The Evening critic., 1881-10-01
For sunday Heading.

Three out OF six pulpits in Nantucket
were supplied by women on recent Sun
day.
Ernest Renan will visit the Holy Land
for materials for his history Of the Jews now
in progress.
No fewer than $4,000 Indians have been
received as church members of the Episco-
palians in British America.
-Bossuets sermons are still in demand.
A new edition of them is about to be issued
by Didot, the great Paris publisher.
According to the Fortnighay Reriep
there was total of 175,000,000 of Moham-
medans represented by tho pilgrims to
Mecca in 1880.
=" BY their fruits shall we know them"
The natives of Tapitenea, one of the Gilbert
Islands, once heather savages now Chris
tians, have gathered and buried all their
war weapons, prohibited the sale of intoxi-
eating liquor, and impose fines for Sabbath
dissertation.
Joseph Cook writes that the rational
istic professors in German theological col
legcs have far fewer students than the
evangelical professors have. He quotes the
following figure from tho University CAL
endar for 1SS0-81: Rationalistic, Heidcl-
berg, "a students /; evangelicals, Berlin 320
Halle, 30i, and hyper-evangclical, Leipzig
437.
The Catholic Rcrie,r says very sensibly,
what is true Of most local churches, that
people grumble to pay for attending !:
Bricks and mortar, stone and marble, gas.
light and pcws, organs, furniture, music,
all cost money, and constant supply of
money, like all other appliances that are in
constant use and subject to wear and tear"
Moody and Sankey's Gospel Hymns
have sold to the number of 9,337 900 copies,
averaging over LII 900 for each series, but
No. 1 has had by far the greatest sale.
very small royalty on each must have
brought the evangelists u very fair fortune
say three cents on each $2S0,000 say
half of that, and it must be more than over
$4,000 for each. Few clergymen retire,
after life work, on as much as that.
We cannot agree with tho Chicago
Liring church, that the lack of strong
recognized leaders of the Broad Church indi-
Gates that the thing has run out, and that
men must logically go either into the I'M
belief of Stopford Brooke or into the
Catholic" school. The Catholic or
Ritualistic school is strong and growing
stronger: but is still completely over
Swallowed by the average Guardianship,
which is both Evangelical and Broad, and,
| if leaders of the Broad Church are lacking
in the English Church, they certainly are
not in the Presbyterian churches of Scot
land.-Ne,c York Independent.
1t is now believed that the proposed
decoration Of st. PauPs Cathedral, in Lon
don, is in fair way to become an accom-
plished fact. Large sums of money have
been subscribed for the purpose, but the
many suggestions Of architects, and the
acriminOus correspondence to which they
have given rise, heretofore have delayed it.
Since Dean Stanloy's death comparisons
unfavorable to st. Pauls have been drawn
between the cathedral church of London
and the Abbey of Westminster. Remarks
are made how slight is tho interest of Wren's
masterpiece for associations or antiquity
Because Of this the need of decoration Is
thought to be particularly great.
Mr.. Sturgeon, speaking at the recent
annual conference of the students and
graduates of his Pastors College, said
There are few of our students in the
United States. The brethren there arc
rather afraid of our students, because they
think that am not sound on the com,
munion question. am afraid that oui
brethren will have to change their views
five are to come together on this point.
should have to BIO made over again before
could refuse to commune with my father
and mother who prayed for me from my
childhood. However, the United States is
n great country, and the people do not come
together as they do here, and no doubt the
practice does well for them" So Sturgeon
like Robert Hall and John Bunyan, believes
in open communion, and these three are
the greatest Baptists that ever lived.