The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-10-04
RELIGIOUS NOTES AND CHURCH
CHIMES.


Ecclesiastical gossip in Chicago
says that Archbishop Woods success
sor will be Bishop Spauiding, OF
Peoria, Ill.
The ceremony of comforting the
pallium on Archbishop Elder, set fol
September 80, at Cincinnati, has been
postponed without date, owing to the
delay in sending the pallium from
Rome.
The Baptist weekly IS aIt 'hf0cr1it 7. FOL
the statement that even on festival
days not more Than two OF three hun
dred people can be induced to attend
the NJJre Dame church, Paris, nova
days. In former times the congrega-
ton numbered from thirty to forty
thousand.
The editor of the Central Baptist
having seen it stated that the Rev.
Mr.. Spurgeon had said he would
rather be c;lnnibal than a close
communion Baptist" wrote to him
respecting the truth of the report
In reply, Mr.. Spnrgeon said: 81 never
thought so, and certainly never said
so. have not the slightest wish to
be one or the other"
The preacher from the pulpit. the
journalist from his desk, and the
statesman from the public forum
should urge upon the public the ne
cessity of training the youth to useful
employment. In this work the pub
lie schools even can be a powerful
coadjutor under wise direction. 1t
certainly has never hindered it, and it
can safely be assumed that it never
wiIl.-Philadelphia Times.
According to the Rev. DR.. Crosby,
of New York, Protestant christianity
is in a bad way. He says in a recent
ly published lecture that "the great
bulk of the Protestant church is
identified with the world. 1t has
name to live while it is dead. 1t has
turned its doctrine into naturaliSm or
rationalism, and its life into selfish
ness. The old landmarks are gone.
Family prayer is given up. Sunday
newspapers are read, prayer meetings
are ignored, worldly partnerships are
formed, social sins are connived at,
and even excused, the pulpit is made
a stage on which to strut and pose be-
fore a gaping world, and religion is
made one of the instruments of
fashion. We may not cure this
dreadful evil, but we may ourselves
avoid it and its doom. We may looI
to ourselves and to our own families,
that we go not with the multitude of
Christians to evil and to perish in the
hour when Christ shall come as
thief to their dismay." If this pic
ture of religious declensiol is accu-
rate in its portrayal of facts, the re-
formatory efforts Of another Martin
Luther are urgently needed.
In a lecture delivered in BROOKLYN,
Rev. Justin ID. Fulton had this to say
about Monsignor Capel: "Capel had
been identified with the Catesby of
Beaconsfield's 'Lothair,' and the result
was fame in England, and reflected
fame in America. His conversion of
the Marquis of Butte drew additional
attention to him, and he achieved a
wide reputation for PROSECUTING prom
inent Protestants." The lecturer fur
Their declared that "Monsignor Capel's
prestige in England suffered a sudden
eclipse when Cardinal Manning in
terdicted him for embeZzling the
funds with which the Marquis of
Butte had proposed to found a college.
lie appealed to the pope, but the in
ttrdiction was sustained" A news
paper containing the report of Mr..
Fulton'S lecture being shown to the
distinguished Catholic divine in
Baltimore, he knit his brows,
and when he had finished
reading said indignantly: Il never.
heard that Cardinal Manning inter
dicted me. Had he done so l coul1 |
not he ignorant of it. know moth
ing of the Marquis Of Butte having
given sum of money for the founda- |
ton of a college. Certainly, he never
gave it to me; consequently, there has
not been an appeal in the matter to
the pope. The whole statement is Il
calumnious fabrication, and in nv
country the utterer and publisher of
it could be criminally or civilly pun
ished. 1 presume like justice can be
meted under American law" The
monsignor further stated that he had
heard such lecture was going to be
delivered about him, and supposed
hat the clergyman would probably
,riticlSe his religious views, but had
lot the slightest idea that he would
make such bitter and so false a