The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-07-26
GOLDEN SHEAVES
Gathered From the Worlds Great
Harvest Field
Words of Wisdom and Religious
News For ALI Sunday
Readers.

WluuOW VI an uunDl6 nome IMAM luTOuB
the opera glass of the gilded box of
theater.
Come to Christ. Make him your por
ton, and start for heaven, and you viii
be a happy man-you will be happ.
woman
A deaf aud dumb person being asked t.
give his idea of forgiveness, took hi:
pencil and wrote ut is the sweetness
which flowers yield when trampled upon
To be content is to be in good humol
with our circumstances, not picking 6
quarrel with our obscurity,or our poverty
or our social position. There are four OF
five grand reasons why we should be con-
tent with such things as we have.
DIR. j. Leland Miller, of Sheffield, Mass
has given $4,000 to Williams College tc
found professorship of American his
tory, literature aud eloquence. 1t will be
the first professorship of the kind in this
country.
Shakespeare ard the translators of the
Bible cOntented themselves with a vocab.
ulary of 1000 words; their descendants
less than three centuries after use larger
number beginning with the single letter A
The Woman's Missionary society of the
Florida conference reports: Eighty four
auxiliaries with 1863 members, and AZ
Juvenile societies with 1874 members
45 life members and 299 Subscribers.
Building new churches and repairing
old ones are said to be the signs of prog
ress seen almost everywhere in the Vir-
ginia conference. The Methodists OF
Pine Bluff, Ark, have just completed a
new church-beautiful and commodious
1t cost $14,792.1l.
Twelve thousand dollars have been sub
scribed for the erection of the new Hen
shaw Memorial church, Baltimore, the re-
naming $8,000,which will be necessary, it
is hoped will be in hand by the time it
shall be called for.
The Reverend Loring W. Batten, rector
of st. Georges church, West Philadelphia,
has been elected to fill the chair of He
brew languages and literature in the Di-
vinity school during the absence of the
Reverend Professor John p. Peters, Phi.
D., on the Babylonian expedition.
The Reverend Doctor Townsend, rector
of the Incarnation, Washington, has given
printed notice that hereafter on Sundays,
if there is a burial expected of him, he
will not go to the grave, but conduct the
entire service at the home or at the
church, as the case may be. This action
is taken in self-defense, and due notice
being given, no one will have right to
complain.
st. Paul, at Greenville, N. j., was dedi-
Gated by Bishop Wigger last week. After
the walls had been blessed, solemn high
macs was celebrated by Reverend James j..
| Sheehan, of st. Patrick's church, Jersey
City, assisted by Fathers Terwoert and
McAtee, of Jersey City, and Reverend
Doctor Messmer, of Seton Hall College.
During the mass Bishop Wigger occupied
the throne at the right hand side of the
altar. He was attended by Very Reverend
Father Salt, vicar general of Newark, and
Mgr. De Concilio, of Jersey City. The
sermon was preached by Rev. W. Smith,
@. s. p, of this city.
The new church is said to be the second
largest In Hudson county, and its walls
are the highest of any in the state of New
Jersey. 1t has a frontage of seventy
eight feet and depth of 152 feet. In its
tower, the spire of which is POI feet high,
are eighteen bells. The edifice has been
erected within year, and its cost was
about $4,000.
Seven Benedictines, who are at present
quartered at st. Mary's Abbey, in New
ark, sailed last Friday for Ecuador to
establish church of their order there.
Three of them are Americans and the
other four are Germans, but have resided
in this country long enough to be citizens
of the United States. Father Augustine.
the leader of the little band, is middle
aged man and has been located at st. Vim
cents, the mother house near Latrobe, Pa.
They are going to their new field of labor
at the urgent solicitation of the bishop of
Ecuador, who visited this country last
year and explained the work that existed
i'll South America for band of Benedic-
tines. The members of the band will
take with them a large quantity of the
most improved farm and garden imple-
ments and will, as the occasion demands
it, send for other machinery and tools.
The Wesleyan Advocate, on ball play
ing, says: "Ball playing is all right; it is
a good exercise for school boys, clerks,
book-keepers and all Others whose regular
business requires them to lead sedentary
lives indoors. Base ball playing is not SO
good, we think, as the old-fashioned town
ball, which has been displaced by it,
though it is in keeping with the times, in
that it is more scientific. But ball play
ers, for large part, are all wrong. They
form leagues, limit the exercise of the
game to few, and convert into paying
business what ought to be kept as rec.
reation. Then they corrupt the business
still further by betting on the game. To
increase gate fees they encourage side
betting, and by many device seek to
secure large crowd, not to take part in
the manly sport, but simply to witness
the performance of a few. If the authori
ties will permit, in large cities they use
Sunday for their big contests. Having
managed to get much money into the
game, they destroy its use as a healthy
exercise by the intensity of the interest
awakened in the result of the game; they
kick and quarrel, and stir up suffocating
and ill-odorous dust generally.
Let us all remember, if we are Chris
tlans, that we are going after awhile,
whatever be our circumstances now, TO
have glorious vacation. As in summer
we put off our garments and go down into
the cool sea to battle, so We will put off
these garments of flesh and step into the
cool Jordan. We will look around for
some place to lay down our WEAKNESS; and