The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1882-04-26
GENERAL ITEMS.

Last Saturday destructive winds and
ram storms prevailed IN many parts of the coun-
try. Tornadoes are reported from Georgia, Ala
bama. aud parts of North Carolina In Culpep
er, Va, there was a considerable fall OF snow.
This has been followed by frost, but the extent
OF damage is not known.
Henry Ward Beecher denies the re-
port that he contemplates retiring from the min
istry in June when he will enter his SEVENTEEN
year. His father continued to preach until he
was eighty.
The leading pastors and influential
Christians Of New Orleans have organized
Lords Day League for the education of the
masses of the people in the better observance of
the Sabbath
The Merchants Exchange in San
Francisco was closed on the first Sabbath in
April, for the first time since is organization
A placard on the door announced. Closed on
account OF the Sunday Law"
Rev. C. T. Whitmore states in the
London &" Christian" that of % inidel lecturers
and writers who have been prominent in the last
80 years, Is have abandoned their infdeity and
openly professed their faith in Christianity
-Itss computed that the gross annual
income of the London Times is S. 100000 the
Telegrdphs profits are estimated at $500 900 per
annum, the Standard at 100000, the Daily
NeDs $4,000.
Fresh disturbances and outrages
against the Jews are reported from Russia.
The Austrian Government has issued positive
orders forbidding all meetings avowedly for the
purpose of anti-Semitic demonstrations and
maintaining the duty of the government to pro
tect the rights of every subject, regardless of
politics or religion.
The Advance asks what would be
r-E nm
or Georgia which was without a Protestant
church, and then says that in single solid
section of Chicago there is just such a city
900 people, and not sign of Protestant
church, save two feeble little mission enterprises
like a couple of stray lambs lost in a wilder
ness"
Keep list of your friends and let
God be first in the list, however long it may be-
Keep list of the gifts you get and let Christ,
who Is the unspeakable gift, be first. Keep
list of your mercies; and let pardon and life
and let the 10y unspeakable and full of glory
be first. Keep list of your hopes and let the
hope of glory be foremost.
"A fashionable Broadway theatre
entertains its audience with Partisan plav.
Says a leading evening journal: 1.-THE com
placency with which it is received can only be
regarded as demonstration that where thinlv
yelled lndelcacy is concerned the average New
York audience is not one whit more squeamish
than the Partisan, whose immortality is so con-
stantly and vigorously denounced.
"A New York Dispatch says that on
the 9TH inst, 5000 emigrants arrived at Castle
Garden The agent of the Inman Steamship
Line asys Look out for 900 900 of emigrants
this year. Think of it By the City of Rome.
City of Richmond and City of Brussels over
5000 have sailed with us in a week. The first
two left Queenstown last Friday the former with
$500 and the latter 2,3O0."
"A student who accepted the doctrine
of regeneration, but denied that of foreordina
ton, was in DR.. Mark Hopkins class. {" You
believe" asked the Doctor, in his usual Socratic
way you believe that if man has been con
verted he was converted by the Holy Spirit ?"
" Yes, sir" If the Holy Spirit converted him
did He intend to convert him." al suppose so,
certainly" Well. if the Holy Spirit Intended
to convert him, When did he intend it ?"
whole treatise in three questions.
Mr.. John F. Slater of Norwich.
Conn has given 81. 100000 as fund for the
education of colored people in the South The
trustees to whom the distribution and manage
ment OF the fund is committed are Elk President
Hayes Chief Justice Waite, President Gilman of
John Hopkins University, Gov. Colqultt of
Georgia, James z. Boyce of Kentucky, Rev
Phillips Brooks, VIM. A. Slater the donors son,
and VIM. E. Dodge, VIM. K. Jessup and John
A. Stewart
RELIGIOUS SERVICES AT THE UNI
vERsITY.-On Wednesday night H9tb inst !
the Rev. DIR. Thomas Wharey preached the last
of a series of sermons which began last SUNDAY
week in the chapel of the University. The ser
vices of the protracted meeting were largely at
tended by the students, and the able and i'm
presslve sermons of the preacher were listened
to with profound attention and interest. There
IS reason to believe that much good will result
f.om his labors.- ChGrLottesUihe Chronicle.
- The Academy, of March 18th, says
During his recent journey in Abyssinia NJ.
Achllle Raffray visited the town of Lalibela.
and spent week there tor the purpose of inves.
tigatlng and making drawings of its ten church
es cut out of the living rock, from which they
are separated by trenches They were built or
rather cut out of the rock, about the beginning
of the fifth century by 400 or 500 workme3
whom King Lalbela had procured from Jerusa
lem and Alexandria From an archaeological
point M. Raffray's discovery of these monolitb
churches, as he terms them is considered most
important, for previously there was only
rumor of the existence Of such monuments"
WHAT IS A RESPECTABLE CHURCH
A case was recently decided in Pennsylvania.
where property was left for an ediice and nav
ment OF pastors salary if within FIVE years "
respectable number of persons" could be found
to form Presbyterian church. Eighteen were
organized by the Presbytery. The executors
contested the will on the ground that the mum
n ArauV H.