National Republican., 1881-02-12
RELIGIOUS REFRAINS,

RELIGIOUS REFRAlNS,
Clear Lake, Iowa, is becoming thu
Western Ocean Grove.
Fourteen new Protestant churches hay,
been built in Rome since 1870.
The Theological Seminary at Princeton
has one hundred and eleven students.
The Calvary Baptist Church, New
York, subscribed 24,OOO for city mission work.
When people go to church for entertain
ment it wouldn't matter if they didn't so at all
There are some church members who
denounee theatre goers but yet buy lottery tickets
Unless religion is good for the whole
seven days, it isn't worth cent for day in the
week.
The American Tract Society has pub
! lished Life of Chris" in the Hebrew Ian
guage.
DR.. Woolsey discusses the new revised
version of the Bible at length in last weeks Inde
pendent
The Rev. Elisha Phelps, formerly
member of the Baltimore and Virginia confer
enceS, is studying law at Laurel. Md.
| Revivals are progre ssing in many places
in Northern Illinois, and numbers of accessions to
church membership are being made.
Dartmouth College has, during it's ex-
istence, conferred the degree of B. 4. upon 4,275
person, ofwhom :, 40 ere now living.
Mark Firth, q prominent English Meth
odist, recently deceased, is said to have given
81, 100000 to the various Evangelical churches.
Rev. William Edwards, who has been
local Methodist preacher for fifty years, re-
Gently died in Mendoza Ill, in his eighty-ffth
year.
1t is fact that very many people re-
gard religion as they do the smallpox. They want
to have it as light possible and to be tn at
1t doesn't mark them.
The Southern Baptist Missionary So
cety has contracted for the erection of nine spa
cious buildings at point within the Choctaw lines,
sixty miles southwest of Muscogee.
Rev. DR.. Hunter, the missionary at New
Chwang, China, states that two pulpits have been
set up in the streets of that town where preach
ers expound the principles of the Christian re-
igion.
Rev. L. Gage and Rev. David Wright
are the Oldest ministers in Connecticut The
former belongs in North Woodstock, and is ninety
three, and the latter in Essex, and is ninety-two
years of age.
Rev. Joseph Cook is going to India to
preach to the Hindoos. In reference to this the
Ctristial Register says: This declaration of Mr.
Cooks intentions will be read with great satisfac-
ton by many
Mr.. Henry Morehouse, the lately de-
ceased English missionary, was converted in a
circus in his native city of Manchester during a
Gospel service. He kept two vehicles and men dis
tributing Bibles.
Apropos of the anti-Jewish agitation in
Germany, it may be said that Bismarck's sister
married q Jew, several nephews hold that faith
and he is otherwise closely linked with the perse-
cuted race. Perhaps THAT what's the matter"
At recent religious meeting in Read
ing. Pa, prayer was offered for editors and pub
fishers. The Rev. Mr.. Mills encouraged the peo-
pie in their petitions by remarking that he knew
of no class of persons who greatly needed pray
ing for.
The Rev. Heber Newton, an Episcopal
clergyman, has Oh: in favor of the opening of
museums and libraries on Sunday. He also thinks
the Christian church should embrace the Uniyer-
saliSts, believing that they may be good Christians
The Cnjt0ridis RerielV for January con-
tains its prospectus for 1881 Its position is that of
reverent discipleship to Jesus Christ positive af-
frmation of the being and parental character of
God, recognition of His perpetual working in ma
ture and history, and the elimination of historic
revelations in the Hebrew and Christian line
Some narrow-minded religious journals
have condemned the Gospel of the Nineteenth
Century," The idea of this volume which doesn't
seem to be such bad idea to the average mind
is to connect the moral example of Christ with
the teaching that Christ is God manifested in
humanity, and hence power who can enable all
men who accept his yoke to become like him.
A meeting has been held in New York
to make preliminary arrangements for the Ecu
menical Congress in London next September The
congress will consist of four hundred members,
divided equally between the clergy and the laity,
and also equally between the Methodists of the
Eastern and Western hcmiSpheres. The two lead
ing Methodist bodies of this country, North and
South, are entitled TO one hundred and eighteen
delegates The three colored Methodist bodies of
America will send twenty-ei delegates the
Protestant Wesleyan free and independent Meth
odisS, will send Jointly fourteen delegates and the
other small sects of American Methodists of which
there six eight more, will be represented by
the remaining forty delegates. Canadian Method
ism will claim twenty-five of the forty The
American and Canadian delegates will leave in
the City of Berlin on August 6.
An able article in the Contemporary Re
with these words: 1.-The Zoroastrian Bible is a
simple reflection of the natural workings of the
human mind in its earnest strivings after truth in
in its eager groupings after more light in its strange
childish vagaries foolish conceits
and unaccountable inconsistencies. Here and
there lofty conceptions Of the Deity, deep philo-
sophical thoughts, and pure morality are discov-
cradle in the Avesta like green spots in the desert:
but they are more than neutralizcd by the silly
puerilities and degrading superstitions which crop
up as pentfully in its pages thorns and thiStles
in wilderness of sand. Even the most tolerant
and impartial student of Zoroastrianism must
admit that the religious cravings of humanity can
no more be satisfied with such food than starving
man can be kept alive by few grains of good
wheat in a CARLOAD of husks" |
The religious interest which prevails in
France, and of which Mr.. Revilland has eloquently
testified in this country, has been prepared by
various eyangelstic agencies during the last half
century. In 1919 the Foreign Bible Society of |
England began systematic distribution of the |
Bible in France, and more than 100000 copies have
1een scattered here and there. The English |
Methodist Missionary Society has |
'een operating for sixty years in France. |
The Religious Tract Society of Lon
lon has done much to disseminate a pure |
literature there. The American Baptist Missionary |
Jnion began its work in France nearly fifty years
Igo, and the American and Foreign Christian |
Jnionh has revived its missions there. The Anleri-
an chapel in Paris is maintained, and the McAn |
mission has met with unusual success Mr.. Monod |
firms that in nine cases out of ten where Prot
slant church has been organized of late it has
lad its beginning in Roman Catholics seeking a |
Protestant teacher IN eynlain- tho Rihlp