The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-02-05
CHRISTIANITY IN INDIA. Z

The Rev. Archdeacon Matthew, ID.
bish'op-designate of Lahore, says: "Ir
British India, with pol 600, 900 inhabi-
tants, Christianity has advanced in the
last decade 30 per cent. though the
general increase of population was bu,
I ~ per cent, and the increase among
the Mohammedans was but 10 per
cent.
LIBERAL PREACHERS tell US that the
churches need larger windows to let in
Heavens truth; they need larger doors
! to let in earth's poor. How poverty
| would flee, crime and vice diminish,
| sorrow and suffering decrease, error
and ignorance give way, politics be
eleansed and society be renewed, if
there were hut one church in spirit
| throughout the Christian world, and
! its spirit were the spirit of its founder
| How quickly Aparchism and Commun-
ism would wrap their fiery symbols
about them and disappear! These
make converts only where society and
the church come short OF high respon-
slbility STANDARD, Syracuse. v n
'.The Pope gives the jubilee gift money
to st. Peters treasury, to be extended
in propogandism." What propogand-
ism means we have already sufficiently
explained to those who do not under
stand. It simply means the propagation
of the Christian religion. Protestant
writers confess that Catholic missions,
among people who are not Christians,
succeed whore Protestant missions fail,
Notwithstanding the sums lsvished
upon Protestant missions. The propo
sanda in Rome helps naturally to
support Catholic missions in all parts Of
the world. The Catholic missionaries
almost literally 60 forth without scrip
or staff, like the Apostles Of old so far
as their ewn compensation goes. They
60 forth. also, without wive or families.
But the establishment and conduct OF
mission necessarily costs something,
and for those establishments the treas
ury of st. Peter, which 10 tina common
swers, So there goes The money given
to the PoPe.-eathoHc Rerie'0.
NOBLE RELIGIOUS SENTIMENT.
Whatever may be thought of Nr
Ignatius Donelly's Shskespesre-Bacon
theory--snd too many thoughtsssly
and ignorantly snesr at it-on some
matters he speaks with penetration and
wisdom. To the request from the Bos-
ton Globe for his choice among passages
in English prose, he replies:
~ would say that the sentence in
prose that has taken the deepest root In
my thought Is, perhaps. that express
sion of Francis Bacon: I would rather
believe all the fables in the Tia mud
and the Koran than that this universal
frame is without mind"
This applies an uuanswerabie argu-
ment for the existence of divinity. II
suggests q comparison between the
body and the spirit of man and lhe
body and the spirit of the universe. 1t
should be printed in letters of gold, and
set up in every school house in the land
as most potent answer TO that shall
lowest and narrowest of all cresds, ma
teriallsm. A whole body Of thought
and philosophy flows out of this single
sentence.
UNIvERsALIsTS. ...,n
The report of the General Convention
of the Universalist Church in the
United States for 1887, summarized by
its secretary, Rev. G. L. Demerest, D.
D., makes a showing for the year that
is excellent. The statistics denote gains
in all directions. There is real inter
est in those figures to all lovers of the
liberal faith. One writer recommends
the grand showing in statistics apd
figures to the attention of the New
York Independent, and those sympa-
thizing brethren in orthodox circles
who are sure that the Universalist
Church is on the wane. Substantial
gains are realized in all the lines of the
church-in parishes, families, church
members, church property. and money
for current expenses, signifying per
cent. increase of parishes, ~ per cent. |
of families, 3sz per cent. church mem
bers, LIS per cent. of Sunday school
members, / 5 per cent. of church
property, and ~ per cent. of current
expenses IN the past year. Generous
gifts have been received and made for
missionary and benevolent purposes.
educational work, ministerial relief, to
their colleges and academies. Such
voluntary contributions amount to
aboct $50 each family reported.
Il. 81 APAE. aG9 f4
The following statistics are given by
the head fithe Statistical Bureau in
Japan: 7a. l.ruFs~ 4
"The urban population is large one,
FIVE towns having more than 100 600 in
habitsnts, headed by Toxic with 902, >
S37, aid Osaka with 353 $40. There are
nearly 5000 japanese residing abroad;
most of them for purposes of study.
Agriculture is in Furnishing condi :
ton, and the average crop of roe
reaches 0.000, 600 bushels, and that OF
corn half as much. There are l42 pub
lie banks, with 127 branches, having a
capital of over $40 900 600. and, issuing
more than Sc, 600 600. The private banks
number PA, with capital Of over 5 ,00c,
600; and there are TAI other credit
societies, " til about 81, 0o0, 0C0 of CAPT
tai; lob industrial and commercial
companies, with more than $40, 200, 0(0
of capital. The 1,460 postal saving
banks have about It'll depositors of
81, 500, 600. The number Of school teach.
ers are over 100000, with 3.328,41S