The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-01-10
PIOUS SMILES
Caught Ripping Over the Earth's
Broad Face.
Religious Gleamings and Glad
Tidings to all People the
World Over.

"He called Himself the Son of God
Bishop Lyman, who has charge of the
American churches in Europe, sailed fol
home January 2.
Reverend John A. Broadus, D. D., OF
Louisville, KY, delivers the next course Of
Lyman Beecher lectures at Yale Theolo e
ical seminary.
The pope has sent to the emperor OF
Austria, as jubilee gift, an image of the
Virgin in Mosaic work. The image is
valued at $4,000.
The Monteaglean and Southern Evsngel
list have united under the name of the
Evangelist and DR.. D. @. Kelley has been
engaged as editor.
A Hindoo god, over a thousand years
old, largely composed of gold and precious
stones, was sold at auction the other day
in London for $12,250.
The pope has ordered Italian priests to
proceed to America and look after the
spiritual interests of the Italian immi-
grants in this country.
On account of the health of Reverend
Christian Keener, his father, Bishop
Keener, was compelled to re-transfer him
to the Louisiana conference.
The convention for the propagation of
the Roman Catholic faith among colored
people opened in st. Augustine church,
Washington, d. c., on January L.
The Canadian Congregational year
book for 1888 8 reports 126 churches and
seventy five mission stations, with eighty
four ministers and 9,259 members.
Jesus of Nazareth is worthy to be the
perpetual text of all preaching, the per-
petual theme of all religionists, and the
perpetual object of devout studentship.
Revivals are reported from the pas
toral charges in the Louisville, from one
in the Denver, and from one in the Ten
nessee conference in the last Nashville
Advocate.
A powerful revival is said to have taken
place at Antananariva, Madagascar, where
Miss Mary Clement Leavitt, from America,
has been delivering addresses and in other
ways engaging in evangelistic work. The
revival meetings were largely attended.
The Catholics are prospecting in New
Jersey. A new church-St. Joseph's-
was dedicated last Sunday in Patterson.
Trenton is to have new and costly edi-
fee for the Church of the Sacred Heart,
and in spring new church-St. Henry's
is to be erected in Bayonne.
The Society for the Propagation of the
Faith is rapidly gaining in numbers. One
of the Catholic papers announce that
$5,696.91 has just been forwarded from
this city to the Central Council in Paris.
1t further states that persons wishing to
form circle of ten, each to subscribe the
sum of one cent week for the propaga
ton of the faith, can, by doing SO, gain
great many spiritual indulgences. For
particulars address Rev. L. Wucher, S. P.
NJ, No. 120 West Twenty-fourth street,
this city."-New York Herald.
The Malagasy Bible, on which for sew
eral years past the Protestant missionaries
of Madagascar have been engaged, is now
completed. The revision has been carried
on at the expense and under the direction
of the British and Foreign Bible society.
The principal reviser was the Rev. w. E.
Cousins, of the London Missionary So
ciety, Engaged in the work were dele
gates representative of the differ
emit missionary societies and three
native helpers. Eleven years have been
occupied in the work. The printing has
been done by Messrs. Richard Clay g.
Sons.
Miracle cures are commanding a large
amount of attention in Donegal. The
Reverend Canon Larkin, who was absent
fore some time in Surrey, Eng, has re
turned to Donegal, and what is called
miracle working has been renewed. The
deaf, blind and lame are brought to the
priest, accompanied by enormous crowds.
Wonderful cures are alleged to have been
made, the names and addresses of the per-
sons being given. Father Larkin, who
was recently ordained, is member of the
Norbertine, or Premonstrant, order. The
Roman Catholic clergy show no counter
aDce to the proceedings.
A new feature of Calvinism has devel-
oped itself in Hungary. A resolution has
been passed by the convention of the Re-
formed Churches to the effect that all
members of the lower clergy who have
married shall henceforward be ineligible
to be appointed to any living. The res
olution was not passed without severe
struggle. A section of the members of
the convention protested, but in vain,
against the introduction of celibacy into
the Calvinistio church. Celibacy of the
clergy is the plain, unvarnished meaning
of the new ecclesiastical law. The cause
of the leg isation is said to be the number
of ministers widows and families now de-
pendent upon the synod. Great excite
ment has been created by this resolution.
professor Felix Adler, the son of an
orthor6ox Jewish rabbi, in lecture before
the society for Ethical Culture at New
York, paid tribute to Old Judaism, de-
scribing it as a religion which satisfied
the yearnings of the heart, lifting men
up to worship. He also said that the best
part of Christianity was in the person
atty of fits foundation, and he tcould
not help loving the Christ. If it was
fiction it was the grsndest fiction ever
writer. He thought there surely must
be something real in the spirit of Jesus,
or else such fond memories would not be
woven around his name. He honored the
oldtime Christians, because they were
true. Judaism and Christianity were true
religions, because they were true to the
thoughts and feelings of the people"
Let us keep in mind the fact that prayer
is twofCld in its ipfluence-it moves God,
it affects the soul. 1t moves God, not in
the sense of changing his purpose, but he
puts the soul in harmony with that pur-
pose; so that God may be moved toward
an answer. 1t is not, then, impossible for
God to answer prayer in the natural as