The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1881-09-28
GENERAL ITEMS.

ZEN EHAL Items.
Delaware turns out 100000 basket.
OF peaches this year, against 100000 las
year.
Washington expects $2OOOOOO be-
guest for charity from the will of the late banker
Riggs.
There are 1913 pupils this session al
the Virginia Institution (Staunton) for the
education Of the Deaf and Dumb and the Blind.
Westminster Coliege-the Synodical
College-Fulton, No. opens this year with 81
students, larger number than usual.
"A German statistician has arrived
at the conclusion, after carefully examining all
the latest census returns that the world contains
400 ,923 900 inhabitants, or 16,77S, 900 more
than it did quarter of a century ago.
Moody is shrewd man at answer
ing questions What do you think of the
present system of training in our theological
seminaries ?" asked somebody at one of his meet
ings. 81 have no opinion about it." was the
sensible reply. never went through a theo-
logical seminary and 1 never talk about any
thing know nothing about
Bishop McNamara of the Irish
Catholic Church, was Sunday, the 1Sth) bap.
tlZed by the Rev. DR.. Fulton, of the Brook
Ign Rink, and was introduced to the Baptist
Pastors Conference by DR.. Fulton He briefly
addressed the gathering, and was followed by
Dr. Fulton, who told how Mr.. Mcnamara had
come to him and had been baptized
Hon. g. R. Vending makes sharp
point on infdelity as follows:
The most notorious outlaw known in the Grim
inal annals of the West, Frank Rande, stood a
few months ago at the bar of his cell in st.
I,ntotc tha
and with the air of a braggart said to preachers.
priests, and policemen, to throngs of men and
women, Il am Bob Ingersoll man"-and
eUeTy man and '0omGn IN the land believed him
London covers 700 square miles. and
has population OF 1000 900, of whom ,OOO, 900
are foreigners. 1t is stated as a curious fact
that it contains more Roman Catholics than
Rome more Jews than Palestine, more Irish
than Dublin, more Scotchmen than Edinburgh
more Welshmen than Cardiff There is birth
every five minutes and death every eight min
utes. There are $4,000 habitual criminals on
the police register, and 3S 900 drunkards are
annually brought before the magistrates
Sir A, E. Havelock, the new Gov
ernor-in. Chief of the British Settlement on the
West Coast of Africa, on meeting deputation
of Wesleyan missionaries recently, said The
brief sketch you have Just given of the history
of the work of the Wesleyan Mission in this
colony gives but faint idea of the energy and
the sef-devotion which your Church and its
agents have displayed in their noble efforts to
Christianize and civilize this West Coast of
Africa" Referring to his own observation of
the good results of Wesleyan mission work at
the Cape, in the West Indies, and in Fiji, he
said whole nation had been rescued from
heathenism and the most cruel barbarism
1t is curious and instructive COM
mentary on the oft-repeated statement in some
quarters that Calvinism is fast going into senilitv
and decrepitude, that more.copies of the West
minister Assembly's Shorter Catechsm are now
going forth from the press than ever before.
The Presbyterian Board of Publication have
issued about 100000 copies; and of no other
book In our catalogue are the new editions so
frequent. At late meeting of the Board an
edition OF 1000 was ordered, on application of
the Rev. Dr. Nassau, in the Bengal language of
West Africa.-Herald and Pre85yter
DIR. HENRY CowLEs-The death of
Rev. Henry Cowles, D. D., of Oberlin, Ohio, &C.
CURED on the 9TH, at GAINESVILLE, Wis in the
seventy eighth year of his age He was born
in Norfolk Conn., graduated at Yale College in
the class of 1926, and studied theology Under lT
DR.. Taylor and the Rev. Mr.. Emerson of Nor
folk. He was one of the early pioneers of mis-
slonary work on the Western Reserve in Ohio.
From 1923 to 1885 he labored in the ministry :;
first as an evangelist at Sandusky and afterwards
as pastor at Austinburg. From 1885 to lS43
ne was professor first of Greek and Latin and
then Of Hebrew at Oberlin. From 1S43 to 1868
he was the editor and the life of the Oberlin
Evangelist. During the last eighteen years his
marvellous industry has brought out sixteen
volumes OF Commentary covering the whole
Bible. Few ministers have been more widely
known at the West, or more highly respected.
he was man OF strong practical sense, ofexcel-
lent judgment, and his spirit was one of har-
mony and Cancellation. He was twice married,
and leaves son, Rev. ]. G. w. Cowles of Cleve.
land, and daughter, Mrs. Sarah G. Little the
honored head of the State Institution for the
Blind at GAINESVILLE, Wis
"A few weeks ago we published a
short extract from a Unitarian preacher pub
ilshed IN one OF the Unitarian journals in which
ne complained Of the heterogeneous and most
undesirable materials out of which Unitarian
churches must be formed, especially in new
settlements. As specimen of one of these
churches we give description of 1.-THE Unita-
Ran church at Greeley, Col. 1t contains such
elements the following Free Thinkers.
Unitarians, Universalists, all shades of sceptics
Jews, infidels, and atheists Two Jews are
officers in the church. A man, who has re-
peatedly in private and public addresses used
the most outrageous language in regard to
CHRIST, is teacher in the Sunday school, using
Arnold,s Light of Asia for text book instead Of
the Bible" No wonder that old fashioned
Onitarlans mplain-PreSbyterian
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