The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1883-04-04
GENERAL ITEMS.

ulo Wllcf Will Sptuu Ju6 coming summer III THIS
country and will lecture in various cities.
The Church on the Heights, Brook
lyn, L. l., has given to the Board of Foreign
Missions. March 4th, a collection amounting to
81, 200. The largest collection in our church
for many years" Would that other churches
would do likewise.
Mr.. Spurgeon writes that he has
elders and deacons in his great church in Lon
don" deacons for temporal and elders for
spiritual thing" asks, Are not both
officers necessary ?"
Mr.. Moody says that he does not
fear in6delity half so much as he fears the cold
Journalism which is creeping over Christianity
the want of heart, interest. fire, and enthusiasm.
The Governor of Kentucky, it is
said, pardoned in year and half FIVE hundred
and FIVE persons for murders, attempts on life,
and preparations for taking life or liberty.
One of the handsomest Roman
Catholic temples which money can build will
be raised by the Empress Eugene at Farnbor-
ough in memory of her beloved dead Between
100000 and 10000 will, according to con-
temporary, be devoted to this purpose
The revival in Delaware, Ohio, is
one unusual interest. Up to this time the num-
Der of converts is reckoned at about 400, of
"nOth d llItle over EOO are SJuuents OF the u nj
versity.
The Malagassy Embassy attended
plymouth Church last Sabbath. Mr. Beecher
spoke of their oppression and the intrusion of
foreign force. and resolutions were adopted
by the congregation expressing sympathy with
the people of Madagascar.
1T is thought in some quarters that
DR.. Robertson Smith, having accepted the Pro
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be induced to accept the pastorate of the Pres
byterian congregation in that town, which as
yet has not had a settled minister.
Colonies for Palestine are being
made up among the better classes of Russian
Jews More than fifty colonies, mostly from
Roumania, have gone within the past four or
FIVE months. These are mostly in parties of
two or three hundred people. They have money
enough to buy land to settle on, and they hope
to develop energy.
Hester Won der Linde Brinckerhoff
Jackson, direct descendant of Philip Schuyler,
the Albany PATRON, and a great niece of Gen.
Philip Schuyler the old patriot and Indian fight
er, died in Newark, N j., Monday night, at
the great age of 10l. She was acquainted with
Lafayette, and often saw Washington at her
fathers home in Fishkill-on-the-Hudson
The question whether the rationalis-
tic preaching of DR.. Heber Newton. of New
York, is in accordance with the canons and ar
tcles of the Episcopal Church. is to be iudicially
determined by ecclesiastical authority. Three
presbyters are to formulate charges and bring
them officially to the notice of the Bishop of the
Diocese DIR. Newton declares that the Bible
has become I" an idol, a fetischp to many, and
proposes to select his own Bible out of that
which God has given. 80
Among the donations of the late
George Peabody, for the promotion of education
In the Southern States, were il 900 900 in bonds
OF the State of Mississippi. But that State hav-
ing repudiated its debt, the bonds are worth
less. 1t was thought that the Legislature would
make provision for payment of at least the in
terest on these bonds, because it would be re-
turned to the education fund of the State but
this has not been DONE and IL is said that no
politician who aspires to public position would
dare advocate the payment of this interest The
State has now received $69, 72S from the Pea
body Fund, and no one dare suggest that it
would be honest and honorable TO try at least,
to keep that Fund intact.
The State of Maine seems to have
been doing some wholesome legislating during
the past winter. The Legislature has passed a
law submitting to a vote of the people an
amendment to the constitution prohibiting the
manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors
1t has also restored the death penalty for the
crime Of murder, which had been abolished by
former statute. 1t also frightened up consider
ably the laws touching divorce, and has thus
arrayed itself against many of the evils which
threaten the family and the home in many OF
our States
REQUESTS TO THE UNIVERSITY -
We are glad to learn that the late Douglas H
Gordon Esq of Baltimore, left in his will S. 900
TO the Library Fund of the University OF Va
Mr.. Gordon was an honored alumnus Of the in
stltutlon. and at one time was a member of the
Board of Visitors. This is the second bequest
to the University during the year, the first
being that of Mr.. Isaac Cary of Richmond
$1,000 for the establishment Of scholarships.
Charlottesville Chronicle
Here, in New York paper last
week. is the latest turn in the religious wheel
A church to be organized on the basis of pure
Iheism, for the spiritual worship of one only
| God, Creator Of the Universe and Father of
Mankind, was inaugurated Sunday evening
| March 18th, at horticultural Hall, New York
Mr.. Shermerhorn, who will take charge grad
uated at Williams College in 1866, studied the
! ology at Union, Yale and Andover Semnaries
and at Heidelberg University, has been for six
years at work upon a book entitled, Sacred
| Scriptures OF the World TO be issued next
month by the Putnams, and described in the
prospectus "a being virtually an expurgated
edition of the Hebrew and Christian Scriptures
to which are added characteristic selections from
the other Bibles or sacred writings Of the world -
/ The four gospels are " harmonized" into one
rejecting everything which has not the authori-
~ OF two OF the Evangelsts. This book is ID
| be the Bible of the "Theistic" Church Mr.
Schermerhorn's creed is contained in twelve
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