National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-03-05
RELIGIOUS RERRAINs.

The issue of the revised New Tesla
ment will be made in May.
Rev. Dewitt Ta1mage's salary has
been raised from $1,000 TO $1,000 per annum.
! Rev. Dir. Needham, ofCleyeland. illus
trates his sermons during delivery by three minute
| crayon drawings.
The Presbyterian church and college
at Victoria Australia, has been given 100000 BY
1 Mr.. Ormond, of that city.
The designation Of a bishop in the
Pidgin" English of the China coast is 50 number
/ one, top side, JOSS pidgin man."
Archbishop Lang, of Santa Fe. owns
gold mine which yields 81 900 from two buckets
| full Ofore. One nugget was worth 5000.
-SiXty-siX colleges and seminaries in
heather and Mohammedan lands are maintained
by the Congregatiohalists of the United States.
-Spurgeon's physicians recommend a
trip to Australia as a relief for his old enemv
rheumatism, but he is unwilling TO leave London.
There is to be held a great assembly
of the Shinto priests in Japan to discuss the Jesus
doctrine, and to decide how the tide Of mission
airy success can be stayed.
An Advent pastor recently took pos
session of his church building in default of pay
ment of salary and used il as dwelling for him
self and family, and was sustained by the courts
The Pope has been receiving large
numbers Of Foreigners and is said to be SO pleased
with the Russian Grand Dukes that he has chosen
valuable presents for them from the mosaic work.
at the Vatican.
Professor Moses Colt Tyler. of the
University OF Michigan, graduate Of Amherst
College and AndOver Seminary, and for some time
Congregational pastor is about to take orders in
the Episcopal Church.
Rev. DR.. StOrrs, of Brooklyn, is de
hvering course often lectures before the Lowell
Institute, in Boston, on The Divine Origin OF
Christianity" which viii, no doubt, be published
IN due time, end be eagerly expected by multi
tude.
DR.. James Freeman Clarke is engaged
upon novel having its action during the first
days Of Christianity. A chapter entitled the
Legend Of Thomas which has recently been
published is extremely interesting, and the book
will be eagerly looked for.
The following is a specimen of Gull
ture" that was met by DR.. Crosby White in Boston,
which is fragment of so-caIled prayer deIiv-
cred at him by Mr. Mallalieu: Bless that Rip Van
Wrinkle ofthe temperance cause, who was here on
recent occasion, and give him baptism Ofeom-
mon sense. to teach him that Christ was not glut
tenous man, nor Sabbath breaker, nor a wine
bibber, nor blasphemer, and to let the light Of
modern times shine inupon his dark and benighted
mind"
DR. c. H. Toy has been appointed pro-
fessOr of Hebrew in the Harvard Divinity School
in place of Professor Young, who has resigned
DR.. Toy was compelled TO resign from Southern
Baptist seminary on account of some uncOrnmOnIy
sensible comments ne had made upon the Scrip
lures. President Eliot well says that DR.. Toy
Baptist is chosen for the place without regard 10
his UNCONVENTIONAL connections, on the simple
ground that he was the most eminent scholar in
the Semitic languages TO be procured
Among the other benefactions of the
Baroness BuTdett-Coutts are the following:
Churches erected and endowed at Westminsterand
Carlisle; three colonial bishOprics, at Adelaide,
Cape Town and British Columbia, endowed at a
cost of $50 go; Sir Henry Turner's typographical
survey Of Jerusalem, multitude Of homes for the
fallen industrial schools for children and assOeia
tons, model dwellings for the poor funds for the
starving in Turkey, Russia, and Ireland. Proba-
bly, no living person has given so much for such
varied and numerous objects.
The United States district attorney
in Utah gives the following picture of facts in ref
erence to legal efforts TO secure the conviction Of
polygamists in that Territory:
Mothers and fathers will testify that they know
nothing about the marriage of their daughters who
are living with pOlygamfStS and rearing children;
plural wives viii swear that they are only mis-
tresses and in fact almost any statement will be
made TO cvade the law, and they will satisfy their
cOnScienceS by their all cOnSOlug belief that they
did it all for Christs sake.
The district attorney says that without further
and more stringent legislation the present Iawean
never be made effective for breaking up thepolyg-
amOus system i'll Utah.