The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-04-14
CHURCH NOTES.

CHURCH NOTES.
The Methodist church at MARSH
la, Italy, has been set upon by,amob
and its contents destroyed.
The General Assembly of the
Southern Presbyterian church will
hold its next session at Staunton,
Va, beginning May 18th.
Rev. VIM. Taylor, the missionary
Evangelist, is laboring in Michigan.
He sails early in April, from New
York, to open up new fields in South
America.
The largest Baptist church on
the continent of Europe is at Memel,
on the Baltic Sea, i'll the extreme
northeastern corner of Prussia. 1t
has a membership of ITO.
If tho evangelical system has
furnished good and suflicing outfit
for mans higher religious character
and life for some twenty centuries
almost, and actually has put into the
ranks of those who have rejected its
distinctive doctrines the most chris
tan people they have so far had,why
will it not answer for the next
twenty centuries as well as for the
last?-IRe COngregatiOndlist.
More of the fibre of practical
business management is needed in
the conduct of church affairs, and
more of common sense waiting as
handmade upon faith. SuperstitiOus
idleness is not Christian trust. Men
are to work as well as pray, and
wilful neglect of ordinary precau-
tions has no gospel to justify it, and
no divine promise that its losses shall
be made good.-Golden Rule.
The church of Scotland is great
ly agitated over the report of its
commission to investigate the adj
ministration of Its mission near
Lake Nyassa, Africa. This report
shows that the missionaries have
been exercising civil and criminal
jurisdiction, in the course of which
one man was executed for murder,
and several were most atrociously
logged. All the missionaries have
been recalled, and the matter has TO
come before Parliament.
"A memorial to the archbishop of
Canterbury, which has received over
1000 signatures, states that while the
signers are anxious to maintain rea-
sonable latitude of opinion and prac-
tice, "they feel themselves constran-
ed to enter a solemn and emphatic
protest against the federation, with
in the Church of England, of any
doctrines or practices which favor
the restoration of the Romish mass,
or any colorado imitation thereof
any reintroductiOn of the confess
sional-or any assumption of sacer-
dotal pretensions on the part of the
clergy in the ministration of the
word and sacraments.
The learned tell us that the nine
teenth requires advanced thought.
l wish that the nineteenth century
was over. l have heard it Dragged
about so much that am sick of the
nineteenth century. We are told
that it is too sensible a century to
need or accept the same gospel as
the first, second or third centuries.
Yet these were the centuries of mar
| tyrs, the centuries of heroes, the
centuries that conquered all the
gods of Greece and Rome, the CEN
turtles of holy glory. And all this
because they were the centuries of
the gospel; but now we are so en-
lightened that our ears ache for
something fresh, and under the in
fuence of another gospel, which is
not another. our beliefs are dwind-
ling down from Alps to ant hills,
| and we ourselves from giants to'pig-
\ mics. We will want a microscope
soon to see Christian faith in the
land, it is getting to be so small and
scarce.-Mr. Spu'yeOn. . .a
-"Cold dead Journalism" says Mr..
Moody to San Francisco reporter,
sis what is making infidelity. There
is too much Journalism in the CathoI
lie and the Protestant churches.
Healthy Christianity is not formal
ism. The adoption of the princi-
Piles of Christ is what we go in for.
AS to the investigation of scientists
and the ideas of so-called philoso-
pliers, we heed them not. Webelieve
in revelation. Job says, Who can
find out God by searching l was
a skeptic once, when l was young
yes, 1 was an ignorant skeptic.
could not give scientific reas-
ons for my doubtings. In my
Judgment all Intelligent skep-
tics are really ignorant skeptics
All the scientists and materialists
couldn't shake my belief The truth
the genuine truth, is what the world
wants, and 1t is we, not the scientists
who can present it. Yes, if a man
is q skeptic, let him be out and out
like Ingersoll. Well know where
he is then. l don't like hyprocites
The coming contests between those
who believe in a hereafter anG
those who don't. The quicker il
comes the better. We believe that
by the help of God, we will not &C
under in that struggle. Truth mus
conquer, and we have got it."