The National tribune., 1882-12-07
FOR SUNDAY AFTERNOON.
Little Something About What is Going On In ths
Religious World.

Religious World.
Professor Swing Of Chicago, characterizes ths
Salvation Army as bric-a-brac in religion"
An English clergyman is attempting to sub
stitute popular mineral water in place Of wine
at communion.
IONS Herald declares that no man should
attempt to preach if he has sincere doubts
about the reliableness of the Bible.'
Over 1000 candidates for the German min
istry have been sent to this country from the
missionary institutes of Germany and Switzer.
land during the past forty years.
In the opinion of the Christian Guardian the
sexton is responsible for about one-half of the
sleeping done in church, and the minister for
very nearly the other half.
Pastor Dalrymple, of the Methodist Church
at Somers Conn, is endangering his income by
opposition to social kissing. His salary is
raised in part by entertainments in which
kiss games are a feature; but he has taken q
firm stand against such diversion, thus cutting
off an important source of revenue.
Mr.. Joseph NJ. Bennett, of Philadelphia, who
donated the buildings and grounds known as
the Methodist Episcopal Orphanage to that
charity, viii at an early day mako another
liberal gift to the same object. 1t will consist
of the farm adjoining the grounds of the Or
phanage, consisting of twenty-five acres and
valued at $4,000. The disposition Of the farm
is to be placed in the hands Of Bishop Simpson.
1t has been decided to build q number of or
phanages on the farm, upon small scale, and
each one of these viii be presided over by
mother. The farm VIII be put under the care
of gardeners end the Children taught habits Of
industry in its cultivation.
The new steamboat for the Baptist mission
on the Congo River in Africa is now moored in
the River Thames at London. Her names is
Peace" and she weighs, including all her
machinery, only six tons. Being built in Sec
tioas, she can be taken to pieces like : toy
house, and packed for transportation. There
are in all about 500 pieces, so arranged that
none of them are too heavy to be carried by
one man. The steamboat is in few days TO be
taken to pieces and packed in boxes for ship
ment. On reaching the mouth Of the Congo
large force of men viii be ready to take the
pieces TO where they viii do the most good.
Eight hundred Africans will do the work. The
distance they viii have to carry the pieces is
about 300 miles, TO Stanley Pool. The mission
aries there will turn boat-builders, and put the
pieces together.
The New York Sun announces that the Naz-
arine, the leading part in the Passion Play to
be produced in that city ia a few weeks, will be
taken by the Rev. ". " Wannemacher, a Bap-
tist clergyman of Philadelphia. Mr.. Wanne-
macber IS known in Pennsylvania as a Good
Templar lecturer and before entering the min
istry had some experience IN private theatri-
Gals, but never appeared upon the boards Of
theatre When the Passion Play was produced
in San Francisco he saw it several times. and -
its influence upon him he attributes his convelr
sion Learning that it was to be done in New
York, he wrote to Mr Morse, who has the en-
terprise in charge, rendering his services in sny
capacity, and arrangements have been made,
not only to intrust the performance Of the prin-
cipal part to him, but for him TO deliver ser
mons. free to all, from the Passion stage on
Sunday evenings.
The reading desk Of the Rev. DR.. Talmage, Of
Brooklyn, was concealed on Thanksgiving Day
by sheaf of rye, bound with cotton plants full
of snow-white cotton. The platform was edged
with ears of gIistening corn, fastened by the
husks to the woodwork. There was palmetto
tree at either end There were baskets of ap-
pies, pears and grapes, and branches from
orange trees laden with oranges There were
bananas and banana tree. Scattered over the
decorations were bunches Of moss from South
ern forests Upon the face Of the organ upon
black back ground were gilt letters, reading
"Give thanks unto the Lord" This was
fringed with smilax, hung with small clusters
of white grapes. Mineral specimens glittered
on the platform, and just over the pastors
chair, suspended by an invisible wire, there was
an overlooking basket of grapes, with one bunch
that seemed ready to drop. There were cotton
branches sent by Senator Colquitt of Georgia,
scattered about the organ, and there were
stalks of sugar-cane, sheaves of rice, wheat, and
oats along the rear of the pulpit. The fan
shaped leaves of the palmetto were tackled
around the wall, and on the horseshoe curve Of
the gallery there were tiny sheaves at intervals,
with plumes of pampas grass curving out OF
them.