The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-08-02
RELIGIOUS NEWS.
Pearls Gathered by the Way
side of Life.
News of Interest to Religious
People and Words of Wisdom
for the Irreliglous.

Thought and effort are the parents o.
success.
Dismiss your frown, and the angels vii
come to you.
If you never go where you are moi
wanted you will seldom be turned out OF
doors.
Many man passes by little spring OF
cool, pure water to drink at last from a
hog wallow.
When Christ did so much for all, it does
seem as though Christians should do more
for few.
Ouida, it is reported in Europe, has be-
come extremely religious and will give up
| literature.
With many persons religion consists
merely in throwing the blame upon Others
and looking to the sufferings of others for
salvation.
Our religion does not permit us to
quarrel with the religion of any other
person, or to deny him to the right to live
by his own judgment.
In Japan the Presbyterian and Con-
gregational missionaries have coalesced
in body, which they call 'The United
Church of Christ in Japan"
At least 5000 people from Hancock
county, Illinois, returned the other day
from Bluff park, Keokuk, Ia, highly dis
gusted with the non-appearance of Sam
Jones, who was under six months con-
tract to appear Monday and Tuesday of
this week for $500. The association will
sue the gentleman for $4,000, as an
nounced to the crowd by the secretary.
The corner stone of the Colored Baptist
seminary, to cost $4,000, was laid at
Lynchburg, Va, on July Is.
The mayor of Petersburg, Va, on July
IS issued an order to the police to pro-
hibit the sale of newspapers on the streets
on Sunday.
The Roman Catholic clergy of New York
diocese will hold their annual retreats from
the Goth to the 25th of August and from
August 81 to September l..
Roman Catholics claim that they have
10000 churches in the United States, with
new ones constantly in course of erection.
j., have subscribed $1,000 towards a
church, to be in charge of a German
speaking priest.
During the past two years six Roman
Catholic priests have left that denomi-
nation in Paris and joined the Protestant
clergy of France, and a number of others,
having become Protestants, have engaged
in various pursuits.
The spires of st. Patrick's cathedral,
heighth being, when finished, $50 feet
which is forty-four feet higher than the
spire of Old Trinity.
One of the Rev. DR.. John Halls sons,
Mr.. Robert Hall, has been appointed
acting assistant professor of chemistry
in the University of the City of New
York. He is a graduate of Princeton and
Columbia.
Bishop Lafeche, of Three Rivers, Que
bee, has suspended the Jesuits from per-
forming any religious ministrations in his
diocese, the members of the order having
used their influence at death beds to Sc
cure legacies for the Society of Jesus.
Religion, so far from subtracting from
ones vitality, is glorious addition. 1t lis
sanative, curative, hygienic. 1t is good for
the eyes, good for the ears, good for the
spleen, good for the digestion, good for
the nerves, good for the muscles.
The English Unitarians seem resolved to
follow the example set by the Congrega-
The proposal is to transfer Manchester
Co.. 10 L.
banks of the Isis.
Twelve thousand four hundred Jubilee
New Testaments have been ordered from
the British and Foreign Bible society in
London for New Zealand. They are to
contain the queens autograph.
The archdiocese of New York is to form
new Roman Catholic seminary, to be
located in or near this city, and among
the members of the committee appointed
to receive subscriptions and attend to
other arrangements are the Very Reverend
Arthur j. Donnelly, V. G., of St. Michael's
church, Rev. M. j. Brophy, of the Sacred
Heart; Rev. John Edwards, of the I'm
maculate Conception; Rev. Nicholas j.
Hughes, of St. Mary's, and Messrs. H. L.
Hoguet, G. s. Lespinasse, John O'Brien,
Joseph R, Floyd, Commissioner j. d.
Crimmins and ex Mayor Grace.
The corporation of Trinity church, New
York, proposes to erect church, with
clergy houses and school building, at an
estimated cost of 100000, on the plot of
land consisting of eighteen lots on Ninety
first and Ninety second streets, $50 feet
west of Ninth avenue, the dimensions
being 225 feet front on each street, by
201.5 feet in depth.
The present presidential campaign dis
proves the proverb about ministers SONS
being mo account men," Grover Cleve
land is the son of Presbyterian minister,
Allen G. Thurman's father was Methodist
minister of Virginia, and Levi p. Morton
is the son of Congregational clergyman.
The prohibition candidate, John a. Brooks
is himself minister.
Practical religion is friend of lon
gevity in the fact that it is a protest against
designations which injure and destroy the
health. Bad men and women live very
short life. Their sins kill them. know
hundreds of good old men, but do not
know half dozen bad old men. Why?
They do not get old. Oh, how many
people we have known who have not lived
out half their days because of their dis
sipations and indulgences! Now practical
religion is a protest against all dissipa-
ton of any kind.
"But," you say, professors of religion