The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-02-19
SUNDAY NOTES AND CHIMES.

1t has feen remarked that some
men give ccording to their means
ann some according to their mean
ness.
A good story is in circulation about
Mr.. Moody in Milwaukee. He was
asked in the convention whether he
had grace enough to die at the stake.
He replied: mo, don't need it; all l
want is grace enough to hold this con-
vent1on for three days in Milwaukee"
Rev. T. De Witt Talmage wants In
gersoll restrained by law from his
blasphemous attacks upon christian
ity. If Mr.. Talmage desired to give
fictitious Importance and weight to
infidelity he could suggest no easier
method than that of making martyrs
Of its preachers.
Hard times in New York state have
affected the churches, and the econo-
my of reducing or doing away with
favorite plan is the forming of young
peoples choruses to lead the congre-
cations in the hymns
According to Miss Kate Field, there
is practice in the church of the Lat
ter Day saints known as baptising for
the dead. Y henever saint takes
fancy to an historic character, he may
bring him into the covenant and save
his soul from everlasting punishment
by being baptized as his proxy. This
posthumOus sanctification has been
bestowed on Washington.
at a Sunday school concert in a
town near Boston, picture of the
Madonna was used in the exercises.
One of the little girls asked: Teacher,
is that the mother of Jesus?' "Yes,"
replied the teacher. "And is that
Jesus ?" yes" "And who is the
other boy? THAT is st. John"
what the st. John who was up for
President 2" The teacher suspects
that that girl hears more political than
religious conversation at her home
Boston Transcript,
The members Of the missionary
colony, which Bishop Taylor of the
New York Methodist Episcopal
church is establishing in central
Africa, are on the way to the dark
continent. The colony numbers fifty
three persons in all. thirteen of whom
are children. They took with them
80, 0C0 yards Of cotton cloth, which is
used as currency among the iDhabi-
tants; any amount of jews -harps,
rifles, ammunition, axes and tools of
all kinds, printing press and $4,000
bibles.
"lhere is more money in bibles
than in anything else," said Mir. j r.
Jones, one of the largest bible printers
in the United States. "There is a
steady reliable trade for thegood book,
and l think | have made two millions
of the different grades since l have
been in business. The price ranges
from ten cents for the kind given
away by the Bible society to the
thirty dollar one bound in velvet and
ivory l have nearly ceased printing
other books. AS general thing they
don't pay. Unless you can get a
work by great author or a noted pol
itician, the sale of any book does not
reach beyond small edition. / paid
Alexander Il. Stephens $4,000 royal
ty on the War between the States,
but only about 5000 for his "History
of the United States
Mr.. Beecher has really formidable
rival in the person of Mr.. r. Heber
Newton, whose bids for pulpit popu-
larity are rapidly leaving the Ply
mouth preacher in the distance. Mr..
Newton lately made Wholesale deliv-
erance, in which ne emptied out pretty
much all of the principal doctrines of
his church, labelling them as 'baffiing
arithmetical puzzles" "fiendlshIy
wicked" thoroughly commercial"
"frighfully insane, thoroughly
unethical." The great wonder is
that a man whose oyer-toWer-
ing intellect has grasped all this does
not get out OF such an old ruin as the
Christian church and build a true
church of his own with all the mod
ern improvements" No sensible MAJ
would continue to live in sieh mis-
cradle old wreck. New AGk. andI
Brooklyn religion is . q.
The competition is hot,
the enterprising Rector
is full length ahead Of
and Tnsge, with