The National tribune., 1882-09-23
FOR SUNDAY AFTERNOON.
Something About What is Going on In the Religious
World.

Something About What is Going on In the Religious
World.
There are 610 Cinnamon attending the Chi
nese Sunday schools in New York.
Tho American Missionary Society needs bu
$4,000 to close the year without loss.
A North Carolina clergyman, who has beer
receiving So per week, has struck for 81.
DR.. Robert Moffat, the African missionary
is still in good health, though in his eighty
sixth year.
Fighting Parson" Moody, of Ohio, has
asked to be placed on the superannuated list
of the NJ. E. Church.
Supplying lithograph sermons to lazy clergy
men of the Established Church has become 8
regular business in England.
Evangelist Barnes has concluded his -four
weeks revival in indianapolis. There, were
9S3 applicants for Divine aid
The Lutheran Observer wants Thanksgiving
Day set back to some day in October, in order
! to make it q real celebration of harvest home
The Rev. DR.. Rhodes, of St. Louis, says the
prevalence of suicides is due to infdelity and
pessimism and the remedy is faith in this life
and the life to come.
The General Unitarian Conference began
Monday its biennial session at Saratoga. Gov.
John d. Long, Of Massachusetts, presided. F.
lockwood Hoar, Dorman B. Eaton, and other
distinguished layman have arrived as well as
the principal clergymen of the denomination,
among them Edward Everett Hale James
Freeman Clark, Charles G. Ames, Samuel r.
Calthorp, George L. CLANCY, and Rush Z. Ship
PEN
The German Reformed Board of Missions of
the Synod of the United States opened it's an
nual session at Harrisburg Pa, Monday. 1t
has under its charge missions in New York,
Pennsylvania, Delaware, Virginia, North Car
DINA, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, California, Ore
gon, and Washington Territory. The estab-
lihment of a missien church at Roanoke, Vir-
gilia, was agreed to. A proposition to increase
the superintendent's pay was voted down.
Did you ever hear of church invalids
room? IN every congregation there are few
chronic invalids who. would gladly attend
worship for at least q portion of the service.
Far such is prepared in at least one church
tlat We, know Of, on one side Of tho recess in
which stands the pulpit, a room, with win
dow invisible to most of the audience) which
loJfs directly down on the preachers desk
Ills apartment is divided by q thick wall
from the main audience-room, and entered by
a private door. In it are tables, chairs,
lounges and other convenicnces. The in
mates may sit or stand or lie or walk, cough
when disposed and leave the house at their
rloo ha
AMI to any building committee with a new
church to erect let us say, Go and do ye like
wise.
The Rev. DIR. Pusey, who died in England on
the 18th inst, was strange ecclesiastical
figre-half Protestant, half monk. To the
present generation of Englishmen, DR.. Pusey
was chiefly known as an Oxford recluse, living
among his books and palimpsests, spending
weeks in interpreting line of ST. Augustin,
writing an occasional letter to the papers to
defend an imprisoned ritualist or a disputed
reading in the Nicene Creed. To the past
generation he was a power, for he tried to
teach it new doctrine, to form it into new
sect. His success was inconsiderable. The
Church of England regarded him as the Prince
of Darkness; the Church of Rome placed his
tractate on the Index Expurgatorius."
Preaching all that Newman preached, yet re-
fusing to follow whittier Newman led, his per-
sonal fervor could not atone for his doctrinal
inconsistency, and his following fell into dis
credit. He was held responsible for the ex-
travagances of Mr.. Mackonoche and the rit-
ualists, and the meaning of his evangel was
wholly lost.
TaImage is described as follows by the
Boston Herald correspondent: Ills mouth,
like his church, is more eommodious than that
of any other American clergyman. Other
wise he is a communicating man. His hair
is straight, and reaches to his coat collar be-
hind, but not nearly to his forehead in front.
When he smiles you know it, but you do not
see tho idiotic grin of cl own. He steps high
in walking to and fro on the platform, but
does not jump up and crack his heels together
He uses his arms freely in gesticulation but
they never look like more than two. He is
not a jumping iack-at least he was not on
this occasion. Perhaps there was nothing in
the sermon exciting enough to pull the string"
The same writer credits Talmage with memo
rizine his sermons so perfectly that, without
copy or notes, his delivery is almost, sentence
for sentence, identical with the manuscript
which he has studied. "When it is consid-
cred" he says, that the longest role in a play
seldom equals sermon in length, and that
the actor is aided by the breaking up of his
lines into dialogue, by the dramatic situations
in which he it placed, and by the prompter,
whenever, if his recollection fails, then
Talmage's two feats of memory every Sunday
mey be fully comprehended."