The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-09-20
THE HEAVENLY WAy
General Items of Interest in D.
liglous Circles.
Wise Sayings Sent Swimming ~.
the Earth's Harvest Fields
by Good Men.

There is more IN the fingers of k;,,
hand than in the scepter of the czar
1t is stated in the Catholic Times a..
Sir Beaumont Dixie, husband of TaS"
Florence Dixie, has been received into ~,
Roman Catholic church.
st. Peter Claire's church, Baltimore, was
dedicated last Sunday, Father Elliott, ~
New York, preaching the sermon.
1t is one thing to wish to have trutb on
our eide, and another thing to wish to ba
on the side of truth.
Truth is, by its very nature, intolersnt
exclusive, for every truth is the denial NJ
its opposing error.
Bishop Hargrove has appointed Rev. Fl.
G. Christian fraternal delegate from the
Pacific conference to the next session Of
the California Methodist Episcopal con.
ference.
The best way to do good is to take care
that the good is more prominent than the
doer. The pump handle is always of less
i'm portance than the water.
In human suffering pain is more than
the plaster. The evil in modern mercy
is in making more of the salve than the
sore.
An invitation has been extended to the
Reverand Stopford Brooke, of London, to
become pastor of a leading Unitarian pul.
pit in the United States.
Cardinal Lavigerie has obtained the con-
sent of the King of Belgians to make use
of an armed force to stop slave caravans
passing between Stanly falls and Lake
Eanganvlka.
Happiness, like grain, is best when
scattered. 1t comes back sixty kernels to
the stalk.
They who reject the testimony of self
evident truths will find nothing surer on
which to build.
The Methodists alone of the United
States, according to the Independent
number 4 727, $40 communicates, including
ministers, outnumbsring Roman Oatho-
lies 652, LAG.
1t is said that Mrs. Bishop Warren gives
100000 to endow theological school ia
connection with Denver university.
Mrs. O. S. Pollock has been elected
treasurer of the Woman's Department of
Church Extension for the Columbia con-
ference, in place of Mrs. J. 3. Perkins, re.
moved to Texas.
Subscriptions for charities are not
tickets for heaven. Take vanity out OF
charity what would be the residuum.
Charity is In the motive, not in the act.
notable French Protestant, Mr.. An
tome Carenon, has just died in retire
ment at Enghien, at the age of 81. BE
will be greatly missed. Besides being
successful pastor ne was general manager
of the Bible society. 1t was he, too, who
founded the Union OF Liberal Protest.
ants.
Thee Free Church of Scotland has,
through the death of Mr.. James Cowan,
formerly classical master IN Grange
school, Sunderland, come into the pos.
session of $4,000. Mr.. Cowan was
throughout life stsunch and even en-
thusiastic defender of the principles of
the disruption.
Emigrants from Ireland are given an
opportunity for signing the pledge and
joining the Roman Catholic Total Alb
stinence Union of America when leaving
their native country. Their tickets or
pledges will entite them to membership
III UIduCu VI TIC ludl may uc
in the locality to which they intend emigrat-
ing.
At Teheran, Persia, the Presbyterian
missionaries, who are much in favor in
that land, have erected subs tantial build
ings for chapel, for residence and for
a boys and girls school. With the assist
ance OF the shah hospital is in course of
erection, under the direction of Doctor
Terrence. who has been honored with the
highest title ever given to foreigner by
any ruler of Persia.
The interest in religious work promises
to be more earnest than ever this winter
Chaplain McCabe, who has for the past
two years raised in money only "$1 ,0OO,-
900 for missions" for Methodist mission
airy work, raises a new battle cry for re-
vivsl work. A million souls for Christ in
1889.
Rabbi Kohut, preaching on the Ameri-
can-Jewish question in New York
last Sunday, said the Israelites
in Europe shave another foe.
1t is the battle for bread. Where do
they turn their eyes? To the land of milk
and honey, America! How will it be pos
sible to take care of the hosts who come
here and at the same time implsnt in
them the true American spiritY
"The Talmud says: God sends balm
before the voundsr And this, my friends,
was never more true than in America. OF
the 100000 Hebrews in New York about
one-third need material and especially
moral and intellectual support. How is
this possible! l need not say that the
mercantile prosperity of the Jews here in
America is marvellous, neither need l give
you the latest statistics concerning the
wealth of our people. 1t is almost pro-
verbal. Suffice it to say the bank &C.
counts OF some are equal to the wealth
OF some small towns in Germany. And
yet our pride must fall when we
think that there are thousands in
this city without home or bread The
experience OF the president of the United
Hebrew Charities has shown this beyond
dispute. 1t Is easy to settle the qestion
theoretically by saying the rich should
divide their portion with the poor.
don't agree with one of our rabbis, who
said the other day that the middle class
among the Jews in America are charitable.
However, our wealthy citizens-God bless
them do not belong to that middle
class" But even were the rich Jews
willing to divide with the poor, this COM
munlsm would be sort of modern Essen
ism that never flourished in Israel. Prac
ticslly we can solve the problem by tine
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