The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-08-23
Teachings of Good Men and News
of Interest for the Blessed
and Wicked.

Inc heN. d. b. EngilSh, OF Baltimore
has accepted a call from the South Baptist
church of Newark.
United efforts are being made By He.
brews in Germany to have their sons born
during the present year named Frederick.
after the late emperor, who was SO
friendly to their race.
The railroad from Jappa to the city of
Jerusalem, distance of about forty-fye
miles, is nearly completed and will be
ready for use early in September.
Delhi District, Louisiana Conference,
reports progress along all the lines of
church work.
In Mon roe county, Illinois, there are
more saloon keepers than Sunday school
scholars.
Rev. j. R. Nelson is pushing to com.
pletion handsome church IN Brown.
wood.
The New Orleans Advocate reports
Sl1 400 on the endowment fund for Cen
tenary college.
Sacrifice being the essential basis of
virtue, the most meritorious virtues are
those which are acquired with the greatest
effort-De Moisire.
1t is the cultivation of the moral side of
our natures that has given to our people,
as nation, their great strength and
grand strides.-John X. @. Sleeper.
have seldom seen much ostentaton
and much learning met together. The
sun, rising and declining, makes long
shadows, and at midday, when he is high
est, none at all.-Hall.
A nobleness and elevation of mind
together with frmness of constitution,
gives luster and dignity to the aspect
and makes the soul, as it were, shine
through the body.-Jeremy Collier.
Spurgeon has eighty colporteurs among
his workers, and their sales last year
amounted to $45,SOO. Should not every
church have its colporteurs?
When will the world come to see that in
living wholly for Christ Is to insure the
highest benefits to ourselves and the
greatest power to bless others?
The Bishop of Carlisle has the credit Of
saying that in English Episcopal pulpits
"a sermon is very often but text floating
about in quantity of very weak soup"
The queen, although requested by the
Marquis of Salisbury, firmly refused to
establish precedent, which might prove
source of inconvenience and even trou-
BILE, by receiving the prelates who formed
the Lambeth conference at Windsor Cas-
tie.
large delegation sailed several weeks
ago from New York to attend the eleventh
triennial conference of Young Mems
Christian associations of all lands to be
held in Stockholm, Sweden.
A special indulgence has been granted
by the pope to all who attend the Jubilee
mass of Reverend Father Sorin, superior
general of the Congregation of the Holy
Cross and founder of the University Of
Notre Dame, Ind. A number of gifts
have been sent to Father Sorin from
Rome. In honor of his jubilee a church
of the university of the first minor basilica
in the United States was consecrated on
the 18th inst.
1t has been truly said that holy life is
a continual sermon. Though it be silent
in its speech, yet it speaks with force
that cannot be unheeded, evan by the
most careless-a force that pulpit oratory
never can attain, however eloquently it
may be.
Among the colored Methodists there are
the African Methodist Episcopal
church, the African Zion Methodist Epis
copal church, and the Colored Methodist
Episcopal church. These three had over J
100000 members at the last reports, and
by this time are verging on 100000;
while there are quite number of colored
people connected with the Methodist EpiS-
copal church and a few connected with
the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.
So the entire number of coIored Method
lists in the United States will aggregate
l 100000, or it may be little more. The
colored Methodist Episcopal church is an
offshoot of the Methodist Episcopal Z
Church, South, and when set IF they were
granted the church houses which had been
previously erected for their benefit.
Captain Condor, in the recently issued
Quarterly Statement of the Palestine ex-
plorat!oa fund, states that the "Ten
Tribes were taken from Samaria by Sar.
gon in the year 722 B. c., and 90 the num-
Der of27,2S0. Their PLACES, according to
the recently discovered historical tablet,
which gives the above date and figures, g
were Supplied by foreigners. Where the
" len Tribes" were located he finds it not
so easy to answer. The burden of tr8di-
ton, ne says, is to the effect that they
found a new home in the lands adjacent
to the Caspian sea, and he inclines to the
belief that the inhabitants of Georgia,
kurdistan and Bactria, more to the east
are descendants of Isrselite tribes" This
view finds support from Benjamin oil {
Iudela, who travelled from Spain, in the
Twelfth century, and who found independ-
ent Jewish tribes in those regions.
The moralist is as good as the ordinary
Christian so far as he can see. but be
can't see on the inside of Christian. he
is Pharasee, his works make beautiful
show without, but in his heart he is Ike
the sepulcbre, full of rottenness and deao
mems bones. He does his work of charity
because he sym pathizes with humanity
and not from love Of Christ. So as ne
works for men and not for Christ he muss
ook to men for his reward at last and no,
to Christ. And as the poor he has helpeo
Are not running heaven he will not get II
here because he has helped them and mas
not honored Christ.