The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1881-02-23

'ho opposite poles OF success among Scotch
universities In Edinburgh the number of
students increased from 1,76S in 1870 to 3172
In looo-that is to say, the matriculation has
neaEy doubled In ten years. In st. Andrews.
on the other hand, attendance fell from I73 in
1870 to 15S in 1880.
Father Tom Burke believes his
health has been improved by keeping piece of
cement from Knock chapel under his pillow.
DIR. Stephen II. Tying, Jr., said in
late sermon that the Protestant immigrants to
America do not come up to the American stand
ard and one answers him thus 81 make the
assertion without the least hesitation that the
average Irish Protestant farmer or mechanic is
much more religious than the average American
farmer or mechanic; he knows his Bible and
the principles of the Christian religion better:
he is more God fearing aud reverent more re-
spectful to parents, elders, clergymen, rulers,
and all worthy of respect"
The important fact is mentioned bv
Mr. George Dennis that he has discovered on
the earliest rock-hewn monument of ASIA Minor
the prehistoric statue of Cybele, or Niobe sculp-
tured on the cliffs of Mount Sipylus, near
Magnesia, and mentined by Homer, car
touche cut In the rock at the right of the head
with hieroglyphs that have not been copied
difficulty and not easily accessible. 1t is prob
able that they are not Egyptian, but Hittite
and are relics of that very early and most mys
ferrous race of the earliest civilised conauerors
OF Asia Minor, who came from Syria and who
are mentioned in Genesis and in the Egyptian
monuments monuments and whose chief capitals were
Carchemish and the northern Kadesh. The
accident to Prof. Sayce may prevent the i'm
mediate copying of the inscrip tion
The Rev. Mr.. Rainsford was exhort-
ing his brethren of the Episcopal Church in
Toronto few evenings since to greater zeal IN
their MISSIONS, and he did it in the following
pointed way" Look at the work the Presbv
terrain Church is doing. While the Church of
England was sending a paltry few hundred
dollars into the North west the Presbyteriaps
last year expended $33 900 on their North west
missions. Look at Battleford. The Presby.
terlans had sent a man there and paid him
9l,2OO year, and the result would be that
Battletord would be Presbyterian, and it ouqht
to be Presbyterian"
The following curious announcement
appeared in the Journal of the House of Lords
Tor Monday January 9th, last T" PRAYERS
Read by the Lord Chancellor, no bishop being
present" The English bishops must be a care
less set The trouble in our Senate is not to get
the PRESIDENT or the chaplain there at the hour
but to have the members present to be prayed
with and for.
COOP News FROM SAN FRANcIsco.-
Rev; b T. Sprecher said that the revival in
Oakland is the most extensive ever known in
that city. 1t reaches all classes. large nun.
Der OF men who had been. dissipated have been
reformed and converted. Indeed the work be-
gan among those who are called outsiders But
now 1T has entered the churches and the Sab
bath Schools. In the school connected with the
FIRST Presbyterian church sixty of the older
scholars think that they have been converted
ana asNmany more are earnest seekers of saliva.
tlon 1t seems as if the whole school would be
swept INTO the kingdom. Everybody is will
ling to talk with the Christian workers on the
subject of religion. Many who were scoffers
not long ago are inquirers Persons who have
not oeen able to attend any of the meetings
have been awakened and converted at their
homes.
Rev. L. K: Noble, pastor of the First Congre-
gationalist church, stated that what is said in
regard to Oakland is true also in San Francisco
lie had never before seen the city m wed as it
Is now Congregations and Sabbath Schools
are larger, and nearly everybody seems to be
more or less interested in the great salvation.
Rev. W. j. Smith, pastor Of the Tabernacle
Presbyterian church, said: 1.-THE influence of
these meetings is going out into the country. A
young man from an inland town attended the
convention in December. His earnest words
after his return, led to great religious awaken.
ing we have similar reports from,,other places
We are not laboring for San Francisco only, but
for the whole Pacific Coast"
Rev. M. II. Gibson, D. D., pastor of the
United Presbyterian church, reported twenty
eight new members added TO his church last |
Sabbath. Their ages ranged from twelve to
seventy-two years. He testified also to the in.
terest In his own congregation and in the city
at large.
Rev. John Hemphill told of the good work in
Calvary church
Rev. G. w. Hewes said that the meetings at
the Missions are thronged every night. MANY
backsliders are being reclaimed. The Sabbath
School children are coming to Christ
Rev. S. B. Morse, of East Oakland. said that
forty five rose for prayer in his congregation on
the last Sabbath, and that the interest in reli-
gon pervades all classes
Rev. DR.. Stratton Methodist President ofI
the University of the Pacific, near San JOSE said
that forty of the students had recently been con
verted.
minister stated that in the Union meetings
on the North Side there are thirty or forty in
quirers every night.-COr. Presbyterian Banner.
The Protestant Episcopal Bishop
Tuttle of Utah, Idaho, and Montana, in a re-
cent address to his clergy, talked in this style
Whatever be the perplexities of questions oil
mission. and jurisdiction, elsewhere thorough
church principles make us to be, 1 take it, here
In America, the pastors of the whole people each
In our own sphere and cure According to those
church principles you each in the community
where you are placed, the real pastor of all |
that community. As a gentleman YOU will be
guilty OF no intrusive interference with the
rights or tastes of the Methodist and Presbv |
terrain congregations round about YOU still less |