The National tribune., 1882-11-30
FOR SUNDAY AFTERNOON.
listls sOmethlzs About Whst Is Going On IL ias
RAlRfnrN NnrId.

A Listis sOmethlzs About What Is Going On Il 1as
Religious TcrId.
Theirs &rs now nearly 700 Cinnamon n Sba
! New York and Brooklyn Sabbath schools.
The First Presbyterian Church In New
Albany, Ind, has elected 9 board Of sight
| deaconesses.
| The officers commanding ths Salvation Array
In New York claim to have secured 3,0Oo coz
verts in that city.
| The New Testament hes just besn translated
into the COrean language by Rev. J. Boss, =
Presbyterian clergyman.
-Four Presbyterian churches in Philadelphia
are without pastors and though there is an
army Of applicants the congregations have not
yet met with exactly the article Of minister
they are looking for.
In fifteen years $500 churches Of various
denominations have been built in this country.
During the past twelve months they have been
added at more than the rate of one for each day
Of the year.
The project Of raising 81, 100000 for Protest.
ant Episcopal Church extension is being vigcr-
ously pushed, although as yet with no over
whelming success. Its promoters are hopeful
of large, although not immediate results.
The report of the Salvation Army from Balei.
more is that bombsheII has been exploded
in gin-niil; that drunkard marched st ths
head of L column to the barracks; that thera
has been Pentacostal baptism of power, and
that two lay PROSTATE on the 1Oor."
A quaint answer: minister was onoo asked
what he thought of his two sons, who vsrs
both preachers. well" he replied, "Georgs
has better show in his shop-windov than
John, but John has larger stock in his w&rs-
ouse."-Hartford Times
At funeral in Auburn, n. z, freshly.
plucked rosebud was placed in the hand OF the
dead child. This bud gradually unfolded, and
by the close Of the service had become full
flower. The officiating clergyman gracefully
and tenderly alluded to the strange circum-
stance.
Among church-going people in New York
opinion is loudly expressed against the pro-
posed Passion Play" The forcible expression
of this opinion is in no wise sbated by ths
statement Of the manager that hs intends to
produce the play in the most decorous manner,
and free from ali the theatrical associations
which are commonly considered unholy.
Rev J. J. Reed, Of the Washington sousrs
IN. " NJ. E. Church, recently said: I'VE
want revival of sterling morality we don't
want an Out6urst of rhapsodical religion which
dies ouC in excitement and song;" and the
New York Christian Adrocats adds, "srd let ell
the people say amen. and seek revival thss
shall bring TO the front old fashioned morality,
integrity aud truth.uIuess"
Spureeon is sometimes moro blunt than pa-
lite. For instance, in his recent answer to =
nejgabor who asked him to support certain
candidate for election to tho School Board on
the ground of his belonging to the Blue Ribbon
Army he replied a. Do you yhiak I am going
to support a donkey just because no has bit
of blue ribbon tied 10 him?"
DR.. Phillip schaf in his last book mentions
the experience OF DR.. DeWette, one of the ablsst
and purest skeptieal critics of the century.
After all his brilliant skepticisIn, DeWests
wrote few months before his death: Al know
that in no other name can salvation b. found
than in the name of Jesus Christ, the cruciaed;
and thcre is nothing ioftier for mankind than
the divine humanity realizsd in hi1D, and tbs
Kingdom OF God planted by him"