The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-09
RELIGIOUS NOTES AND CHURCH
CHIMES.

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CHIMES.
An Iowa woman who had been
blind for three years suddenly recov-
cred her sight, and declared she had
been cured by prayer. The Boston
| Transcript considers it strange that
she should have gone without prayer
for three long years.
The Montreal nun, who applied to
the Pope to be released from her
VOWS, taken when she was very
young, has obtained her request. She
is free, and living again with her
parents. The bishop of Montreal
told her there was no hope of release,
but the Pope has responded more
literally than had been expected.
The question of removing the time
limit of Methodist ministers is being
tested by the. Central Christian Adj
vocate of st. Louis. Out of $50 circu-
lars thirty-seven responses have been
received, twenty-five being in favor
of the removal, eleven against and
four doubtful. Eight were in favor
of extension of the time, seven OPP
posed both extension and removal
and two in favor of removal and op-
posed to extension.
The remains of George Whitefield
are beneath the pulpit of the old
Presbyterian church at Newburyport,
Mass. Probably none of Mr.. White
| fields relatives had ever visited the
tomb until the week before last, when
Mrs. Walsh, of Savannah, Ga,
grandniece of the distinguished divine,
went to tn church, handled reYer-
emily the Bible from which her an
cestor preached, and visited the tomb
where his remains lie.
The Archbishops summoned to
Rome are: Archhishops Corrigan,
of New York; Gibbons, of Balti-
more; Williams, of Boston; Freehan,
of Chicago; Elder, of Cincinnati;
Heiss, of Milwaukee,; Perche, of New
Orleans: Seghers. of Oregon City;
Kendrick, of st. Lo lis; Alemany, of
San Francisco: and Lamy, of Santa.
Fe. OF these Archbishops Perche,.
of New Orlans; and Kendrick, of ST..
Louis, will be represented by their CO.,
adjutors-B Bishops Lerray and Ryan,.
The rector of Christ's Episcopal
church, Indianapolis, gave sermon
on the subject of choirs, the OCCASION
being the introduction -of surpliced
boys. He took for a text, 1.-THE Lee
viJes, the singers with their sons and
their brethren, arrayed in white lin
en-. stood at the altar with the priests"
A procession was formed, and as
| the line of little robes entered hymn
was sung. The rector said solemnly.
81 receive you as choristers in the
church of God. See to it that what
you say from this book and sing from
this book you believe in your hearts
and practice in your daily lives. BE
faithful unto death, that you may
come at last to stand in the heavenly
temple and praise your God forever"
Lord Shaftesbury is president of a
society for colonizing Jews in the
Island of Cyprus. Then after awhile,
he expects, like another Moses, to lead
them all into the promised land in.
order to fulfill certain alleged scriptu-
raj prophecies. He makes the follow
ing statement of his plan: I'VE guar
antee g52 for support this year of
each family in Cyprus, and the British
government take them under their
protection and will allot to them suit
able land. We ask immediate help
in providing this sum for their set
Element in the island. That primary
/ uubJ w 70 llOCuu W COAOAhuO
the work in the land of promise, at
Jerusalem and elsewhere, of helping
suffering Jews to settle in honest in
dustry."
Prof. Andrew P. Peabody says in
the Unitarian Review: "If professed
Parsees, Buddhists, or Mohammedans,
should ask a place on our list of
preachers, room would be made for
them at once and pulpits thrown open
to them" The good doctor adds:
| Christ and of the sacramentS, they
ought to quit preaching; they have
no rightful place in christian
church." Still better he says: "NO
man was ever made better by argu-
ments against the trinity, or the di-
vinlty of Christ, or the personality of
the holy spirit, or the vicarious atone
ment. The entire motive power of
religion lies in its positive beliefs in
| those few vast truths into which one
may grow for lifetime"
Mayor Ewing, of st. Louis is be-
ing held up as frightful example by
Rev. Father phelan, editor OF the
Waterman, because he, being of Cath
| Ollie birth and education, had con-
minister The reverend editor de.
votes a column and half tn an eye
Grafton of the mavor who Is declared
tn have ..sacrificed his RELIGIONS nrir-.
cinIesn and ..crowned n course of re-
iigions Indifference by an act of apos-.
tasv" IIntoward events such AZ fhis
will occasionally happen within the,
most carefnllv Guarded fold hnt II is.
seldom indeed that the shepherd lifts,
nm his voice in yOciferons complaint
| To indulge in vituperation when con-
troll is no longer possible is not the,