The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-08-09
Which Have Been Sown Upon the
Great Field of Life.
Lessons for the Multitude by Great
and Good Men-Religlous
Gleanings.
This is the tenth Sunday after Trinity.

room bed as great and durable profits
from small and hasty efforts.
The engagement of the Reverend Maui
rice II. Harris, minister of Temple Israel,
Harlem, to Miss X. Green, of London, is
announced.
All that remains of ancient Babylon is
now the property of two Hebrews of Bag
+, dad, who have recently purchased it.
1t has recently been decided by the SUI
preme court of Pennsylvania that Sunday
marriages are null and void.
Only those friendships which are the
deliberate choice of a thoughtful mind,
and not'the makeshifts of an unoccupied
heart, are generous and true.
Ex-Msyor Grace has given $1,000 to st.
Aloysius' church at Great Neck, L. l., where
his summer residence is located.
The church of the Holy Rosary, Jersey
City, for the Italian Catholics, has been
reopened with Father Mazetti, of this city,
as pastor.
The Catholic Total Abstinence Union of
of America will open its eighteenth
general convention in Boston on Wednes-
day.
Several novitiates will be received
into the Order of the Dominican Sisters at
the convent in jersey City on Saturday.
man cannot go down in his highest
religious nature without going down all
around. Whatever his pretense of in
terest may be in things beautiful and
musical and pure and noble, it is only
skillful hypocrisy.
The Fayetteville district convention at
Prairie Grove, Ark, raised 800 to assist
to pay church debt at Sloan Springs,
$1,005 for Prairie Grove academy and
$125 for Collegiate institute.
Forest City station has new church
q worth $4,000. Holley Grove has new
parsonage worth $1,000. La Grange
circuit has beautiful bran new parson-
age, and Helena has raised $1,000 and
cleared an old debt on their building.
Happy is he who has learned this one
thing-to do the plain duty of the mo
ment quickly and cheerfully, whatever it
may be.
Virtue consists in making desire subor-
dinate to duty, passion to principle. The
pillars of character are moderation, tenn
perance, chastity, simplicity, self control;
its method is self denial.
Many eminent architects are engaged in
making plans or sketches for the forth
coming cathedral of New York. 1t is in
tended to be work for all time, and its
progress in wise hands is eminently salts
factory.
There are in New York city more than
three hundred religious and charitable in
situations or societies whose object it is to
help the poor. These institutions receive
and distribute annually about $4,OO0OOO.
The Baptist state convention of deacons
and ministers met at Paris on July 20.
Gen. S. B. Maxey delivered the address of
welcome.
Upon advice of Bishop Galloway, the
prohibitionists of Mississippi, in state
convention at jackson, refrained from
nominating an electoral ticket.
In single Protestant Episcopal church
in New York oity tn re were twenty-five
communicates received at the last con
frmation who had been baptized in the
Roman Catholic communion.
The Year Book of the Young Mems
Christian association gives the number of
associations in the world. OF these, 1,104
are in the United States and Canada. The
associations own in this country $6,709,-
230 worth of property, about $1,000,000
of which has been acquired during the
past year.
Boston has population of 100000, and
about $4,000 members of Protestant
churches. New York has population of
100000, and less than 10000 Protestant
church members. Chicago has 100000
Inhabitants, not more than 100000 of
whom are identified with her Protestant
churches.
The Russian Hebrew colonists of Al
lance, near Vineland, N. j., have pros
pered so we'll with their small holdings
there that in evidence and recognition
they have erected handsome brick syna-
gogue to replace the present frame build
ing donated by the late Mr.. James Reck
endorfer.
SALEM, Va, July 28.-Mormons have
been making converts at Salem, Va, by an
alleged miracle. small farmer had an
old horse that was ill and nigh unto death,
and his whole family had exerted every
effort known to their skill to restore him,
but in vain. About shutdown one day,
however, when all hope bad we'll nigh van
ished, the Misunderstanding Mormons APP
peared. Seeing the brute's condition
they gently laid their hands on him and
bade him arise, which thehorse did agilely,
and was SO lively from that time that he
came year running over his owner that
evening in the yard.
Never mind where you work; care more
how you work; never mind who sees if
God approves. If He smiles be content
We cannot always be sure when we are
most useful. 1t is not the acreage you
SOW, it is the multiplication which God
gives the seed which makes the harvest.
You have less to do with being successful
than with being faithful. Your main COM
fort is that in your labor you are not
alone, for God, the eternal one, who guides
the marches of the stars, is with you.-C.
81. Spurgeon.
The growth of the Catholic religion
among the colored people is becoming
very noticeable, and many young men are
studying for the priesthood. The church
authorities are encouraging this move
ment, and recently an old hotel has been
purchased for the purpose of fitting it up
as an Institution for the education of
colored men for the priesthood. The in
stitution will be known as st. Joseph's
seminary, and will be opened in the fall
In all probability A cnIorad Catholic