The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-08-16
MARCHING ON.
Preachers and People on Tba,,
Earthly Pilgrimage.
Gleanings by the Great Waysida
For Saint and Sinner.

To-day is the eleventh Sunday afte,
Trinity.
There are $50 Sisters of Mercy in tba
diocese of Hartford, Conn.
"The Kings Daughters" now numbsr
10000 in the United States. The society
is to have a monthly paper.
Experience is dear teacher, but fools
will learn in no other.
Pride is like a shoe with high heels
good for mud but bad for corns.
Learn the past, and to large extent
you will know much of the future.
We are in the stream of life not to soak
but to swim.
noon day meeting for business men
is held at 2S5 North Broadway, st. Louis,
every week day, beginning at 1890 and
closing at l o'clock.
The Napoleonic test of character ia
success, and the final test of success is
permanence.
God never wrought miracles to convince
atheism, because his ordinary works
convince it.
A character is formed midst storm and
strife; talent is developed in calm and
quietude.
As means of settling some of the
questions now agitating Hebrew circles
in various parts of the world, the Ameri-
can Hebrew suggests an international
synod.
1t is reported that there is young
lady living near Brentwood, Ga, who can
repeat the whole Bible from memory.
The first Protestant missionaries to
foreign field were sent from Geneva to
Brazil in 1557-5S.
An Episcopal church paper says there
is no such thing as "Surpliced Choirs." It
should be "Vested" choirs.
Sturgeon does not have to preach unless
he chooses to do SO. He has saved some
money and an admirer has presented him
with $4,000.
The Venerable Father Sorin, superior
general of the Congregation of the HOLY
Gross, will celebrate the golden jubilee of
his ordination in the University of Notre
Dame on August 10.
Every days experience shows how much
more actively education goes on out of
the school room than in it,
Twenty -dollar-style on ten-dollsr-
basis makes the pawn broker rich and the
wage-worker poor, brings sheriff on
farm and takes pride to the poor house.
The one hundredth anniversary of the
birth of Adoniram Judson, the pioneer
missionary to India, for whose benefit the
American board of foreign missions was
organized, was held on the 9th inst.
Bishop Duncan writes: "You can rem
der good service if you will appeal to
Christian workers in the interest of Mon
terey, Mex, and Nogales, Ariz."
A native church at Osaka, Japan, has
dedicated an ediice seating 800 persons,
the largest Protestant church in Japan,
which was built entirely at its own cost.
The same city has the lnrgest Christian
| girls school in the empire, with $40
pupils, to the support of which the Amer
lean board contributes only the services
of its foreign teachers Advance.
The Independent Order of Free Sons of
Israel, which has membership of $4,000
| in the New York district ard Ill lodges
in the United States, has disbursed over
| S3000,000 to sick members and 100000
| to distressed families since its organiza-
ton, besides paying $750,OO0 to widows
| and orphans.
A circular published by the Young
Mems Christian association, of Illinois,
states that in the state of Illinois there
are 100000 young men between the ages
of 16 AID 40. At least $4,000 of these
are outside of the membership of evan
gelical churches. Several churches exist
without single male member. One city,
of $500 inhabitants, is reported as hav-
ing but fifteen young men who are active
in church work; another, of the same size,
as having not single young man
within the membership of any evangelical
church.
Again, in this effort to secure the secu-
lar press as mightier reinforcement Of
religion and the pulpit, let US make it the
avenue of religious information. If you
put the facts of churches and denomina-
tions of Christians only into the columns
of religious papers, which do not in this
country have an average of more than
10000 subscribers, what have you done as
compared with what you do if you put
these facts through the daily papers which
have hundreds of thousands of readersf
Every little denomination must have its
little organ, supported at great expense,
when, with one half the outlay, column
or half a column of room might be rented
in some semi-omnipotent secular publ
cation, and so the religious information
would be sent round and round the world.
The world moves so swiftly to-day that
news week old is stale. Give US all the
great church facts and all the revival It'd
ings the next morning or the same even
ing. My advice, often given to friends
who propose to start newspaper, is;
Don't! Don't! Employ the papers al.
ready started" The biggest financial
hole ever dug in this American continent
is the hole in which good people
throw their money when they start a news
paper. 1t is almost as good and as quick
a way of getting rid of money as buying
stock in gold mine in Colorado. MOI
more printing presses, but the right use
OF those already established. All tneir
cylinders, all their steam power, all theli
pens, all their types, all their editorial
chairs ard reportOrial rooms are avaliaOie
II you would engage them IN behaIt Vi
civilization and Christianity.
That Providence intends the profession
OF reporters to have mighty share in
the worlds redemption is suggested oy
the fact that Paul and Christ took re-
porter along with them, and he reported.
their addresses and repOrted their acts