Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-10-22
RELIGIOUS NOTES.


gationai church November LIST. I'd and Sd. and
promises to be the best ever held here. Rev R.
X. Meredith of Roston. who has a class of 2 GOO
teachers and Bible students at fremont Temple
every saturday is to be here. Rev. Jesse Lyman
Huriout, In charge of all the normal work at
Chautauqua last summer and who is so well
known as the conductor here last year. will
take the same position this year. Rev. s. b.
B0ruitz, OF Wheeling. is also expected and will
lecture upon the subject of Christian Giving
In the Sunday School" Mrs. w. F. Crafts, of
Brooklyn, the "Sara ]. Timanes" of several in
teresting books, and prominent leader in pri-
mary class work at Chautauqua and other as
semblies. will have charge OF that department at
the institute, and give a thorough course of
lectures and normal lessons specially to the pri-
mary teachers during the entire three days seS-
sions. This is the first time that the primary
work has been made a separate department in
the institute and given the Importance it de-
mands. The course of lectures normal lessons,
conversations and other attractions will make
the sessions of the coming institute emf
nently practical and such that no Sunday school
superintendent teacher or even Bible student
can afford to lose the opportunity of attending.
Bishop Simpson will not leave England to
return home until November 8.
Holmes conventions" are becoming quite
common in the English Primitive Methodist
Church.
The centenary of the introduction of nita-
Iianism into Scotland was to be celebrated at
MOntrOse, Oct. Is.
- One of the foremost students i'm the Shiloh
Baptist Theological Seminary has been expelled
Tor writing an essay on the Efficacy of Baptism
IN an OilclOth Suit"
- The Hon. j. W. F. White said at the Ecu
menical Methodist Conference that there are
thousands of souls in glory who would not
have found their way there except for lay preach
ing
The English Church Times publishes as a
sign of the progress of rituastic principles that
a certain parish which it does not name has some
Is affairs of which at a recent festival had vest
ments and lights.
In Olden times preachers used to be burned
at the stake for heresy. Now they smilingly
accept the verdict of the jury start chur Oh of
their own and catch on to popular favor like q
double-grp grapp ling iron.
Rev. George L. Walker, DID,, in sermon
at Hartford on the Presidents death, says of his
assassin that 1T is not SO much that he is de-
ranged as that he never was arranged This is
the matter with great many people.
The high ritualistic church of ST. Adams,
New York, has been sold out and purchased by
low church congregation. Its ritualistic fur
niture is to be taken out at once and the edifice
cOnformed to the uses of the new congregation.
- The great hit of the recent Congress of
Free Thinkers, at Paris, was the speech of an
illustrious orator, who, having inserted his left
hand into the breast of his coat made a pas
sonate gesture with the right, and beloved:
Gentlemen, / am an Atheist-thank God!"
- Philadelp ha is said to contain more Pres
byterians than any other city in the United
States $40. Next come New York with
1875, Brooklyn with 11.159. Chicago with
6,24l. Newark with 4,765 Cincinnati with 1856.
San Francisco with 3,7SS, Pittsburg with 3,777,
Rochester with :, 6S5 Cleveland with g. 356 and
Baltimore with 3 258
"A Massachusetts, church has introduced an
open fireplace as means of ventilation. 1t has
been tried long enough to prove its entire accept
ability. While it promotes the circulation of
pure air, 1t adds to the hOmelike and COSY ap-
pearance of the church. Though more trouble
some to manage than a furnace in the cellar it
pays for the additional trouble.
The Congregationahst says that "the reli-
gious condition of the public mind is very graft
Tying" This conclusion being reached after a
survey of the circumstances attending the as
sauit on and final death of the President. There
Is nttle disposition TO scOf because the prayers
Tor the President were not directly answered
and with many others it hopes for glorious revi-
walls of religion soon.
The number of Sunday school libraries in
this land is very great. and it is safe to say that
In them can be easily found more utter trash.
more absolute rubbish. than i'm any other equal
number OF books anywhere collected with an
honest or innocent purpose. The shelves of
bookstores abound in these inane stories that
have neither literary nor moral character An
1ncrediole amount of this stuff is annually pub
fshed and paid for. The business seems to
flourish in the inverse ratio of its usefulness
Hartford COurant.
A want of reverence for God and sacred
fhinCs iS a StriEino of M
among the goddess and irreligious only, but in
many of the nominally Christian fraternities
there is great want of that reverence which
lies at the basis of all genuine love of God We
see IL IN the growing tendency to seculariZe
everything connected with religion, from the
pulpit TO the camp ground, where the spirit of
speculation too often drives out the spirit of
prayer. We see it in Sabbath dissertation in
deserted sanctuaries, In altarless Christian
homes, in hayward children and social vices ON
every hand.-Rekgious Herald.
While some of the Protestant papers are
cOngratulating the gain to Professionalism from
the coming of Father Henry Campello into the
Methodist ranks, the Catholic papers refer to
that ecclesiastic and his movements in highly
uncomplimentary terms. They denounce him
"a an apOstate, and intimate that his change
proceeded from desire TO live a more free and
easy life than could be allowed a Roman Catho-
lie priest Il UIsicers gives him parting bene-
W we QeplOre the
fall OF brother; but We cannot think that the
Church has to regret loss He was scabby
sheep, and his leaving the flock makes it
stronger and healthier"
The subject Of ''cheap preaching" agtates
some of the religious papers in the south, where
congregations are in many instances small and
means seanty. The Baptist Courier saws that
this sort OF preaching is in demand in South
Carolina Not that the churches would not pre-
fer better preaching. but that, governed by par
simony, falsely called economy, they are willing
to hear poor preaching rather than pay literally
for that which is good and Will cost them two
or three times more than they are inclined to
pay. Governed by this policy instances are
given OF churches in that state which, having
paid $50 year, now want men to serve them
Tor SlOO, and to secure such ''cheap preaching"
deacols and pulpit committees send letters to
ministers waiting for cal" inquirng what
viii you preach for-how little?'' and the lowest
bidder becomes the fayorite candidate.
- In pleading his own cause before the Rock
River Conference, which has found him guilty
Of heresy, DR.. Thomas gave an explanation of
his religious views on the disputed points. 81
hold" he said in substance ITO the inspjratjon