Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-10-15
RELIGIOUS NOTES.

The newiy-organzed Emmanuel church. OF
Chicago OF which DR.. Lorimer Is to be pastor
has already membership Of over 800.
"A marble tablet is to be placed in the p. E.
church OF st. James, at Elberon, In memory Of
PRESIDENT Garfield. Hehad attended this church
On the sunday previous to his assassination
1t he reported from Rome that certain saints
WIN be canonized on December 8, and that the
Pope will take advantage of the occasion to
give full statement OF his relation to the
various powers of Europe.
Antioch circuit, in middle Tennessee, is
what they call " solid block of Methodism. {"
1t occupies about fifteen miles square, and has
about 200 members. There is no other religious
organization and not more than dozen MEM
oers OF other churches.
of the 116 ministers OF the Presbyterian
church, north. who died last year. two were
over ninety years old. nineteen were between
eighty and ninety. thirty-ive were between
seventy and eighty. aud fifty were under
seventy.
"A renovated and reconstructed Presbyte-
rian church announces through its friends in
religious journal that. with a new minister and
new pipe organ. a large attendance is secured
and the solemn truths of revelation are pre-
sented and received with unusual earnestness"
= The holding of special religious services in
France has been encOmpassed with difficulties
a new law declares that meetings shall be here
after free, and may be held without previous
authorization. provided they are previously an
nounced in declaration of the place, day and
hour when they are to be held. signed by two
persons. one of whom lives in the commune
where the meeting is to be held.
"A gentleman who carefully notes the habits
OF certain churchgOers, says that one of his fel-
iow-worshippers took out his watch nine times
during a short sermon, andkarose three times to
look at thermometer which hung near his pew.
while the minister was prOnouncing the bene-
dicfion this uneasy person shot out, and had
reached the outer door when the amen was ut
tered. Ministers find it very hard to preach to
such restless creatures.
The Salvation Army is having a rougher
campaign in England than it had in this country.
Recently In public street in WalwOrth, q sub
urD OF London, a woman in the procession,
having darted from the ranks to seize pipe
from the lips Of spectator with the exclama-
tlon. 'thats your devil, found herself knocked
70 the ground with what is described as a ter
rffc blow in the mouth. Other members Of the
army who went to her assistance were similarly
treated Such occurrences are not especially
adapted to intoxicating the Gospel of Peace.
But the prayers Of these millions have not
man in this case has not availed much, not any
been answered so far as they were prayers at all;
that is, so far az they were offered in Difference
to the divine will and in submission to the
divine wisdom. Any other view Of PRAYER is
irrational and unchristian. and no man ought to
believe OF defend it. So far as this false and
fanatical view is accepted, it must yield to the
logic of stubborn facts. and the sooner it is
abandoned the better for Christian and intidel-
President Noah Porter.
A ''Pan-Baptist" council is spoken Of in
view OF the great success of the Methodist and
Presbyterian councils. The project has not as
sumed definite shape as yet, but meets with
grave diffculty at the outset. It is asked who
shall be invited. AS Baptist churches are all
independent of each other, there is no formu-
lated standard Of accepted theology There are
many Universities of belief and practice among
those who believe i'm baptism by immersion. A
leading Baptist organ remarks that the Nor
mons immerse, but that they would hardly be
welcome in general Baptist council. The
Dunkers and many other peculiar people also
baptize by immersion. Yet they would not be
hailed as regular Baptists. Nor would those
who insist on what they call ''trine immersion"
IN which the candidate is three times plunged
INTO the water, once for each name of the
Trinity. As most of the regular Baptists in
this country are ''close communion, while open
eOmmunionism largely prevails in the British
churches, it is not likely that such harmony
could prevail in ''Pan-Baptist' council as that
which so eonspicuOusly characterized the great
love feast of the MethOdists.
One of the pointed things said at the Ecu
menical Methodist conference was DIR. Georges
utterance on church unity and church competi-
ton:-"We ought to keep out of each others
way and to remember that we are in no case
rival bodies 1t is needless sacrifice of men
and money, of self-respect and spiritual energy,
when two or three Methodist churches or chap
els are located by different Methodist Organiza-
tons IN the same immediate neighborhOOd,
dividing resources which would no more than
support one minister and church respectfully.
engendering and fostering divisions for insuff-
cent and Insignificant reasons, and giving occa-
Sion Tor the enemies OF Christ and Professionalism
TO speak reproachfully." Again: 81 can men
ton a city or village of less than ten thousand
inhabitants, In which there are Methodist
Episcopal church, Methodist Episcopal church
South. United Brethren Church. Methodist
Protestant Church. and an American WESLEYAN
Church. with the necessary outfit of pastors.
presiding elders, bishops and conference presi-
dents; and recently the Free MethOdists have
also attempted to secure fOothOld
Who will answer in the great and terrible day
OF the Lord for this waste and wickedness:n