The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1883-03-04
sUNBEAMs.


la ten years the increase has been IS per cent.
A monument Is to be erected In Nom
ro,ia. Liberia to the memory Of the Rev Henry High
land Garnet, u. D. who lies buried there itisto 10
paid for by the Garnet Literary Association OF Lincoln
University,
Tho Baptists havo raised $4,000 for tho
renovation Of the University Hail Of Brown Cnvcrsty
Providence. TIL, goes Mt once. The legacy It
eajoun recently received by the university is to Os
spent on the scientific department.
"A small boy in South Carolina raises
canary birds and gives tho proceeds OF their sale to the
Hoard Of Foreign Missions In three years this enter
prng and young person has thus gathered
aud given about one hahdred dollars
Jerry McAuleys Crcmorne Mission now
Issues paper allied the Perpetual Rerirai 1t gives m
account OF what gives the mission including many
astonishing eases Of conversion One OF tile strong point
Of this mission IA the reclamation Of bxcksliders
Evangelist Hammond goes to Bermuda
whsr. he expects 10 work for month more he ha'
been among the churches OF Newark. n. j.. for SON,
weeks Ind IL sad to count his converts BY the hundreds
~ the result of this brief term Of service Mr.. liam
ond has increased greatly in size and weight as years
have been added to him.
The Rev. Howard Crosby d. D., has for
twenty been pastor OF the Fourth Avenue freby.
terrain Church \ public service Is to be held IN the
church to morrow evening 10 commemorate this fact
The addresses to he delivered by number OF ths
most distinguished ministers OF various denominations
Or Crosby administration has been strong ois, and
his church is one OF the most prosperous In the city
The late Mr.. Garthwaite Of Newark, n.
j., had pleasant way OF doing his benencenc-s. The
land on which st. Pauls Episcopal Church stands, NJ
High and Market streets had originally belonged 10 him.
One Sunday morning he quietly dropped into the con
ribuion box as it passed to him deed for the land
which was worth 5000 lie sought no applause. nor
did he TO be thanked for the good deeds he did
A novelty in Sunday school conventions
is to he in Dr. crosbys church. in Fourth sat
ri s'he nf.p chprs tns
convention all to themselves The meetings are 10 cen
time all day and be diversned with experiences object
lessons and hints Of every kind to how 10 teach thu
smallest OF scholars Some of the most famous infant
school managers have been engaged and Will endeavoi
to throw light the practical questions involved III try
ing to interest and profit the little folks
Two Episcopal churches in Cincinnati
were greatly dnaS ed by the foods The Church OF the
At0ncinent and the Emmanuel Church III.
Ohio River, ut the west end OF the city the other
the end The loss OF the Church Of the Atoncn
is that of carpets. organ and furniture amounting
more than 81 Uo The water was Ave feet deep The
floor of this church. md when subsidized there y
disgusting deposit Of mud. Emmanuel Church suffer-
more severely. 1t is frame building and is badi,
shaken Many OF its members suffered in their hone'
and their business by the flood that they rl.
to render tile help they woud like toward putting III,
church IN order. There is possibility that this unfor
tunate church may have to be closed.
The English rcvisers of the Old Tesla.
ment are now reported to have finished the second
vision of the whole from the rs, chapter of Genesis m
the last Of Malachi All that remains isto consider
the suggestions OF the American reyisers and To verify
by the Of concordances and otherwise the trans!
tons they have made u words which many times
Some discussion has arisen to the use of the word
Jehovah where the word Lord has generally
Some OF the revisers are understood to be in favor OF H.
but others are averse to making such change.
These reysers have been much disturbed by the hue and
cry raised about the petness OF many OF the nlt,ra
n New r, re 1 is
that they willing to put themselves to great deal
Of trouble TO have this Old Testament revision only
perfect be made but popularity acceptable
Some time ago there was queer lawsuit
growing out OF the will Of the late Charles Manchester
of Philadelphia, He had left g. 90 for a Pres,y trran
church in Torresdac the suburb where he resided. Tho
condition on which he beqneathed this was that "a
spectacle number" Of Presbyterans should assemble
regularly for worship and desire to unite temse
church. The question came up in settlement of the
claim Of seventeen Presby 10 be recognized
respectable number" After considerable litigation this
was settled in favor Of the seventeen and the
executors paid the money into court. The OrpAsns
Court took charge of the erection OF the building which
in snow completed. 1t a very plain structure, hut
erthelcss comnoious enough for the seventeen aud any
others who are likely to come. The of the work
was only so beyond the estimated 500.
The New York Presbytery has been I'm.
successfully trying to decide whether the Cinnamon in
this city such residents should come under
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such a!iens should be cared by the Board For
eign Missions. II might be supposed by ordinary oh
servers that as the Chinese here and as the work
foreign evangeizarion is carried among those
are abiding in foreign lands the Home Mission Board
would be doing safe and proper thing in looking aftei
the religious needs OF these heather sinners ;u; II
does not so strike the Pr,sbyeria mind. Some OF the
brethren argue that ~ the Chinese are OF foreign birth
they should lie handed To the Foreign Bogrli b..
converted. Unable TO settle II among themselves, tho
hratl ~ pr.a has.
the General Assembly. which will meet In May should
II he decided that because the resident Chinese have
been born in another land they should be relyiuu,ly
managed in this country by the Foreign Board lc way
will lie opened for nextricabe confusion Heretofore
OF the most extensive features OF the work OK the
Board Of Home Missions has boon the effort made to
convert immigrants who have come from foreign shores
aud settled in the West and Northwest II it is under.
stood that the Foreign Board to have the spiritual
care OF persOns of foreign nationality will involve
setting this Board at work for the Scandinavia Kus.
SLAMS, Irslmen. Germans, and Jews who have ed
from their various homes and settled in any part tho
United States.
The missionaries In India have adopted
the practice OF holding general conferences every ten
years These are not for control but for advice and
counsel The first WIS held At AllAhabd ten years
The second was . few weeks ago at Dhurruutolah
More than four hundred mission present rep
resenting nearly all India and almost every Proe.tani
denomination. While there was prevalent siiri, oil
harmony there were very spirited discussions. for
nearly every missionary had some way peculiar him.
self OF doing his work of suggesting how he work Of
Others ought to be done The occupied six days
Among the great obstacles recognized the presence
Of what the missionaries call idoatrvus Ch.sti.ty
namely the Roman Catholic Church. The missionaries
hold that the priests OF tins Church have succeeded only
in making the Moslems believe that all Christians are
nLels. The subject of native preachers and
was warmly discussed. Missionary Scott contrIlurd
that the heather cannot he successfully reached without
native agents There only hundred Protestant
missionaries in all India und they working AT u ire
mrnious disadvantage and needing all the help they
get Missionary Hooper urged that native he pers
mr.. indeed needed but that 1t is dihcut to select
who are trustworthy. Converts. he Says. should not
he urged TO become paid AGENTS Ram Chunder Bose
believes that although India must eventually be con.
verted by her own md daughters yet European
missionary carries prestige which native does not
Many liindoos who Will refuse 10 listen to u native VII
often give heed to the words OF Europe All mi
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