Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-10-01
MINOR TOPICS.

MINOR TOPlCS.
A RICH Italian, who lately died in France
has bequeatbed $4,000 to Eisleben, the
birthplace of Luther, as testimony OF
his personal veneration of the great re-
former.
1T has been proposed in Boston that the
open space about which are Trinity church,
the art museum and the new Old South
church should be appropriated for park
and named in memory of President Gar
field.
OF 106 ministers of the Northern Pres
byterian church who died last year two
were over ninety years old, nineteen were
between eighty and ninety, thirty five
were between seventy and eighty, and
fifty under seventy.
RECENT statistics Of the Swedish Luth-
Grams in the United States show that they
number 300 congregations, $50 pastors,
and 1000 members, 1900 Of whom are
communicates and they, with other
Scandinavians, have established four COL
leges, five theological seminarics and MI
merous academies and schools.
~ METHODIST lay college has been Open
ed in Boston, to prepare young people for
religious work. 1t is opened to both sexes
| and all ages over ten, On condition of con-
formity to it's lines. instruction is given
| by lectures on the Bible, the church, Chris
tian work. church music, English litera-
| turc, etc, and is free.
CHAPLAIN MCCABE, of the Methodist
Episcopal Church Extension society, has a
proposition for what he calls Frontier
fund, under which 10000 preachers shall
raise Or laymen give $40 {. year each for
ten years to aid in building churches in the
Far West, the money to he considered as
contributions to the Church Extension
fund.
ACCORDING to tho Buffalo papers resig-
nations of pastors in that city seem to have
become epidemic Tho most recent one to
resign is the Rev. G. NJ. Peters, who has
had charge Of the Cedar Street Baptist
church for seven years. He intends to
| leave the pastoral Office and devote his
time to business, "actuated as he says,
Gin this course by duties of filal and
family nature which he felt hi could not
disregard.
REV. IL. S. HOFFMAN, pastor Of the
Holy Trinity Moravian church of Philadel.
phia, has resolved to connect himself with
the Reformed Episcopal church. The
membership Of his church give their full
consent to this ecclesiastical change, and
will 60 with their pastor. DR.. Hoffman
is well-known in this city, having appeared
in the pulpit of the Moravian church here
on several occasion during the ministry OF
the lamented Bishop Biglcr, and his ser.
mons being marked in their vigor and
| eloquencc.
| THE ChaIthman says: "In the Revo
lutionary war the Church of England and
its adhcrcnts were loyal to the English
government until it was superseded by
that Of the United States. Out of the
same spirit Of loyalty to government, the
Church Of England to-day is marked in
its mourning over the death of the chief
magistrate of these United States.
Throughout England the parish church
bells were tolled, on catheirals United
States flags were hoisted at halflnast, and
drapings Of Woe were hung upon their doors
while within were held solemn services
because ofthe sad event. If the bond of
Church and State is loosenlng, the Church
is still the bond of States.
| THERE is 4 split in the Lutheran synodi-
cal conference, the largest body of that
denomination in this country. The Mis-
souri, synod, the largest member OF it, has
adopted a Calvinistic declaration ofdoctrine
OH predestination and attempted to impose
it on the other synods. The joint synod
of Ohio refused to accept this view, onil
considered at its late meeting in Wheeling,
| West Virginia, what course it should take
in the matter. 1t adopted Il declaration
| Of adherence to the doctrine of election as
it is contained in The Formula Of Concord
aud as it has been taught by the teachers
of the church, especially that "the ordina-
| ton OF the eject to eternal life took place
| in view Of faith, i. e., in view Of the merits
Of Christ appropriated by faith," as in
accord with tho scriptures and the confess
| siOns; directed that no other view should
be taught within its jurisdiction decided
| to withdraw from the synodical conference,
and announced that those members who
felt bound in conscience to oppose it's doc
trinal position could not remain wi Lh it
as brethren, This synod composes about
| one-sixth of the total strength in churches,
ministers and members of the synodical
conference.
A NEW law in France declares that pub
lic meetings shall he hereafter free. and
may be held without previous special au-
thorization, on condition that they are
previously announced in declarati III Of
tho place, and hour when they are to
be held, signed by two persons, one of
! whom is domiciled in the commune where
the meeting is to be held, which must be
made twenty-four hours previously and
filed with a proper officer. The meeting
must not be prolonged beyond II o'clock
at night, and must be under the control of