Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-04-30
MINOR TOPICS.


MINOR TOPICS.
The Sse, ,92O Congregationalists in the
United States gave, last year, for their re-
ligious work, %, 69e, 922.24, or an average
of nearly $40 per member.
The Jews Of Hungary form less than
per cent. Of the population but they fur
nish 1S per cent. of the university stu
dents, and two thirds Of Jewish stu
dents study Jurisprudence.
In Trinity church, Pawtucket, r. l., at
the recent Easter Monday elsstion, three
women were made members of the vestry.
Likely the case is without precedent in
the history of the church in this country.
In locating the Mr.. Wigwam sutom attic
gate and bull story in Drumore towns hip
the Examiner shows fertility Of imagin ma
ton only equaled by the author Of the
romance which is probably not over ten
years old.
In a certain Western conference Of the
African Methodist Episcopal church pre- :
siding elder was suspended from the min =
istry one day, expelled the next, restored
to the ministry on the third day, and made
presiding elder again on the fourth day.
THE entire debt of $4,000 assumed by
Chaplain McCabe to save the church at
Salt Lake City has been paid, principa
and interest. Tho total amount is s43,-
027.2S. 1t might have been paid long ago.
but not dollar has been diverted from
the regular work to pay this debt. Tho
league of a thousand ladies with their
punch cards have paid the most of it.
GEORGE WAsHBURN, president of Robert
| college, Constantinople, conveys to the
world, which does not seem to have
thought Of it, the welcome fact that Bea-
consfeld, was $50 far as his
| private character was concerned, a
good man, Christian man. He
had not the intense moral ear
nestness of Mr.. Gladstone; but he was a
sincere member of the church of England
and a firm believer in the truths of rclis-
/ ion."
IT is estimated that the careless omission
of the word "and" in the appropriation
providing for new pension building and
site will cost the government $24, 900 in
| additional rent, thus rendered necessary
It will be remembered that the appropria-
ton as enacted provides for the purchase
of laud simply, while the iatent was to in
clude both land and building. As a con-
sequence the work will be delayed for a
year.
Our neighbor, the daily New Era, has
entered upon its fifth volume, giving evil
dences of unabated prosperity and justify
ing its effort to fill the apparent vacancy
in Republican local journalism which its
editor felt was created when the Express
was merged in the Examiner. Our young
and vigorous contemporary also an.
nounces that henceforth it is divorced
from wicked political partners who have
so often put it into an equivocal posi-
ton.
The Lancaster weakly Inquirer is again
Informed that the INTELLIGENCER re-
published nothing from the Examine,
about itself which had not been sent t.
the Examiner Office distinctly marked
"local and with no other instructions
But as the Inquirer in its present issue
informs its readers that the junior editor
of the INrELL,eENcERi is !. "Peter Funk
"a renegade" ga scoundrel," has the
political "jim JAMS" aud an cutter lack
of common seuse," and is "blather.
skitc," that of course "settles it,
THE spring course of lectures at Crozier
theological seminary this are year to be
delivered not only by Presbyterian, but
by layman, Principal John w. Dawson,
LII D.. F. r. S. of Magill college, Mon
treal. Mr.. Dawson is graduate of the
University of Edinburgh and is scholar
Of very high repute, espet tally in the field
of geology, in which he has been a most
diligent worker and has become most
distinguished authority. Agnosticism in
its relation to Natural Science Mosistic
Biology Evoluti on The Origin and An.
tiquity' of Man Mind in Nature, and
Nature and Revelation arc the subjects
that take up the large field mapped out
by this distinguished lecturer.
1
CHAT doctrine is true which makes a
man true, and that church is right that
most develops true manhood" says Mr..
Beecher. "The value of doctrine is to
bs measured by its power to develop Christ
in human nature. Whether orthodoxy or
lnfidelity, one church or another, that is
best by which Christ is born in the souls
of men. For most things I think men
have better chance in our church than in
the Church of Rome but if man can
find Christ best developed in the Roman
Catholic church 1 bid him God d-speed and
SAY, go inn And this not because it is
best, but because it may better form
Christlikeness in him. The object of he
church is not to display graces, but to
serve as a school to train men,"
| Fatal Debauehes.
Christopher Mallady, aged Is, of Al
tOOna, left home early on Wednesday