Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-10-29
RELIGIOUS NOTES.


decree assuring religious liberty in the army.
The American board expects soon to send
out ~ new missionaries It has . very small
deficit this year.
"A Maine minister has Just preached ser
mon which local paper compares to q 'jack-
screw. raising earth to heaven"
American Methodists were surprised to
md the lung power Of their British brethren at
the London conference 80 poor and their voices
30 thin.
-Pere Hyacinthe's discourse on President
Garfield was 30 great 4 success that he was COM
PEELED to repeat it on the Sunday following its
first delivery.
Rev. Dr. s. A. Goodwin, of Union springs,
Ala. has accepted the call to the pastorate of
the Baptist church at Danville, Va. and will
enter uponi his duties about the 18th November.
In the strip Of land forty miles wide and
ninety miles long recently burned over by fires
in Michigan, there is q lack of Bibles as well as
of food and clothing.
Prof. Swing, of Chicago, after an examina-
ton of the work of the "Boy Preacher" judges
that he is rightly named and hopes that he is
the last of the SERIES
Prof. w. P. Coddington, of Syracuse
University (Methodist) has declined a call to
the Second Presbyterian church, of Chicago,
on the ground of difference in theology.
The late Dean Stanley has left legacies of
"a 600 each to certain unmarried ladies on con-
dition that they shall not become members of
any religious order, either Protestant or Roman
Catholic.
The Rev. George R. Vosburgh, formerly of
Jersey City, where he was tried on charge of
poisoning his wife, is an influential pastor in
Illinois. He recently read paper at meeting
of ministers on the "POsitiveness Of the
Christian Faith"
The Free church in Creebridge, Highlands
Of Scotland, has been in a wrangle on the
posture to be assumed in PRAYER. Some are in
favor of sitting, against which many protested,
threatening that if the communion were handed
to them under such conditions they would fling
them into the elders faces.
The Congregationahst makes an insinuation
that certain eastern church has been specu-
lating in Wall street with its building fund. and
increased it from $4,000 to s125 600, and also
that the new church and big steeple to be built
with the fund will be known as ''St. Paul pre-
ferred." The latter is probably incorrect; the
former is possible.
- Mrs. Upham, the widow Of a professor in
BOwdOin College, has become spritualst She
may, however. become cured yet, as the spirits
have failed on application to restore $14 600 out
of which she was swindled by spiritualsts. and
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it back for her lawyers will stand better with her
than disembOdied spirits.
-Heber Donaldson, who was expelled from
the Presbyterian church at Emlenton, Pa, for
walking through plain quadrille, has appealed
to the Presbyterian synod, in session at Erie,
against the action Of the presbytery. Mr.. DON
aldsOn is a lawyer, and argued his case before
the synod. He said he considered dancing in
Its purity as sinless as smile or song"
One of the curiosities Of the sensational
advertising of subjects for preaching is seen in
the announcement Of a Brooklyn sermon. The
concluding part Of the advertisement reads:
+" Thus saith the Lord, Take Tompkins cars at
Grand street ferry" Another queer advertise
ment is intended to attract people to South
Brooklyn, and concludes by saying, ".Lost
sheep, Take Third avenue cars"
- The religious earnestness and remarkable
piety which it is often claimed existed in eye
olden time, when long sermons were the rule,
ard home-spun clothing preceded "biled Shirts"
mad quite commentary recently at church
reunion, when one of the speakers cited as
among his "reminiscences that on Christmas Eve
q most excellent Sunday school superintendent
treated the school to three gallons of whisky.
The said speaker could remember when his
grandfather left the church because the minis
ter lined out two lines of the hymn at once in
stead Of one" Some how, when one tries to
strike balance between old time and modern
virtues, the old don't seem to always have the
advantage.
Messrs. Moody and Sankey commenced
their second religious campaign in Great Britain
at Newcastle, October 9Th. They had invita-
tions from many parts of the country to COM
mence their revival services, but they accepted
in the end warm invitation from Newcastle,
WHICH town was one of the first places they
visited on their tour in 1878. At their first ser
vice the church was crowded in every part, and
an overflow meeting had to be held in neigh
boring Baptist chapel. At night an extraordi-
narlly large congregation assembled in the
largest chapel in the town, large numbers not
being able to gain admission. Mr.. Sankey's
singing and Mr.. MoOdys impressive address
were attentively listened to. and numbers re-
manned behind for the inquiry meeting and other
devOtiOns.
- DR.. Buckley, in the current number of The
Christian Advocate, discusses the case of DR..
Thomas and gives it as his opinion that DR..
Thomas has preached against the essential prin-
sermons and by the testimony of those who
have heard him preach. ''Not only has Dr.
Thomas done these things" says DR.. Buckley
but there has been no doubt of it for long
time. and his popularity has depended largely
on that fact, his congregations having been
attended by multitudes who derived pleasure
from hearing anti-Orthodox sentiments in a
Methodist pulpit. There has been but one mis-
take maze IN his case. He has been allowed to
use the pulpits of MethOdism to SOW the seeds
of rationalism far too long. At least four years
ago he had placed himself where he should
have been excluded or should have hOnorably
withdrawn. His bearing for some time has
been superciliOus and almost defiant, though
his personal amiability has somewhat obscured
his real attitude
One of the most difficult things pastor has
to do is to educate his people to proper stand
ard of systematic and practical Iberality The
Rev. DR.. GOodall, of ST. Louis, gives some val
liable hints in regard to it. These are all the
more worthy of consideration coming, as they
do, from his experience as pastor of the Pilgrim
Congregational church, where last years con-
tributiOns were more than four times greater
than in any previous year He says ''Ina pastorate
OF twenty years have found the most success
full way of raising money to be this: Pick out
five or six earnest influential Christian ladies in
the church, divide the parish into districts, put
one lady in district and let her 90, subscrp-
ton paper in hand, to every man. woman and
child in the parish, worldly men as well as
Christian and the stranger in the gate and get
from each something, heading each paper with
q good man and round sum. In New Britain,
Conn., by this Dlan the Sum for Home missions