The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-11-15
THE SHINING SHORE.
Helps On the Way for SAINTS and
Sinners.
General Religious Gleanings from
the Worlds Great Harvest
Fields.

Over 10000 children are being educated
in the parochial schools of Brooklyn.
A Society of st. Joseph, for colored
Catholics, has been incorporated in Balti-
more.
st. Johns new church, at Stuyvesant
and Willoughby avenues, Brooklyn, will
cost 100000.
Doctor Talmsge says: Brood not upon
misfortunes. If you must take the bitter
pills do not chew them"
Mr.. Hugh j. Grant has subscribed
$1,000 to the new Roman Catholic semi-
nary to be erected in New York.
A congress in the interest of the colored
Catholics of the United States will be held
in Washington, D. O., on January 9.
There has been a great revival in St.
Johns church, at Birmingham, Ala. Over
100 conversions and sixty accessions to
the church are reported.
The Indian Mission conference paid for
foreign missions, $1,1S3.30; paid for do
mestic missions, $1,07S.97. Next confer
ence to be held at Atoka.
Let US think that we must do some
great thing, as we call it, to honor God;
let the little things of life be done with a
great motive, and God will be honored.
The corner stone of st. Marks Methodist
Episcopal church, south, at Oak Cliff,
Dallas, was laid at 8 p. m. last Monday, by
Bishop j. s. Key, in presence of large
gathering.
At the German M. E. convention, in In
diana, 100 ministers, representing $4,000
members, passed, without one dissenting
voice, resolution giving unqualified in
dorsement of prohibition.
Methodism is reported to be fourishing
in Paducsh, Kentucky. Somebody joins
the church nearly every Sunday, and a
$4,000 parsonage, said to be the best in
the Memphis conference, has been pur-
chased.
The question of forming North Caro-
lima conference is being agitated. DR..
R. N. Price, of Holston, has opposed the
movement, but says, sit is coming. It is
claimed conference is becoming too large
to be entertained by our towns"
In New York there are 1858 societies OF
Christian Endeavor, with about $4,000
members. The societies are composed of
young people attached to the churches,
and their special duties are to do all in
their power for Christianity and for the
promotion of all good works.
Whatever contributes to another's hap
piness or mental and moral growth, is a
worthy stone laid in a sure place; what
ever drives away smile aud gives a
frown instead hiL ders the work. Here, il
ever, is felt the potency of little deeds, the
strokes light and many that shape and
polish.
Rev. E. M. Grove made report TO the
Louisville conference showing the en-
dowment fund of the Widows and Orphans
home, which is located at Louisville, KY,
amounts to $28,710,27, and the property
to $21,200; other resources, 1929. rs.
There are twenty-nine children in the
home. During the past year thirty-nine
children were cared for.
The Holy Spirit mediates between man
and GOD, even as Christ mediates between
God and man. Both are intercessors
though operating in different fields. The
Holy Spirit has to DO with man. He
stands at the hearts door and knocks
soliciting admittance. He entreats, urges
the sinner to consent to an immediate
reconciliation with God.
In a recent Thursday sermon at tbs
Metropolitan tabernacle, Mr.. Spurgeor
pared "modern thought" to the idol
atrous faiths of ancient Babylon, and
predicted death and oblivion for it fifty
years hence. "The God of modern
thought" said Mr.. Spurgeon, sis a mon
L ,t, IL tnny
Father which art up in tree"
The Tennessee conference reports the
followink statistics: Local preachers and
members, ,166; infants baptized, 1872
adults Baptized, 1902; Sunday schools
$40; teachers, 1894; scholars, 29,690
necessary for superanuated preachers
$4,4O0; collected on this account, $4,936 88
for foreign missions, $22,274.86. Mex
session will be held at Murfreesboro.
A "Heavenly Foot Society" has beer
formed by Chinese women at Annoy. The
Reverend John MACEDONIAN, missionary at
Annoy, now in England on q visit, in G
speech delivered at Manchester recently
stated that the society was the result OF
his persistent teaching that the Chinese
custom of binding the feet was in oper
violation of the precepts of the gospel. Il
is his belief that the example will be ex'
tensively initiated, and that the final result
will be death blow to the barbarous prac
tee.
The relative merits of Mohsmmedanisn
and Christianity in Africa are being dis
cursed. Canon Taylor contends that Mo-
hammedanism should not be interfered
with in Africa. Professor Drumnono
says the question is whether the Arab OF
the European is to reign in Africa. "Af
rica," he says, "belongs to nobody, yet is
claimed by everybody. The Arabs pour
into it from north and east, with the de-
liberate purpose of making a paradise 6
hell"
The Dean and Chapter of st. PauPf
Cathedral, London, have secured the serv-
ices of the attorney general in the
reredos case. The new structure, as is
we'll known, has given great offense to
many of the pensioners, and, as the
bishop of London has refused to interfere
an appeal has been made to the courts
The attorney general is understood to
agree with the bishop and to be lin favor
of the reredos as il stands. The objection
is that at savors of popery."
The Anatolia college, at Msrsova, sixty
miles from the Black Sea, is an American
institution. 1t was established by Amerl-
can missionaries as part of their educa-
tional work in Asia Minor. It has now
100 pupils, all on paying basis. But II