St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-08-24
RELIGIOUS NOTES.

The Friends in England raised during the
year just ended s27, 525 for the support Of
their foreign missions.
The Methodist episcopal church has under
taken to raise half million this year for
Christian education in the SOUTH
| Bishop Colenso's translation into Zulu of
Bunyan's ''Pilgrim's Progress is now be-
ing set up by native printers at Bishopstowe.
It would take a Kelley motor to draw out
from any part of the Old Testament Revision
committee single hint as to any alterations
made by the committee from the received
version.
Rev. DR.. Washington GLADDEN. in the last
Independent argues at length that cheerful
ness is one of the graces every Christian
sour, glum christian.
| The Mennonites have in this country 500
| places of worship, 455 ministers, and $4,000
communicates. There is settlement of
| some dozen villages, mbracing about 1000
of them, occupying some Of the richest land
of Manitoba.
The Brahmas of India have a religion
which adumbrates many of the important
parts of Christianity. They insist on the in
herent sinfulness of sin and teach the need
of reconciliation with God. They also not
only teach but practice the virtues of self de-
NAL and the subjugation of the evil of ones
nature.
Rev. d. D. Whedon, for more than score
Of years editor of the Methodist Quarterly
Review is dying. When asked if he would
| not like to partake OF the Lords Supper, he
replied, 81 am too deaf to hear and too
weak to undergoit, but wish to make the
confession that die in the Christian faith,
according to the Scriptures
! Which do you think of all the ten thousand
Presbyterian churches whose spires point
| heavenward from every land of earth had the
largest gathering of members on confession
of faith in the ecclesiastical year lately closed.
Rev. Hunter Corbitts church at Chefoo,
| China. He received 34S on confession of
faith. Yet GROWERS and grunters say that
Christian missions don't succeed.
On the 23rd of October, 1852, the Elector,
friedrich William, of Prussia, issued his edict
offering an asylum in Prussia to those Pro-
testants whom the revocation of the Edict of
Nantes had banished from France. The de-
scendants of these French refugees in Der
lin. about one thousand families, have decid-
ed to celebrate next year, the two hundredth
| anniversary of this event.
The divisions in the Society of Friends in
Canada are not characterized by any rancor-
GUS feeling. Some believe in the prompt
adoption of better and more effective forms
Of evangelistic work and others who would
make haste more slowly bid their brethren
God speed as they move forward in the ad-
vance, while they themselves 'lead on softly
as the children are abe to endure" Never
theless the London yearly meeting has sent
over deputation TO compose, if possible, the
difference among the Canadian brethren.
Stanley, by his exploration of the Congo,
has opened up for commerce and christianity
vast tract of equatorial Africa. He has 25
stations. extending thousand miles up the
river He has built roads and bridges, has
passed the $50 miles of cataract and rapids,
and launched three steamb boats on the Upper
Congo; and railroad is now projected up
the river to Stanley Pool. The English Bap-
lists were the first to enter this field. They
have had steamboat carried up above the
to cataracts and launched, and expect steam
up the Congo to the equator.
Not otherwise than thou has: fixed
wish my years events.
OF pain and pleasure intermixed
In varied elements.
No shade the less or sheen the more,
Upon the canopy,
Depending with its wide sky DER
My life's sweet mystery.
Each good forbade, thou hast withheld
In wisdom's clear far sight,
No bud of hope that swelled
Was crushed but by thy might.
What seemeth best to power divine
That sure is best for me;
And l would mould my will to thine,
Since prescience il TO thee.
Nary L. Goodrich.
Rev. DR.. J. H. Barrows preaching at Chi
eago last Sunday, on christian beneicenee
said:
s'But some one asks: Would you secular.
ize the Christian activities.' hope you win
not misunderstood me when answer, Yes )
l would not secularize the spiri. of Christian
itT. That would be to destroy It. Blu. I
would have it come home like Lord Bacon's
philosophy to mems bosoms and business.
l would have it reach after men in the con-
ditions in which they are found. ] sympa-
thise with NJ. Moody in his urgent plea with
his English friends to push ON the reform OF
the tenement-houses of outcast London, His
:orr shows that Christianity has been more
and more powerful for good just in proper
ton to its being secularized. that is, just as
II has left its monasteries and its dreams and
its transcendental mysticism, its letting the
world move on to destruction unwarred and
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