Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-05-21

he certainly did not see that it called
upon him to respect any public interest
that was in apparent conflict to the pri-
vate interests in his keeping.
MINOR TOPICS.
The Philadelphia Eocning Bulletin wants
q copy of the new scriptures presented to
Ingersoll.
THE First Horavian church social union
If Philadelphia vill have an excursion to
Iiititz In June. .!ir Be- -. ..
In England tho Bsptists last year, in
proportion to their membership, made ar
Increase Of moro than double the percent
ace of any other denomination. .
WHEN the goutheran Baptist conven-
tion was held at Columbus, Miss., tl,e
Jewish synagogue was given up on Sum-
day to Christian clergyman to preach in.
The first part of . valuable review Of
tho revision of the New Testament will be
found on the first page to-day; and on
our fourth is full account of = brilliant
celebration of the Diagnothian literary
society last night.
THE strict professional etiquette Of the
East does not entirely prevail among the
physicians Of Arkansas. and DIR. ]. W.
Price took occasion to read in the conven
tioa of tho State Medical society, a pape,
taking strong ground against "the prac
tice of doctors clbowing and buttonholinl
people to secure patronage"
THE second Adventists, who used tt
hold that the end of the world was SO i'm
minent that general church organization
was unnecessary and improper, have
changed thcir minds of Late years. Tn,
Second Advent Christian association
which is their principal body, has JUS
held a convention at Worcester, Mass.
and on this occasion fuller statement o.
principles was adopted. The peculia
points are that the finally impenitent vii
be destroyed, that the coming of Christ il
near at hand and that the earth will bl
mado over for the future abode of tn,
saints. In 1S45 simple declaration o
their belief in the second coming of Chris
was formulated.
In the Southern Presbyterian Genera
Assembly, at Staunton, Virginia, yesterday
Dr. Edger, OfSouth Carolina, moved tina
the assembly authorize the committee o,
foreign correspondence, of which he i
chairman, to send telegram of fraterna
salutation to the Northern Presbyterian
assembly in session at Buffalo. After /;
sharp debate, Mr.. Mullaly; of Lexington
Virginia, bitterly opposing the motion,
was adopted by a vote of 10S to 13 Tn
51st general assembly of the Cumborlan'
Presbyterian church met in Austin
Texas, on Thursday. Ono hundred an,
seventy delegates were present. Rev. J
w. Darby, Of Evansville, Maryland, wa
elected moderator.
Or tho Presbyterian theological semi
naries-Princeton has buildings valued a
s274, 600, and funds amounting to nearl
500, 600. Tho Union seminary of Ne,
York holds real estate worth $50, 600
and funds worth $7OO, 600. Tho seminar
at Auburn, N. Y, possesses $500, ,OOO-
5000, 600 in real estate, $500, 900 in funds
OF these two kinds of property tho semi
nary at Chicago has, respectively, $500,
600, aud $50, 900. The Western tl,eolog
ical seminary at Allegheny City, Pa, la
funds slightly exceeding $3.50, 900. TIN
Lane seminary possesses property aggre
eating 100000. These six institution
hold One-fourth the entire amount of prop
crty owned by tho 1913 seminarics in th'
United States.
In one Of the Southern prcsbyterics
composed of colorcd members, there wa
lively canvass for the choice of an eide
to 60 to Buffalo to the General Assembly
Several candidates were urged Oh the
ground that they were lawyers and abl'
speakers. A brother objected to them
They were not, he said, representative
men. His favorite was a rough unculti
vated specimen, such as the Southern
fields produced in plenty. Ho would
make true and honest, if not an eloqucn
delegate. Other speakers added thei
views, and finally brother brought dow
the house by urging the eminent qualifica
tions Of an elder who had served a tern
in the penitentiary! He was now a truly
reformed man, and thus entitled to tn,
pre-eminence, as illustrating in his Owl
person and history what the gospel could
do for the colored man!
New YORK Herald Apparently the
new version will drift into common ust
without eventful observation that it il
different from the old one. If it were
otherwise it would be a mischievous con
trivance. 1t make no change whatever in
any essential point of Christian doctrine
and though great flourish has been made
over the need that modern study of the
ancient languages had made for it, its
changes in fact are rather those of taste in
the use of English and the correction OF
English "to date.' Much of the revision
deals with English phrases which had
anciently sense that interpreted Scrip
tural passage, but have now some other
sense. These are changed for phrases
which give the true sense as originally in.