Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-01-15
Answers to Correspondents and oOrrec,
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.

A hundred of the French Jesuits have
appeared in Constantinople.
Missionaries are said to be overwhelmed
with gifts of patent medicines for the
heather.
The Congregational Church in Salt Lake
City, Utah, recently received 55 persons to
membership, of whom 90 united on con-
fessions'o of faith.
Canon Basil WiIberforce, son of Bishop
Wilberforce, is delivering series of lect-
ures against the doctrine of everlasting
punishment. He opposes humiliation in
the fourth lecture.
The Free Presbytery of Glasgow. after
long discussion, has voted not to condemn
the action of the commission of the As.
sembly suspending Professor Robertson
Smith. The vote was 90 to 80.
President E. G. Robinson, of Brown Uni
versity, delivered the second of the course
of Monday lectures, in Boston, on the re-
lation of modern science and popular
religion.
1t is reported that the statistics of the
Reformed Church show a greater addition
to its membership during the past year
than in any preceding one, not excepting
the year OF its organization.
DIR. John Mcintosh, OF Ireland. has a
call to the Second Presbyterian Church in
Philadelphia at a salary of S., COO and still
another to a church in Scotland.
Two Catholic missionaries, the Rev
Messrs. Desrioes and Merlini, are in this
country to raise money for their missions
among the Hottentots, and in Dahemey,
described as the most difficult mission fields
in the world.
The Metropolitan OF Canada, the Bishop
OF Nova Scotia, the Bishop of Tasmania
and Bishop Jenner are said to have sided
with the Ritualists against the decision of
the PriVy Council under which MIR. Dale
languishes in prison.
Not all the civil officers in Russia are
unfriendly to the Jews. The new Governor
of Kowno, on assuming Office, sent for the
rabbi of the Jewish congregation, assured
him OF his goodwill and gave him a sum
Of money for charitable purposes.
The new American church in Paris will
be situated on the Avenue de Palma, and
will be built under the supervision of Mr.
George Z. Street, an English, architect.
The building viii be of the early decorated
Gothic order, and viii seat 1000 people.
1t is said that the Rev. j. P. Crawford,
missionary of the Southern Baptist Board
of Fung Chow, China, has recently discov-
cred there two genealogical tables which
he identifies with the generations Of
Adam and the 90 generations of the sons
of Noah.
One of the features of the English Church
Times, organ of the Ritualists, is its free
criticisms of the Bishops. As it remarks
in a recent issue, the only argument
against the episcopacy is the actual
Bishops" against a number of whom it
accordingly proceeds to speak with great
severity.
Sir Francis Lycett, who died recently,
was Wesleyan and was very liberal in
gifts to his denomination. He left a for
tune of 81, $50 600, OF which Sis, 600 goes
to aid In building Wesleyan churches,
and after the death OF his widow most of
the rest OF his property viii be appropri-
ated to the same object.
The Christian Observer, of Louisville,
complains that IN the revision of the IS Di.
rectery of Worship" by the Southern
Presbyterian Church fasting has been abol-
ished 1t is entirely excluded, as if not
part of the worship of God" The book
as revised also recognizes only ecclesiasti-
cally appointed thanksgiving days.