The Evening critic., 1881-10-15
For Sunday Reading.

The Baptist ministers in Germany COM
plain that the government has, during the
last year. carried out rcactionary policy
against them. Mr.. Jahr, ut Frankfort. has
been fined for speaking ut n grave of de-
ceased member. His Sunday school has
been prohibited because it meets at private
houses, and teachers and persons who open
their houses to Sunday schools have been
threatened with fine If they disregard the
prohibition. The church is trying to secure
the protection of n regular house of worship
of its own.
The Baptists' Association of Wachusette,
Mass, has past resolutions protesting
against the Sunday business of tharailroads,
and asking the companies to give their men
q Sabbath rest and allow to the people
along their lines that Sabbath quiet which
they SO much desire, and to which by the
laws of the Commonwealth they are en-
titled"
The California Methodist Episcopal Con-
ference has denounced the facility with
which divorces are granted in that State,
and has resolved that its ministers will not
celebrate marriages for persons who have
been divorced for other than the Scriptural
reason, and in any case will marry none but
tho innocent parties to the transactions.
The Southern Baptist Church at Santa
Barbara, Brazil, recently enjoyed n revival
in which seventeen persons professed con-
version, and two were baptized. Five per-
sons, two of them women, came hundred
miles to attend the meeting. The constit-
uency of the church is composed of emil
grants from the United States.
The faculty of the Divinity School, Yale
College, believing that the revised version
of the New Testament is better than any
other English version, has ordered that
hereafter it be read instead of the version
of 1911, at morning prayers and other devo
tional services of the Yale Theological
School.
! In the late meeting of the Waldensian
Synod at Tore Pellicc, Italy, the Rev. DR.
Robertson, of Greyfriars Church, Edinburgh
announced that the sum of 500, 900 had been
raised by the Presbyterian churches for the
increase of the hitherto insufficient salaries
of the Waldensian Church.
An unknown gentleman recently offered
to give the English Baptist Missionary
Society $1,000 If some of its missionarie.
would go into the interior of Africa by way
of the Congo River. Two missionaries
from the Cameroons undertook the periloui
journey.
The Southern Presbyterian Mission o
Athens Greece, has just sent one of it
pupils to Salonica and another to Cyprus
both as teachers in the mission schools
Two other pupils will be ready to talk,
their diplomas and go out as teachers mex
year.
The native Christians connected with tn
Presbyterian mission at Ningpoo, China
have established an academy, the control
and support of which is wholly will
them. Contributions were, however, Offered
by native gentlemen not Christians.
At the last communion occasion at st
Peters Church, Lancaster, Ohio, Rev. q
w. Mechling, pastor, five persons who had
been members of the Catholic Church re
nOunced that connection, and were received
as members Of the Lutheran Church.
A Presbyterian evangelist who recently
visited three of the mountain counties il
East Tennessee reports that he held severa
services in place where there had beer
no preaching or religious service of any
kind for more than year.