The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-08-01
THE RELIGIOUS WORLD.
Items That Interest Those Of
Various Denominations.
There are only two strictly Baptist Sun

There are only two strictly Baptist Sun
day-schools in Ventura County.
The Chaplain of San Quentin, Rev. A.
brahms, would like to get good reading
matter for the use of the prisoners.
General Booth has started on his tour
around the world He sailed from Plymouth
for Cape Town July 25th.
The lates! translation of the Scriptures
issued by the American Bible Society is the
work of q colored man. Rev. Mr.. Ousley.
who was born slave in the ownership of a
brother Of Jefferson Davis The translator
and his wife were educated at Oberin.
The language into which he has rendered
the synoptical gospels and the Acts is tue
Sheetswa, cosnate with the Zulu, and
spoken by some 100000 people in South
eastern Africa.
The Rev. DR.. Navayan Sheshadri, full
blooded Indian, by birth Brahmin, who is
IN tnlS country Tor his health, with his son,
Dr.. Sheshadri, who received his English ed
ucatiOn in Bombay and his degree from a
Montreal College, is said to be the first
Brahmln of Western India to be converted
to Christianity. He was converted forty
elght years ago. Twenty-Five years ago he
founded Christian village, with two per-
sons as nucleus, and it now numbers over
1000 Christians.
clergyman at an Eastern summer re-
sort the other Sunday preached an eloquent
sermon Which pleased every body except one
lady, who openly declared that she had heard
the same sermon preached ten years ago by
visiting clergyman in her own church.
Things looked little bad for the clergyman
until he proved that lie was the visiting
clergyman in question. In the interval lie
had grown stout and raised heavy full
beard, so that she did not recognize him.
A comparative summary of the Southern
Presbyterian Church for the last eighteen
years shows the following facts: The NUN"
Der OF synods is Is as against II; the num-
Der OF preSbyterieS has risen from Ga TO II :;
the number OF ministers from 972 10 1856 !;
the number of churches from 1864 to 2I53.
Bishop French of England, who died re-
Gently IN Arabia, was known as that many
tongued man Of LAHORE" for he could
preach in English. Persian, Hindustani,
Pushto, Hindel. Tamil and Punjabi. and
was an eminent scholar in Hebrew, Arabic,
Syriac, Greek and Latin.
The Rev {. Meyer, Lutheran minister
OF Herndon, hans., has distributed nearly
$4,000 worth of seed-wheat among the I'M
poveTished Luiherans on the Kansas frontier.
He acted as the agent of the Ohio Synod,
which contributed over $1,000 to the fund.
He also raised some money in the eastern
part of the State, and charitable farmers Of
Nebraska contributed considerable seed.
MI Robert Davis of Bodlondeb Bangor,
Wales, has given $780, 900 toward the Welsh
Methodist Mission Jubilee Fund, which now
apprOximateS S375, COO.
A well-known Clergyman of this city,
says the Buffalo Commercial Advertiser,
was asked to solve the following puzzle a
few nights ago: If all the children that
King Herod killed were buried in such a
manner that only their arms from the elbow
to the tips OF their fingers were visible above
the ground, how could you distinguish the
arms of the boys from those of the girls?
The reverend gentleman worked at it faith
fully, but was obliged to give it up. For
shame. DOCTOR" cried the interrogation. The
idea that you should forget that TIE children
that Herod killed were all boys"