Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-03-11
RELIGIOUS NOTES.


Rev. N. L. Beard has resigned the pastorate
of the Lutheran church, at Burkettsville, Nd.
Rev. DR.. Sutton, formerly of Richmond. Va,
has taken charge of the Episcopal church in
Greensboro, Ky.
Gov. Long, of Massachusetts,. has issued a
proclamation appointing the 9th of April az
day Of fasting humiliation and prayer" in
that commonwealth.
Seven hundred conversions are the result
of seven weeks revival work in Cincinnati I'M
der the leadership of Harrison, the ''boy
preacher"
- The last six weeks have seen Messrs Moody
and Sankey in Glasgow. Scotland. They have
held large meetings and have met with great
success in their work.
- The prOpriety of rising when the ''hymn
before sermon" is sung is suggested by a
writer in one of the religious journals. on the
ground that lit gives relief to the muscles and
fits one the better to listen to the sermon"
u There is no foundation, DR.. Schaff says. for
the report that the demand for the Revised New
Testament has almost ceased. On the contrary.
the demand at present is greater than it has
been for several months past. Thirty editions
have been brought out in this country alone.
Treating upon =" esthetic clergymen" the
Rochester Express states case of a clergyman
at Utica who spoke of "Jonah passing three
days and three nights in the whales society"
There is clergyman in New Jersey who has
been heard on several public occasions to allude
to . Jonah being in the whales stomach"
Standing sponsor for her own ugly dwarf
of an offspring, and at the same time acting as
priest. Unbelief names it "Agnosticism :" thinks
the new name makes the prodigy something
new in reality and, like all foolish mothers re-
CARDS her own infant as the most pretty, pre-
ciOus little darling the sun ever shOne On.-The
MOrduidn.
Bishop Ryle, of England says that much of
the Christianity of to-day is 'jellyfsh religion"
of which the basis is. as far as it has any, "no
dogma, no distinctive tenet, no positive doc
trine." He holds that both in the church of
England and out of it, there are hundreds of
ministers who have not single bone in their
body of divinity"
There are said 70 oe signs of storm in the
Episcopal church. Bishop Whipple of the Min
nesOta diocese declares his intention of licensing
two women as Law readers,-because no men
can be found to fill the places. They do not
have the functions OF the clergy; but are simply
licensed to read the service and such sermons as
the bishop puts in their hands
- The Church Union, in speaking of the cga-
rette nuisance. remarks that it is not confined
to boys, but that men and even ladies indulge
i'm it. 1t adds: 1--WE have seen a lady lay down
her cigarette on the piano before playing and
another who held the cup of coffee in one hand
and the weed in the other. o for freedom here
from the smoke that ascendeth for ever and
ever'"
- The congregation of Canada church
brought an action at law against man who
had rented pew in which he was in the habit
of sleeping and snoring SO as to disturb the
people. to compel him either to abate the nuis-
ance or to stay away. The court decided that
he had right to remain awake and listen to
N nn ar fax e N cir phnr
IF that decision is sustained" The Christian
Advocate thinks 1.-The result will be mighty ar
gument for free Seats"
"A correspondent of the N. Y. Times, speak
ing Of the salary offered Dr. Paxton by the West
ern Presbyterian church. of that city-712, 900 a
year-says: ''These salaries sound large, but
when $1,000 to 81, 600 year Is deducted for a
house, it is not so very great, for pastors can't
move miles away to the suburbs Our Baptist
pastOrs are not all of them 80 favored in respect
of remuneration. There is not more tnan one
who receives over $4,000, and not more than
two who get as much. Several receive Sc, 600
and perquiSiteS"
WOrshiping by telephone has become aprac-
tical success in Hartford, Conn. Every Sunday
hundred or more subscribers are put on the
South Church circuit, and generally succeed In
following the service with only occasional and
slight Interruptions. The solo singing sometimes
reaches them in a rather dilapidated condition,
and II the preacher turns his back on the trans
mitter there is break in the sermon; but, on
the whole, the instrument does fairly well by
the choir and clergyman.
Rev James S. Payne, DID,, who served two
terms as President of Liberia and who had been
in the Gospel ministry for forty years, died at
MonrOvia. January 81. He was born in Rich
mOnd Va, December 25, 1919: emigrated to
Liberia with his parents in 1929 in the ship
Harriet. sent by the American Colonization
md nivrnd hi I'D tn H.
schools of the infant colony. Mr.. Payne was
ordained in 1910, in New York, by the late
Bishop James, and in 1848 visited the United
States as commissioner to arrange the terms
OF separation of the Colony of Liberia from the
American Colonization Society. He was elected
President Of the Republic in 1867, and again in
1873 He attended the General Conference of
the Methodist E. Church, at Cincinnati. in 1880,
as delegate from the Liberia Annual Con-
ference. The degree of Doctor of Divinity was
conferred upon him January 31st last. by Liberia
College Mr. Payne was of pure African descent,
OF marked ability as a man and preacher. and
successful writer on the science of political
economy The influence of his life will be con-
tinued for many generations.
To-day there are many so-cailed Christian
pulpits in the land where men protesting to be
ministers of the Gospel, with the Bible before
them. preach infidelity. If not as gross and out
spoken yet as rank as that uttered by Abner
kneeland; and If they do not scott as he did, or
as Ingersoll does, at the Word of God, they
teach that it is largely made up of myths and
fables. that it has no binding authority over u.s.
that its good precepts came from COnfucius and
Buddha, and have no more authority than the
productions of any good men. They outsrrip
Theodore Parker, who told us that flour great
religious teachers had appeared in the worlds
history, all excellent men, and doubtless others
would appear who might excel them: Moses,
MahOmmed, Jesus Christ and Budda" Thous-
ands of men and women listen to their teachings
every Sabbath and have thus their religious
faith undermined. and their prospects for eter-
nifty ruined. More mischief. vastly more, is
done by their preaching to the religious faith
and hopes Of Thousands than the writings of
scores of t'om Paines or Voltaires ever could
accOmplish.-The Boston Ndtci.nnn.
One of the most pleasant little devices ever
introduced into a church fair as an aid to money
making was the aesthetic concert given last
week at a fair in one Of the fashionable churches
of Brooklyn. This was radically different from
all other musical entertainments. The with
drawal OF the curtain revealed board covered
with canvas and pierced with six holes, each
large enough to exhibit part of human face
Around each hole was the outer part of a sun
flower, or other floral decoration. Six we'll