Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-07-28
In RELIGIONS REALM.
MATTERS OF INTEREST To MINIS.
TIERS AND LAYMEN.
Beecher and Starr King The Next
Worlds Sunday-School Con-
Vention-Etc.

vention-Etc.
The religious of New York city teach
about $4,000 pupils.
In all South Carolina there are only
$500 Catholics, and about 5000 reside in
Charleston.
The next session of the Worlds Sunday
School Convention will be held in Ameri-
ca, in 1898.
1t is said that the loss to the Catholic
Church property in JohnStown, Pa, will
amount to 100000.
II sill be 81 years next November
since stern old John Knox, the founder of
Presbyterianism, died.
Archbishop Corrigan will uuveil O'Don-
ovan's statue of Archbishop Hughes on
October I'd, at Fordham College
The French Chambers have made it 4
law that SeminariStS must serve year in
the army, and that the clerical reserves
must perform hospital service in war time.
The Pope has appointed Mgr. Germano
Straniero Canon of the Basilica of St.
John Laterau. Mgr Straniero is we'll
known to Americans. He brought the
red hat to Cardinal Gibbons three wears
ago.
Professor James Blackledge has been
lecturing on his travels in the East. Egypt.
Palestine, etc, and the Los Angeles Trib-
trne speaks highly of his lecture. 1t saws
They are Of intense interest through
out"
When Rev. T. Starr King was on earth
he surpassed BeeCher in the elegance of
his diction and the correctness of his
language. At recent Seance in Albany,
n. Y, sermon was delivered from the
spirit world" 1t was attributed to
Starr King. Here is a sentence from the
sermon: g met young man yesterday
which | do not doubt but that he did the
best he could Now, of what use is it to
study terrestrial grammar for years if the
above Is specimen of celestial talk >
South Bend Tribune
The African Methodist Church. which
has not white man among its members
or any organic relation with any white
church organization, reports a member
ship of 100000. 1t has 1900 places of
worship, numbers 10000 ministers, has 15,
goo Sabbath schools, supports its own de-
nomlnatlonal papers, has missions in the
West Indies, Mexico and Africa, and its
reported contributions foot up more than
100000 annually for the support of
church work.
The Michigan Christian Adrooate believes
in rotation for Methodist Bishops, and
asks why they should be elected for life, or
why should they be consecrated. Bishops
are not higher in Ministerial orders than
elders, but simply superior in office. The
ruoric instead of the ritual five years ago
is intended as perpetual reminder of
this fact. Bishops are presbyters clothed
with special authority to superintend the
interests of the church and ordain Deacons
and Elders. Wesley held that they are
not superior to evangelists, scripturally.
He disliked even the name of Bishop,
because it had misleading tendency.
General Superintendent" is a better term,
and conveys the exact meaning of the
episcopal Office in Methodism, besides be-
ing Wesleyan through and through.
A little girl of nine summers came to
her pastor about joining the church. The
pastor said:
''Nellie, does your father think YOU are
a Christian ?"
Eyes, sir"
''Have you told him."
mo, sir"
GLOW then does he know"
''He sees"
GLOW does he see that ?"
'Sees that | am a better girl"
''What else does he see p"
"Sees that love to read my Bible and
t" pray"
'Then you think he sees you are
Christian ~
Il know he docs; he can't help it." and
with a modest, happy boldness she was
sure her father knew that she was a
Christian because he could not help seeing
1t IN her life. Is not such the privilege of
Gods people-to be sure that Others see
they are following Christ ?-Sel.
The Je'cish Chronicle says: "There is no
doubt that the more thoughtful adherents
of Judaism are gradually drifting away.
They do not care to carry out the ceremo-
NAL law because it does not speak to their
hearts, and since this is all they have been
taught of their religion, if they neglect it,
there seems to be nothing left. Their
souls cry aloud for truths that shall sus
tain them in their hour of trial and temp
Ie1llOLi, llStt lSdCil lltn now 10 i've
and how to die; and all that is given them
is more or less unmeaning rites. VIII not
those who love their ancient faith, who
feel that its doctrines embody all the eIe-
ments of morally beautifu! life, come for
ward now when danger threatens it, and
zealously labor to show forth its more
spiritual truths? Let US teach our chill
dren the forms and ceremonies that help
so strongly to bind Jews together and to
maintain Judaism intact, and which allow
us to prove by our observance of them
our ready obedience to our law;
but let us not neglect to teach
them the higher lessons of morality,
the truths that will ennoble their
lives and lead them heayenward. Let
them understand that the mere mechanical
performance Of our ceremonies is utterly
worthless, and that far beyond them is
the practice of truth, justice and self-abne-
cation; that the man who binds the teph-
illin on his hand and then lets that
hand perform an unkind or I'M
righteous act is false to his religion, and
that the lips that utter lie are desecrated,
though they have never partaken of for
hidden food. If Judaism is to live, it
must be by virtue of the sublime truths it
contains, which speak to mems hearts and
alone can satisfy their sniritual Jo,r;noe -