The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-08-30
PIOUS SUNBEAMS.
Easy Paths to the Heaven,r
Kingdom.
General Religious Gleanings 70,
the Bad and the
Good.

The German Roman Catholics in tbo
United States will meet in annual conven.
ton at Cincinnati on September 8.
Never does a person forget his pura
Christian mother, and as a general rnla
men are what their mothers make them.
Men have bodies as we'll as souls. Soma.
times loaf of bread and bar of SON.
will help the one to save the other.
If you teach man, let loose upon him
pure and blameless life. Words ara
weak, but the logic of life is irresistible.
The shaping of our own life is our
own work. 1t is thing of b sauty or
thing of shame as We make it. Such our
powers, such our destiny.
Remember that much of knowledge ia
growth, not accumulation. The life ons
is living in is the book that men more
need to know than any other.
The Oldest preacher in the world is in
all probability the Reverend David Smith
who opened the recent general conferences
of the African Methodist Episcopal
church with prayer. He is l04 years Of
age, and has been protesting Christian
ninety years.
Intellectually the difficulties of unbelief
are as great as those of belief, while
morally the argument is wholly on the
side of belief.
More than half the real estate in Long
Branch is owned by Hebrews, chiefly Of
that city and Phila delphia. One of the
founders OF the place was Mr.. Abraham
Hart, the wealthiest Israelite of his time
in the country. One of the present
residents, Mr.. Guggenheim, of Phia-
delphia, is owner of a silver mine, and
also of the largest st. Bernard dog in the
United States. His name is Barry, and he
weighs 220 pounds. When his owner is
away from the Branch" Barry's board is
regularly paid by him at one of the
hotels.
The corner stone of a $4,000 syna-
gogue was laid at Bloomington, H.,
August 6. The Jews there have had an
organization for six years, but no place
of worship.
The number of churches in st. Louis is
224, of which forty-seven are Catholics,
twenty-six Presby terrain, twenty-seven
Baptist, fifteen Congregational, Episco-
pal and German Evangelical fourteen
each, and Methodist sixteen.
The reports of the Denver conference
showed a membership of over 1900, net
increase of some 329, an increase of some
$4,000 in church property, and contri-
button for missionaries, $709.50.
One of the strongest scientific temper.
ance instruction bills ever enacted has
lately received the signature of the gov
ernor of Louisiana. Thirty-six states
and territories, embracing over three
fourths of the entire school population OF
the United States, now have Temperance
education laws.
Petitions from churches in forty states
and territories, asking congress to pass
the Blair Sabbath bill, have been for
warded to the proper authorities The
bill provides that all postal service and
all military and naval parades be dis
pensed with on Sunday in time of peace.
Among the petitioners we're two Swedish
Evangelical Lutheran churches, whose
membership aggregates 407, and who
| signed unanimously.
President Fairbairn lately said "What
| Christianity needs more than anything
else is Christians.
Topeka, Kan, has more churches than
! any city of its size in the country, and
has not single public saloon or drinking
| place.
There are 266 city missionaries in New
York city alone who make daily visits
among the poor and sick of all denomi-
| nations.
1t is now 900 years since the introduc-
ton of Christianity into Russia, and the
event was duly celebrated at Kieff early
this month.
There are now eight mission VESSEL
cruising in the North Sea, each COIN
bina,ion of church, chapel, Temperance
hall and dispensary.
John Locke said: "Let young mel
study the Bible, particularly the NeE
Testament, which has God for its author
truth without mixture of error for ih
matter, and the salvation of man for iti
object.
The second pamphlet on the Jewish
question has just appeared from the
pen of the Princess Nathalie Gartschak-
off Ouvaroff. 1t is called "Le Chretiens
ct less Juifs."
| ldE5us, buc Cipy VI OV' L duiJ VIII oo"-
be able to boast of an American training
school for orphans. There are several in.
situations of the kind, we believe, and
this one will support and house about
fifty children.
The primates of India, Australia, Can
ada and the Cape are henceforth to be
known and addressed as archbishops..
This arrangement is one of the fruits Oh
the recent Lambeth conference.
The Baptists are making an earnest ei'
fort, with the prospect of success, to re-
vive the University of Chicago, whose sic
in that city they lost under foreclosures
a mortgage two or three years ago. IneI
have the promise of fine tract of land .,
Morgan park, where their theologicsl
seminary now is, and of nearly or quhs
100000 in money.
Entrance into the Wesleyan ministry ID
England appears to be guarded with IN,
usual strictness. Out of 109 candlda's'
recently examined by the committee ong
fiftyfour were accepted. Further detano
in regard to the nature of the examinatVn
and the grounds for the rejection OF sne