The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1881-06-22
GENERAL ITEMS.

~ GHid AUoOC, one OF the New
Testament Revisers says that "the greatest ser
vice which the scholars who have devoted them
selves to critical studies and the collection O
critical materials have rendered, has been the
establishment of the fact that, on the whole
the New Testament writings have come down
to us In text remarkably free from importan,
corruptions, even in the late and inferior manu-
scripts on which the so-called received text
was founded" and though the corrections
made by the revisers in the Greek text of the
New Testament followed by our translators
probably exceed two thousand, hardly one
tenth OF them, perhaps not one twentieth. will
be noticed by the ordinary reader"
:" But, my dear fellah," said the
newly. arrived Englishman to the Galveston
hack driver, who had called him Colonel
but my dear fellah l don't belong to the
army. yer knowl' That don't make any
differencel Here in Galveston we cali almost
every loafer and dead beat Colonel or Major
Have kerridge, General2"-G Galveston Ne,os.
Professor Robertson Smiths book
on the Old Testament and the Jewish Church
is published. 1t is lively and popular ac-
count OF the Old Testament from the point of
the view of the new criticism which ignores in.
SEPARATION, and minlmizes, if it does not deny IN
toto the supernatural. In German Professor
the Lectures composing the book would call
forth little comment, and indeed they are little
more than echoes of the German school. The
strange part Is to see them, however, aired as
the newest thing out in the Free Kirk.
leadlng Unitarian minister remarked of them
and In that caustic criticism we agree that thew
are like fly in amber.
The thing is neither rich nor rare
The wonder is how it got there"
Cor. Presbyterian.
-LIBER1A.-Wm. Nesbit, an intelli-
GENT ,ubO hos T
Is now notary public at Altoona, Pa, gives a
SAD account OF the present condition of the Re-
public He says: slavery, as abiect and far
more merclless than is to be found almost any.
where else, exists there universally" the slaves
being purchased from their parents for from SIS
10 Sl5 piece as they become old and large
enough to work. The Government. entirely in
the hands ofthe colored people, is marked with
lncapacity, corruption, Encouragement. and
disaster The Republic is financially bankrupt
An English writer, Kritt Johnson said to be
good authority on African matters, said, in
In place of having exercised civilizing in
nuence over the natives, the American negroes
seemed only to have relapsed into barbarism.
The schools are In deplorable condition, NOR.
allty at low ebb, and the people generally,
oppressed with heavy taxes are law and in
dolent The Liberia College, established bv
Christian philahthropists from Boston and else
where some years ago, is a failure, and the
ommlldlngs, erected at great expense. have been
allowed to go to ruin"
Mr.. D. L. Moody has given notice
that he will hold meetings for Bible study and
prayer during the month of August in North
held. Mass. Rev. Andrew Bonar of Scotland
the friend and companion of McCheyne brother
OF the devout Christian poet and fervent preach
er, Rev. Horatius Bonar, D. D., and possessing
similar spirit, is expected to be present and to
assist Mr. Moody as will Major Whittle and
others.
The Baptist Weekly says: " Whether
by arrangement or coincidence we may not saw,
but certainly the gathering of a number of diff
ierent bodies, and the presence of several nota
Dies at indianapolis during the Baptist ami
versaries, is not to be ascribed to anv affinity
Our reporter writes that there are assembled in
that city convention of doctors, another of nm
dertakers, another of Odd Fellows, and to cap
the climax, three lecturers-Beecher, Talmage
and Ingersoll."
lifts FOR MIssIoNs.-The Presby-
terrain Church of this country NAV. wltho out
Doastlng, count themselves among the foremost
givers to the cause of missions at home and
abroad. We give few of the statistics which
we have gathered out of the mass of reports
lately mode to the various ecclesiastical Assem-
blies:
FOREIGN MISSIONS.
Southern Presbyterian Church, 50 2l5 30
Reformed Presbyterian Church, 12'209 ~
Presbyterian Church, 500 $50 10
united Presbyterian, 65,407 81
$727,511 50
HOME MISSIONS.
Southern Presbyterian Church. $1,000 90
United Presbyterian, $4,000 90
exact figures not found.)
Presbyterian Church, 398, 7O3 90
500, 7O3 90