Daily globe., 1882-07-02
TIMELY TOPICS.


country. One of the great features of COM
mensement week at Williamstown will be a
memorial discourse on Gen. Garfield by DR..
Hopkins. And it is still further interesting to
know that it will be delivered at noon of July
4th.
DR.. TALMAGE's Tabernacle in Brooklyn " i'll
be closed during July and August for exten-
sive improvements. and DR.. Talmsge will spend
his vacation at White Sulphur Springs, Virginia
and Mount Desert, Maine. DR.. Talmage
finds his rest in busy activity during the
heated term. he has two or three lectures
to give, and some twelve or fourteen conven-
tons to attend.
Mr.. BEECHER's Plymouth church in Brook
lyn will be closed for cleaning after the third
Sunday in July, and remain closed until
September. Mr.. Beecher will reE ain on his
farm at Peekskill during his vacation. Hav-
ing secured remedy for hay-fever, he will
no longer be driven to the White Mountains
for refuge, but live in manner becoming
a Westchester county farmer.
THE condition of Egypt is most deplorable.
Anarchy actually bears sway. The khedive as
sumes to be monarch, and yet has no power
to enforce his orders, and is wholly at the
mercy of his alleged subjects The army
boards him in his palace and dictates to him
what he may, or may not do. 1t is note
worthy, too, that the army represents the
mere Mohammedan population, and there
seems, at the present time, to be springing
up throughout the Mohammedan world re-
vengeful, fanatical spirit to strike at Chris
tianity wherever it has power.
An exchange says: Let US indulge the
pleasing hope that when the assassin of the late
president is hanged, we shall hear no more Of
the Guiteaus. The persistent and impertinent
obtrusion upon the public OF Mrs. Scoville
and Mrs. Dunmire, and Others OF the kin and
connection, is exceedingly disgusting. One
of them says, we are not in favor of him be-
ing hung But we are in favor Of them keep
ing quiet" Let US wish that the hope Of our
contemporary may be realized. Now that the
last ghastly scene in the dire drama has been
enacted, let us hope that the names of the
entire gang of disgusting cranks, with that
ofthe base assassin, may disappear from the
public prints.
A SINGULAR, and contemporary hopes it
| always viii be singular, decision has been
made by the United States circuit court in
Kentucky, that profane postal card is not
| within the act Of congress prohibiting the
mailing Of "indecent and immoral" matter.
''The connection in which the word indecent
is used" says Judge Barr, "taken with the
history Of the legislation upon The subject,
| leads me to the conclusion that it means i'm
modest, impure, and that language which is
| coarse or unbecoming is not within the in-
hibition of this act.'' We have not the
language of the law at hand, but if the word
Immoral" is used, we would suppose that
profane language would be prohibited by
such statute. In most parts of the Christian
world profane words would be regarded quite
as immoral as immodest words.
| Z valuable sanitary journal, which is an au-
thority, makes the following important sug-
gestions in regard to the use of hot milk. 1t
says: "Milk that is heated to about 100 de-
grees Fahrenheit loses for the time degree of
its sweetness and its density; but no one IA
tigued by over-exertion of body and mind,
who has ever experienced the reviving infu
ence of tumbler Of this beverage, heated as
hot as it can be slipped, will willingly forego
resort to it because of its having been rem
dered somewhat less acceptable to the palate.
The promptness with which its cordial infiu-
ence is fel. is indeed surprising. Some por-
tions Of it seem to be digested and appropri-
ated almost immediately; and many who fancy
they need alcoholic stimulants when exhaust
ed by labor of brain or body will find in this
simple draught an equivalent that shall be
abundantly satisfying and more enduring in
its efects.''
AwRITER presents some thoughts worthy of
consideration, when speaking OF city and large
village churches. He remarks that "Protest-
ants do not sufficiently utilize their large and
costly houses of public worship. Many of
| them are open only twice in a week, and then
only for two services of one and half hour
each. That would be only 156 hours out of
S,760 hours in year! During all those long
hours, except for a wedding, funeral, or occa-
sionsl service, the building stands closed. Is
there ne use to which Christians might put
their churches during these days and months!
Perhaps the time will come when Christians
of the whole world will find it in their minds
to offer daily sacrifice of their hearts in the
house of Ged. 1t is true that where churches,
as in Roman Catholic countries, are open ali
the time, very few avail themselves of the op-
portunity offered to worship in "the holy
place." And it is also true that worship is
tjust as acceptable to God when rendered in
one place as another, if it be only offered in
spirit and truth"
1T is noticeable fact that very few of the
churches in the city of New York remain
closed during the warm season. They are
kept open and Sunday services are held though
the congregations, generally, are greatly di.
minished. The emigration from the city in
the summer is very large, though small com
pared with the thousands who do not or can
not go away. It is, also, noticeable fac,
that the summer emigration consists largely
Of those persons who fill the churches that
are partially closed. Some churches are neve,
, closed at all. Questionable Christians, ,
SO to designate them, are thei ones
that more generally absent themselves from the
city, it may be inferred from the following
statement in New York religious journal
"Any church, on or near the Fifth avenue
which has regular service every Lords day
during july and Aupust will hava poort