Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-12-09
RELIGIOUS NOTES.

A new Methodist weekly paper is to be
started at Belfast, Ireland.
In India there are So, 600 Protestants
and 325 900 Roman Catholics.
Professionalism is making its way into Bel.
GUM under the liberal rule of King Leo
pold.
Mrs. Sarah Stowe, the deaconess of
Trinity Church, Neponses, Mass, is 20
years of age.
NJ. Van Dorp, an agent of the Bible So
ciety IN Holland, put more than ll0,0O0
copies of the Scriptures in circulation dur
ing mis- forty years of labor.
The illuminated cross to be placed on
the summit OF the spire to be erected over
Grace Church, New York, will be seen by
mariners coming into port.
The Archbishop of Canterbury says that
| the great Oxford Tractarian movement of
forty years ago neither advanced Roman
ism nor weakened Professionalism in Eng
land.
The Southern Presbyteriaps have decided
to build house of WORSHIP for their mis-
sion in SAlonica, Greece, and call upon
| their Sunday-school children to raise So
| 600 toward the amount.
" Your Moody" said French material
ist who attended meeting held by the
American evangelist IN Paris, was the
essence of moderation. He did not say a
| single outrageous thing"
The hymns of Samuel Longfellow, a
younger brother of the great poet, are in
the Baptist, Presbyterian and Methodist
Hymuals, but were excluded from Bishop
Odenheimers " Songs of the Spirit be-
cause OF the writer's unbelief IN the Trini-
ty.
a Georgia preacher lately warned his
congregation that all who attended the
circus would be expected to Withdraw
| from the church, The circus arrived, and
the preacher went to see who OF his flock
were present. His discovery there made a
capital foundation for compromise, which
was promptly effected.
For several years an effort has been
| made among the Msthodists of this coun-
try to raise fund OF $500 600 as a loan
| fund, TO aid in the work of church extern.
sion in that denomination. The great
work is completed, and the Board of
! Church Extension will now be able to Sc.
cure the erection of two new churches each
week.
The American Sunday-School Union,
| which has long been recognized as the so.
ciety thai specially takes care of the oh.I.
dren, has been engaged during the present
year in raising special fund to clear it's
property and increase its capital. In Phila.
delphis alone the sum of $50, 600 has been
subscribed, where $40 GOO mas been paid.
Before the end of the year it is desired 70
to make the amount 500, 900, and go soon
as 800. 600 is reached warm hearted friend
will give the $40, coo.
Three Englishmen have been rebuked
severely by the Renaissance, the Liberal
Protestant organ published in Paris. for a
gross improperly committed in Roueu
sCathedral. Being in the cathedral one
morning, on their way back from Havre to
Paris, 1t occurred TO them that it was just
the place for little prayer-meetiug before
parting. They accordingly prayed and
sang aloud, to the stupefaction of the bea.
die, who was too much surprised 20 inter.
fere. Things will come 20 pretty pass,
Gays the Renaissance, If an oficsr las To
be placed az every Catholic church to pre-.
vent the eccentricities of English zealots y
The demolition Of the oldest church Of
tie Oldest Protestant sect IN New York,