Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-10-25

chin has discarded the Roman Catholic
rHisiun us the religion OF the state, aud
hae announced pcriort liberty 30 all fmum
of lhe chrslien NIth
The Presbyterian chuph iu Ireland cm-
braces nearly out-mli Of me Professions
population Of Che country Thtre Oro 5aH
Congregations $50 ministers aud l0it}aa
commandments
Ills holiness, Leo Nlll, hu just sent
lo.u1O lronc- ~ li cmluCnce, Cardinal
Coicsn, arthbiNhop of Haltacru Tor dis
tribution among The poor WHO are suitcr.
Ing from the rarogrs oi cltoldN
Mcthodsm has ohuincd good foot
hold Ia Newfoundland, rhe total number
of churches md mission stations j. atty
three, and these have lsHia mcnlbors
During lht past year there was an In
crease In membership OF 1924.
s clergyman has been making colcula.
lions, and announces rs the startling re-
suit that an the Mlaric5 Of religious
teachers IN The country do not amount TO
SO much ns The sum spent annually In
supporting dogs
Whom the secretary OF the Protestant
Blind Pension society lately wrote t0ilohn
liuskln for subscription, he got this
unswer "To my mind the pretlN Pro-
tcstAut TO your sOciety's name indicates
stonicr blindness than Il viii relieve"
IN parts OF The newly discovered Congo
country the missionaries lind people not
without knowledge OF religion They
bclicyc in a God who Hives la the aky, who
scps and knows an that they dos aud
they expect to go 10 Him when they die
An attempt ls again being madr 70 r..
unite She Associate Reformed Prcrby-
terrain synod 81 the South and tho United
prcsbytcrians, who split upon the slavery
question DOctnpally b0lh bodies are in
agreement, and both sing metrirul yCr.
sions Of thc Psalms exclusively Ia public
worship, rejecting hymns Rs Nu unautbor
Ized innovations
Onc 81 Gl0 most Old fashioned church
men VI England dlgd tho otbor iay in lhc
person Of pr Corrc, Muster of Jesus
college, Cambridge llo WAS nnelytlrCc
Years ~ age, and had been during nearly
his whole NE an h0norcd member VI thc
university, IN which hp had sgon % many
chaugc aand chances
Blshon Paddock, I'D hls address before
Che Law aud order league Of Boston,
said "Aii the salaries Of al the ministers
~ tANNil lhA nv FHilN ~ fHNHfNfNff NAlAf 90
tho church property, salaries and c0niri-
buttons for missionary work hprr aud ln
fOrt ign landg put together amount Only
10 $3.50, coo COOS but Intoxicating drink
costs nh that aud Sb82 100000 besides,
and then ruins 100 bodies and souls whore
The churches can snyo one
sad news comes IRON Central Africa
once more. The church mission sent
some missionaries sonic years ago % The
court Of King Mtcsa at his own request.
They were received glndly enough, bur "
was not long until the king lapsed into
HE organism, ono aiior She other the
missionaries icllNctims 20 tho fatal Airic.
an climate, Now Il w learned that three
OF the little baud ~ converts havr sat.
icred martyulom Tor tho faith Central
African missions have % isr bnp1 hneiis
lurly unfortunate,
Clerical starvation q liltlr loss thlu d
literal iatl Ia Die Protestant Episcopal
church, according 70 ne assertion - tho
Z Church Press, which argues That when q
man has hcen duly ofdainod TO tlie cure
I Of souls ho u entitled 10 nu adequnie sul-
port for himself aud family from The
( bishop by whom he has been sci apart,
and from the parish Ia Which be tolls,
/ Tho editor tells ui a Clergyman VINO was
! induced ~ fcllnquish . mercantile posi-
( ti0D worth 1900 q year, and DURING Ten
Years 81 ministerial He naa never received
more than $500 year and noN hc iiap q
I wife aud four cbildfeni yet No i strongly
j lndDracd Dy liia bishop and approved ~
( iils paflkls6a AuOter case taken AZ pu
example Il that Of inau earnest aha ~
voted 10 work good lea0tr and q mr.
nfearher M has wsff ana aiN chlit
! dr4u. M IL promised H5li0a yeafl nia
iafnlslce hla owd house lnpDigf pifart
IN. rseel ted lat yfaf lhse Than Slv0F8sfs