National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-02-26
RELIGIOUS AREFRAlMS.

A revival is in progress at Grace
Church, Harrisburg, Pa.
-Ex-Lieutenant-Gov Davis, of
Mississippi is now Methodist minister.
1t is stated that there is remarkable
activity among all the churches Of Scotland.
japanese authorities allow native
but not foreign missionaries, to preach i'll the
prisons
The universities and colleges in
six States contain one hundred Young Mems
Christian Associations.
The revised New Testament is printed
in paragraphs, the chapters and verses not being
indicated, except in the margin.
The 4S7 churches and chapels of all
denominations in New York are valued at s4G. AGO.
600, and pay their ministers 1904, JOG year.
Rev. Thomas R. Slicer, formerly pas
tor of the Park Congregational Church, Brooklyn,
will probably follow Rev George C. Min into a
Unitarian pulpit.
Chief Joseph, who died at Okla, Canada,
on the 9Th inst, had been Methodist missionary
among his people for years, having translated the
New Testament into Iroquois.
Bangor Theological Seminary has
sent out six hundred graduates in sixty years, be-
sides 16O ministers who did not complete the full
course. Six are now college presidents, and thir-
teen college OF seminary professors.
The most eminent broad churchmen
on this side Of the water are Phillips Brooks of
Boston; Bishop Clarke, of Rhode Island. and Rev.
Dr.. Harwood, of New Haven. The late DIR. Wash
burn of Calvary Church, was as ardenuy broad in
his views.
Professor Blackie, in a Sunday evening
lecture to a Glasgow audience. explained what
amusements he thought proper for Sunday. Large
dinner parties he would eschew, but he would
allow such games as cricket, croquet lawn tennis,
billiards, cards, backgammon, and chess.
The congregation in the church at
GAINESVILLE, Iowa, under the pastoral care Of
George B. Shoemaker, have increased until the
house is filed morning and evening. The Sab
bath school numbers 140 members. Special meet
ings have been in progress for four weeks. About
twenty five have asked the prayers of the church,
most of whom have been converted.
The play of Bethlehem" was per-
formed one Sunday afternoon in January at the
schools Of St Michael, Finsbury, England, before
large audience. The performance, which lasted
three hours consisted of ten scenes from the na-
tivity and childhood of Christ, represented in
dumb show by troupe of actors, the words be-
ing recitcd by Rev. H. D. Mill, vicar of ST.
Michaers, and appropriate hymns and carols sung
by the chorus.
The English university presses have
postponed the publication Of the Revised New
Testament until the middle of May. The copy
right will be. to great extent, owned by the uni
versities of Oxford and Cambridge. The Record
recently printed a summary of the changes. which
is the foundation for most that has been printed
in newspapers on the subject. The solicitors of
the universities pronounce it an infringement of
copyright and have demanded an apology.
At a meeting in London for providing
special religious services in theatres halls. and
mission rooms, it was stated that during the past
season 1863 such services had been held, attended
by about $4,000 persons. Lord Shaftesbury, who
presided, said that " Brsdlaughisnl " was rapidly
increasing, not only among the lower, but some of
the higher classes and that the best way to combat
the development Of these principles was TO take
religion TO the masses. He was sorry 10 find that
the old prejudice against holding services in I'M
consecraed places-the miserable idolatry bricks
and mortar-was again cropping out.
-"The mitre, like the measles" it is
said seems 10 run in families" in the Episcopal
Church. An exchange notes, in this connection,
that there were two brothers 0nderdenk, bishops
respectively of New York and Pennsylvania. They
were succeeded Dy TWO DFOlHtIS IOttcIJ OHe Vi
whom presides over the ecclesiastical territory OF
New York There were, until recently. two Bishops
Wilmer, of Alabama and Louisiana, and two
Bishops Burgess, of Maine and Illinois. And now
the honor has fallen on two brothers Paddock TO
watch over the spiritual interests of Episcopaians
in Massachusetts, and Washington Territory.
Wherever the church of Rome con-
trolls education, says the ErGngeIi. the proportion
affbo jS tho largest The last
port of Ireland returns onefifth of the whole pop
ulation as illiternte In the province Of Con-
naught, of the 697,l66 Roman Catholics over FIVE
years of age, no less than S57,ss9 Tor 5l.5 per
centuml can neither read nor write, while out OF
81 $50 members of the Irish church only S4S9 Tor
II per centum) returned as iliterates, ana out
of 1850 Presbyterians only 100 Tor &C per eentlm)
Dr. Lyon Plavfair said in the London Times, that
9g34 per centum of the schools in Ireland were
under denominational aud clerical control, and
here is the result.