Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-05-10

HE cause q! iuO4it llOlAilly AtS ~ |
,eiveA az awful ble'sot in the town Of
York. Barnum's circus was there on
FGidly and 10 view OF it the school board |
closed the schools that day The PuH
Sylranidn picks ont the two members Of
the board, " enemies Of inpocGree," who
fred this disgraceful bomb of iuiqulty
insc the "ip 5.up OF lnuocence 2222GG Isl .25.2
yates that tho "hegds Of education - lent
themselves to the " work OF the devil ,
and sowed tho seeds of everlasting de-
struotion " because they got free tickets
70 the show. The pulp'ts OF York are sp-
peaIed to to turn on the hose and save the
town from fire and birthstone.
DURING the Pontiac war in the summer
OF 1894 (July 26), Euoch Brown, a worthy
Christian school master and ten Of his
scholars, two girls ard eight boys, were
ruthlessly slaughtered and scalped in a
little school house, about three miles
north of Greopcastle, IN Antrim township,
franklin county, Pa. Rev. Cyrus COrt,
Reformed pastor 10 Greencastle now, who
has great aptitude for historical research
and wonderful energy in carrying out
memorial projects, proposes to raise
through the common, select aud public
schools Of Franklin county q, 900 to erect,
over the grave OF these martyrs TO ChriG
tian education, noble aud enduring
monument on the historic ground hallowed
by their blood and moulder!ug remains.
Is the Reformed synod in Baltimore the
other day, the feature Of the proposed
new rules for the parliamentary regulation
| of general synod providing for closing the
| meetings with the creed, Lords Prayer,
aud the apostolic beuediction pronounced
by the president, met with the opposition
| OF Rev. +. w. Kremer, ID. D., who argued
that individual prayer was often very de-
sirable and efiicaGious. The rules were,
however, adopted unanimously. The
| synod also considered tha proprety OF g
church day for commemOratiug the Refor
nation 4 motion to observe the 3lst 0
October, which is already Luther's day
was strongly opposed by several, and DR.
| Bomberger made q learned address show
ing tLat tho reformation day Of the Re
formed church should be fixed il refer
ence to 2wingl, who, as ho said, wa
preaching and practicing Christ only
while Luther was still praying to tn,
saints. The resolution was eventual,
referred to committee.
MoNCURE D. CANwAY having gono trlv
cling round the world, reports that b,
Was most impressed by tho Sabbatariausu
Of the Sandwich Islands, and the spectacl
presented at Beuares aud other grea
Indian cities OF religion gono rotten. II
blames tho Boston missionaries with cs
tablishing ia Honolulu "the Sabbath as
dread demon before whose glance all mirt
and innocent pleasures hul far away.
This, he thinks, however, will pass ava
as tho Blue laws did in New England
But IN India whose sacred and religion
mysticism ho had read with such passion
ate avidity, among thousands of bowet
worshippers he found not one mau, moi
even ono woman, who seemed to entertain
tho shadow OF a conception of anything idea
: or spiritual, OF religious, or even mytho
logical, in their ancient creed not on
glimmer of the great thoughts of thei
poets aud sages lightenOd their darkeue
temples. To all Of them the great fal:
gods which they worshipped, a hui
5 of roughly carved wood or stone, appeare
to be the authentic presentment OF SON
terrible demon or invisible power wi
would treat them cruelty il they did NJ
give him some melted butter. Of religiC
I in a spiritual sense there is none. II
whole life is dominated from Sunday mi
night to Sunday midnight in every deta
by the usages and customs of minu
and iron ceremonial. But il you wish f
D religion you will not find it in Brahminsn
only in some rock hewn cave or ruine
temple, where some exiled Burmese Bu
= hist bows in silent prayer-th0ro only yC
l find the presence OF God.'
II
FudEsE J. WOODWARD, tho misslr
i tret lurer Of Philadelphia Presbytery boar
o of education, has returned TO his HON