Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-10-24
RELIGIOUS NOTES.

native priest.
The Synod of Kentucky expended last
year yer $4,000 in evangelistic work,
with LARGE results, and will raise larger
sum this year.
Pure religion, wrote Chatheld, may
generally be measured by the cheerful
ness of it, professors, and superstition by
the gloom of its victims.
The tremendous pounding of the quartz
mills does not destroy nor in the least in
jure the gold They only free it from tho
Slick, So of pure religious truth.
The Icelandic Lutheran congregations
in Manitoba aud the Northwestern States
recently celebrated the 350th anniversary
OF the translation of the scriptures into
IceIandic,
According to DR.. w. II. Roberts,
American statistical secretary of the
Presbyterian Alliance, the Presbyterian
and Rel rmed denominations throughout
the world have &c, 965, 800 adherents.
Death keeps its own secrets and takes
nobody into its confidence What it is
to die we can actually know only by dy-
Ing, and the knowledge thus gained we
can never give to those whom we have
left behind us.
In Africa the number of missionaries
exceeds 500, and the number of converts
100000, increasing by about $4,000 a
year. During the past five years Africa
has furnished more than 200 martyrs
christian Union.
Yearly returns of the Welsh Calvinists
Tor 1890 show o communicants' roll of
192,354, an increase during the last 10
years Of $4,000. This includes the Welsh
churches in London, Liverpool, Manches-
ter, and other parts of England.
We need to learn faith in Gods plan
for human nature. He will shape things,
and our plans will be constant turmoil
until in America and everywhere else
men will be something beside creature.
God will have him son of the eternal
God. 1oh
A copy Of the bible was sold in New
York the other day for $14, 800. This was
not because it contained any more truth
than any other coy, but because it was
printed by Gutenberg in 1455-the first
complete book ever printed with movable
type.
These are the figures which the Meth
odiSt Episcopal Advocate, of Portland,
gives concerning the relative standing of
the churches in Oregon: Methodist So
cieties, 211, members 10, $50; Baptist, 1O6,
5,O45; Presbyterian, 70, 1915; Episcopal,
81, 1900; Congregational 30, 1919
There are 81 theological schools in ia.
pan, with $50 students, showing an in
crease of 4 schools and rs students. The
number of unordained preachers and
helpers is 455, an increase of 46. The
total contributions of native Christians
was 1895 yen, against SO, 500 yen in 1889.
The value of a yen is about SO cents in
gold.
The deaconesS movement is spreading
In connection with the Baptist forward
movement, new Deaconesses' Home
was recen Y opened in London. Ladies
will be trained in nursing and other work
among the poor, and will be placed I'M
der the direction of such churches as may
desire their aid Illustrated Christian
Weekly.
The Louisiana conference of the Meth
odist Episcopal Church South reports 23l
church edifices, valued at $430 600 and
5S parsonages, valued at $50,114. They
also report 80 local preachers, with 90, 025
white and colored members; ZIG Sum
day schools, with ,299 teachers and 8, 400
scholars. The amount raised for mis-
oions, $6,642.
A remarkable thing, recently transpir-
ing, is the action of the native Presbyte-
rian Church in Japan in "recasting" the
creed of that church with some omissions
and some additions The Baptist MIS-
Sioaary Magazine for the month speci-
, 1ies one Of these changes as the casting
out of the article touching infant bap-
,, tism," that rite not being regarded as
Scriptural.
Make men see and feel that saloon is a
ulOIe pOolulNS SNu w d uSlBuDOIllOOu Judu
a shanty filled with smallpox patients,
: and a fire will be kindled which will
, purge the country of its greatest crime
, and misery breeder whose colossal
shadow envelops Christendom and car
ries a thrill of misery, pulsation of vice,
o throb of degradation wherever it falls
1.-THE Arena.
1t is sad fact that there is very little
mutual confession done among Christians
in these days. The only kind of con.
, fession that one hears much of is a kind
of general depreciation and humiliation
, "a conventional assumption in toto Of
the sins of the human family. If one
desired to pray for such person, one
> would be totally at loss where to begin
or where to leave off.
v Cardinal Lavigerie, well known for his
e efforts to suppress the slave trade, ha!
: written a letter to the Emperor Alexan
: der III, in which he defends the oppressed
e Russian Jews and claims for them thei
: natural rights of which they are bein,
e deprived. The cardinal, not as a pre-
n late, but as a man, implores the car, il
/ the name of humanity and Christianity
0 to have mercy on his Jewish subjects
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