Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-07-22
Religious Notes.

The ChurChmGn estimates that "the
amount OF capital which mas disappeared in
New YORK city alone in prodlsss ventures Of
Church protestant Epi,copail journalism
has exceeded S2j00O0."
on the Pope's recent letter on Ireland the
Catholic Standard says: a. The extracts from
the letter are sll-sufrcient to convince every
thoughtful mind OF bis sincere Rad deep In
terest in the welfare OF the people OF ireland,
bis warm sympathy with them in their dis
tres,. aud his earnest hOpe,that they,will sue
coed In surmountlng the difficulties and OBJ
.taces with which they now have 70 con-
tend"
The negotiations that have been so long in
progress for the organic union OF the Pres
byterian, Reformed. and Congregational mis-
sion churches In Japan have been brought TO
n conclusion and await only the certain APP
prevail OF the separate bodies next Noyem-
ber The doctrlnal basis Of tue United
Church OF Christ in Japan IL the Apostles
Creed. Substantially the basis Of union is
that In church government the local church
shall be governed eongregatlonally, while
the consolidated body is 10 be governed pres
byterially.
alt I. becoming almost self.evident," says
the PrtS6VterIaR, "that the whites and
tho blacks will not live together on the basis
OF political equality; one or the other must
rule. This is the threatening issue coming,
and IT'S foreesSlings are seen In the churches.
Unless there Is . radical change In the polt-
tics and new aud 6iyertlng questions with
draw the public mind from It's present DRIFT
there win DO no organic union. IL Is not
Church autagoniSm, doctrines, policies, or
faith that hIuders-it is politics steadily
holding back those who would, II only eccle-
slsstIcal issues were at stake, unite like a
wel-set fracture on frat intention"
Few persons except ministers tlRmselves
understand 10 what extent the time Of pas
tors Is encroacbed upon by callers on busi-
ness but remotely, II at all, competed with
their work. II Ia deemed duty 20 courte-
ously submit to infections OF all sorts lest
the cause which the pastor represents should
suifer from the yindictive and reveRseful
conduct Of those who might beturned away.
The Rev. Edward Everett Hale somewhat
warmly describes the anpoysnccs thus en-
dured in 9 sketch OF the late James Freeman
Clarke. Ne says: al grumblng were ever
10 order Il would be worth while 10 ask, IN
pas,Ipx, whether II Is the best use 10 make OF
a msa who has shown his power for scholar
ship to put him in place where the door
bell mar ring 250 times day and he be
asked by $50 trsmps how they are to earn |
their LIVING"
The worst foes TO the extension OF the
Gospel ia bsathen lands come from Chris
tisn countries. IL stsFgers the thinking
heather and parsiyzss the missionary. In
Tersolism. spirft,isllsun, atheism, and the
Abominsble lives OF Europeans and Ameri-
cans iivIns In ihcse countries, many OF them
without the commonest restrsluts OF de-
eency. But theie are not 40 terrible as the
rum and opium trsfic sustained snd forced
by England principally, nearly all the others
iIpil sting. Tho Rev. Iludson Tsyior de-
cllred that opium did more harm In one |
week 10 China than oil The good missions |
could do IN yesr. lie ssid II was passing |
strange that with an established Church and l
religious interest dominant In that country |
England should continue 10 force rum aud |
opium on protesting, dcfenceIess country, |
bringing Only degradation and ruin. |