The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1882-01-04
One Thing and Another.

California Conference OF the M. u.
Church, said Whenever we see Pres
byterian Church we know that it means
help in Sabbath observance, in reverence
for the Bible and the Sanctuary, and in
work for the salvation of souls"
Biblical revision is the order of the
day. Luther's Bible, in Germany, is be-
ing revised by a committee of scholars.
They completed the revision of the New
Testament about ten years ago, and they
are now engaged at Halle on the final
consideration of the Old Testament. Also,
the Gaelic Bible is to be revised by com
pany OF Gaelic scholars.
-" Scripture promises are real bank
notes of heaven, and the true riches of
believers, who do not live on stock in
hand, but traffic with this paper currency
Where Divine faith is found it takes the
notes to Christ's bank, and receives the
cash. But human faith cannot traffic
with this paper it reads notes, and owns
them good, but dares not take them 10
the skies for payment. No faith can tru-
ly act on God but that which comes from
God. ''-Beyridge.
In a recent volume on France, the
author, Miss Roberts, gives the following
instance Of the ignorance of Norman
peasant woman, who, after recounting all
the severe sorrows of the Virgin Mary,
added: "And then she was married to
an old horror of carpenter" but do
you not know" was the answer, {" that
he of whom you speak is st. Joseph, to
whom you pray p impossible was
the incredulous answer.-N Y. Observer.
The Edinburgh Daily Revieao says
the membership of the Scotch Free Church
increased from $50, 241 in 1876 to 3O5,-
923 in 1880 A communication states
further that the increase from 1870 was
"a, 424, or 80 per cent and that the
United Presbyterian increase in the same
period was from 161 ,484 to 173, 902, or
II per cent. And it adds:
"The last census returns show an in
crease in the population of the country
of 374 ,429, or about Ill per cent. From
this it appears that the Free and United
Presby terian Churches together have
been increasing at more than double the
rate of increase of population, and if the
Established has been adding to her num-
bers, it has not been at their expense"
Mr. Matthew Arm old declares
that the memorizing and reciting of
poetry in elementary schools suggests
high and noble principles of action and
inspires the emotion so helpful in making
principles operative. He wishes to see
this poetical exercise made part of the
regular work Of schools Several of the
British school inspectors emphatically
condemn the present style of reading
books used in the elementary schools.
They hold that they are only calculated to
disgust children, consisting, as they do,
OF hotch-potch of general information
and moral anecdotes, and that the odious
system of graduated reading books APP
pears to be designed with view to crush
out anything like budding taste for
reading. These inspectors recommend
that these books should be replaced by
the entire works of standard authors or
by other books of continuous narrative.
At the Berlin Congress of Orientalists
Brugsch Bey announced several new dis
coveries of his in Egyptian geography.
The name hitherto read Rutennu he
would now read Iltennu and identify with
the Assyrian 5Hamu {" north'O Accord
ing to him, the original situation of the
lltennu was near the source of the Eu-
pirates, the extension of the name to
Syria being later change. He also finds
a people called Kheta on the northwest
shore of the Persian Gulf, who must be
carefully distinguished from the more
famous Kheta, or Hittites. The Hyksos
he derives from the mountains of Elan
and Media, since he has found their
Egyptian name of Menti applied to these
localities. Like some other scholars, he
explains the word Khar, the Egyptian
name of Phenicia, by the Assyrian
Akharru, which signifed west" mat
Akhorr5 {" the land of the west") being
the ordinary Assyrian designation Of
Palestine.
DEATH OF DIR. BAooN.-The Bev.
Leonard Bacon, D. D., LII D., the most
widely known Of the Professors of Yale
College, died suddenly of heart disease at
his home, in New Haven, Saturday morn
ing, in the eightieth year of his age. DR..
Bacon had long known that he was liable
to die suddenly as he was subject to at
tacks of heart disease, which any unusual
mental or physical effort on his part was
likely to precipitate. So well was this
known to his friends that upon the &C.