Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-07-16
RELIGIOUS NOTES.

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Statistics from eleven states show that
While there are in them 40 vacant PRESBYTERIAN
churches there are only 351 ministers without
soagTegations.
-CongTegafzonalism seems to flourish in the
West as we'll rs in New England Thirty-two
churches have been organized i'm Michigan in
TIE last two years.
- The Bishop Of London gives a good reason
Q6true) why young preachers Of his denomina-
tseu should n discuss the revised version of
the New Testament. viz: because they can
hardly construe the original
The English Bishops. says the London
Record, at q recent meeting ere believed to
have come to the conclusion that the revised
New Testament cannot take the place of the
authorized version in public worship
The Second Advent Christians of the West.
IN convention recently held in Foreston. ILL.,.
agreed to q union with the Second Advent
Christians of the East in a representative body
to b. called the advent Christian Association
A Norwegian Synod GRheran) in Iowa
recently had the question before it whether it
was proper for one of its ministers to accept a
nomination to the legislature. After discus
sion the body said: mol No politics in
theirs"
- Rev. DIR. Alexander Mckenzie. of Cam
b idge. Mass, has declined a call made by the
First Presbyterian church of Chicago The idea
that anybody should decline an invitation to
Chicago will not be relished it is to be feared,
BY Chicagoans.
- Dr. L. W. Bacon says the constitution OF
the American Bible Society sis rotten in every
timber" While it is ordinarily governed by a
Ting. its vast property might be captured almost
any year by lot of Adventures who should
secretly organize for that purpose.
- Charles Darwin is reported to have lately
Gm3d 81 have ALWAYS ha civ of
Japan was the most wonderful thing in history;
but am now convinced that what the mission
ares have done in Terra del Fuego in ciyiliZing
the natives is equally wonderful"
The Episcopalians and Presbyterians taught
the cOlored race how to read, the Methodists
how to repent and the Baptists how to be bap-
TIED Thus with mind. heart and body cleansed
they must rise, and they are rising--C oiOred
Minister from Ohio at tie Toronto Sunday school
contention
= The New England Baptist Missionary con-
venti0n, (cOlOred), at its recent session, ex-
PEELED Brooklyn minister for ''falsehood, de
eeit. constructive forgery, and having plu-
rality of wives" and New Haven minister
''for slandering the convention and other i'm
proprieties.
According to correspondent ofthe M
tondl Baptist. there are more than 100, 600 col
Gel members OF Baptist churches in the United
Texas three ofthe Sunday school missionaries of
the Baptist duplication society report that 152
Sunday-schools were organized last year.
Right Rev. j. j. keane. bishop of Rich
mond. who has been suffering for some time
past with serious affection Of his ives has
accepted an invitation from tie Paugt Fathers
to spend the summer in their monastery at Lake
George. The Very Rev Au@ustMe Van de
Vyyer late pastor of st. Peters Church. Har-
RQr'S Ferry has hppO tulIy cS;n cd 70 oct
in his absence.
A church In Buffalo is said to have UNIQUE
matter on hand for settlement in the case of a
young woman who has had class in Sunday
school for three years and tended bar in her
hfhers saloon week days during the time She
eAys she supposed all along that it was as right
for her to sell the beer or whisky as it was for
her co-workers TO buy it of her.
The Irish Presby terian General Assembly
has by vote Of Isl to 109 forbidden the use of
Duslcal instruments in the worship of its
churches. Hitherto the prohibition has applied
only to the balf-doZen churches which intro
ouced the organ in their services Now il an
Plies 10 all the churches The agitation will not
6op, however, till the law is repealed.
There are eighteen Methodist churches in
Cincinnati. with a membership of nearly 4.OOO
The aggregate amount paid last year by these
churches for ministerial support including their
proportion Of the salaries OF two presiding
elders, whose districts about equally divide the
cry and exclusive Of house-rent. SIS, csc. 20.
The highest salary was S2JoO and the lowest
was 1913. the average being 81 ,s27 10.
- Bishop Talbot, of Indiana. said last month
u diocesan convention that 1.-The employment
OF musicians in church choirs who are irreIioious
persons has most Injurious tendency. and
Mould not be encouraged" He said also that
IN TOO many eases worldly spirit has crept
INTO the very worship OF the Church involving
priests and people alike in its guilt and its dan
gers Brilliant sermons-mOre brilliant than
Observation-Disclosures and expensive nnSic the
enc with no suggestions Of the danger of m
beheVlnS sOuls-nO warning OF the wrath 70
come"
- Though the Prpsbyterians have not gone ~
II as the C0n@regationalists in the matter Of
preparing creed one is coming and the Ameri-
can committee to consider the ACCESSIBILITY o
preparing consensus Of the Reformed faith a.
neid IN the various churches connected with the
fRh-Presbyterlan alliance have agreed to recon-
mend 1t to the next meeting, at Belfast. i'm 1883
The feeling in England also apparently fayors =
new consensus, and articles in the denomina-
oonai papers there are urging the need for such
seourse and the strength aud impetus it would
give 10 me fresby terian church of the world
We have heard Of race boat made so mar
TOW and so easy TO Overset. that the oarsmer
H<Au 10 part tneir nair IN the middle before they
took their seats in it. so as to keep IT in trim
Even so there are some churches some little
ehurciies. in which the pastor needs to walk
very circumspectly. 50 as not to put more weight
on one side than the other. IL is a very great
mistake TO suppose that it takes more grace and
SKILL To manage a large church than small one
rar otherwise The largest man is needed fol
tne smallest place--Rei.gsoas Herald
- The Rev. W. A Robinson. of Cleveland
Ohio, said last Sunday in a sermon: al believe
that the Scriptures teach that early marriage If
sesirable. Solomon says Rejoice with the wife
ofthy youth We find the same i'm pIication in
ISAIAH. where the fact IS used by way OF
mastratlCn: For as a young man marrietf
Q virgin. so shall thy sons marry thee
Again Malachi: Therefore take heed tn
your spirit. and let none deal treacherousl,
aessinst the wife of his youth This same i'm
pacatiun occurs again and again i'm the teaching
OF the book. Not that il in any wise authorizes
man To rush into marriage before he is quail
ned to support a wife, before due con
aderation is given TO the matter but if he hay,
agood trade or profession, or lawful business
which has the reasonable promise Of support IL
II. and have correct morals. is not that CAPT
tai? verify believe the land would be vastly
better If ALL youDQ pe0plp world he content 4,