
ledger.
- The Christian Inteuigencer thinks that the
prevailing habit Of having a good dinner on
Sunday is doing much to break down the popu-
ar feeling of the sacredness of the Lords Day.
{ says that little good management on the
part of the housekeeper would enable her to
prepare satisfying repast the principal part OF
which could be cooked on Saturday. Directions
ire withheld as to what portions Of the repast
night with propriety be cooked on Sunday The
Did practice among many who rigidly insisted on