Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-08-04
RELIGIOUS NOTES
or All Sorts Collated for Sunday Read.
ers OF The Gazette.

Sankey IL sick and comes home from
England 10 rest. His physicians sa,
he Will soon be all right again.
The noble archbishop of AK visit
all the cholern victims OF Aries at thei
homes aud administers spiritual con
ISOLATION.
Grover Cleveland, the Democrat,
nominee for president, IL the grandson
mad great-grandson of Presbyterian
ministers.
a clergyman who holds very radical
views on the divorce question made a
funny slip the other day when he
added u word to the usual formula,
and said to the man, "Keep yourseli
only unto her as long as you both shall
live together"
Thomas a. Hendricks, the Demo-
cratic candidate for vice-president was
brought up Presbyterian and has A
brother, Abram, who Is IA Presbyterian
preacher. During the war Thomas,
with others, organized the st. Paul
Episcopal church mt indianapolis and
he IL now its senior warden.
Mrs, II. S. Strong, Dublin, Ga. is
not only the wife of "A Methodist
preacher, but she Is also preacher
herself Bishop Pierce of the A. IL.
church. South, advised her to quit
preaching; but she got the best of him
by dropping Oh her knees to his side,
and praying God to convert him and
save his poor soul.
Dwight l.. Moody returned from his
English Evangelistic work by the Or
egon last week. He thinks London
the most religious city In the world.
He held meetings all over that inn
mellse metropolis in moving taber.
nacle, and met its muItitudes of reli.
gious workers. He says 600 policemen
attend religious meetings of their own.
There are similar organizations of
railroad men, factory girls. shop girls,
etc. IL Is not very uncommon thing
for "A wealthy L0ndoner to build "A dozen
chapels with his own money for the
eNanBelizatlon of the masses.
The Cincinnati Commercial Gazette
has stirred upa hornets nest, or should
~ rather be called honey bees nest.
ny contending with repeated insist
ahce, THAT IL Is fraud ana robbery for
a minister To preach an old sermon.
rue paper is unquestlonabIy wrong.
one OF the chief.st elements. under
God, of the success of Methodism IA its
ability To repreach, As well ask that
shakespeare should produce n Hamlet
or Richard the Third every week for
lorly years running, week in and
week out, It's absurd.
The Berlin missionary, Posselt. ia
having ~ hard tussle with rum In his
parish at Natal. He found two women
OF his church drunk one day. Alter
prayerinlly con ,iderlng the subject, he
got u wide, stout strap and gave each
OF them II sound flogging. Some
American and English friends were
shocked, but the medicine worked n
cure; and prosaic DIR. Grundelman
remarked with n sigh that IL is a bless
ing TO lind brave man "who can
address the natives with holy earnest
ness aud love In a language they can
understand Herr Posseit ha. eighty.
three native members in his tel,,ner.
ance society.
81 don't like the Minister That
settles the matter. If you don't like
Tue minister, You have no duties To
perform. Not liking the minister ali.
solves you from all responsibility.
ihe fact that you don't like the min.
lister relieves you from your vows. III
You Me trustee or steward you need
not take any further interest In the
financial affairs Of the congregation.
me Tact that the people Entrusted YOU
win certain duties which you en-.
gagged 20 perform, IL neither here nor
there, II you don't like the minister.
~ course you need not pay anything
" you don't like the minister. The
easiest way to get rid OF supper inp
tne churcu and Its ordinances Is SIM
Ply TO say, II don't like the min ister,n
VI course Won need not 40 10 PRAYER
..nesting. why should man pray II
me above Is just a specimen of the
knu OF editorials that aggravating
sditor OF the Northwestern Christian
Aavocate puts In his paper. They do
ray tnat ne rides a bicycle like a boy.
anu ~ ne don't quit writing such un.
on him. W"
This psalm was also neatly copied
oy Thomas Jefferson In his com mon
place book, where he was accustomed
70 treasure up the choicest gems az
Thought aud rules OF life.
Ferdinand Harrison asks In, the Pom.
MAR Science Monthly for Aup,,st,
shall we cling TO a religion OF Ssirit.
Ism when philosophy is wbitIling
away spirit to nothings Or shall Nc
accept religion Of Realism. whers sII
we great traditions and functions ~
ttilpion are retained unbrokensv Ii
would strike ordinary fellows like ths |
naost Oh us, 4 our poor spirits are being
ienoiseiessly Whitfield away 10 MOTH.
Ivy, y u"es not make much differences
~ne'her we cling or accept.
~ a. VIII, thousands Of lower types
!" ~. sssn'ufer which have severalIy iIius.
$500 soe truth that the lifs ana
NAV s 2. me individual prefgure In
's'e' sPs0e the life aud death of the