Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-09-08
RELIGIOUS.
Interesting Religious ouilings on VAR
GUS Subjects
Some Home and Foreign Church AID
Missionary Notes,

lh2 committee having IN charge the |
revision OF the Old Testament have
consented that several members shall |
undertake the revision OF the Apocry- |
pha.
Mrs. Wallis "beggaIs' meetings. In |
Rome continue TO he great success.
Each meeting is attended 10y some
hundred and fifty poor creatures who !
learn scriptures aid hymns.
The Protestant Episcopallans are
having their Book OF Common Prayer
printed In the Chinese language for
use In their missionary work. The
work Is being done IN New York.
MIR. Moody, when asked whether he
was perfectly satisfied with the work
accomplished in connection with his
recent labors in London, replied
VERY much pleased; but not salts.
/ fed am never satisfied
Il Is significant that an inildel Jour
nal recently admitted that Through
out the length and breadth OF the civ
/ iliged world there IL not a single nook
or corner to be found In which the
autocratic yoke of religion has been
shaken OF, 20
A Sunday-school pupil illustrates
responsibility In this way Boys
has two buttons for their ispenders,
SOS To keep their trousers up. When
one button comes OIL, why, there's a
good deal Of responsibility ON the
other button
The two Moravian missionaries TO
Alaska have reached Nushigak, aud
assembled the Koskokwim river In
skin-canoes. Large numbers Of Es-
quimauX are living In that part OF the
territory, which they intend 10 explore
thoroughly.
Elizabeth CRdy stanton makes the
remarkable statement In the last North
American Review that ut was Rt a
, Jewish polygamous wedding that
; Jesus performed his frat miracle. and
polygamy was pmcticed by Christians
o for centuries.N IL would be very hard
1 for y. G.. 5. 20 prove that.
IL is stated az an illustration Of Tia,
a power of special prayer offered for th'
D Muravian vesscls, that for % years I
ship has annually left England for tn,
a Moravian mission In the Arctic rcgioni
n Of this continent, and that not singl'
ship or passenger has been lost by
, storm, iceberg or wreck,
a. In the exploration Of the old Tempt
area In Jerusalem one Of the stone
placed rouRd about the low paTapt
a. dividing the court OF the lsraelitt
, from the court OF the Gentiles, has bee
dug up, with the inscription In Gree
still legible, forbiddlng a GENTLE unde
q pain OF death, to pass the perapot.
y A Joint effort IL being made 10y Tn
members of the New Church In Eng
land and America TO raise suilicien
X money Ia erect "a monument TO Swt
n denborg In Stockholm. The intention
Ie Is that the memorial shall consist of
church, book.rOom and pastor
Df residence.
10 James Russell Lowell, the Unite
States minister 10 the court Of y
James, NJ "A recent meeting In Englan
AZ in honor of tho poet, Browning, sni
ne some good words for Calviui-m. NJ
70 Lowell Is himself an Unitarian
Among other things he said; "'lh
IN doctrines Of Calvin have produce
pe some OF the noblest characters III
ar world has ever seen, the very ilbernn
az substance Of which enduring common
wcalths ARE made. Look at ColignN
for instance. Nay, the political an
=" intellectual freedom We enjoy spring
y, " as truly perhaps rom the lolns Of Ca
", win Rs from anywhere else"
10 The Established church OF EnglRn
- has about eighty churches and Congrl
cations In northern Europe, Of whic
~ the bishop OF London has the owe
~ sight Those Ina southern Europe, an
ne In the islands Of the Mediterranean ai
w. more than seventy In number, aud ~
-, under the supervision of the bishop
III Gibraltar. The needs of English tral
~ elers, who have increased hundrC
w fold, have greatly increased the nun
Der oil churches, and under the latt'
~ bishop ten are now IN process oI eo
he struction a church Is nearly col
- pleted In Moscow, while there ~
al three Of these churches within Il
dc walls Of Rome.
W That quiet, uuobtrusive folk, Il
w. Society OF Friends, report n total meI
~ bership In this country Of about %, 80
~ and in Great Britain and Ireland abo
20 $1,000. They carry on c0nslderab
:" mission work. Among the vario
Indian tribes they have twenty-ll
as Friends engaged IN teaching, and
ay the foreign field are doing mol
lts service. They are sustaining tbirte'
IA missionaries In Madagascar, Ave
no India, and a medical mission
OF Turkey under the cure Of the Lond'
I'm Yearly Meeting. In Syria they ha
az two stations, Bermuda and Mou
an Lebanon. with training home for DO
~, and girls, three SAbbath-schools al
nd nine day schools. AZ Rammalla
se' near Jerusalem, they have sew
he schools. These are under the care
he New England and London Year