The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1882-10-08

sUNBEAMs.
In China there are two dozen missiona.
ries who also physicians Eight Of these are iade
A. Canton the Hospital has treated many
~ $1,000 outdoor patients In year.
1t Is rarely that the Salvation Army finds
itself invited respectable city church TO conduct the
services An exception tho ordinary rule seen in
the Of the Lexington Avenue Methodist Church. Il
10 announced that Sunday next the Army" will have
charge Of the services at this church. !
Tho First Universalist Church OF Brook
Ign is to have building, the stone Of which
will be laid to-day at the Of Grand and
Leferts place. Pastor Garfield will lead in the cere.
MONIES and Msssrs Gunnison Pullman and other emi.
nent Universalist cereymen will address the assembly,
DIR. Newman Smyth's opening sermon In
his church at New Haven from the text ARISE let
90 hence" In the principal newspaper oice Of New
Haven somebody blundered to such frighful extent
that this text was rendered Amen; let us go home"
Thus the best intentions Of the eminent clergy.
men sometimes perverted I,
As to-day Is st. Lukes Day It Is eminent
Iy appropriate that st. Lukes Protestant Episcopal
Church In Brooklyn should to-day be consecrated The
church, which has recently been reconstructed and
1arged entirely free from debt Some Of Ito At
fractions are sacrarium with tiled hoor marble
altar, several elaborate windows Of rioh stained glass;
organ with 1900 pipes, and . chapel for the
Sunday school, Bishop Littlejohn will have charge Of
the conservation services
Bishop Horatio Potter OF the Protestant
Episcopal Church is eighty years Of age and although
beset with Of the inrmtes Of age, is in the
joyment Of far better health than most Of his age
For number Of years the question Of electing a.
sstan Bishop for this diocese has quietly been dis.
cussed but has not been brought prominently forward
on account Of the struggle between church parties
which IL is reasonably expected to when It shall
be agtated Bishop Potter has always been OF
peace and has been sngulary successful in keeping the
High Church and the Low Church brethren from falling
out with each other It 10 feared that II election for
assistant take place the two parties would be
marshaed in battle array each intent victory for s
own candidate Hence II is thought q particularly
felcitous thing that at the Diocesan Convention which
met last week no effort made to elect assistant
The Rev. A. B. Simpson, who carries on
his evangelical work in his Gospel Tent" in Twenty
third street, made thirty during the summer
which Ia more than he thinks he could have made had
he remained in the Presbyterian church OF which he
was formerly pastor As he believes immersion to be
the only proper mode Of baptism and his Gospel Tent
is not furnished with bapisery, he took his converts
down the Long Island shore and immersed them in the
briny waters Of Gowanus Bay II is puzzle TO many
persons why such evangelists a. M. Simpson should
pitch their Gospel tents in such place his occupies
almost under the shadow OF half dozen church stes-
pies or more. There is hardly locality in the city
which Is better supplied with the grace On
the east side among the lowly population Of the crowded
tenements there 10 much need Of gospel effort. 4
tent ptcne0 somewhere near square WOu0
tract hrongs Of persons who not reached BY
ordinary church mnistrations II the evangests with
the tents really want to reach the Of the people
they ought to 60 where the people are in
Two well-known ministers were talking
together about their and the general effect OF
their preaching. One Of them accused the other OF
preaching long, and Of being fond Of using big
words The brother thus accused defended himself -
best he could and said that he spoke within The comprs-
hension Of his auditors His accuser babe him read the
FIRST page Of sermon taken at random from the large
black tin box in which he kept them. On hearing the
page read he said "we suppose we translate that into
English" The owner Of the indignant be.
lieving as he did, that his good English" good
- II could be made But the other took the manuscripts
and marked out all the long words and put shorter
in their places Then he reconstructed two three in
voved sentences and made them that anybody
could read them. The result Of this trimming and
pruning carried throughout the was that the
manuscript which gagged to occupy forty minutes
in Its delivery cut down that could be delivered
In thirty minutes There many able ministers who
could probably take . hint from this. Some Of them
wonder why their congregations sleepy while the
preaching is going and 80 happy when 1t is DONE
The ladies Of an Illinois church recently
gave floral and festive entertainment At which they
put considerably style than the people Of the
place had been accustomed TO- Among other stylish and
unusual things they introduced finger bowls In conneo
ton with the refreshment department The pastor who
had never before seen finger bowl, pleased when
he saw the vessel placed beside his plate half full Of
water and containing according TO the most approved
custom Of Eastern people, slice Of lemon. without
stopping to ask questions he raised bowl to his nps
and drank the contents Remaining after done %
that no never had tasted such weak lemonade Some OF
the pretty girls who witnesses Of this
proceeding commenced to ggge violently, and I'm.
able to restrain In order prevent reps.
ton Of the ridiculous exercise Of the more elderly
matrons quietly slipped up the reverend gentleman
and whispered in his a confidential commune alton
"a IN fhad aotD
good man blushed deeply when he learned what blum
der he had made and prouse in his thanks TO the
matron who thus made him acquainted with q social
custom concerning which he had been in darkness
Sunday and Monday, the 18th and 10th
OF TINS month"; have been set apart by the London
day school Union as days of particular prayer Sum-
day schools The managers of the Union desire thas
Sunday school teachers and workers throughout the
world shall unite in this; and that Sunday there shall
be sermons appropriate to the occasion Although this
suggestion has in former years been received in this
country with expressions Of approval there been no
such general response to II might be expected The
most general way the prayer day is observed by hold
ing brief prayer meeting Of teachers others after
the regular exercises OF the school Some su.
perntcndens think 1t sufficient to include the expected
petitions In their opening prayers II might be sup
posed that on subject Of such widespread interest
many clergymen would preach special sermons Yet
these special sermons exceedingly few II need not
De inferred from this that there Is general interest
among ministers and Sunday school teachers as to Sun,
day schools outside Of their particular fields Of 10
Yet come Of the best Of people absorbed with
ther own work that they cannot easily become enthus
astic over work which is done by others at distance
The Rev. Mr.. Crafts Of Brooklyn thinks
that the Apostle Paul bundered In the way he preached
when he addressed the Athenans on Mars Hill Some Of
the people in Mr. Craftss church think that their pastor
Numbered when he publicly requested certain active Ia
borers In his Sunday school to resign because they were
not thoroughly In accord with him on sundry
questions of theology state Of unpleasantnes. pro-
walls in Mr. Crafts's church because of this and feeling
runs so high that the friends OF those who were request
ed to resign are loudly expressing their desire that the
pastor shall present his resignation The Lee Avenue
church has had very remarkable history one incident
of which is that pastor ever enjoyed long
there One after another various eminent gentlemen
have tried their hands at harmonng the
elements OF which Its congregations have from time to