The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-08-31
RELIGIOUS.

Chautauqua closed on tho 25th the |
most successful of its annual gather |
ings.
The organist of Trinity Church, New |
| Y ork, gets $500 year. Grace Church |
pays its organIst $1,000.
| The Pacific mail steamer sailing from |
| San Francisco September will carry |
thirteen missionaries for China.
The Rev. Thomas Harrison, the evan
| yelist, is ut the Rockford Gll) Camp |
meeting, which began August %.
Fho Worlds Conference of Young
| Mems Christian associations was held
in Berlin last week, August 10Th to 2Itn.
Rev. DR.. II. M. Storrs, of Orange,
Now Jersey, is to give the next Lyman
Beecher course of lectures before the
Yale Divinity school.
W. IL. II. Murray, once pastor of the
Park Street Congregational church, Bos-
ton, is at present Keeping an eating
house in Montreal, Canada.
1t is said that Jews are never found
in the liquor business. Out of 6oOOu
Hebrews in New York city no one so far
as known is the Keeper vi "a saloon.
While there was last year about seven
converts to each of the preachers in the
United States, there were seventy cou-
Verts to each of the missionaries In Asia
Father Hyacinthe, who lately returned
TO Paris from America, has sent in his
resignation as pastor of the "Gallican
church" in Paris.
The Baptist Weekly argues that pas
tors away on vacation have no right tn
do anything but rest. Their congrega.
tions are paying them for their time to
recuperate.
America has an army of . ,236 mission
aries in the field and spends over $1,000,
900 annually in the work. To collect
z and distribute this money requires less
, than per. cent. of It. Ninety-three
I cents out of every dollar reaches the
mission field. 1t costs 1872 to make a
: neathen convert.
A monument is to be erected to the
. late DR.. Moffat, the African missionary,
in his native village of Orm ston, near
rranent, in East Lothian. The ObelIsk
which is to be of red granite and twenty
feet in height, will he furnished with u
bronze relief of the features of the emf
2 nent missionary.
The Baptists Of Italy have united
. under the name of "rhe Christian Apos
tolic Baptist Union of Italy" The Rev.
f James Wall, of the English Baptists, Il,
, | President. Evangelizng committees
- lhNo nccH oInleui pupeI - " NC pun
lished, and hymn and tuno-boOk inn
/, mediately prepared.
4 The London Sunday School Union
calls for season of special PRAYER iOl
Sunday October 10Th and 10Th.
: "George," asked the teacher of a Sun
/, day school class, "who, above all others
shall you wish TO SEQ when you 20 I,
heavon2" With lace Frightening VI
Il with anticipation, the little fellow shout
4 | cd, "GerliahW
+" The Presbyterian Banner says: "Da
Il kota needs one hundred more Preshy
terrain ministers. There is no connection
! between church and state, yet the UnitcC
States will give each minister by pr,
emption, free-claim and homestead, IS
acres of AS good laud rs the sun shine,
Il upon for mere triile. 1t may all be ha,
at u cost less than the value of the frs
sod crop.
The "Conscience Fund" of the Unitet
l. States treasury, since it's establishment
twenty years ago, has ammOunted I,
about u quarter million dollars, sis
thousand dollars having been added
u during the last fiscal year. The largest
2, contribution ever made was four thou
r. sand dollars, and was forwarded from
-, Chicago, the smallest was nine cents
u aud came from Massachusetts man.
y Tho Congrogatiouilist learns that out
l. of $50 churches of that denomination IL
Massachusetts from which it has reports
d lS have responsive reading in som,
is form in the Sunday service. In 100, tn,
III congregation joins with the minister IL
I the repetition OF the Lords Prayer, am
siXty-tive have chanting In some form
r. frequently the Gloria Patri. Most of In,
+, pastors express themselves pleased witt
the changes introduced into the oil,
ID order of service, and report that thei
Il congregations are also pleased, aud JOIN
X heartily in the responsive and other com
t. mon acts Of worship.
DR.. Davis, writing from Japan, says
r. "One of the largest Buddhist temples II
the city has school of several hundre,
Young priests connected with il, and th
priests have recently bought 10 copie
of the New Testament and some com
mentaries, and have put the school a
k work studying the Bible every day
What will come oil it not do know, bu
,s- the priest who bought the hooks told til
=, bookseller that they were bound to 80
~ what Christianity was; and ii II was he'
d. ter than Buddhism, they were going
pr adopt it,"
~ That the famous Puritan stock shout
10y disappear from New England, rs 1t is ~
as serted to be disappearing, is matter ft
'Ie a selfish addiction among the wealthy
~ the careless pleasures of unmarried Iii
M 1t is subject for reprobation. But I
,.L all events, to considerable extent, 81
~ alleged deterioration is queStiO
Wv chiefly, "a IL were, of account. The oil
,lo Yankee stock Is lost to Massachuset
'ra and Connecticut and Maine, simply ihi
ne u may emerge in another aud less q,
~ hausted quarter of the American corl
- a
perity at large, IL is h'rdly to loo wiShC
81, that the area of American activi
w., should become 40 contracted AS to ohlil
,ra adventurous spirits to abide in Ne
England and wed the Priscillas M
40 Hephzibshs of their native villages.
"a London Times.
,rc Never word IL said
IA Rut II trcmbcs In the air,
- And tue truant voice has sped
ne lie Vlbrate everywhere;
&C. Aud perhaps, far or In eternal years
EN- The echo may ring upon our enrs.
Never are kind acts done,
~, To wipe the weeping eyes,
" But like flashes Of the sun,
NY They signal 10 the sixties;
ufI Aud up above the angels read
'as How We have helped the sorcr need,
,,, Never day is given
s But II tones the after years,
sts Aud IL carries up To heaven
Its sunshine or Its tears;
While the to-morrows stand and walt
The silent mutes by the outer gate.
,,,s There Ia no cud To the sky,
And the stars are everywhere,
Aud time IN eternity,
nd And the here Is over there;
For the common deeds Of the common
ent Are ringing bells In the far away,
.on Henry Burton
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lrld na,t,. s,,,,..t or uusic nnd Ar, has
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