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ence. Dsalvation Army parades were also de-
nounced as a nuisance.

nounced as a nuisance.
| The Catholic Union has discovered what is
the secret of Blaines popularity. Iii this:
''Baine impersonates the true American
Monroe principle which is found at the bot
tom of every American heart: that this wes-
tern continent, so far as the great Republic
| can govern its destinies shall forever be free
from the contamination of European despot-
ism; that the arrogance and robber instincts
of England in particular must be checked
with strong and vigorous hand"
The Rev. Mr.. Moors, of Greenfield, Mass,
told the Unitarian Conference last week that
there is no business so badly managed as the
religious interest of this country. He thinks
that every minister should have at least $50
families in his congregation, and that a
church with that number of families can be
run financially for about 50, 500 a year. He
would cut down half the existing churches
and do away with minister's long vacations.
"Coney Island" says the Christian Lntelli-
gesacer, ''entered upon its usual descration of
the Lords day last Sabbath. At the Manhat-
tan Beach Hotel there was so called relig
ious service. The pulpit consisted of card
table, on which champagne basket was
placed, and a white cloth cast over the whole.
Over this arrangement Rev. j. P Newman
preached a short sermon" This is Gen.
Grants pastor, the plus old fraud who has ruin
ed the New York Mission Avenue Congrega-
tional church.
| Provision was made in one of the appropri
alton bills at this session for the appoint
ment Of woman clerk to sign land patents
at the White house. Hitherto only men have
held clerical Positions at the Executive Man
sion. The innovation is not one that is like
ly to be approved by the family of Presi-
dent-unless the President should happen to
be a nepotist and appoint some member Of
his own household. The plan is a sinecure.
Canon Basil Wilberforce, rector of South
ampton and the third living son Of the late
famous Samuel Wilberforce, successfully
Bishop Of Oxford and Winchester, is of very
! different views from his father, and still more
from his uncles, three of whom became Ro-
man Catholics. His father could not toler-
ate Mr.. Sturgeon and refused to appear on
the same platform with him, but Basil Will
| berforce is one of his warmest friends and
has on several occasions spoken at the South
wark Tabernacle.
Says that noble woman, Ellice Hopkins,
whose Christian work for the churchless
workingmen of England,is one of the recent
triumphs of home missions work: "Only be
sure Of your duty, and there must be an in
finite store of force in God, which you an
lay hold of to do it with, as an engineer lays
hold of force in nature, and drives his en-
CINE through the granite bases of an Alp. If
you are sure it is Gods Will you should do it,
then 81 can't" must be lie on the lips that
repeat, 81 believe in the Holy Ghost"
Rev. DR.. Hickman, of Woodland Metho-
dist church, Cleveland, believes in modern
miracleg. He has had numerous faith cures
in his church. The latest is that of Miss Re-
becca Kirby, bedridden % years with spinal
disease, not being able to sit up in bed even
once in all those many years. DR.. Hickman
encouraged her to believe that she could be
cured. After prayer she arose unaided, sat
in a chair and walked across the room, and,
though still weak, she is gaining strength,
and hopes and believes for permanent cure.
Judge Hilton, administrator for Alexan-
| der Stewart, deceased has joined with Mrs.
Stewart to furnish and present to Bishop
Littlejohn, of the Episcopal church, an ele-
CANT residence. The house is furn shed lux
uriouslY. Mahogany wainscoting, ebony
ceilings, inlaid with mother-of-pearl, silk por-
there's, with threads of gold, Daghestan rugs
are among the appointments. of this truly
elegant home and this truly royal present.
The bishops diocese comprises Long Island,
and the home is romanticaly situated or the
Island.
The popular if not scrupulous newspaper
writer, who signs himself "Gath,' is as
amusingly absurd as he is profane in the ex-
preston of his natural disgust at anything
| like such desire for reform in politics as
might lead one to bolt ticket. The social
led "better element" provokes him; he does
not believe in it. ''There was" he says, ga
good deal of sense in that mob, somewhere
about the year thirty or forty, who wanted
! Barabbas set free, and who, some centuries
later" Git was five centuries earlier, but that
is nothing) 'voted against Aristides, no
doubt common humbug of that day, who
had insulted the common people by his affec-
tation OF superiority"
Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage, who, by the way,
was made D. d. BY the Tennessee Univer-
sity last week, says of Brooklyn Christians
eve want the burden to be light, if we are
to carry it; the church pew soft, if we are to
sit in it; the work easy, If we are to perform
it; the sphere brilliant, if we are to move in
it; the religious service short, if we are to
survive it. On the way to heaven rock us,
fan us, sing US to sleep, dandle US on the
tips of your fingers, hand us up out of this
dusty world toward heaven on kid gloves and
under silken sunshade. Let the martyrs.
who waded the flood and breasted the fire,
get out of the way while this colony of tender
footed Brooklyn Christians come up to get
their crownl'
The late Bishop Simpson, addressing a
class of young ministers in New England
conference, some years ago, warned them
that II they did not faithfully work and study
they would not keep their present place in
affection and appreciation of the church.
"The church." said the eloquent and witty
bishop, ''lnvests in young preachers as men
invest in corner lots, not for what they are
world, but ror what they viii be worth. So
don'tlet the petting you get now deceive you.
Why, you know how it is in the family when
| little Johnny, just out of short dresses, puts
together his first long sentence. 1t may not
be very lucid nor very grammatical, but the
family crowd around him III delight, and
they pat him on the head. Butt added the
| good bishop, looking very solemnly at the
young ministers standing in a row before
him, ''if Johnny, when he gets to be seven
teen or eighteen years old should utter the
same sentence, it lCould not be on The head hes,