The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1882-03-08
GENERAL ITEMS.

NJ Oh tuesday.
By vote of the faculty of Chicago
Theological Seminary the Revised New Testa
ment will hereafter he used in the religious ex.
ercises OF that institution.
In August next the Moravian Breth-
rem will celebrate the third Jubilee of their mis-
sion among the heather, 1882 being the wear in
which Leopold and Dober set sail for st. Thorn
as and the West Indies.
Rev. joseph Cook reached Bombay
early in January, and was to spend about a
fortnight there, giving similar period to Cal
cutta, and two weeks to intermediate places
ms lectures In bombay were free to all corners,
and We're specially designed to meet the case of
educated natives
Mormon missionaries sent ont from
salt Lake In the last FIVE years aggregate about
500, or l60 year. Last year the number sent
out was lS9 besides 70 who went to Arizona
Tor colonization purposes. OF the 500 sent out
In the past five years, 2S4 labored in this coun-
try, PIG IN Great Britain, ia in Scandinavia
II In the Sandwich Islands, and Is in New
Zealand. The missionaries remain abroad. on
the average, about two years.
1t is estimated that the Mormons
gain about 1000 year by immigration. From
1910 to 1854, or in 10 years, 81 ,9ll crossed the
sea and the mountains. Between 1910 aud
1860 %, 74O had entered the Land of Promise
Within the next decade some $4,000 more took
ship from Europe to Salt Lake, and not far from
the same number between 1870 and 1882, or, in
all, from the first ship load in 1910, say about
$4,000.
y The Rev. ]. D. Munroe is essaying
to enhghten the people of Greenock Scotland,
regarding Church matters in the United States
In recent lecture he affirmed that Voluntary
ism had been failure, and that it was believed
IN this country that the Government would vet
have to establish Church
The Baptists have again broken
with the American Bible Society. They with
drew first In 1855 because of a rule of the So
clety discriminating against certain versions by
Baptist missionaries Four years ago this law
was dropped, ard leading Baptsts proposed to
Patronlze the society again. But the society
having refused to aid in the circulation of Jud
| sons Burmese version, the Baptists have re
solved to hold aloof. The lociety condemns the
version OF DR.. Judson, because, in translatiang
the Greek word for baptize, Burmese word
meaning immersion is used
The overflow of the Mississippi has
inundated extensive tracts of country in Arkan
sas and lower down the river. Plantations have
been deluged, cattle and cotton have been swept
away and thousands of people are left home
less and destitute. A few items, recently tele
graphed from few points along the line of
these waters, will give some idea of the condi.
ton OF this distressed region At Riverton
Miss, small town, eight or ten persons were
drowned number of houses were washed from
their foundations, some of them being entirely
destroyed. Only the upper stories of those
standing were visible. At another neighbor
ing village, Rcndale, the water stood ten feet
deep In the streets. From these villages the
women and children were removed to Terrene
Miss. 1t is estimated that in Arkansas 10000
people have been rendered destitute by the
Hood. Ratlons sent by the general government.
1t Is said, are judiciously distributed at Little
Rock; and ere this have no doubt reached the
many destitute at Helena, the greater portion
OF which is submerged. The breaking of the
levees at many points gives rise 20 the gloomiest
approximations from the usual spring freshets of
the Mississippi.
-CAPEL ON THE PoPE.-The Herald
has letter from Paris giving an interview
with the Roman Catholic Priest Capel, who has
become very notorious in the literary and ar
tistlc world. This man gives it as his opinion
that the Pope must have more liberty than he
has at Rome, and the European powers must
give him security that he shall at all times en-
Joy freedom OF intercourse with his church peo-
pie Ii this cannot be secured to him at Rome
he must remove his seat of government to some
other place. Malta would be suitable and the
English people would be glad to have him there.
Or he could go the United States, where the
Pope claims to have seven millions of people. |
All these are speculations of NJ Capel and
amount to nothing
The time has gone by for the European pow
ers to bother themselves about the government
OF a bishop the Pope is nothing more, and if
he cannot be contented in Rome " the world is |
all about him where to choose" No govern
ment on earth would put itself out to have him !
or not to have him.-N y Observer.
-RoMIsH SECESSION IN INDTA.-The |
Friend Of India says: News has lust reached
us OF religious movement in Eastern Bengal.
which has excited considerable interest in evan
gellcal circles. 1t is said that number of ma
tive Chrlstlans-amounting to several thousands
OF the Roman Catholic connection desire. for
some reason or other. to become Protestants
There IS Baptist mission in the neghborhood
but they decline to join the Baptists because
they will not baptze their children. We have
not been fully informed as to the causes of this
large secession, but we presume it had it's origin
In certain disputes of which we heard some
months ago, among the Catholics of that part of
the country. 1t is not for us, especially on i'm.
| perfect information, to pronounce Judgment.
but we should doubt if it is a movement over
which even good Protestants have much cause
/ to rejoice. There have been one or two similar
incidents IN other parts of the country-one. we
! believe, in Chota Napore-and no doubt it is
the duty of the body to which such secessionists
migrate to DO the best for them they can but
unless genuine religious conviction is at the bot
! tom OF the movement the less said about the
triumph Of truth over error the better"
The Interior, whose editor is one of