Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-02
RELIGIOUS SUMMARY.

CHRISTIANITY forbids no conceivable goo
| motive, and permits no conceivable bad motive
| Sunday School Times.
THE American Baptist Missionary Union Gel
ebrated its eveuty-fifth anniversary in Bostol
last week, Francis Wayland presiding. 1t rep
resents constituency of 7OGOOO members.
THE British Bible Society, of which the Ear
of Harrowby is President reports an expend
iture for 1883 a Of e. 9226 164 and receipts of f2l2
| 6l5 against f226 66S for 1887. The distributor
of Bibles also fell 100000, from 1000 600 TO 35O0
600. They were in 2S7 languages.
BISHOP PARET confirmed recently, at st
Johns Chapel, Washington, class which was
| unique. 1t consisted Of nine colored candidates
and the sister-in-law of Postmaster General
Wanamaker; the daughter of the late Justice
Matthews, of the Supreme Court; the daughter
of Secretary of State James G. Blaine, and
Justice Gray, of the United States Supreme
Court.
A GENTLEMAN in New England has given
100000, and Japanese gentlemen have sub
scribed about $40. 000 to found Christian uni
Yersity in Japan, according to plan proposed
by the Rev. Joseph Neesima, of the American
Board. The collegiate institution which Mr..
Neesima has been building up for several
years, contains more than 9O0 Students
Church Of To-Day.
LESS than so years ago the Lutheran Church
of our country numbered 200 pastors and 900
congregations. At present it numbers 400
pastors and 7,4O0 congregations, and upward of
100000 commitment members, among whom
the gospel is preached in eight different lam
guages. The Lutheran Church has 80 theo-
logical seminaries, % colleges, 81 academies
and other high schools. 80 orphans homes s
hospitals, 8 deaconesses institutions deaf and
dumb asylum. and emigrant homes. 1t pub
fishes 96 periodIcals.-Christtdn AdUocate
THIBET is the only known country on earth
not open to missions. 1t has an area of $50 900
square miles, about as large as the United
States east of the Mississippi river. The great
est length from east to west is 1,5O0 miles, and
the population is estimated at sOO0,OOO 1t is
the stronghold of Buddhism. Lhassa the
capital, is the Rome" of the Buddhists. and
the Dalai Lama is the Buddhist pope He Is
SUPP eme in both temporal and spiritual things.
One monastery has about ). 600 Buddhist priests,
and there are about 10000 in the country.
Thibet is virgin soil for missions. The country
is tributary to China.-Illustrated Christian
Weekly.
In the Fluctuations following the completion
of the first hundred years of our national life
altogether too little attention has been paid TO
our religious progress as nation, which has
been, in many respects, even more marked than
our material progress. 1t is too well known to
be repeated that our professedIy Christian
population has far more than kept pace with
the total population. This Is the layman's age,
and every preachers voice is supplemented by
a hundred pairs of brethren's hands This is
the century which has seen the development of
the prayer meeting, the Christian association
the missionary society, the Sunday school, and
the Christian endeaYor society. As the Christ
ian thinks of these things he may well thank
God, and take courage in looking forward to a
new century of religious progress If he is
not an optimist he certainly ought to be-zne
Golden Rule.
THE Church is nothing If it is not the Church
of Christ-that is, founded by and drawing its
right to exist and its authority from Christ
He came to establish a visible kingdom on the
earth, and the Church is that visible kingdom.
Its historical unity is, in our Judgment neither
clerical nor theological; it is VITAL
a unity of spiritual life. But the unity is real
The Church is not mere group of disjointed
differing from other chartered |
only IN having higher or at least |
a more mystical, cause to serve; nor a mere So |
ciety in which philanthropic and deyout mo- |
tiyes are intermixed in varying Droportiens
and which fultlls its whole duty TO man III IL |
takes care of its own geographically limited |
and, above all, it is not a mere |
social club, which is TO be measured like the |
theater, by its power to draw and differs from |
the theater chiefly in its inability to attract |
and entertain an audience as effectively. It is |
a real incarnation of Christ; a body in which |
He lives.-C7tTfStidn Union.