Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-01-08
RELIGIOUS NOTES.

RELIGIOUS NOTES.
The Bishop OF Peterborough recently de-
clared that agricultural depression was divine
punishment for national unfaithfulneSS.
The youthful evangelist, Harrison. has
been gathering a harvest OF about 16s con.
Verted sinners at Mertden, Conn. Great eX-
| element attends his efforts
Rev. B. F. Brown, rector of st. Andrews P.
| E. Church, Baltimore, has accepted q call to
| the church In Mansfield, T1oga county. diocese
| OF central Pennsylvania
The religious neurology of the year includes
the names OF Bishop Gilbert Haven, George
Ripley, DR.. Samuel Osgood DR.. Henry A. Board
man, Dr. William Adams, Lucretia Mott, Dr. Z.
Fl. Chaplin.
One of the Methodist journals remarks that
even If it be true that General Schofeld per-
mitted priests and women to NEEDLE with boy
cadets, General Howard fought TO mind his
own business churchWfSe."
There are three clergymen in the Protes-
tant Episcopal Church who have remained for
half century In the same parish: the Rev. DR..
Morton, OF st. James Church. Philadelphia; the
| Rev. DR.. William Shelton, Of Buffalo; and the
| Rev. DR.. Edison.
| - Rev. Robert Prout, the venerable rector OF
Durham parish. Charles county, Md, died at
his pastoral residence On Friday last at the ripe
| old age Of S. years or upward. Mr.. Prout was a
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| county about the year 1925.
| The Rev. William Hill, at present pastor Of
! the Church OF the TRANSPORTATION, in Hooper
| street, Brooklyn, has been chosen by the faculty
| OF Mount st. Marys College, Emmetsburg. Nd.
| to fill the Office OF president OF that 1nsti-
tuition, left vacant by the recent death of the
Rev. Father McClOSKey.
Rev. A. Webster, who has been pastor of
| st. Johns Independent Methodist Church, on
| Liberty street, Baltimore, for the past forty
| years, recently requested the congregation to
| reieve him from active relations, Which request
| was granted, and he was appointed pastor eme-
| r1tus. Rev. L. II. Lewis, who has been assist
| ant pastor for four years, has been unan,-
| mously elected In place of Mr. Webster.
The stir made by DR.. Tyng's sermon on
"So-Called Modern Miracles" has increased
| rather than abated. The discourse has been
published In pamphlet form and is widely cir
culated. DR.. Tying says he has been ml3a
misunderstood and misrepresented. Several OF
the religious papers have attacked him sharply
The Christian at Work has asked the opinion
or great many theologians as to the posi-
bllity OF present miracles, and publishes about
thirty replies, nearly all of which take the
ground that miracles ceased with the days OF
the apostles.
Moody and sankey want to go to New Or
leans, but are so busy In San Francisco that
they cannot get away. Additions are reported
to several OF the San Francisco churches. II
Is propa0le that the egangeliStS will continue
their Iaoors where they are for several weeks.
New Orleans seems hard place for such lab)rs
as they put forth, but cannot be harder than
San Francisco was thought to be. After re.
naming some weeks among the saints and sin
ners or New Orleans, Moody and Sankey VIII
cross the ocean and labor for while In Eng
LAND and Scotland. where q hearty welcome
awaits them from old friends
KEY. b. A. Mcguire, S. j., who closed
mission at st. Augustus, in this city, the middle
OF last month, did not, as was stated at the time
| a voiS ,J.r{c 10,
Boston. On the contrary, with the exception
OF historical sermon he delivered at one OF the
Cathollc churches OF that city, he has been
taking short respite from his mission labors
ON sunday next, however, he, with his band OF
assistant fathers. opens mission at Jersey
City, N. j., at the close Of which they proceed
fOrnia-
-Spurgeon said In a recent sermon which
was delivered while he was suffering great
bodily pain, .'When man gets to cutting down
SID. pairing down depray1ty and making little
OF future punishment, let him no longer preach
70 YOU Some modern divines whittle away
the gospel to the small end OF nothing. They
make our divine Lord to be a sort OF blessed no
poCy; they bring down salvation to mere sal
vabiity, make cel tainties into probabilities, and
trea: verities as mere opinions. When you see
preacher making the gospel small by degrees
ana mlserably less, tin there is not enough Of
You gone AS SIC for e me- Selisyeg IN
the colossal; need deep as hell and grace as
nlgh as heaven. l believe ia a pit that is bot
tOmlesS and la a Heaven that Is toplesS"
The Rev. Egbert F. Cleave of Cleveland,
Ohio, delivered lecture Sunday evening In st.
Peters Academy, Brooklyn, upon .ChrisJlanity
and !nf1delity." He said, incidentally, that he
was formerly a Protestant minister. but had
oten converted to Catholicism. He said the
Catholic church was the founder of religious
liberty and the stanch defender OF human
rights. In1delity had its root in the fan oil
man II was the same to-day as the idolltry
o. the past, but had for its idols lust and pas
sion. Atheism was a hypochondrlacal disorder,
an a1nlctlOn OF the brain, sort OF madness,
lIgersoli was nearer the truth than confirmed
ri,uaiists; his god was as good as the gods OF
Tamage and Beecher. Ingersolls case was
hopeful, but Beechers hopeless. Beecher held
UP a few Incorporate Irish as typical o. the
catholic church. But Beecher lived In glass
house.
Willing Of religious REVEALS In the Eran,e-
ttSt, Theodore Cuyler says: There has been
some discussions lately I'm these columns upon
the question whether REVEALS have done more
good or harm in the church Of God. This is
something like debating the question whether
dn ID &c had accomplished more benefit
or harm TO the country? The negative side
might point to the trees blown down. the people
VINO We're struck Dy lightning. and the bridges
ana miiidams swept away. But the affirmative
side might bring In an Overwhelming argument
from the abundant watering OF The thirsty
earth and the publication OF the sultry aImoS-
phere PROFESSIONALLY the most healthy state
tematic activity that it should not need an es-
pecial arousfng. But II church is cold or
cOmatose, II ought to be awakened and warmed
Into new life. The danger is that at such times
There should be resort to mere machinery. or
10 an importation Of some human instrument
instead OF fervent calling upon God with
penltentlal self-abasements and putting away
OF Sins. The church which makes flesh its
trust is doomed TO disappointment and disaster
Ny own experience has been that all the quick
en1DgS Which have come to the churches under
my care have been unprotected, and In fact.
unexpected. In no case has any preacher or
evangelist been sent for from abroad
- Mr.. Sankey made some pertinent sugges-
tons relating to church music at the recent
convention OF clergymen in San Francisco. He
believes that the singing in the churches should
be led by choir. That the choir should be at
the same end OF the church where the minis
ter Is, either behind him Or beside him. The
Choir and minister are not Independent per-
formers-the one to preach and the other to
sing. They unite In leading the worship OF the
congregation and ought to be in harmony With
each other. And in order to have harmony,
the singers ought to be Christians. How can
man praise God acceptahly when there
Is no love for God In his heart? a
great deal of the proverblal troubles with
church choirs grows out of the fact that
the singers arc not Christians. Mr.. Sankey
does not object to quartet choirs, but he would