The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1882-09-24
sUNBEAMs,
Now the yexed question

Bunyan was descended from Scotchmcn Italians, or
Gypscs. 1t il claimed that the first Bunyan In the
British Islands Italian mason who came to labor
Mcrosc Abbey In the Merosc Abbey graveyard ths
Oldest tombstone has on 1t the name of Bunyan.
The Rev. T. Chalmers Easton ID. d., who
served n brief term In a Brooklyn church. is meet.
ing with great pastor Of the First Reformed
Church In New Brunswick, N. j. lie has admitted 10
converts raised $1,000 and rented all the pews Thi.
is state of affairs the First Reformed Church
Of New Brunswick.
In some parts OF the South the white
people naughty toward the colored folks that they
do not want the colored ones admitted to the same
churches with themselves. This is worse THANH
was In the slavery day when the black people cana
freely aud sat IN the galleries In many places chapc
have been built for the exclusive of the blacks No
that they may not by their presence annoy the whit.
people These chapels are Of the most inexpensyede
scription.
The project Of raising a million dollars
in the Protestant Episcopal Church as centennial
thank offering" has not been given up although 1t has
langushed In o somewhat discouragng sort Of way
During october special collections and ara
asked for in this behalf The plan is to have the fund
invested and its income spent In giving lending
money to aid feeble churches to build No great enthu
sasm is felt in the Episcopal churches the subject
and the probability OF the whole million dollar fund
being raised is exceedingly small
The Rev. DR.. Thomas of Chicago, who
not long ago turned out of the Methodist Church
before He carries on his preaching in connection with
the Peoples Church This organization does possess
u house Of its own with the customary equipment Of
first, second and third mortgages, but rents Hoocys
Theatre and its affairs cash basis OF
enue and expenditure from week to week DR. Thomas
draws large audiences tina. 10 be very glad hear
him preach. lie receives ample salary.
From the fact that an cvangelistic
brother who is spread the Gospel in this
vicinity advertses that he has thousand feet Of
pei paintings it would that he seeks to impress
the public with an idea Of the magnitude Of his doramo
calculations rather than with sense Of their merit or
Of the subjects they portray. When man has q good
thing to set before expectant audience there 10 little
occasion for him TO say in advance exactly how
much of it he has II preacher were to announce his
intention to preach for sixty minutes Jonah for
hour and quarter Bcshazzar might with fairness
be said that he had mentioned the least important fea
ture OF his intended dscourses.
Tho First Reformed Church at Kingston,
n Y, has been renovated and improved, within and
without The glded ornament the top OF It's steepe
shines like polished door knob. The present building
is the fourth that has been erected since the organ
tion of the church in 1862 At that date the Rev Har
manus Bloi the first pastor preached in log hut The
bell which now hangs in the church tower brought
from Amsterdam hundred years ago. In old times t
was the practice to ring the bell Of this church three
times day in order to notify the houseloders OF the
vicinity Of the proper hours for breakfast dinner and
supper. As clocks and watches into fashion, this
ringing of the bell was discontinued.
Notwithstanding the bad luck OF Evan.
gelist Barnes in his endesvors to convert the sin.
of Dayton and of indianapolis his intention is
announced Of moving the works Of Satan in Cincin.
natl He has n son aged twenty-five whom he is bring.
ing on to he assistant evangelist and who IL said
give indications Of large ability in this direction The
will for the work with his father The
pie of Cincinnati churchgoers as large pro-
portion those Of Dayton and indianapolis and there
fore Brother Barnes thinks he may secure large audiences
from among those who do not to church As yet he
has not anywhere in his mnistraons received material
aid and comfort from the clergymcn their immediate
followers and he has learned to avoid relying He
wants to reach the outside sinners that the Church has
not succeeded in laying hold Of
In Boston confectioner has been fined
ten dollars for sending ice to his customers
Sunday that they might have it for dinner The Court
which inflicted this fine decided that ice
of the necessares of existence in such
rant sending II out Sunday. The oldtne practice
among the Puritans of Boston and its vicinity to
have cold dinners Sunday. The absence Of hot
cookery the Day OF Rest considered the essence
of household goodness The degenerate sons OF these
stad old sres have introduced the modern luxurcs Of
hot Sunday dinners ice cream being the only really cold
thing on the table to remind them Of early days 1t will
be sad hardship for many family IL this frigd
ton Ia legally torn away from the sunday dinner table,
In this city the Sunday delivery Of ice for din
ner is Us common as that of milk for breakfast.
Six hundred scholars are enrolled on the
lists Of the Sunday schools for Cinnamon in this city
About half this number in regular attendance Chi.
namen very capricious in their behavior toward
those who teach them. Sometimes they will attend for
weeks and learn with apparent devoutness the lessons
set before them. Then all of sudden they will take
notion to go OF, and persuasion the part Of the
teachers will bring them back until they have notion
to come They are extremely sensitive, and often take
offence where offence intended 1t is said by those
who claim to know that the principal why Chins
men attend Sunday school is that they learn
language This they to regard in the light OF
business operation Yet Of them converted to
the faith Of the churches whose schools they attend
careful examination into their religious life shows that
| they make quite good Christians the average
| Mexican man"
Even tho most bitter theological assail-
| ants of the orthodoxy Of the Rev. Newman smyth,
| r D., ought now TO be satisfied with the thorough
dorsemen his doctrna standing has received
OF the most eminent Congregational ministers in this
country. These ministers composed the council which
met TO examine Dr. Smyth and install him successoro
the Rev. Leonard Bacon, D., in the principal Congre.
| gational church OF New Haven. Had they found him
faulty Objectionable in doctrine they would have
fused to install him. But after unusually searching
examinati the vote unanimously in his favor with
the exception OF the voice OF layman from Hart.
ford who positively refused to think the eminent ce
gymen did 1t may safely be assumed that the twenty
five thirty pastors and college professors who
satisfied with DR. smyths theology know quite as much
about sound and unsound doctrines this layman
can ever hope to know. Now that DR.. Smyths ortho
doxy is thus completely established it will be interest
ing to watch the OF the cergymen and denomins
tional editors who stoutly maintained that DR. Smyh
was so heerodox rs to be unit for theological pro-
fessorshlp at Andover,
The attempt made in McKeesport, Pa.
TO into pay ing debt by process Of eccls
siastical legislation did not prove successful ono
Methodist owed another money note aud was IN
able TO pay it, The had remained unpaid FOR about
five The creditor wanted 10 have the debtor ei
PEELED from membership in the church for psynsup
church court convened, the pastor being Judge
The trial seems TO have been fair could have been
in secular court The plaintiff made nothing out Oft
however, for the court decided that the debtor had NOT
withheld payment from dishonest motive hut SIM
ply because having been unfortunate in business he had
not the money with which To pay. Under these crcuh'
stances the court did not think 1t wise Just 10 turn inc
poor man out OF church Litigation OF this KIND hlsW
be made TO work greatly to the disadvantage OF hohe
debtors speful creditors worry them with chu'en
suits and thus threaten them with expulsion IN case VI
nonpayment. Church courts not always free from
prejudice. Ministers and church officials are seldom
good lawyers reliable Judges OF law evidence ~