The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1882-11-29
British Burmah.

and the dwellings are usually raised on
piles as a protection from inundation.
Eighty-seven per cent of the population is
returned as nat or spirit worshippers. "
But, says the Times, ait is gratifying
to observe that the Karens, an interior
hill race, are being largely converted
from this faith, through the agency of
American Baptist missionaries, to the
Christian religion, and that there are no
fewer that 451 Christian Karen parishes,
most Of which support their own church.
their own Karen pastor and their own
parish school"
Death of DR.. Pusey.
DIR. Pusey's death on the 10th of Sep
tember, caused little or no sensation. He
had outlived his day. 1t is an interest
ing fact that he was descended in the
line of the Bouveries from young couple
of Flemings, who were members of the
Reformed congregation at Franktort-on-
the Maine, under the oversight of the il
lustrious John Lasco. They came over
here soon after the beginning of Eliza
beth's reign, that they might enjoy
greater freedom in the profession of their
faith. They throve in London; but their
descendant at Oxford departed sadly
from their faith. The Martineaus also
were Huguenots, but they have diverged
still more widely from the faith of their
forefathers, from which they stand at
painful remove. The steps by which
they reached their present position are
not, however, difficult to trace. I should
have said that the congregation in which
the Bouveries were brought up still ex-
lists in its successors at Frankfort-on-the-
Maine, and is well-known to my friend,
Pastor Dalton, of st. Petersburg, since it
has its home in his native town. hope,
when l bring out his Life of Lasco,
to make your readers familiar with the
history of the Reformed Church in Frank
fort. Your ministerial brethren, espe-
ciaIly, will be charmed with it.
Closing of Public Houses.
Mr.. Roberts bill for the closing of
public houses on Sunday in Wales, has
been in full operation since the end of
August last, and is working with the most
beneficial effects Our sister district Of
Cornwall was the first to be stirred up to
emulation An act for extending the
same law to that country was lost in the
second reading during the present ses-
sion, only by being talked out. Dur
ham and other counties are also follow
ing in the wake Of Scotland, Ireland, and
Wales, and are agitating for the applica-
tion of similar law in their locality.
To be really efectual this law ought to
be supplemented, as it has been at Con-
nah's Quay, and no doubt elsewhere, by
kindly invitation, before the day of
closing the public houses for the Sundays,
to all those who are known to neglect
the means of grace to come and find a
welcome in the house of God, which
should be the house and home of poor
sinners. Of course this assumes that the
congregation is really made the spiritual
home OF believing brotherhood. Such
a congregation seems to me to offer the
ideal Of fellowship on earth. Would that
it were only less rare
Lay Elders.
A little discussion has been held lately
in the columns OF the Times by some of
the clergy of the Church of England, in
which arguments have been advanced for
and against the creation of Lay Elders.
The advocates of their recognition right
~ urge JudJ du GluGI lS 10 D6 the NUS
band of one wife, and one that ruleth
well his own house; T. G., not a STRIPPING,
but man of mature years and gravity
of character. One feels but a platonic
interest in the discussion; since the Church
of England is by its very constitution a
clerical body, and has never been able to
recognise the Eldership (in the Presby-
terian sense) as forming equally part
of the ministry with its own Episcopally
ordained clergy.
| must appeal to your charity il my
letter should prove a little discursive.
The choice was between writing it in the
midst Of occupations not altogether acad-
emic, and not writing it at all so ven
tured on the former alternative.
Charing- Cross.
Before l close l should like to draw
your attention to singular discovery
made at Clearinghouse about the begin
ming Of last month. Among the fossil re-
mains found there were the bones Of the |
cave lion tusks and bones of the nam.
moth tusks and bones Of extinct ele- .
plants; remains of extinct Irish deer |
remains Of red deer remains OF a species .
allied to the fallow deer; remains Of
rhinoceros; remains Of extinct oxen /
from the pleistocene gravels Bones Of
the horse the sheep, and the short horn
from, rooor4 dor,ogite Mr. Povy1ar1 yVotf |