Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-07-15
RELIGIOUS NOTES.

Among the 275, 900 Indians in the Uni.
ted States there are 2l9 churches and 80,
600 members.
The King of Ashantee, erstwhile falsely
reported as having brutally sacrificed 200
girls, welcomes the missionaries of the
Basic Society to Coomassie, where they
will settle.
The New York Observer, which is one OF
the most orthodox of all the religious jour.
nails, admits that there is no more sense in
having a bell on church than in having
one on theater.
President Robinson thinks that among
the very last men who should be encour-
aged to discard the manuscript in preach
ing is he on whom nature has bestowed
the gift of extreme volubility.
The immigration of Hollanders TO East
ern Dakota has become so great that a
special committee of the Reformed Chassis
OF Illinois has been appointed to assist
them in the formation of churches.
A Protestant society held its anniversary
this year in the Marie of the First Arron-
basement, Paris, which is part of the
church from the belfry of which was tolled
the signal death knell of the victims Of
Black Bartholomew.
The Prince of Orange. the Comte de
Paris, grandson of Louis Philippe, and the
German Emperor have sent testimonials
toward the monument to Admiral Coligny,
the faithful Huguenot, at the same time
acknowledging relationship to him.
The English Presbyterians are about to
have new hymn. book. 1t is said that
about 200 of the hymns in the present col.
lection will be replaced by others, that
about sixty suited to children will be added
and that there will be an edition contain
ing the unmetered Psalter spaced for chant
ing.
A story is told of an old gentleman who
always took notes of his minister's SER
mon, and on one occasion read them to the
minister himself. "Stop, stop" said he
at the occurrence of certain sentence.
81 didn't say that" 81 know you
didn't, was the reply, 81 put that in my
self to make sense"
Albany, N. Y, is not one Of the strong
points of Methodism. The Methodist
Episcopal Church had there in 1866 a
total membership of LOO. In 1881 there
were l, 757, an increase of only 81, or a
fraction over per cent. The number of
scholars in the Sunday-school has de-
creased from $500 to 1872, or over 80 per
cent.
The Baptist University Of Des Moines
has fallen victim to hopeless debt. The
trustees and professors struggled along as
bravely as they could, but the funds ran
SO low that there was no chance for the
payment of the professors salaries. These
gentlemen, finding it impossible to live on
air or on hope, resigned in body.
All the same A good old lady speaking
in prayer meeting and giving expression to
the Joy and confidence she felt, said 81
feel as if l was ready this minute to fall
into the arms of Beelzebub." Abraham
you mean Abraham ! hastily corrected a
brother near. "Well, Abraham, then, "
was the response it don't make any
difference. They're both good men"
Mr. Darwin, when in early life cruising
off the coast of South America, maintained
that the Patagonians were of such a differ
ent race from the English that they were
incapable of improvement. In the latter
part of his life, when he learned Of the
success of Christian missionaries in civiliz-
ing them, he frankly avowed his mistake,
and became subscriber to the South
| American Missionary Society.