Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-07-23
RELIGIOUS ITEMS.

The London City Mission employs Az
missionaries.
The church at Irwin, Col, is l0,50o feet
above tide. water-probably the highest
Presbyterian church in the world.
A Chinese Young Mems Christian Asso.
citation has been formed in New York and
Brooklyn, numbering forty members.
The new Roman Catholic theological
seminary to be built at Brighton, Mass,
will cost 100000, with accommodations
for 200 students.
q new Presbyterian church in the Pu-
Yallup reservation, Puget Sound, Washing
ton Territory, erected by Indians, was
recently dedicated.
Considerable excitement has been caused
in Calcutta by the issuing of an order pre-
hibiting preaching in the public squares
without permission from the city authors
ties.
The next move on the worlds chessboard
is modern Spiritualism and iHfdel ty,
which are TO take on the hopping mania
like frogs. This form Of intidelIty is now
fast covering the world.
At the annual Convention of the Dunk
ards in Ashland county, Ohio, 1t was
thought that the more feathers a sister had
in her hat in this world the fewer would
she have In her wings IN the next.
The Ursullne nuns, who recently left
Quebec for Chicoutimi. en- route TO Lake
St. John, greatly wondered at the steam
boat, they having been clustered for thirty
wears past and never before having seen a
steamer.
Bishop Littlejohn, OF Brooklyn, who,
during his stay in England, spent much OF
his time with eminent dignltaries OF the
Eaglish Church says that the separation
Of Church and State in England is further
of than it was ten years ago.
In accordance with the decision of the
Presby terrain assembly of Buffalo, all Syn
DDS are hereafter TO conform to StaIe lines.
According to the basis of representation
recommended, the New York Synod viii
consist of 206 members.
Mr.. Moody and DR.. Andrew Bonar, o.
Scotland, will give month OF Bible study
at Mortified, Mass, in August, TO those
who desire to combine stady and recrea
ton a few hours each day will be de
voted to reading and the rest Of the time tc
recreation.
By a recent beGeess the Reformed Epis
eopal Church became entitled 20 legacy
OF $3.50, coo for the maintenance Of a theo-
logical seminary IN the West, and plat o.
ground suitable for The purpose, provided
the funds should be raised for the erection
thereon of suitable buildings.
From about the fourth century down tc
the fifteenth, Christian progress was con
fined almost wholly to Europe. Previous
to 1900 the progress of previous centuries
was very slow. 1t took Christianity ten
centuries to gam nominal adherence Of
so, 000, Goo and then five more centuries to
gain another 50 600 COO But starting
with the year 1900 at 100 600 GOO, in three
centuries more another 100, 900, 900 were
added, as much as in the fifteen centuries
previous giving in 1900 not less than 200,.
600 600 Christians The last eighty years
gain exceeded that Of the previous eigh.
| teen centuries, reaching the high figures OF
l4lO OO0, 600 ia the Greek, Roman and
Protestant churches.
The late Dean Stanley, in speaking Of
the vestmeut controversy, asserted that the
dress of the clergy had no distinct inten
tion, symbolical, sacerdotal, sacrificiai OIL
mystical, but originated simply in the
fashions common to the whole community
of the Roman empire during the first three
centuries of the Christian era. They were
lot borrowed, in the first instance, " from
Aarons wardrobe or the Flemau's vestry,
and if they symbolic anything, they sym.
bolize ideas contrary to those ascribeo
them. g The significance of these dresses,
he declared, rests on no historical found.
alton, and there is the wide distinction be
tween their origin and the origin OF the
ecclesiastical vestments of other religions
the former We're intended, not to separate
the minister from the people, out to make
him in outward show and appearance
exactly the same,