Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-07-02

: and theological head centre Of Presby
terianlsm in this country, was acting a.
one of the patronesses of the University
: ball.
d The worthlessness of Garfield's civil
, service views is seen in The removal OF
Mr.. Smith, collector Of the port of Ban
gor, Maine, and the appointment Of ex
Governor Davis in his place. Mr.. Smith
: administration of the Office has been emf,
nently satisfactory to the business men OF
Bangor, who were, without exception, op
posed to his removal. But Blaine's ''bub, .
Senator Eugene Hale, demanded it, in or
: der that he might complete the bargain he
made with Ex-Governor Davis during the
; senatorial contest in that state, by which
Davis, who was candidate, withdrew and
gave his influence to Hale.
The 1,O09 students of Harvard college
are religiously divided as follows Agnos-
tics, 81; Atheists, 12; Baptists, 43 Camp,
bellite, 1 Christians, 2; Chinese, 1; Dutch
lseformers, 2; Episcopalians, 2SS; Hebrews,
10; Lutherans, 2; Methodists, 16; Non
sectarians, 81; Congregationalists. 17G
Presbyterians, 80; Quakers, 2; Roman
Catholics, 81; Spiritualist, (; Swedenbor-
gians, 20; Unitarians. 2a5; Universalsts
1s; Unascertained, ,.
THESE dreadful scientists will be the
death of us all. Their figures outrun the
comprehension Of man or the track of
comets. In the case of the lunatic now
trying to starve himself in Chicago they
have found that the number of corpus
cles is increasing. Where four days ago
they numbered 9, 100, 600 to the cubic mil
ilmetrc, now they number $500, 600. The
experts have no theory to account for this
phenomenon. The corpuscles IN the
faster's blood had previously decreased
from over G,0OO,0 900, and 100000, is
the average number for healthy blood.
| IT has become almost q fashion in Eng
land for clcrgymen to read now and then
from their pulpits a sermon by some pop
ular preacher. In such cases, however. it
is considered point of honor to give the
autho's name. A Presbyterian clergy
man at Leith for eleven Sundays preached
the sermons of others without complying
with this requirement. BY way of pun
ishmcnt lie has been suspended for three
| months by the authorities. lie is not sus.
pended from his salary. and the conyreg a.
tion besides paying him, are obliged to
hire substitute; SO that they are prob.
ably sorry by this time that their pastor
was found out.
In response to inquiries from some of
the clergy Of his diocese rs to tho use of
the revised New Testament, Bishop Ste
vens, Of Philadelphia, states that as the
general convention Of the church in 1928
adopted the King James version of the Bible
as published by Eyre and Straher as the
standard edition and incorporated their
action into what is now Canon IS, Title 1,
of the Digest, no clergyman is at liberty
to use any other version in his public min
istrations. The church having taken care
full and deliberate action, and that action
having been the law Of the church for
over fifty years, no clergyman will lightly
violate the canon to which he has prom
ised obedience.
AT the recent Tunkcr conference in |
Ashland, O., the brethren, SO to speak,
sat down on the sisters hats. A me-
mortal was read asking that a rule DC
adopted by the church denouncing the
wearing of plain hats by the sisters,'' and
even making such wearing of hats a
forfeiture of church fellowship" After
some solid arguments to the effect that
"ifa sister be allowed to wear a plain
hat, before we know it there will be q
feather in it," aud that the more
feathers q sister had in her hat in this
world the fewer would she have in her
wings i'll the next" the troublesome Gucs-
tion was finally settled by a resolution,
adopted by small majority, that it is
wrong for sisters in the church to wear
hats that elders and other officials, who
allow members Of their churches to wear
hats, be considered transsressors and
their course condemned"
The terror that was once added to
death for a small but select class of pco-
pie in England, by their chances of being
included in tho lives Of the chancellors"
finds its counterpart in this country in the
manner in which some people have their
obituaries written. For example, the Phil
adelplia Reformed classis, at a session
held in Delaware, adopted minute re-
garding tho death Of the late Rev. DR..
Fisher, through which the following strii-
ing figures prancc:
"And We sit in deep shadows, with en-
blems of mourning draping our thoughts.
and Grape folds dragging over our hearts. ;
DR.. Fisher is dead. The interesting events
that crowd and bcautify this Christian
life will be elaborated by others. We offer
only our tribute as intimate co-workcrs.
to memory that will long continue !
fresh as the verdurc cnwrapping this =.
peninsula, and fragrant as it's wOodbine !,
and roses \ y CAS- the ppans of
peace began to fall on us, and took the
subdued tones of the muffled drum, tho
heart of the church went out and fol-
lowed him from his Ohio couch to his G
Pennsylvania grave. Our wound is great, !
But VIC bend before Him in whose pres l
ence the tall archanpel bows. and over e