The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-03-04
RELIGIOUS NOTES.

There are 100000 Moslems in Syria aud
Palestine.
Monks have doubled in number in Bel.
gium since 1850
Father Richter, the new bishop OF Grand
Rapids, Michigan, is only 30 years old.
The Evangelist uses mourning rules for
lis leading editorial on William Il. Dodge.
Good Friday and the Hebrew festival of
Purim tall on the same day this year.
March %.
Joseph Cook admits that he does not
know how long aztec death the soul leaves
The body.
The finest Jewish library IN the world is
IN London, city which has 100 900 Jewish
population.
Evangelist Hammond has arrived in Ber-
mud0i whore he is to hold revival services
for q month
Mormonism is steadily spreading over
Idaho. a third Of the 5000 population
are Mormons.
Archbishop Benson will be enthroned in
Canterbury cathedral March -, the first
Thursday after Easter.
The Pope has made, will in which he
leaves large part of his property for the
promotion of education.
Religious talks are held in many large
establishments in Chicago during the noon
hour of lunch and recreation.
The Methodist Episcopal church has
l,5ol912 members in full connection, and
l'9i on probation in this country.
The grandfather of Archbishop Benson.
primate OF the church OF England, was a
Methodist preacher and scholar, Rev.
Joseph Benson.
A gllt Of clock was made some time ago
to a church in Amherst, Massachusetts.
with the condition that it should lnyaria.
bly, keep Boston time.
1t is reported that the emperor of China
has ordered the closing of the Buddhist
temples ON account OF the immortality and
superstition they encourage.
Lay colleges where a less EXPENSIVE
course OF theological study may be pursued
imam IN the regular theological seminaries,
nave been recommended for the south.
During the last ten years, acc ording to
the c0reiully-kept statistics Of the chief
constable OF Glasgow, Scotland, not one
publc-hOuse is reported rs open on Sunday
A proposition TO make the second centen.
NAL celebration of the anniversary of the
Edct of Nantes the occasion for the or.
gani2auon Of 3 Huguenot society in the
United States is meeting with much favor
The Hartford Courant makes hit at Jo.
seph Cooks postiveness OF knowledge by
saying: 81. Paul knew in part and proph-
esled In part, but then--ho didn't live in
Boston,
Professor Smyth, OF Andover, who is on
posing Joseph Cooks doctrine OF probation
Is II brother of DR.. Newman Smyth, of New
Haven, whom the Andoyer board of visitors
rejected as Professor Park s. successor in the
chair of theology.
A delegation of the McAll mission, which
has Just established its eighty-third station
in Paris, is now on the Atlantic, and will
present the needs of that work to tho
churches in the United States.
Mr.. Rockefeller, the Standard Oil million
alre, goes regularly TO the prayer meeting
OF the Fifth avenue Baptist church, DIR. Ar
mitage pastor, and almost al ways takes an
interesting part in it" says an exchange.
Professor Hiram +. Reed, of Philadelphia,
says the Bible is the most dramatic book in
the world, not even excepting shakespeare
plays, and argues that the same care and
art required in reading Shakespeare should
DO applied to the reading Of the Bible.
A sharp controversy is raging between
three OF the most respectable religious pa
pers as 10 whether II ~ right or wrong I'M
der any circumstances TO tell lie. One or
two OF these papers have carried the discus
sion so far rs to accuse each other of I'M
fairly twisting each others statements, and
almost of lying.
THE superior morality and manners OF
the Greek lower classes to GU. own and those
OF America" says an English writer, land
their general tone OF piety, is enough to
make Bible societies feel that the energies
directed to supply the Greeks with transla.
tons ofthe Testament might more effect
ually be employed at home.n
The Rev. Y. p, Morgan, of Cleveland,
undertakes to state the position of the Pro.
testant Episcopal church on Biblical inspir.
alton. II has never adopted any theory, he
says, but it simply declares that the HOLY
Scriptures are the Word of God, and con.
tain all that is necessary to salvation. Mr..
Morgan would venture to say that Mr..
Newton is still loyal to his ordination vow.
The new archbishop of Canterbury does
not wish to have the Church of England re.
peat its mistake in forcing John and Charles
Wesley out to found u new organization.
lie is reported as saying to General Booth,
OF the Salvation Army; go on; do all the
good you can; get at the people. We rejoice,
only We would like IL to be done somehow
or other in harmony and in unison with the
Church Of England"
THEATRICAL NOTES.