Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-03-18
RELIGIOUS SMALL TALK.

Lately on one of the islands of the New
Hebrides, the natives gave arrow-root
worth SIS, 500 to print and circulate the
Scriptures.
The Archbishop of Paris and the Bishop
of Manchester have declared in favor of
cremation Roman Catholic priests in
Italy do not oppose it.
The head chiefs wife in an Alaska village
does all the missionary's washing for moth
ing, saying "He teaches us freely we
will work for him the same.
The Roman Catholic Bishop of Three
Rivers, Canada, is about to be made an
Archbishop, with his early retirement from
office afterward. He is the leader of the
Ultramontane party in the vicinity of
Montreal.
According to Sir John Hennessy, Chris
tianity has for many years past been de-
clining in China At this moment, he as
serts, the total number OF Christians is
considerably less than the number that ex-
listed in the last century.
John Wentworth, in letter to the
Standard, says that Mrs. Rebecca Head,
wife of Captain Nathan Head, the second
commandant of Fort Dearborn, was the
first Protestant church member in Chicago.
She was Baptist,
A Christian Army has been formed in
land, with General in command, Captains
for exhorters, knee-drIlls " instead of
prayer meetings, "skirmishes by small
parties in saloons, and battles in pub
lie hall.
John William Pease, banker of Newcas.
tle-upon-Tyne, member of the Society of
Friends, has presented to the Newcastle
Bishopric fund the mansion known as
Benwell Tower, about two miles from New
castle, as the palace of the new see. The
value Of the gift is estimated at $4,000.
Paul and John, sons of P. P. Bliss, the
famous singer who, with his wife, persisted
at the Ashtabula disaster, received pres
ent of good piano. 1t was purchased in
part with surplus from the fund raised at
the suggestion of Mr.. Moody to support
the children and erect monument to their
parents.
The colleges share considerably in the
prosperous times. The Wesleyan Univer.
sity endowment fund, now 5000, 900, prom
ises speedily TO reach a round million, as
all but S., 900 is promised of the 500, 600
which was to be raised to secure Mr.. Sc.
ney's last promise of 500, 600 if an equal
amount is secured.
The Rev. DR., Leonard Bacon left an ar
tice on the Mormons unfinished on the
night before he died, intending to complete
it next day. He took the ground that the
determination of polygamy had become
imperative, and the last completed para
graph was caustic arraignment of the late
Jim Fisk as social offender of the same
sort, but in far less degree than Mormon.
The disqualification of witness in To-
ronto, recently, because he was an unbe-
lever in revealed religion or God, and called
himself an agnostic, was accompanied
by the presiding Judges remark that
he regretted TO be compelled by
Canadian law to take such course.
Judge Thomas, however, in making like
ruling at st. Thomas, said emphaticaIly
that he considered the law fortunate and
proper
During the last FIVE years the Church of
England has given at the rate of fl4l 900
a year for the endowment of her new
churches within the last forty years she
has built over 5, 100 new parsonages, in ad-
dition to old ones restored, and has in
creased her incumbents by nearly 5000.
Her curacies at present number some
$780, and she raises 1882, 900 year to
pay them, of which f400,000 is paid by
incumbents The Church OF England
raises voluntarily over f5, SOC, 900 year !;
that is. nearly f460, 900 month.
DR.. Richardson recently told a meeting
of clergymen that expressed wine was very
similar analogically to blood, and therefore
more fit to be symbol of that of Christ
in the communion. The fibrine of the
blood has its analogue in the gluten
OF uufermented wine so with albu-
men found in blood and unfermented
wine; so with the salts, and nearly in the
same proportion in both. Really and
truly" he says in conclusion, on a ques-
ton of symbolism, if there be anything at
all in that, the argument is all in favor of
the unfermented wine
New information is all the time coming
to light on the subject of hell The latest
is from the Rev. Chauncey Giles, of Phila.
delphia, who chose 90 He'll for the topic of
lecture. Mr.. Giles gives it as his iocon.
trovertible opinion, based on long study of
solid facts, that hell is a society of wicked
men and women divided into two distinct
bodies, known as the satans and the
devils. 1t is the deliberate conviction OF
the reverend gentlemen that the satans
worry the devils and that the devils in
return worry the satans, each set to the ut
most extent Of its ability,