Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-01-29
MINOR TOPICS.
Chiefly OF Religious Interest.

MINOR TOPICS.
Chiefly OF Religious Interest.
The gifts of Mrs. Valeria G.. Stone, of
Maiden, Mass, to educational, religious
and charitable institutions in full aggre-
gate 81, 793, 292.
THE Danvillc Lateuigencer notes with
satisfaction that the Democratic members
bers Of the Legislature realize there is
nothing to gain by interfering in the Re-
publican fight over the senatorship.
THE penitential season of Lent begins
late this year, Ash Wednesday occurring on
the I'd of March. This gives tho lovers Of
festivity an unusually long period for enjoy
ment.
A MILWAUKEE clergyman, asking a cor
rection in published report of one of his
sermons, remarks :"I do not mind SO
much being taken for hereto, but seri-
ously object to anything which will con-
denim me as lunatic."
IT has been said that II you were to put
Georgia "cracker" and a Vermont
Yankee on desert island and divide the
land equally between them, the " cracker
would have the Yankee at work on rented
land in less than a month.
THE Churchman says that the thirty
nine articles are in no sense a binding
creed !; that the only binding creed is the
Apostles Greed and that whatever in
the articles goes beyond them is a matter
".of opinion, and not of faith.''
AFTER a clergyman has taken a free
bottle of tonic, felt better, and written
out his certificate of the curative qualities
of the medicine, for publication, it makes
him unhappy to have doctor come along
and pronounce the stuff gin and bitters,
and bad at that.
The contention about organs in the
Irish Presbyterian church still RACES. A
congregation in Belfast recently ordered
an organ. The organ came, and the build
ers were ready to put it up, when further
proceedings were stopped by the threat Of
an injunction in chancery.
one Of tho most practical and sensible
bits of missionary work recently done is
by a quiet gentleman in New York, who
goes out every day with his pockets filled
with ear-muffs. He distributes these COM
forts to the drivers of street cars and om-
nibuses.
In June, 1864. Moravian enterprise
was commenced in the hall at Sixth street
and Girard avenue, Philadelphia, under
the pastoral care of Rev. H. S. Hoffman.
A Sunday school soon grew to congrega-
ton which was very rapidly swelled from
IS to 100 members. One church after
another grew out Of this beginning, until
now the Moravians in Philadelphia have six
churches, 800 members and 1000 Sunday
school scholars.
In England they have a sca-sl,ell mis-
sion. Its object is to supply the inmates
of little sick beds, in the densely packed
city and in the hospitals. with shells, one
of the brightest pleasures of child's life.
1t was established in May, 1879, and has
already received over a quarter Of mil
lion Of shells, from Spain, South Africa
and the West Indies, as we'll as from Eng
lish shores. One hundred and forty boxes
of shells were distributed to as many sick
children in October. Four hundred and
fifty boxes in all have boon sent out. The
boxes cost threepence each. The shells
are collected mostly by children.
SOMEONE writing to the Pittsburgh
Telegraph from Washington attempts to
prove that the representatives of the 50
called Republican machine in Pennsylvania
are far above the mediocrity that is the
distinguishing characteristic of the reform
shouters. To illustrate his point he in
stances such men as Governor Hoyt, Mr..
Quay, Judges Sterrelt and Green Of the
supreme bench, Snowden, Hartranft, and
Huidekopcr of the federal Offices in Phila
delphia, Judges McKennan, Butter and
Acheson, of the United States bench, and
a dozen others, who from every point of
view occupy much higher plane than the
best of the ''Grow crowd" who sneer at
the machine because it sets up mediocrity
as the standard of political preferment.
Hon. John H. Lands has the floor.