The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-02-28
SUNDAY NOTES AND CHIMES.


over sO.OOo members.
Denver, Col. is to have the most ex-
tensive Jesuit college in America.
over $4,000 has already been sub
scribed. aud much more is promised.
Atlanta has fifty-two organized
churches for a population of $1,000
people. Sixteen denominations are
represented, and 100000 in property.
The Brooklyn City Bible society.
organized forty-three years ago, dis
tributes Bible in Brooklyn at the rate
OF 5000 year, at an average annual
cost of as many dollars.
When Archbishop Carroll died De
cember 3, 1915, aged eighty years, there
were only eighty five Catholic priests
IN the United States, of whom forty
six were in the Metropolitan see.
The New England Free Thinkers
demand the obiiteration of all laws
enforcing Christian or any other sort
of morality. Their thinking seems to
have been to little purpose, or have
morally disposed people no rights that
these queer and despotic thinkers are
bound to respect?
A colored preacher denouncing pur-
gatory said: Oats all nonsense. Spose
| fall out a fourth story window, can
L stop fur to fix my har at the third
story; no, you bet Use gwine to keep
right on to de bottom. When sinners
start on de deth trip dere's no half
way house about it; dey go clar
through to hell, shuar."
An aged attendant of the Author
Memorial church said to a writer in
The Christian at Work: "Dr. Heber
Newton wasn't weakening my faith
but he was my boys, and 1 am glad
Bishop Potter said, Time tn Stopp"
1t is easy to set our boys thinking in
the wrong direction not so easy o
limit their thinking when once
started.
At the third annual sale of the peWs
of the Brooklyn Tabernacle, DR.. II
Dewitt Talmage pastor, the premi-
umS for choice of seats aggregated
nearly $4,000. against S324O last year.
The fixed rentals of all the sittings in
the Eouse amount to $17,530, making
the total income from this source, pro-
vided all the pews are taken, about
$21 500.
In the bureau of engraving and
printing at Washington three men
are necessary to the closing and OPEN
ing of the vault. Each lock is fast
ened by a different combination OF
figures and letters, and the chronome-
ter is then set for period of sixteen
hours, and even those who have
locked the vault cannot open until the
sixteen hours have expired.
Two notable conversions to the
Catholic faith have recently occurred
In England. One of them is the Rev.
George Benson Tatum, M. A., OF
Christ church, Oxford, chaplain of
Magdalen and late cuIate of st. Pauls,
Oxford. He was received at the Biz
mingham Oratory. The other Is the
Rev. Richard James Dynt Cooley, and
late curate of st. Johns, Bathwick,
Bath.
In recent sermon the Bishop of
Manchester; England, said that one of
the signs of the times was the steady
growth of the feeling of justice be-
tween man and man, There is GER
tainly, he thought, at the present time
a wider sweep given to Christian
charity, and people were beginning to
feel that the vital part of religion il
ito do justice. to love mercy and to
walk humbly before God"
Mr.. Harrison, the rather mature
hoy preacher," is confident of the
staying qualities" OF his alleged con-
verts. II received telegram" he
said the other day, from DR.. Tai
mage, of the Brooklyn tabernacle,
where held revival and made zoo
converts, in which he Informed me
that every one of the 700 had remained
a constant member of the church,
Isn't that convincing?' Rather.
The Protestant Episcopal cathedral
which is TO be built at ALBANY. N. Y.
will be an imposing structure. IL the
aspirations Of Bishop Doane are car
ried into effect. Tho estimated cos.
when complete d, is $450.OOO. Its di,
mansions will he 260x95 feet, with
spires 2OS feet high. A provisional
building" is first to be erected at a COS t
OF $4,000, from which the cathedral
proper can be afterwards completed.
At recent meeting of minist rs Of
all denominations in Patterson. N. J..
strong disapproval was expressed of
the frequent resort to methods of
raising money at church fairs and fts-
tlvals by chances and other modes OF
gambling. A card has since beer
issued declaring such means contrary
to religions principles, as well as ilIe-
gal, and promising to withhold ali
from such methods in the |
tnture.
Bishop J. T. Spalding, of Peoria.
speaking OF the Catholic colonization !
society, said that it would meet in |
Chicago about March to consider the
progress OF the work and to consult
about the necessary steps to stimulate
{. "A Catholic priest has been located
1t Castle Garden, who Is to mix with
he em1grants as soon as they arrive
ND try to induce those of them who
nay be Catholics to settle in one of
he colonies.
A religious paper SAYS as to whether
= Is wrong for Christians to visit on
sunday: 1t depends altogether upon
Tnat ID the object Of such visits, No
lay Is TOO sacred to visit the poor aud
ne SICK Tor the sake OF giving them
eiief and consolation. There may be
'1tfeme cases, too, in which visits
or other objects would be justiabk,
'ut IL surely is not right for Christian
,,eop'e TO have the habit of doing
heir ordinary visiting on Sundays"
a Mormon elder was prosecuting in
indiana, and q plot was formed to
elze him while he was addressing |
uDl1c meeting, take him to secluded
pot, and maltreat him with tar and
eathers. Being informed of his peril
ADVANCE. he did not run away. bu
oluiy appeared according to appoint
lent, preached Mormonism in his
lost eloquent manner, and by his
ratoIry 80 impressed the conspirat1r,
nay they gave up the Intention OF
The Rev. Thomas Harrison tho 70.
! alist, is filing an engagement at a
.. Louis church, the term being thir.
sen weeks and tho pay a hundred {
ollars q week aud expenses. His t
DIVERSIONS are very numerous. and | i
,me Christians desired him to extend I
u lnnuence IN another part of the 4
gy 10 the extent of making q ten
l1nute address at the opening of q
eVlval series of meetings, but he re-
lSed unless recOmpensed in cash. and /
lere is a great deal of hot criticism
him in consequence. ]
The Maryland Catholics intend to I
'ie6rate with appropriate ceremonies '
re zoOth anniversary Of the landing ]
81. Mays Of the Catholic pilgrims !
ha founded the state of MARYLAND /
bis anniversary is of more than usnaI b
terest net only to the Catholics of a
70 Uuited Stotes. hut also TO the '
lends of religious liberty the world
Ier. The record of these early col