The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-11-22
RELIGIOUS NEWS,
Precept IN Righteous Living
from the Worlds Good Men.
The Harvest Fields Are Wide
and White and Ripe, and
Await the Harvesters.

" OF uOluR 0Ou . "'AA'
The pilgrimage to the Holy Land starts
on the next anniversary of the birth of
i Washington.
Faith travels in an unseen track to
honor and glory; neither shall anything
turn her aside.
The cost of the spires on st. Patrick 3
Cathedral, New York, is about 100000, of
which 100000 has already been contrib
uted.
The estimated Catholic population in
England and Wales is 1854 1000; in Scot
land, $4,000; in Ireland, 3,961,000; total,
n 5,641 900.
Superstition and fanaticism shall not be
gratifed by either voice or dream, but
yet, "the way of the righteous shall be
made plaiu."
recently deceased Catholic of Grand
Rapids, Mich, left 100000 to the bishop
of that place to found an orphan asylum.
Bishop Richter has carried out the good
work.
He who is on the Kings highway will
come to good end, for the King has COM
pleted that way, 80 that it does not fall
short, but leads to ''city of habitations,
whose builder and maker is God"
The annual report of the bureau of
Catholic Indian missions has just been
published, showing the number of pupils
to be more than 5000, an increase of 700
i over last year.
"Requiescat in Pace" is the title of a
neat little book from the pen of Rev.
Richard F. Clarke, s. j., in which is found
the meditations for every day of the
month of November-the month dedi-
Gated to devotion to the souls in purga-
tory.
$50, work to-day in my vineyard" Go
into the harvest fields that are wide and
white and ripe, and gather the sheaves
that must be saved through your instru-
mentality, or go down to eternal vice.
Jesus Christ wants no drones, no desert
ers. OCCUPY till I come" Work. Work.!
), Work!!!
lam heartily sorry for those persons
who are constantly talking of the perish
able nature of things and the nothingness
of human life; for this very end we are
here to stamp the perishable with an i'm
perisable worth, and this can only be done
by taking just estimate of BOTH
Goethe.
NIOlOoouOl POLILdIVuIO VI Subdu us
diety, being the creator and manipulation
of the evil, is q product of fancy. Satan
\ is creature, originally good; but leaving
his first estate, transgressing Gods law,
he made himself what we now find him to
be, the bitter opponent and untiring an
tagonist of the good.
Rev. j. Davis Ray, of Bolton has offered
his services for mission work in Japan.
Mr.. Ray is devoted worker and has the
missionary spirit in full measure. AS the
Japs are very small in stature, he will not
feel Inundated in their presence, though
he cannot hope to excite their admiration
> as does Minister Hubbard.
"Never renounce hope though outward
signs fail and all resources of life seem
B exhausted. Cleave to the spirit which
survives the form, cling to the living
fountain of love and truth. Goodness, the
atheists god, may die with man. God,
the source of all goodness, outlasts the
ages and the worlds icons. In Him the
good lives never to die"
God is as God omnipresent. Satan can
be omnipresent on earth only representa-
lively. His subalterns operate at the
places assigned them. Satau's kingdom
is not divided against itself. His mission
of evil is systematically as we'll as ener-
getically carried on. The apostle declares
that he was not ignorant of satan's de-
vices. More thought should be given to
demonology.
Reverend George W. Griffin, d. D., pas
tor of the Baptist church of Longview, has
( resigned. He is we'll known in the east
and south. He is graduate of the Uni
versity of Virginia, and has held some of
the most important pulpits of Tennessee
and Virginia. In 1861 and 1862 he was
president of the Baptist female college
OF Lebanon, Tenn, and in 1879 and 1880
held the chair of logic and metaphysics
IN the Southwestern Baptist university of
Jackson, Tenn.
The statistical report of the West Texas
conference shows the following: Number
of local preachers, 1903; members, 1859;
adults baptized, $50, infants, SOL number
of churches, 97-value $144, l95; number
of parsonages, 40-vslue $27,585; value of
other church property, $19,601.60; money
s. expended on churches and parsonages,
10,167.35. Paid presiding elders, $3,347.-
30; preachers in charge, $24,191.40;
bishops, $263.56; conference claimants,
$2,2l5.65; other objects, $2,11179. Num-
Der of Sunday schools, 1856; officers and
teachers, 955; scholars, 6,499; money ex-
pended for Sunday school literature,
$2,267.13. Paid for foreign missions,
S2,263.70; domestic missions, $2,196 30;
for church extension, $39O.95; for educa-
ton, $519.70; for Bible cause, $96.95.
The dispatch from Rome saying that q
petition had been presented to the propa-
gsnds protesting against the predominant.
ing influence of German Catholics in
: America, having been shown to a prom
inent theologian of Baltimore, he said
that such a movement had been on foot
since the last council at Baltimore; that a
petition was presented at Notre Dame,
Ind, at the Golden Jubilee of Father
Sorrip, drawn up by Archbishop ireland
and signed by seven bishops, embodying
a request that the cstechism shall be
taught only in the English language, and
: that in those German parishes where
sermons heretofore were preached in
German they should now be preached in
English; that no festivities of any German
nature should be tolerated.; in short, that
Everything German should be abolished.
Bishops Dwenger and Macs were chosen
to present the petition at Rome.