Sacramento daily record-union., 1889-09-22

600; St. Paups, Rome, 25,0o0; St. Sophia,s.
Constantinople, $4,000; Notre Dame, Paris,
q 900; Pisa Cathedral, $4,000; st. Marks,
Venice, 1000.
There are now eighty-two medical mis-
sionaries in China, the majority of whom
are from the United States; sixteen of them
are female physicians. There are large
mission hospitals and dispensaries in Pc
Kin, Iientsin, Shanghai and Canton, and
smaller ones at various other cities.
A valuation of church property in st.
Louis, Mo-, recently made, resulted as
follows: Forty-six Catholic churches,
nunneries and schools, S7,000,000; twenty
tive Methodist churches, 81, 100000 thirty
PRESBYTERIAN churches, SI,2O0,O00; four
teen Evangelical (Unitedl churches, $751;
/ 500; twelve Lutheran churches and Com
cordia Seminary, $4,000.
When Bishop Potter said, not long ago.
The light recently thrown upon the
scrlptural authority for, and primitive an
hqulty of, the office of deaconness will
surely demonstrate that the revival of
that office Is indispensable to the fullest
and most efficient development of the
churchs working powers" he little knew
| how widely extended this movement had
spread in other churches than his own.
The enormous Capitalization of our popu-
latlons into cities Is one of the dangers of
the time, while the order of deaconesses is
one OF the glimpses of light to be had
through this dark cloud of despair-
Christian Advocate.
One of our Methodist EXCHANGES ,sso-.,.
very bluntly that star preaching "hss weII
nigh ruined many camp meetings" 'Star
preaching has wrought evil in the life of
the church in all its departments, bnt
chiefly by its excess and by the undue de-
pendence of the churches on its supposed
attractiyeness and effectiveness. Very
much depends upon the matter which the
star orator deals with, and the tone and
spirit of his discourseS. The preaching of
| Spurgeon, or of McNeill of London. or of
! Theodore Cuyler, or of DR.. John Hall in
particular places, might be very readily
styled star preaching" but it would
hardly hurt a camp meeting, or "ruin'
any good thing. One star difIereth from
another star in its purposes and plans
in his methods and in the whole spirit
a his minlstratiOns.-The Presbyterian.
Concerning Prayer Book revision, the
Lfptng Church (P. E. says: "The only
| thAhS WHICH Guy SSilSTdl sentiment called
Tor was few restorations of certain ele-
ments unfortunately omitted a century
| ago, obscurlng the meaning of the daily
othces, and the correction of a few rubrics,
with provision for proper abbreviation in
some cases. 1t was believed by all consery-
atlve men in the Church that nothing in
the remotest way affecting doctrine would
be touched, and above all that the sacra-
nj 4 1
with under any circumstances. But. as in
the case OF the revision of the Bible, the
temptation to revise the whole PRAYER
Book on larger scale has been too great
for those to whom this business has been
lntrusted. One attempt to foist new
Prayer-Book upon the Church was tempo-
rarlly successful in 1888, but was COM
pletely routed in 1856. At present we are
threatened with another attempts Of the
same character, more insidious and even
more dangerous than the first. The orig
lnal understanding that the sacramentaI
offices would not be touched in any mate
rial way has been completely disregarded
IN the report which is now before the
Church, and it is felt by many that serious
doctrinal and practical questions are
raised by some of these alterations. We
cannot believe that any such attempt to
carry the Church beyond the old safe
conservative lines can possibly be success
full. Such plans of revision are doomed to
share the fate of the Bible revision before
1t. The mass of churchmen are weary and
sick of uncertainty, and above all things
they deprecate the renewal of party strife
IN the General Convention. A fixed
standard Prayer-Book is demanded with
out delay"