The National tribune., 1882-12-21
FOR SUNDAY AFTERNOON.
A Little Something About What is Going On in the
Religious World.

Bishop Ireland, of st. Paul, Mimi, has issued
an edict prohibiting Roman Catholics from
acting as saloon keepers. 1t is to be hoped, for
the sake of temperance, that such an edict will
be promulgated in other diOcesses.
The periodicals of the SalvatiOnArmy have
large circulation. The English Var Cry has a
circulation of 100000; The Little Soldier, or
Chddren's Har Cry amounts TO 10000; The
AmericaH Var Cry to $4,000, and The French
Var Cry to $4,000.
Spurgeon, who has been sick at Mentone,
writes to a Baptist editor in this country that
he has Just completed for him an article on
THE Languid and Limp Young Man." There
are few people living who can do Justice to this
sort of young man more fOrcibly than SpurgeOn.
Were he as ready with the pencil as he is with
the pcn his q" Languid and Limp Young Man"
would soon enjoy worldwide circulation.
The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher testified be-
fore the New York Senate committee last Sat-
urday concerning corners in grain. Among
other things he said a. once bought number
of Panama shares and paid 500 share for
them. was glad to get them. But when
sold them out at 800 l was glad to get rid Of
them. That is all / know of stock specula-
ton" In the course of his testimony, speak
ing of public morals and bribery, the witness
said: "There was George Washington, he could
not be bribed, but he swOre like trooper"
The Rev. Dr. Magoon, of the Broad street
Baptist Church, Philadelphia, preached in Jew
ish synagogue on Thanksgiving Day. Nearly
every seat in the synagogue was occupied, and
in Difference to their guest every lsraelite in
the audience, with one or two exceptions, sat
with uncovered heads. DR.. JastrOw, the rabbi
of the congregation, introduced the reverend
gentleman saying that by his acceptance of
the invitation to occupy the pulpit there had
been no surrender of opinion, no compromise
of religious views on either side. eve agree
TO disagree on certain points, but there are
many more on which we agree to agree for all
time to come, and chief among them are our
love of nation and love of humanity"
The Churchmdn complies the following sum-
mary of statistics of the Protestant Episcopal
Church for 1SSl-'S2 from "The Church Alma
nae" and " "Whitakers Churchman'S Almanac"
for 1883: Number of diOcesses As; missionary
districts (iucluding Africa China, and Japan,)
Is; bishops, 90; priests and deacons, 3,510; whole
number of clergy, 3,075-increase, 20; parishes,
2,047-increase u; candidates, 396-increase,
,; ordinasions-deacon 132-decrease, II;
priests, 117-decrease l churches consecrated,
95-increase 20; baptisms, 45,S17-increase,
SOD; combinations, 26,091-increase, 800; COM
municants, 3H Ho1S-increase, 30S; marriages,
13,436-increase, no; burialS, 26,61S-increase,
1,134; Sunday y-school teachers, "a, 4,795-increase,
3l2; Sunday-schOOl scholars, 30S,091-in-
crease, 3,609; contributions, according to the
" Church Almanac" 81, ,95S,4S5, against S6, 49,
Oi320 reported last year in 43 diocesses and ID
missionary districts-increase, 81 ,1O9, ,442.35;
according to "Whittaker's Almanac" SS,062,-
4043l-increase, $714, ,619.4O.