Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-03-26

convenience, they have no right to tax
the community beyond a reasonable
profit on their enterprise, seeing that
their franchises practically put them be-
yond the chances of competition.
MINOR TOPICS.
THERE are more merchants than lawyers
in the House at Harrisburg.
THREE Chinese women have been i'm
mersed by the Baptists in California.
CARDINAL MANNING has written AL
earnest remonstrance against the military
service of missionary priests in France.
The Lutheran church in Poland, desir-
ing "a hymn-book above all things loyal
to the Confessions" used very freely the
hymn-book of the synod of Missouri.
LUTHER's famous hymn, "a Mighty
Fortress is our God," which has been
translated into great many languages,
now appears in Zulu version.
LITTLE Rhode Island supports all the
current parties, and the Greenbackers and
Temperance men went through tho motions
of a state convention yesterday.
THERE are $50 Teloogoo students in
the theological institution at Ramapotam,
in British India. Many of them are
married men and their wives have daily
! studies.
In one district in japan seventy eight
Buddhist temples are reported to have
been diverted to secular uses since 1873,
and over 700 in the whole empire since
1871.
THE Russian Baptists have seat mis-
sionary to Bulgaria. The sale of Bibles
has recently been very large in Bulgaria,
and there are signs, it is said, of deep
religious interest.
STURGEON says that there is a great
deal Of prayer which is done in objec-
tionably slovenly manner. He thinks that
praying is quite as important as preaching
and that the preparation for it ought to be
as carefully made.
BISHOP HARE has twenty India n
churches in his diocese. Most of them have
Indian pastors and every ono has native
Indian who plays on the church organ or
meleodeon. Tho services are conducted
with as much propriety as any church in
the country.
The lower house of the state Legisla.
ture will hold special session of Tuesday
evening next at 7:30 for the purpose OF
considering on second reading a resolution
proposing an amendment to the constitu
tion of the commonwealth, prohibiting the
manufacture and sale of spirituous liquor
in this state.
A BAPTIST theological seminary has
been established in Paris under the care o
Rev. E. c. Mitchell. He is greatly ell
couragcd. Having taught 200 young mer
it tho United States, he says that the
French students are fully equal to those in
America. Rev. Mr.. Lepoids. pastor of
the Baptist church in the Rue de Lille, in
Paris has recently baptized II converts.
CHURCH pews are the most difficult tc
quote of property. When their prices rule
high it is an indication of the great popu
larity of the clergyman in the pulpit.
When they are dull of sale the tale is told
the minister is dull preacher. The othe,
day a pew in the Rev. DR.. John Halls
church: in New York, sold at auction fol
100. The only way it happened to come
into the market was that it's owner had
died.
AMONG the many gods Of the Chinese is
the kitchen god. They put up a new one
every New Years Day, when they burn
the old one. They think that this god
takes care Of everything in the kitchen
and if the fire don't burn. or the bread
is baking too fast, or there is any trouble,
they scold and beat the god. When he is
burned, they think he goes to Heaven
and tells all that has happened in their
kitchen for a year SO sometimes they
daub molasscs on his mouth before
they burn him, and they think then he
can't tell.
The strange assertion is now made that
the celebrated hymn beginning II would
not live always; ask not to stay" was
written not by the Rev. DR.. Muhlenberg,
who was always supposed to be its author,
but by dissipated printer in Litchfield,
Conn. Ward, who is now dead, is said to
have boasted that he set this hymn in type
as he composed it, without first commit
ting it to manuscript. The general belief
is that DR.. Muhlenberg wrote it about tho
year 1924, and there is no reasonable
doubt of it. A drunken printer might
claim to have written the Ten Command
mcnts.
WHEN the editor of tho Lancaster In
Quirer says that "wild and exaggerated
statements written by the editor of the
INTELL1GENcER were "imposed upon
the New York Independent as truths
statements that even the INrELL1GENcER,
with all it's recklessness of truth, would
hesitate to make itself responsible for''-
it simply says what it knows is not trle,