The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-09-07
SUNDAY NOTES AND CHIMES.

two years.
In two years Luther's bible, the
revision OF which was begun in 1868,
will be ready for the public.
What great risks christian people
are often willing TO take in their
eagerness to obtain bodily pleasure.
The Mahometans are said to re-
gard the present troubles in Egypt
as "the beginning of the end" of the
world.
An Indiana man, who has attended
campmeetings for halt a century,
thinks they have degenerated into
the "rich mans picnic, the minister's
social and the loafer's resort"
God makes the earth bloom with
roses that we NAV not be discon-
tented with our sojourn here; and he
makes 1t bear thorns that we may
look for something better beyond.
Care not for the Babel towers in
Shinar that cannot even touch the
clouds, when at your own lowly
thresholds are waiting chariots o.
fire to bear you beyond the firma-
ment.
You need not join the church TO
be hypocrite. Many people pride
themselves on not being hypOcrites
because they are not in the church,
and yet they are all the time the
rankest kind of hypocrites.
Whenever time prepare, fresh
field of conflict, and the hour has
come for the battle to join between
the old and the new, the stately
form of the true hero and leader
never fails to stride to the front.
The famous salvation army of
England has just held it's seventeenth
anniversary. A feature of the oc-
casion was the reception Of a letter
from the queen, expressing gratiti-
cation at the good work of the army
No one can trustfully read his
Bible without becoming sure that
one of the gladdest surprises in the
new life will be found in the return
to us OF those fond and patient pur-
poses, now in full accomplishment,
which we once mourned over as
having died without sign.
Woman is not inferior to man but
holds q somewhat different sphere.
She should not seek to be his tyrant,
or consent to be his slave. Her
throne is the heart. Her empire the
family with its far-reaching relation
ship. AS daughter, wife, sister,
mother, she needs an education as
high and broad and varied as mans.
Recently a Reformed Episcopal
minister filling the pulpit of one of
our Methodist churches, after Sun
day morning sermon said: III have
not heard of any evening service to
be. held in this church, and the
weather being excessively warm l
would advise you to stay at home
and read your Bible and catechisms."
Each Catholic in the world is re-
quested to give five cents toward
the erection of monument in mem
DRY of Pope Plus TX. The request
is such reasonable one that the
project would seem practicable. And
yet the failure of the ten-cent sub
scription to the Washington mOnu-
ment is fresh in public memory.
Ii amid the glories of the world
in which We live you can read no
lesson written by an invisible hand
if amid the whispered melodies of
evening zephyrs, or the choral har-
monies which fill the great temple of
creation, you recognize no message
from Him whose omnipotent pres
ence animates the universe-dO not
boast of ii, it is the proof OF your
dizziness of heart.
While an elder at Golisd, Texas,
was leading convert into the water
to baptiZe him, man who was look
ing on said: "Elder, 1 don't want
to interfere in your business, but i
want to say that this is an old sinner
you have hold of and that one dip
won't do him any good. If you
want TO get the sin out of him you'll
have to anchor him out in deep
water all night"
Mission work among the Indians
can hardly be considered fruitless,
in view of what has been accom-
plished by the Methodist Episcopal
church south. The mission in the
Indian territory has grown until
there is now roll of 5000
members, made up from Chero-
KEGS, Choctaws, Creeks, Chicka-
saws and Seminoles. There
are about thirty regularly ordained
ministers in connection with this
mission, most of whom are Indians.
Besides this there are about a hun
dred and twenty local preachers.
Some of the converted Indians are
said to make quite as good church
members as white folks do.
A minister in Maryland is deeply
lamenting the rule of a majority in
his church. There was q demand
for prayers for rain, but, as many of
the members had not harvested their
crops, they were DESTROYS of having
the petition deferred for a while
The matter was lett to a vote of the
members, and by avery small major
ity it was decided to have rain.
Even then the parsOn declined to
proffer the necessary prayer, but
Providence was on the side of the
purpose of the majority. The flood.
gates opened. The roads were
washed out. The bridges were
carried away. Great damage was
dODeto the growing crops. But the
majority ruled.
Zion's Herald says: "The attack
upon supernaturalism is becoming
more aud more bitter-supernatur-
alism in the Bible, in its prophecies
and miracles, in the person of Jesus
Christ, and in his resurrection from
the dead. The broad church is
every day gathering some new, con-
spicious name into Its ranks. The
majority linger at the threshold,
reluctant to cut themselves entirely
loose from the sacred traditions
of the past. But there is no hating
place on this inclined plane. While
lew fear to seem liberal, and are
eager to hail any symbol of progress,
may still hold upon the horns of the
altar and be saved from the extreme
plunge, the great body which be-
comes loosened from conservative
truth will simply slide down hill to
the bottom of the precipice and find
itself without q Bible, without a
God, and in an utter eclipse of faith
The Episcopal Recorder, the organ
of the Reformed Episcopal church,
has an editorial this week in relation
to the statements made as 10 Presi-
dent Arthur fishing on Sunday
which had been published in the Re
corder. The editor says that, hav-
ing read this statement with others
as to the use of liquor at the white
house, he took occasion to inquire,
through friend understood to be q