Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1884-02-17
RELIGIOUS NOTES.

TIE Peoples church, in Boston, which
is built in the form of u theater, and seats 900
persons, was dedicated Sunday
The Rev. DR.. B. W. Stone, chaplain Of
ing the war. and pastor Of st. Barnabas's Episco-
gal church, in Reading, Pa, died there the other
day, aged seventy years.
AT the Baptist church in Ada, o., Sun
school was revived at the evening meeting, wien
the police were compelled to enter the sacred edi-
hce and stop the shouting of men and the scream
ing of women.
The Rev. Simeon North, DID,, LID,
ex-president of Hamilton College, died on Satur-
day night, at CLIFTON, y. y, aged eighty two.
was president Of Hamilton College from 1889 to
1857. His published works consist principally Of
sermons and special discourses.
Dr.. NEWMAN, in his last sermon, called
attention to the fact that the American people
spend $500, 100000 annually on rum, and only Sl3,-
100000 in the support. of the clergy. He might
have applied Prince Henry's comment on Fall
one, poor penny-worth of bread to this intolerable
deal Of sack"
The rascally treatment of Southern
Mormons in Colorado has been fully exposed by
the Cincinnati Enquirer. The victims of Nor
mon outrage in that colony have begged their
friends and neighbors in the South to stay way
from there, but all this has not iutimidated the
%fanatical converts; they are going forward to
swell the number of those who are earsing the
day they listened to the persuasive voice of TIE
SANITY emissary.
TIE late Bishop Jacobson, of Chester,
England, was once present when two dignitaries
Of his church were discussing a sermon preached
l ecclesiastical affairs-was somewhat ''on the
| fence" Said one: 1T struck me as being rather
Low" That's curious" said the other, '''for ]
| of il, my lord?" appealing to the BISHOP. why
replied his lordshiP, ito tell the truth, l thought
1t decidedly sorgF'
A HIGH ecclesiastical dignity at Rome
| aai1 q cav dovz ar, fbot =fha Droraoulo ,r.,Ia
not meekly submit to the decision of the Court o.
Cessation. lie says ~s.O0Q,oO0 francs worth o.
| converted while the sAit was pending. THE
| Propaganda, he continued, represents hal
tolate in every part ofthe world. The:Itaiian gov.
ernmept will probably find its legal victory bar
rem or worse; Means can be easily found of eyad-
benceforth will have the whole colonial influence
of the Catholic missions arrayed against her."
THE Rev. DR.. Burton, of Hartford
Conn, in one of the Lyman Beecher lectures al
the Yale Theological Seminary, said recently
Ministers do not starve. Other men do. We
Ships do. If yon are the minister of an INDECENT
people, they will keep you as well az they can
keep themselves, and a little better, and if they
can stand it you can. 1t is curious how comforta-
| ble one can be on an uncomfortable income. My
first salary was $500, but was as we'll supplied as
| am now, because my wants were few. 1t would
| hurt me now to squeeze me back TO that income,
| because / have sprOuted the tree has spread. A
human being has a great caPacity, for self-adjust
| hung in mid-air he blooms like a cactus"
INasermon on infidelity and agnosticism,
Sunday, the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher argued
| that these were necessary features of the period
| through which the world was passing. The APP
| pearance of religious decay is simply a phase in
| human progress under Gods guidance toward
| higher things. The ideas of the world change as
| the race progresses. The heroes of Homer would
| be States prison birds with US to-day. Old men
| of tremendous passion, of robust frame, men who
| were successful in deceit, were the heroes. The
human qualities charity, mIdness, integrity,
| safer or easier if guided by them. To a large ex-
| tent to-day the world does not believe in the
higher forms of spiritual consciousness. The
rude, the passionate, the unscrupulous, so often
! often felt by good men as to the victory of right
Truth may be in the ~voeative now, but it will be
in the ascendaney. Its regency is assured.
LONDON Truth: The Dean of Canter.
| bury and the rest of 'the large and influential
audience which met in the Cathedral library
last Thursday, to hear a certain DIR. kinns recon,
clle science and religion, must have felt rathei
of days later: DIR. kinns had said that he "camt
before the public with credentials referring to the
| scientific and historical facts he had to lay before
! them, some of the most eminent men upon thu
staff of the British Museum having testified to the
accuracy of such facts" The worthy clergymeI
| present took DR.. kinns at his own valuation, and
the dean even went so far as to suggest that the
| doctor had been specially raised up to demon,
| strate the truth of the Holy Scriptures" As soon
| however, as the report of the lecture appeared il
| the Times, DIR. Woodward, the keeper of the de
artment of geology in the British Museum
| Kinns's statemrnts had hem submitted for ver;
| fcation at his department.; whilst Mr.. Car
ruthers, the keeper of the department Of botany
| dryly remarked that 'he and his colleagues haC
| often pointed out some of DR.. Kinns's errors, bu
| had never testified to the accuracy of any of hi
| facts Mr., Carruthers adds the interesting in
| formation that quite recently the GeolOgica
| Society refused DR.. kinns admission into theil
/ fellowship on account of the glaring ignorance o
the facts Of geology displayed in his book OF