The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1882-10-11
GENERAL ITEMS.

The University of Virginia began its
session on Monday, October 3D. and matricula-
ton has been steadily increasing during the
week. The prospects for roll up to the figures
of last session. is indicated by present showing
on the Proctors books. The professional
schools will be certainly larger Charlottesville
Chronicle
LARGE SALE Three very extensive
sales have Just been made in Southwest Viz
ginia-the Holston Salt Works for 81 900 900
the Bertha Zinc Works for $250,00O, and the
Altoona Coal Mines for $3.50, 00O-all to Eng
lish and Northern capitalists. In this Valley
the Columbia and Liberty furnaces in Shenan-
doah, were sold to company last week for
1921 ,0O0.-Lerington Gazette.
"A contemporary tells of a negro
Methodist preacher at Charlotte, n c. who
some time since took for his text Cor. iv: 9, 1--WE
are made spectacle to the world" and adds
he expounded the passage as meaning that
worldly men use Christians as spectacles. through
which they look at God and religion and
warned his hearers to sbun the faults and sins
which would lead others to a false Judgment
respecting the Bible and its truths This ingeni.
Gus use of the text, while foreign to its mean
ing, was, after all, less of an accommodation
than Is characteristic of many better educated
preachers, who presume to draw subjects from
BIBLE phrases that are entirely opposite to their
design"
The Eighth Episcopal Church Con-
gress will be held in Richmond. Va. bepinning
October oath Bishop White presiding This
will be the first time, we believe, the Congress
has met in the South. The topics are position
and work of the laity in the Church priestly
and prophetic functions of the Christian minis
try relation of the Church to the colored race :;
the power OF standing committees inspiration
OF the Scriptures Christianity and the criminal
the requirements for con frmation
Professor Porter, of the Census
Bureau, tells US that we are the best fed people
In the world and that, in consequence we get
through the most work. We are each eating on
an average, l2O pounds of meat and bushels
OF grain per annum. The English consume 10
pounds of meat. the French 66 pounds, the Ger
mans 40 pounds, the Spanish 26pounds and the
portuguese 20 pounds grain dealer of fifty
| years experience states that our people con
sumo very nearly bushel of -four each per
annum The rest of our eight bushels goes
down chiefly In the forms of buckwheat cakes,
rice pudding, oatmeal, and corn bread.
Rev. George L. CLANCY spent two
months last spring in trying to introduce I'm.
itarianism into Atlanta Ca, but with very
indifferent success. He could discover no one
among the forty thousand inhabitants who
oeheye 1t possible to plant Unitarian church
there and for all who may wish to make a
similar effort he says: Unitarianism must meet
| here not mass of religious unbelef and in.
dl1erence, exacting equal unbelief and indlffer-
ence IN the candidate for its favor, but earnest.
Deheving Calvlnlsm, not likely to lower its ban.
ner to any form of Christianity which is less
earnest and believing than itself"
-GRowTH OF PRoTEsTANTIsM.- When
Luther began his Reformation, eighty out OF
the one hundred millions who owed allegiance
to Christian rulers were under Papal rule: the
remainder, chiefly under the Patriarch of the
Greek Church In A. D. 100, the Roman
Catholic peoples had increased to 10000 600
the Eastern Christians to 80 100000. while
those of Protestant faith were numbered 80.
100000, or about one fifth of nominal Chris
tan people In 1900, there were under Protes-
tant governments, 1914 600, 0OC; under Papal
l346OO,O00; and under governments ownino
the Greek Church, 10000, 900. In 1875 the
record stands as follows: Under governments
professedly Roman Catholic, 181 100000: Greek
Church, 96,OOO,OOO; and under rule professedlv
Protestant, 4o8,OOO,OOO.
REFORMED JUDA1sM.-T main aim
of Performed Judaism may be called the donation.
allzatlon of the Jewish religion 1t desires that
'no part OF Judaism should be without directly
religious significance. It's primary demand Is
that no law should be held binding. no rite be
observed, no ceremony perpetuated merely for
the sake Of maintaining the national az distinct
from the religious unity u even goes a step
further, and demands that no ordinance should
be carried out, whatever its supposed origin
may be, which in itself and viewed apart from
its origin does not possess an essentially reigi
GUS character. The effect of this demand if
fully realized would be that Judaism would
become religion, and nothing more than re-
lgon it is a development Of the doctrine OF
modern Jewish orthodoxy, as laid down by Dr.
II. Adler, that the great bond which Unites
tuW aueN IA aMN @.W,aT q N..n Al
mon religion It's realization would put Juda
ism on the same religious footing as Ghristiani
ty, and would involve the removal Of the pre-
sent preliminary obstacle in the way Of the diff
I fusion mot yet desired by all reformers) of tn,
} whole Jewish religion beyond the limits Of thu
Jewish ace.-Cyaude Nontefore, IN tie Conteu,
Poray Review.