The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-09-06
GLORIOUS NEWS,
Help for thu Righteous and f.,
the Sinner,
Gleanings of Interest from thu
Worlds Great Harvest
Fields.

slropg cAurcn.
Last year 248 American Baptist min.
listers died. Their average age was az
years.
The total expense of the Methodist
Episcopal general conference in 1888, 40.
coyding TO the official statement of Treas
urer j. NJ. Phillips, was over $61, 900.
One hundred and seventy-six CONVEX.
sicns and los accessions to<sthe church
are reported in last weeks Holston Meth.
odlst.
Bishop Keener has changed the time of
holding the North Mississippi conference
from November II to December u, al
Sta kville.
An auxiliary W. NJ. S. was organized at
Newtonville, S. c., Bennettsville circuit,
Marion district, by Miss Matte Coving-
ton, July %. Ten members were secured,
with prospect of many more.
Goodness with contentment is great
gain. We brought nothing into the world
and it is very certain we can carry moth
ing cut; having food and raiment let Us
Herewith be content"
The Rev. NJ. G. Hutton, of Georgetown,
at last accounts was still engaged in con-
Quoting protracted meeting at Corn Hill,
Williamson county.
Reform is the vatchword at Harvard.
The police have seized all the liquors in
one of the college clubs, and now comes
the faculty and dismisses several students
who were caught in their rooms playing
poker.
The religion of Jesus Christ is the
grandest influence to make man contented.
Indemnity against all financial and spirit.
ual harm Il Gains the spirit, dwindles
the earth into insigniticance, and swallows
up the soul with the thought of heaven.
Minister-"My brethren, in this warm,
oppressive weather, can excuse a little
drowsiness during my sermon, but do
wish you would try to keep awake while
the collection is being taken up"
The Rev. j. B. Sears, presiding elder of
the Calvert district, reports that there is a
great deal of sickness within the bounds
of his district, but the work of the Lord is
prosperous.
Rev. D. C. Browne is hard at work in
Arizona. In company with the Rev. ].
W. Allen, the presiding elder, he recently
organized Southern Methodist church at
Ventura of sixteen members.
Goethe says: II look upon all the four
gospels as thoroughly genuine, for there
is in them the reflection of a greatness
which emauated from the person of Jesus,
and which was of as divine kind as ever
was seen upon earth.
In the Fort Smith district there have
been up to date 410 conversions and 500
accessionsito our church. The acc ssions
will probably reach 1000 by the time the
Arkansas conference meets. With an
average of half the number in each of the
seventeen districts in this state, we would
have $500 accessions to our church in
Arkansas this year.
Recent reports show that great change
is passing over Jerusalem. Eight years
ago there were in the city only 5000
Jews, now there are more than 10000.
The addition to the Hebrew population is
chiefly ettr buted to the persecution of
the Jewsin Russia. The total Hebrew
race is estimated at 100000.
London has a Christian police associa.
citation, with membership of 1000. 1t is
only five years since the association has
started, and it has prospered beyond ex-
pectation. 1t contains at present 1913
branches, which extended as far as Singa-
pore, Tasmania, South Africa and
Canada.
~ didn't think" of course, you did not,
but can you tell why not? That excuse
has been scape goat long enough and
TOO long. Drive it off and think. It is
for you that have a mind.
Emerson says every child of the Saxon
race is educated to wish to be first. 1t is
our system, and man cgmes to measure
his greatness by the regrets, envies and
hstreds of his con- panions.
Robert B. Roosevelt, of New York,
United States minister to the Netherlands,
was privately married in London on Sun
day last to Mrs. Marion I. Fortesqu
also of New York. AS the bride Is
Catholic ard Minister Roosevelt Pro-
testant, special dispensation from the
pope was obtained for the ceremony.
Mrs. Roosevelt is well knnwn in literary
circles in New York.
According to careful calculations made
by British clergyman of note, and Just
publ shed, Protestauts have increased
during the last hundred years from 81
100000 to 134,000,00O, Or nearly four fold.
Roman Catholics, during the same period,
have increased from SO,190,O0O to 1881
100000, or two fold. The Greek church
during the century has increased from
100000 to 100000, also two fold.
Cardinal Lsvigeris, who is trying to
! suppress the slave trade, was, before he
left London, cordially received by the
prince aud princess of Wales and by Lord
Salisbury. While in England he was
elected member of the Anti Slavery So
ciety. In the prosecution of his mission
the cardinal intends to visit all the cap
itals of Europe
The arl and countess of Aberdeen re-
Gently entertained at DOLLS Hill $50 of the
residents Of the homes for working girls
IL London. Among those present on the
| occasion We're DR.. George Macdonald, The
novelist, Captain Sinclair and a large
number of ladies a1d gentlemen inter
ested in benevolent enterprises and the
reformation of the masses.
Henceforth think of nothing as insig-
nifiCant. A Little thing may decide your
all. A Cunarder put out from England
for New York. II was well equipped, out
in putting mp n stove in the pilot box
nail vas driven too near the compass
You know how that nail would effect the
compass. The ships officer, deceived by
that distracted compass, put the ship
200 miles of her right course, and SUD
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