The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1885-07-15

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bic ex-President, but this one thing do know
to be truer the older 1 grow-the holier life L
live the happier 1 become" Such testimony
from man of his years and experience is a SER
mon in itself
The Rev. Sam Jones" is the latest
preacher to " the masses" who has come to the
fore. He is man something like the old Bishop
Latimer of England, and his sermons have in
them much of the point and homeliness by
which the good Bishop used to attract the null
tltude to st. PauPs Cross, save that there is a
suggestion of slaug abont the modern evangelist
which is not found in the Bishop. Here is
| specimen of Sam Jones" sermons: " l believe
liquor is good thing in its place and believe
It's place is in hell. If 1 was in hell 1 might
drink 1t, but so help me God, never will on
this earth drink it again. Some fellows saw
don't mix politics and religion. When you
hear a fellow talk that way you may know he
hasn't got any religion to mix. l would mix
religion with politics, but not politics with re-
Igion. A little religion will help politics. 1t
will make it clean and decent"
Judicial proceedings in this city
city last week encourage and strengthen the
| hopes OF the best citizens of the commonwealth
a lew Saobaths ago young Irishman, wild
with liquor, shot at company of inoffensive
Cinnamon, whom he and his companions had
been abusing with words He killed one and
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guilty of manslaughter. The judge condemned
him to imprisonment for life, saying that his
drunkenness was an aggravation of and no ex-
| cuse for his guilt. The Judge, in sentencing
James d. Fish, ex President of the Marine
bank, to ten years imprisonment severely con-
demned his abuse of his posltion.-ChriStian
Intelhgencer.
BY a new la which has Just taken
effect, all trade labor on Sunday in Vienna is
hnnO fnrth l., IL Al
day recreation to the industrial classes. No
work Is allowed between A M. on Sunday
and the same hour on Monday morning though
exceptions may be granted by the minister of
commerce to trades or business whose interrup.
ton would Interfere with the convenience of the
pubic In traffic or consumption, and also in
cases OF IRON works, mills, etc. in which serious
loss would be entailed by complete cessation of
labor. The public vehicles however, are about
as usual, and the coffee houses restaurants and
beer houses are open and overcrowded by work
men, who for the first time have their full Sun
days rest. 1t is calculated that in Vienna
about $4,000 people are freed from Sunday work
by the new law, the majority of whom on Sum
day go with their families into the suburbs,
where the beer gardens, as we'll as the RAILWAYS
tramways, and omnibuses reap an abundant
harvest.
President McCosh has practical
method of testing the scholarship of college
athletes. He has compiled a list of 81 Prince
ton students who are officers and members of
football and ba'ebal teams He finds where
each of these q students stands in the six
groups into which the classes are graded accord
ing to scholarship. Fifteen are in the two low.
! est groups; onty two are in the secoad group;
and ten in the third and fourth groups-weli
down in the form. All but seven are in the
lower half of the class and not one has the first
rank in scholarship. The Presidents practical
/ IQter1nca Ia hat he If tba
games of the campus cannot be won except by
those who devote great deal of time TO exer-
else and professional training. While he con-
slders 1T necessary to encourage gvmnastic exer-
else and proper sports as promotive Of health
and manlin ss, he does not approve of excesses
| by which scholarship and study are persstently
sacrificed.
"A New York letter in TIE Watch
man, of Boston, gives the following as the num-
Der In attendance on recent Sunday morning
at certain churches in this city: "The Fifth
Avenue. Presbyterian, DR.. Halls, 1850 the
Broadway Tabernacle, Congregational, Dr. Tay-
lors, ,264; st. Georges, Episcopal Mr. Rains
tord's, 1892, and Calv.ry Baptist, DR.. Mac
Arthur's l,040. The same evening Dr. Mac
Arthur had l68, while the others averaged
thousand each. DR.. MacArthur's evening con-
gregation Is made up only in small part Of the
attendants in the morning. 1t is doubtless
much the same with other congregations named,
so that the aggregate number of hearers is very
large. While in each of these churches there
are people OF wealth, the congregations would,
on the whole be called democratic" in char
acter. The success Of each of the preachers
| named must be attributed not to sensation
alism, but to practical common.sense teaching
In a Brooklyn church on a recent
Sabbath morning as the preacher came from
the study he was attended by two officials. who
! 1t might be supposed were competent to give
him all needed information before SERVICE
While the organ was playing Old Hundred"
| for the doxology, yourg man stepped up TO
communicate lnor nation and while the fret
hvmn was being sung an old man walked up
10 read the notices and apparently 10 decide on
their correctness Scarcely mad he descended
before another man rush ed up with a written
notice a. If life or death depended on il. Such
| things are 20 constant that one can scarcely help
believing that some men like to advertise their
Official relations to a church by an appearance
on pulpit platform. The carry ing Of notices
to a preacher, during service night be obviated
by proper regulation, aud certainly the occasions
ought to be rare when il nee ls to be done
When 1t is a constant practice it is an lmperti-
nence, and diverts the minds Of the people from
the service. Where thoughtful Christian gen
tlemen have the conducting Of affairs they will
not often obtrude themselves thus conspicuOuslv
on the vision Of the congregation. and then
only because 1t Is imperative for important in.
terests. If pulpits we're not made so often such
a general advertising agency it would be we'll
The bell-man who in earlier days used to per-
ambulate village or town to announce impor-
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