Sacramento daily record-union., 1882-01-21
LATE RELIGIOUS NOTES.

The remains OF one of the most famous
Of the modern saints and doctors of the
Reformed Church, Johann Kaspar Lavater,
were transferred on December l2th from
their old resting place in the st. Anna
Kirchhof in Zurich to a new grave, to make
room for new building Lavater, who
died on January 2, 1901, from the wound
given him three months earlier by one of
Msssena's soldiers, is chiefly known in this
country as the author of the once famous
treatise on physiognomy, with its rich illus
trations.
The conduct of the Bishop of Santander
in communicating the three Liberal pa
pers which had defended the re.establish-
ment of civil marriage has only famed the
flame which it was intended to extinguish.
Public opinion is excited, and, as is only
natural, there is an enormous demand for
the excommunicated papers. The civil
authorities have demonstrated with the
Bishop, but he persists in maintaining the
accommodation.
The building of church in Turkey re-
quires a special firman from the Sultan,
and this is attended with much trouble
and expense, and often with years of de-
lay. AS the chapels are used for schools
as we'll as for worship, they have betn built
mostly under the name of schools !; but a
recent decision of the Government declares
that even these must have a special order
from Constantinople.
There are now at work in China, 81
Protestant Missionary Societies from Eu-
rope and America-I7 British, u Ameri-
can, and 2German. There are 305 British
man, making a total of 625. In Japan
there are q Missionary Societies-l3 Amer
can and British there are l67 American
missionaries and 49 British.
DR.. Furness. OF Philadelphia, is credited
with new departure in celebrating the
Lords Supper without distributing the ele-
ments TO the people. The bread and wine
are to ''stand on the table as sacred SYM
bols, to speak through the eye to the heart,
the minister interpreting" TIE Church.
man thinks this is the Roman heresy of
" hearing mass IN a new form.
The total value of the estates held in
France by the religious congregations, un-
authorized as well as authorized, is esti.
mated by recent writer at 7l2, 53S $50
francs. They cover an area of 405 kilc-
meters, and as the entire area of France
consists of 52S. 40l square kilometers,
305sh portion of this area therefore be-
longs to the congregations.
A missionary IN Ceylon writes as ''a a no.
ticeable fact" that where Christian women
are married to neathen husbands, generally
the infusnca in the household is Christian !;
whereas, when a Christian man takes
heathen woman, he usually loses his Chris
tian character, and the influences of the
household are on the side of heathenism.
There are now about forty Protestant
Episcopal parishes in Massachusetts where
the sittjngs are entirely free-some free
partly through endowments, some through
on IN entire dependence upon what the
people conscientiously contribute from
Sunday to Sunday at the services.
rbe American Sunday School Union
gives the following statistics in regard to
its work Of fifty seven years: 60 S46
schools organized, containing 447, $50 teach
ers, and 3 $50. 0S7 scholars 100 402 cases
of aid to schools, having G, 720 600 men,
bers; value of publications distributed by
sales and donations, 81 600, 600.
In Japan there have very recently ap-
peared three tracts aimed at the growing
power of Christianity-one OF which opens
by saying that Christianity is spreading
like fire on grassy plain, so that in cap
ital and country there is 10 place where it
Is not preached.
An anonymous donor has given s25, COO
toward the cathedral to be built In the city
of Melbourne, on the condition that
S75, 900 from other sources should be col
lected within twelve months.
The synod of the French Protestant
Church has appointed commission to con-
slider all the existing French translations of
the Bible, with view either to the adop-
ton of one or the recommendation that a
new version be made.
The election of the Bishop of Buda as
Patriarch of the ServiaD Church in Hun
gary has not been sanctioned, so that new
selection will have to be made by the Con-
gress at Carlovicz.