The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1884-05-15
HE FRIENDS.

THE FRIENDS.
According to Il well Informed authority, the
total number of members Of The Society of
Friends in Great Britain and Ireland is only
$4,000. and of these some two thousand reside
in London and its neigiborhood. The same
authority shows that of all Christian danomin-
atoms none are more active or more >clf->acri-
licing than the Friends in all efforts of evangeI-
Mation and charity. The Bedford Institute.
sptaltieds, is 4 noble monument of their be-
ncv0lence.
HOW SHALL WE LIVE:
In his last book, called 'The Clue of the
Maze" Mir. Spurgeon asks the queStiou-Ilow
shall we live: With what hammer, he SAYS
shall we strike? There is the rub. Here are
hammers light, bright and heavy. See the Old
trade mark warranted brand new. The old
smith over yonder says he knows nothing Of
them. They were left by new firm. who are
always inyenting new things. The smith swings
alott with hrawny arms. makes the sparks fly
and the iron Weld. "Thcre,' saws he. 1.-THE Old
hammer suits me best" You see, my good
friend. he is only blacksmith. He knows no
better. and some ;'eople are unrea>onlbly fond
more foolish than those who are fascinated by
novelties: The old hammer in our forge is faith
in God.
RELIGION-IIS HIGHER FORMS.
In his new book, called The Republic Of
God DIR. milford says some happy things
about religion in it, higher forms. II brings
before the mnd images of holy beauty with no
stains Of decay, tran, fgure> the sorroHS of
earth, is Indifferent to th finite. ana is itself the
morning and evening of ihe spirit rear, tenn
pies which are the rest of the sorrow and of
The lowliness of earth, where penitence NAV
pray and weep, where anguish may quench its
tears, forget lis pain ana re-llumine its gloom.
1t recognizes the pathoS of the closing day. the
changing seasons, autumn With its falling
leaves. the swift advance Of age and the lowli-
ness of the grave. 1t i led by mystic devo-
ton. Is lost IN the rapture of lis own Joy and it
bows at the shrnes which 1t has built with the
hearts alteration
\ MODEL MISSION.
Some years ago a medical mission was oStab-
lished at Agra. in India It's object i, TO COM
bine the work of eVangelzation with practical
benevolence. 1t therefore tries to get al the
peoples hearts through services rendered to
their bodies. 1t takes for its motto the StNour's
words, ''lleal the sick. cleanse the leperS" 1t
has already had large amount of success, and
so well has the scheme worked in the way of
commenting itself to the native population that
the managers Of the mission have fe 1t encour-
aged to educate and employ in the work they
nave III hald Christian natives. and ii is graf
flying to know that the experiment has been
attended with success. Large numbers of
young men are being educated in the healing
art and sent forth among their countrymen as
medical missionaries. The mission has greatly
commented Itself to British churches.
NEW ZEALAND METHoDIsM.
1t has long been the reproach of the Metho-
dlsts of the British colonies that, where there
was so little cause for the same there should be
so much disunion. 1t appears that this re-
proach is about TO be wiped out in New lea
land. The different churches are drawing to-
gether. Last year a committee was appointed
TO meet and draw up basis of union. The
statistics prepared and published by that COM
mlttee gave The following figures: Churches
wesleyan, All; Primitive Methodist, IS; United
Methodist, 49, Bible Christian. g. Adherents
Wesleyan 39,544; Primitive Methodist, , OO9
Bible Christian, 80 Minsters-W Wesleyan, IS
Primitive Methodist, IS; United Methodist. II
no difficulty in getting on tremendously so far
and there is now fair prospect foriunion. 1t
Is proposed III the event of union taking place
| to drop the name "Wesleyan.'
CHURCH AND STATE.
In the current number of the North Ameri-
can Review Dr. Philip Schaff laws down the
proposition that ''persecution dates from the
union of Church and State, and is of essential v
heather origin" Church and State according
to him, are as separate ''as soul and body. as
eternity and time" The reformer. he says
was as ignorant of the true principle as the
Romish leaders. They could not think of
the Church as apart from the State, or of the
otdtc a. apart from Inc Cnurch. The cOnSe-
quence was that, being intolerant toward those
who differed from them and calling the powers
OF the State to their aid, they presented and
snned like those who had been before them.
The true principle, he says, is in the words of
the master-"Render unto Caesar the things
that are Casar's, and unto God the things that
are Gods"
An exchange says mush has become popu-
lar dish in society. Nothing seems to take in
society like something soft.
What a happy man was Mignet, who, when
dying, said: ''If it were given me to live my
life over again should wish it to be just what
il has been"
Like father like son: Paterfamias to Mater
familias-" Honey, dear, have some honey?n
Young son to elder brother-''Cuss, dear. have
some custard?"
Stock gambling is much older than some peo-
pie suppose. They forget that Moses owed his
whole success in life to being caught in one of
the bull rushes on the Nile.
There are some things, like the thistle easy
to get, but hard to grasp. There are others,
like civil service reform, easy to grasp, but hard
to get Boston Advertiser.
An amateur punster informs us that some
houses have wings, and he has often seen
house fly. We thought no part of house save
a A,,o