The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1882-05-03
FOREIGN CHURCH NEWS.

Ireland at Derry ana Belfast, closed their terms
lately, and with very great satisfaction to the
friends of the Institutions. The number of
students for the ministry is increasing This is
the special fact out of which encouragement
comes. 1t is also mentioned as hopeful for the
future that by Royal Charter these Colleges are
hereafter empowered to confer the degree of
Bachelor of Divinity. A crop of B. DIS"
may be expected yearly. They need full sup
ply OF Presbyterian ministers In Ireland, for
there is a perpetual draft made upon their ranks
by the churches of Scotland and England
Until recently the use of organs was
forbidden in the Hungarian Reformed Church,
but the Synod has abrogated this lule. permit
ting instrumental music in the worship of God.
This church is intensely national. and is doing
its utmost to revive the old Magyar Christian
| life
Duff, the African missionary, was
about to begin a gospel service in $Boer farm
ers house, when he noticed that none of the
Kafir servants were present. To his request
that they might be brought in the Boer replied
roughly, What have Kafirs to do with the
gospel? Kafirs. sir are dogs" Duff made no
reply, but opened his Bible and read his text
Yes, Lord yet the dogs under the table eat of
the chldren's crumbs" Stop !" cried the farm
err; you've broken my head. Let the Kafirs
come in"
Said young wife in an Indian
zenana to a Christian German lady who had
made her acquainted with the Scriptures
Really, your Bible must have been written by
10omGn, it contains so many kind things about
us. Our Shastras say nothing but what is hard
of us"
=" No Mohammedan is ever convert
ed, it is said again and again by the enemies
of the Christian faith. Yet at Peshawur a
church of ninety members composed wholly of
Moslems, may be shown, with converted
Mohammedan as their pastor.
The missionaries in India are now
making arrangements to hold ten-years mis-
slonary conference in Calcutta during Christmas
week of the present year. They invite to it all
Protestant missionaries, not only from India
but throughout the world. The latest conference
OF this kind was in 1872 and was of great ad-
vantage IN bringing together many missionaries
who otherwise would never have met.
"A QUIET INT-Miss Campbell, an
English lady, called :" the Queen of Corsica"
has built church at Ajaccio, and rules her
chaplain with almost feudal tyranny. If the
sermon is too long a large watch is drawn out
of her pocket and held over her head until
conclusion is put to the irksome DISCOURSE to the
amusement of the congregation and the discom-
fort of the divine.-EngIish Paper.
The Pope's Golden Rose-which
since the year 1865 has been usually sent in
Lent to one of the Catholic Princesses Of Europe
is to be presented this year to the young
Crown Princess of Austria Princess Stephanie'
Last year 1T was given to the new Queen of
Spain.
DIR. Robert Flint, in recent lecture
IN Edinburgh, on the Church of Scotland said
that. II the Church should be disestablished, he
belevedlt would come about through the spread
of skepticsm. He thought it would be wise if
the Free Church Were to seek re establishment
1t would, he was sure, meet with no opposition
from the Kirk. The Scotsman criticises the
speech. 1t says:
" There will be considerable difference of
opinion as to the wisdom of the course which
DIR. Flint has chosen to take. 1t will be ad
mltted, equally by the friends and by the foes
OF the Church, that she has acted wisely for her
self In excluding the Disestablishment question
from her Church courts. The benefit derived
from this retlcence will be imperiled if free.
lances rush into the field and undertake task
that Is declined by the regular battalions"
An appeal of the Anglo Continental
Society for funds for certain objects states that
Count CamPello has applied to the Archbishop
OF Canterbury to be placed under the iurisdic
ton OF an Anglican bishop. "In order that he
may freely exercise his ministry in behalf of his
fellow Italians, until it may please God fully to
organize National Italian Catholic Church
lie wants, 1t Is also stated to begin work at
once In the direction of a reform, on the model
| OF the Primitive Church, through the daily
press lectures in Rome and elsewhere though
out Italy, and public worship in the language
understood by the people. The Society asks for
money for this purpose.
The Hon. Edward F. Moves while
filling the position of United States Minister to
france, was requested to visit the East, and re-
port upon matters connected with the Ottoman
Empire. In this report he remarks The
salutary influence of American missionaries and
teachers In the Turkish Empire, cannot be
oyerrated. By actual observation, I know that
wherever conspicuously intelligent and enter
prislng native young man or woman is found
In the East-one Imbued with the spirit of
modern clvllization-it is always found that he
or she was educated at an Am 9rican school or
college IN Constantinople, Alexandra. Cairo
Assloot, or Beirut. And with these educational
influences comes a demand for the refnements
and comforts Of civilized life. The Arab youth
who has graduated at the college in Beirut is
no longer content to live in a mud pen to
clothe himsefin filthy rags, or not at all and to
eat raw sugar cane. He aspires to live as his
/ teachers do"
The GREEK CHURCH IN THE EAST.
The Greek Church bears an evil reputation in
the East, among Christians and Mosiems alike
The ignorance venality, and vice of its clergy
are scarcely yelled by a cynical hypocrisy. tits
among Greek Christians that Russia seeks to es-
tabllsh influence, and aims at gathering In one
iold round one Holy City the various subdivis.
ions OF the Greek Church in the East. Among
sne Lahns, who look to France and England