The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-09-20

Governor Of Florida ia n lay-reader in st.
Johns church, Tallahassee. and Sunday
afternoon serves at chapel for colored peo-
pie.
Seventy-six OF the rs students in the Theo-
logical Seminary OF tho Yale University are
engaged in evangelistic work in the city OF
New Haven. Some of them visit the hos.
pitfalls, others tho iails. others are engaged in
the Young Mems Christian Association and
all OF them give Gospel addresses, conduct
prayer meetings. etc.
The late Adolph Cracau. of Breslau. left
beluest OF S2OO,OO0 to the Morayian Church.
The custodians of the trust are the German
Emperor aud the King OF Saxony. Half OF
the income ia TO DO used for the conversion
OF tho heather. half for tho ransom of
slaves.
The Rev. Professor Lindsay. the convener
Of the foreign missions committee of the Free
Church OF Scotland, who has recently visited
India. says that there are 100 different midas.
and about $50 different languages mot dia-
lects), some of them being more different
from each other than Hebrew from En-
glish.
A disappointed fish pedder was belaboring
his slow but patient horse in. a street in
out his wares at intervals. as "Herrin, herrln'.
fresh herrin'." A tender-harted lady. seeing
the act OF cruelty TO the horse, called out
sternly from an upper window: Have you
no mercy" mo. num- was the reply.
"nothin' but herrin'. Forest and Stream.
The following is an extract from o letter re-
Gently received by militia officer In New
brunswick from mis- cousin. non-c0nmis-
stoned oincer IN India. ~ on should be IN
India to sec soldering. All the troops in
Bengal 20 10 church with rifles and ten pounds
OF ball ammunition this being the part OF the
country where the mutiny broke out While
the soldiers were at church the Sepoys stole
their rifles and swords out oftho bungalows"
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The work of enlarging Trinity church.
Towson. the Rev. w. II. H. Powers. rector,
has begun. There were nine bidders. rang
M from $4,000 TO $4,000. The addition
when completed will allow of 200 more seats.
The rector OF Trinity is receiving gifts Of
silver and Jewels from the communicates at
Trinity to DO made into a handsome commu-
mon service.
Mrs James Il. Clark has given handsome
pulpit to the Church Of tho Redeemer. Balti-
more, as memorial to her mother. The base
IS of st. AK marble. supported in the centre
by q heavy shaft surrounded by smaller
columns. This is surmOunted by an intricate
design in brass. the main feature Of which Is
the central panel. The marble was obtained
from Ireland. from quarries which date back
to Roman times and were worked by monks
for cathedral purposes.
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Miss Sara G. Seward, who died recently at
Alababad. was one Of the first to respond to
an appeal from the Ienans mission for
women physicians for the women Of India.
Miss Seward was niece Of the late Secretary
William Ii. Seward. She studied medicine at
the Woman's College at Philadelphia, and
since 1871 has been a medical missionary in
India She raised money TO support dis
pensary at which, during 1890, an average OF
fOrty-four women were treated daily.
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1t has been the custom for many years of
the Louisville and Nashville employees at Mo-
bile to give an annual excursion to Biloxi,
Miss, for the benefit OF the orphan asylums of
Mobile. These asylums are three in number,
viz. the Roman Catholic. the Protestant Or
phsn, and the Church Home. The net pro-
cceds are divided equally between the Ro-
manists and Protestants. The Church Home.
therefore. receives one-fOurth OF the net pro-
ceeds. This portion, arising from the excur-
sion recently given, amounts this year to
S465-quite snug sum.
missionary in 4 tab writes: DO you know
that relative Of the Young family has taken
the contract for building an extended line Of
railroad III Mexico, and is to get in payment
q, 900 acres of land. which land Is TO be sold
to good Wormons who are TO go there and
live out fSe entire Mormon doctrine? When
Canada heard that the saints we're planning
TO form one or more settlements in her domain
she said. Five years Imprisonment for
every man who has more than one wife," and
the saints concluded not to go.
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E;ftv vaaro aoo fbere xyas not q Christian II,
the Fijiau island. Young girls were fattened
like cattle at the stall and .sold5by weight TO
be roasted and eaten. In the district train
ing institute of the Fijian islands there are
now more than one hundred whole hearted
men, selected from the institutions in each
circuit, preparing for the preaching of the
Gospel Last year an appeal was made to
these students on behalf of the savage and
dangerous races of unhealthy New Guinea,
where some Of their fijlan brethren had al
ready been sacrificed. Fifteen men were
asked for. Forty stood up and when it was
told them that they were going TO danger,
and perhaps to death, the classroom rang
with as noble an uttersnce as ever leaped
from human lips: Talk to US not about can
nibals; they are men, and they need that
which has brought US life."
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A kings kindness certainly has been shown
by the sovereign OF Italy. There never oc-
misfortune of any kind that he and his lovely
wife, the Pearl of Savoy" are not found in
the midst of their people, encouraging. COM
forting and sympathizing with their SORROWS
and suferings. The terrible explosion that
lately took place near Rome brought King
Humbert Immediately to the rescue Of his
unfortunate subjects. amongst whom was a
woman who had been terribly hurt and had
become entangied in the ruins. He no sooner
heard of il than he at once started to her as
sistance. climbing over the broken rafters and
general debris down dangerous sloping place
till he came to where she lay. Then he set 10
work and gradually with help released her
from her very perilous position, cheering her
all the while and doing all he could to keep
up her courage
The Moravian Church sends out one of
every sixty Of its members 10 the foreign field
and raises sl2 per member annually for for
eign missions. In contrast with this look at
the American Protestant churches as whole
Their increase in financial resources within
the last fifty years has been enormous. IL is