Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-08-11
RELIGIOUS lNrELLIGENoE.
Notes, Personal ara oth,rMlse.

India.
The Scottish Free chu CHI is about to
establish mis- at Tiberias, on the
lake Of Gennesaret.
The American delegates 10 the PAN
Presbyterian council at Belfast were
tue mos conservative Of doctrine Of ali
the assembly. This fact wss 80 prumi-
nent as to excite general comment.
The American Baptist Missionary
nnion has, In the Asiatic and African
fields. SSl stations, rs ordained Amer
lean and 1S2 ordained native ministers,
$50 churches and $500 communi.
cants. 7
Mr.. Moody, speaking Of his equable
temperament and steady nerves, says: |
VI am never excited in my most ex
citing meetings. l can sleep like a |
top within three minutes of going into |
a meeting and l can be sound asleep
three minutes after leaving IL. If III
were TO get into a state of nervous ex.
element should have been dead long
ago"
Life Is d changeable
Loan for n day;
A fooi would regard u
As his for aye.
Arab saying.
Not a week In the year goes by that
some Christian missionary does not
sail from some AMerican port on the
Atlantic or Pacific sea-board bound for
some heather land. Men and women,
married and single, are pushing out
almost daily with no other errand
than TO spread the Gospel Of Jesus
Christ. Never before have Christian
missions shown such abundant prom
ise.
The friends of domestic morality are
agtating for an amendment to the
constitution of the United States,
to section S of the constitution the
words "and divorce ~ 40 that 1t shall
read: Congress shall have power TO
establish a uniform rule OF naturaliza-
ton, and uniform laws On the subject
of bankruptcies and divorce through.
out the United States.n There is
much TO he said in favor of nationa
divorce law.
AT n meeting in Japan where a
number OF Christian girls were gath
cred together, the subject was; "How
to glority Christ by ourselves" One
Of the girls said: sit seems 10 me
like this: One spring my mother got
some flower seeds, little, ugly, black
things. and planted them; they grew
and blossomed beautifully. One day a
neighbor coming In and seeing these
flowers said: oh, how beautiful |
must have some too; won't you please
give me some seed?' Now, if this
eighbor had only seen just these
flower seeds, she wouldn't have called
tor them; twas only when she saw
how beautiful was the blossom tina
she wanted the seed And so witt
Christianity; when we speak TO GU
friends of the truths of the Bible, they
seem to them hard and embarrassing
and they say: We don't care to hea
about these things; they are not as In
teresting as our own stories. Blu
when they zee these same truths bios
soming out in our lives into kindl.
words and good acts, then they say
How beautiful these lives. Wha
makes them different frsm othe
ves?' When they hear that tits tn
J,sus-teaching, then uuey say: Wv
must have 1t tool "
Few more thrilling stories of suffer
ing and adventure can be told thai
tn It of Arch Deacon Kirby, now II
England soliciting funds for the ful
ther prosecution of his missionar.
work among the Alaskan Indians. ii
canoe he journeyed $500 mile
northwest from Manitoba, establish
Ing missions and learning the Ian
guage OF the Indians, He pressed OF
still 400 miles to the north, being thu
: first missionary known To have en-
tered the arctic circle. Thence h
proceeded to Alaska. In winter h
: travelled in snow shoes, accompanies
by dog sledge carrying provision
and camp equipment, an
| encamped under snow drifts, tn
thermometer ranging from 20 to q
+ below zero. There he,has spent thirt,
, two wears of useful, seli-deDying lif
Hundreds have been converted as a n
suit of his labors and scores of the col
verts are now preaching the gospel I
Christ to their Indian brethren.
The programme for the approachin
meeting of the Evangelical alliance I
. Copenhagen has been issued by th
British branch. II says: There Will
! interesting reports on the state OF r
ligion in the various countries. Az
' dresses will be given o
"Christianity and the Masses,
1.-The Basis and Authority Of the Ne
Testament "Modern Unbelief,
1.-The Divinity and Atoning Work
/; Our Lord u "I'he Harmony of Sclent
/. and Revelation 1.-THE Duty of u
! Christian Church In Reference to Mi
SONS" SUNDAY school Work. "Ii
. temperance, 1.-THE Duty of Liber
Giving" "Chrlstian Responsibility
/, Regard to Prevailing immortality
The Lords Day; Its Peace an
Power.n Among those expected
take part in the proceedings al
the lord mayer of Londoi
{ the Rev. II. McCullagh lpres
dent of the Wesleyan Methods
conference), DR.. Marshall Lang. Pr
: lessor Redford, DIR. Sinclair Patterson
Prebendary Anderson. w. Arthur, ID
0 Gender, DR.. l.. b. White, DIR. Grittol
. DR.. Murray Mitchell, DR.. Clemanc
!. DR.. Angus, DIR. Cairns. America wi
be represented by Professor Schal
Professor Day, DIR. John Hall and ID
w. M. Taylor; Professor Godet Is e,
2 pected from Switzerland, Professs
ahristlieb from Germany, Profess,
! Rosenius from Sweden, Professor Gle,
J, monat from Italy. Professor M'vlci
D from Canada, Or. Kalkar, Dean Val
? and Professor Scharling will represeI
!. Denmark.
! Indications.
WASHINGTON, Aug. Lowest ga
4 states Generally fair weather; vari
BILE winds. generally from east to nortl