The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1891-09-13

more gift for the ministry than an oyster
and in my own Judgment that was q
SANDER on the oyster, for that worthy
biyaive shows great discretion in his
openings and knows when to close. y
The EeumeHical Council of the M. e.
Church, Will assemble at Washington in
October when IL Is proposed 30 nave on
exhibition large assortment of Metho-
DIST curios and antiquities which cannot
fail TO be interesting and Instructive to
the delegates Che Rev. Mr.. Wilson Is in
correspondence with the officers of con.
ferences in all parts of the country enlist
ing their co operation and assistance. The
curiositles displayed will be from New
York. Boston. Philadelphia and many Of
the New England and Southern Confer
ences.
The annual meeting OF Bishops of the
Methodist Episcopal Church will be held
IN Cincinnati this year, the last week in
October. The General Committee on
Church Extension will convene IN Colum-
bus, o.. November 5, and the General
Committee on Missions, ia Cleveland
November IL. The Second Ecumenical
Methodist Conference will be held in
| Washington, D. O.. October 7-20, 1891.
| The programme adopted by the Execu-
tive Committee is reDle5e with matters OF
| great interest TO all Christians.
! People may differ about the merits of
! DR.. Talmage as Il preacher, but no one
| can fail 70 award him the title OF being
1 0Hb Oh Uue LlDSb pofletb worn PAL uEefS Nv
! ing. Take this as assample:--" Morningl
wish had a rousing bell to wake the
| whole world up TO see it. Every leaf q
| psalm. Every flower a censor. Every
/ bird choristsr. Every sight beauty.
Every sound music Trees transfgured.
The skies in conhagration. The air as il
sweeping down from hanging gardens OF
heaven. The foam of celestial seas
| splashed on the white tops of the sptrae
| The honeysuckle on one side of the porch
| challenges the sweet brier on the other
| The odors of heliotrope overflow the urns
and flood the garden. Svringas, with
ORANGE blossoms in their hair, and roses
bleeding with very carnage of color.
| Oh, the glOries of day-dawu In the coun-
! tryl My pen trembles and my eyes
moisten. Unlike the flaming sword that
1 drove out the first pair from Eden, these
fiery spleuaors seem like swords un-
sbeathed by angel hands to drive us in. !"
/ Labouchere. of Londen, says one of the
| most scandafous eases of absentee rector
ito be found in the whole fertile field of
the Church of England has been -four
/ lshipg for some years past at Shere. in
/ Surrey. The Rev. r. L. Adams. rector of
| this church. succeeded his father, the
owner OF the adv0wson, In 1874. For the
! greater part Of the intervening period this
rector has been absent from the parish
on account Of some illness. the nature of
| which is not clearly defined. The living
| Is worth 1850 sterling yrnet, the rectory
house is let nearly all the year around,
and must bring in several hundreds more.
| The rector pays the curaEes in charge
| about ESQ sterling, and lives at his ease
on the balance-g generally IN the south
! OF France AS might be expected, the
deputy clergy have in many cases been
| unfit for their duties, and more than one
| scandal has resulted. lie this rector is
really Ill he ought, by every principle oil
| justice ana honor. 10 have resigned his
position years ago; il he is not, the scan
dial is only twenty times worse, says the
London Truth
In Chicago they are telling this story
on Sam Jones. Recently he was address,
ing crowded audience, and said:-.l
4 want every one In this congregation who
wants to go to heaven TO stand up" Oh
course, almost every body arose. Then
he said:--"To the other place stand up
Finally a long and Iauk and skinny indi-
vidual in the back seat about as fat us an
umbrella arose aud said;-"I don't ex-
| actly want to go 70 the other place. but
am willing to stand mp rather than lei
! the preacher stand all alone.