, 1881-05-08
GENERAL NOTES.


There are ST churches In London and its sub
urb5.
. Tho Illinois Sunday School Association held
Its annual Convention in Jacksonville May j. J.,
and 5. The report Of the Statistical! Secretary
showed that there are in tho State 6,3l6 SUNDAY
schools aud 4s7,470 scholars.
meeting Of the vestry Of tSs S. foSiny
s:entcn,en c we're elected delegates to the Con-
yenLion: james a. Sleeper. John f. otffdirois
u. B. Baker dclcgntcs; Edward Simmons, W. +.
Hardy, and Daniel Gregory ulternates
Tho Interior says that ''honest doubt always
appropriate emblem Is stuffed owl, SET Up mo
posed by the skill Of the taxitlcrlnist If It ever
made Il conquest or nchievcd victory OF nn,. M
kind, tue historian Of the worlds progress nns
failed to observe or record it.
The Rev. L. IT. Smith. a Methodist, OF British
Columbia, rcfrainen for lnnuy years from
,,rcuching tho doctrine Of eternal punishment.
Being at last driven to Il statement or hls views
on that subject, he declared that he no longer
believed that God would ever torture any
human being. lie has loft tho Methodist Ch,irch.
OF course, and nearly MS cntlFe cOH6Ecsalou
have gone with him..
able Rector in the diocese Of Canterbury, VINO
his repeatedly complained Of the stnallness or
the ulTcrtorcs, took IN cHectual step TO rclneny
bis grievance oil recent Sunday Alter tno
Church -Wlrs1clls bail delivered tho bAEs nc
cu,pttcd the contents into II basin and exclaimed,
81 Nor enough! Go round nEatn 1t Is aodeo
The Catholic Repic,v remarks that 'Very lit
tie good seems to have come from the reading
Ut the Scriptures by tho people at large.
Even among Catholics it fosters Calvanistic
SPIRIT which III lrauY cases induces tudivi1unls
to set up their Judgment against the will Of tue
Church." This Is iii nyownl that the continued
popular reading Of tho Scriptures Will prove q
bility."
i correspondent OF tho New York Observer,
who has been travelling In Spain. says: One
sight i'll Mulrld is better thnn all her PALACES
and works Of art: Il Is the s:ht t. OF tno M I'9te }t
finest shoI}s.-u thing which htt not been allowed
i've years .:st, There, almost under the shadow
the nn,st bigoted. crnel and sanEuin:try mon
arch that ever lived-tle dcspot OF tho lnaui~
sidon and tho author OF an hundred 0utos~te-}c-
there, the word Of Gol. the ground aud bul"nrk
Of Protestant faith and freedom, is held out TO
all who may choose to buy.
Tho Rev Dr Nillinm Bishop, D. r., In paper
on the hansls Prohibition law, published in the
e b,v d aenoye 81
because wine WIS not ctxoepted Tor s!lcra-
mental purposes. Two reasons seem to
make it certain That there will be no legal inter-
ference In the use Of wine ut tho communion.
First. the whole intent of the law IS against tue
use OF wine as IL beverage. This fact Will very
much determine the construction and Mppllch.
ton OF the Inv. Hut, second even II literally
construed and prosecution instituted. it must hc
declared unconstitutional, us it would BE- In d.
rect conflict with the organic law Of the state,
and in fact, of the United StAtcs.'
The lnte Thomas D. Quincy, formerly Treas
urer Ut tho BOSTON Seatncns Friends Society,
gave i'll his will $:a a,0lU each to the American
Bible Society. the y. Fl. u. S, the 4. II. A., and
the American Tract Society, and to tho Amer
lean Board; 81, ,CUO each to the City Missionary
Society OF Boston, to tho Baldwin Place Home
for Little Wanderers. the Boston Young Mems
Christian Association, Anl to the Massachusetts
General Hospital: $500 each to tho Consump-
tltes' Home, Boston Dispensnry, Boston Child
Aid Society, anu boston North End Nissiou. lie
also provides charity fund Of $2fUO to relieve
the wants of such sick and destitute persons MS
tho trustees may designate or to pay the sA1tla
tt religious or charitable institutions Or objects,
us they muy deem most deserving.
"FCNE1i.N. SERMONS"
The Reformed EDiscDlhlliuH Of tho lst inst.
contnins the following Au1cntle honorable:
we are happy to learn. anu make haste to
inform our realcrs, that an article published
the seventh page Ut our last issue WIS b;tscd
upon fnlse information. The article III q,,cs-
ton crituisc5 the supposed reN1Arks OF Il gentle
1nnn who w,ts not named therein, and therefore
need not be named III this paragraph. We are
crctlibly informed that he dsAvowS I'LL sympN-
thy with the sentiments erroncollsly attributed
to him, and t,lke pleasure In correcting tho
[,ort~ contained In local papers. Wcwould not
Dc guilty of injustice to tho ast In the Kingdom
If God, much less to m honorcd minister OF
Christ
THE SUNDAY TRIBUNE of two weeks ago re-
printed the article alluded to, and since then
nus received two exhaustive dellfals thereto.
The Reformed E2)iecoDuliun huvines nude tho rc,l-
rnE TRIBUNE to print any replies to the article
n nurstinn.