The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-09-27
HEAVENLY LIGHTS
Illuminating the Great H,ebwo
to the Promised Land
Religious News Gathered br =,
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OLueI5 pun OURSELVES.
The lasting and GROWING privils,o
rather property, of friendship ia e CoU VI
stancy. 'On-
A solemn requiem mass will be beIa.-
all the Catholic churches of New Yo,L ~ ~
the last Sunday in September-the SO ~
inst. 'O'n
Anxiety is the poison of human ne.
1t is the parent of many sins and of mo,.
miseries. wy
Title aud ancestry render good nama
more illustrious, but an i'll one more CON.
temptible.
Many man passes by little SPRINGS,
cool, pure water, to drink at last from
hog wallow.
Rabbi Jacob Joseph has been elected a
member of the advisory board of tbs
Hebrew Free School association, of New
York.
Mr.. T. Beasley, of Stspleford, Eng. bss
bequeathed $4,000 to assist in the erec-
ton of Free Methodist churches in Lon.
don.
The eight theological semir aries of the
Presbyterian church had, last year, COZ
students. The average cost for the edu-
cation of each of these students was 1853
To take away rewards and punishments
is only pleasing to man who resolves
not to live morally.
1t does not Pay to hire help you have to
quarrel with, or to work for a person with
wnom you desire to quarrel.
The foundation stone of a suitable
memorial chapel at Epworth, John Wes-
ley's birthplace, was laid last Thursday.
When men dare not tell the truth Of
themselves how can they be expected to
always tell the truth about others?
The mystery of sleep! This great mys.
terry of waking. If we could fathom them
we should have fathomed ourselves, and
life and death!
In Cincinnati and Its suburbs there are
40 Methodist churches, with 81 ministers,
81 local preachers, 1868 members and
1855 Sunday school children, officers and
teachers.
Courage that grows from constitution
very often forsakes a man when he has
occasion for it; and when it is only kind
of instinct in the soul, it breaks out on all
occasions, without judgment or discretion
Rabbi Itslie, of Mappel, is the oldest
hazan living. He is 81 years of age and
passes his time chiefly in writing Hebrew
poems. An acrostic poem was recently
sent by him to Mr.. David Cantor, of New
York.
Mr.. j. h. Kellogg, of Troy, n. Y, has
given $1,000 to the National Woman's
Christian Temperance Union, to be used
in prosecuting its work. This is the largest
single contribution ever received by the
society.
Mr.. Short, a retired Australian mer-
chant and an enthusiast in Christian mis-.
sion work, has made very fine models Of
the tabernacle and the different features
of the encampmcnt by way of illustrating
Israel in the wilderness, and is now in
London giving lectures on the subject, at
Memorial hall, harrington street.
THE Office of religion is not to build
affairs, but character; not to scatter in
cense, but helpful influences; not to offer
oblations, but the perpetual sacrifice Of
righteousness and contrite heart. This
is the law, according to the prophets, who
saw clearly enough the evils of Journalism.
Bat the great mass cling to Journalism
still, and Judaism is too often regarded as
synonymous with cold and mechanical
synagogism, from which it differs IS
radically as flower from q stone" So
speaks the Jewish Messenger.
Three Thousand five hundred and forty.
three persons were supplied with nour-
ishing food at the five Sick Diet Kitchens
of the Philadelphia Protestant Episcopal
City mission during the month of August.
This branch of the work being much in
need of funds, money for it may be sent
to the uperintendent, the Reverend Sam
uel Durborow, AL Spruce street.
The order of the Knights of Malta is 70
be revived by the Catholics as an aid in
abolishing slavery in Africa. Old timers
in this country associate the order with
the ridicule heaped upon it by the late
Frank Leslie, which broke it up about
thirty years ago, the illustrations in his
weekly newspaper showing the various
rites and ceremonies, being published
about the same time as that enterprising
journalists famous raid on swiil milk.
$50 great in our times are the tempta-
tons or young men to dissipation, and
Young women to social follies, that it IS
most important that the first eighteen
years of their life be charged with a re-
ligious power that will hold them when
they get out of the harbor of home into
the stormy ocean of active life. There is
such a thing as impressing children so
powerfully with good, that sixty years will
have no more power to efface it than sixty
"-Talmage.
Catholic exchanges announce that "By
rescript of the Sacred Congregation of
Indulgences, under date May 4, 1888. the
sovereign pontiff, Leo MIL, has conceded
an indulgence of fifty days to all the faith
full, who, with coutrite heart, shall recite
the ejaculation so familiar to st. Francis
of Assisi-namely, Deus meus ct omnis'
my God and my ALL. This indulgence
may be gained as many times daily as the
said ejaculation be recited, and is sp-
by way of suffrage, to the souls
o: the departed
An interesting meeting was held re-
Gently in Exeter hall, London. The oc-
cssion was a farewell to Mrs. Booth
Tucker, daughter of the general" and
fifty missionary officers who were about
to set sail for Iudia. It was announced
that during the last year $500 had been
spent upon land and buildings in India
and some $4,000 for the maintenance OF
the work. The governor of Ceylon, it
was stated, had granted the army the
privilege of working among the prison
ere, and had further promised an annual