The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-05-10

c,r;s.;ars IN the schools alone numDerings
7i.s7G though the number OF iniS''o
less than eco. ,-,oricon
ACCORDING IN DIR. w. IT. Roberts, american .1ai
s,atisticai secretary of the Presbyterian an
&C. The PRESBYTERIAN and Reformed de e ncl
nations throughout the world nave -''-O''-
600 adherents. -, r..
The Society of Friends of the un'. .e hLlns .o
dom say, in their last report, 1nss ~ 81 na
Is. 500 members, ana t1sD M Ia,'t &c : m nar
rate is incomparably low-aoout 10 DIV per
1000.
Tho British and Foreign Bible Society has
bean established eighty seven years. during
;ts long period of existence It has issued IA;
ooo o0o copies of Scripture writings, translated
into 290 tongues.
Trinity church, New York, is to have three
Gates az bronze figuring IN bas-relief the
storv OF Eden. They are TO cost SlOO,O00
Snlendid doors of massive oak grandly pol
is6ed are To give place for them and they are
~ serve as monument-memorialo or the late
John Jacob Astor
The issues from the Bible house in New
York CITY during the month of march were
11O.SO7 volumes. The total issues from the
Bible house during the year ending March
3lst, not including those issued IN foreign
lands, were 1,SJ2,62i volumes.
While Congregationaists are planning for a
Great international council IN London WITH
400 delegates, Methodists are looking forward
IN n similar gathering Of 800 representatives
of their denomination in Washington next
October. This is 10 be the second Methodist
Tcutnenical Conference. the first one having
been held in London ten years ago. Inc
Eastern Hemisphere is TO send 200 delegates:
and the other 300 will represent North ana
south America. The conference IS to con-
tinue twelve days.
The Board of Foreign Missions will close It's
hooks for the current year on April 3Oth.
From the present outlook there IS reason to
fear that they will show heavy dehclt IN al
dition 10 n large balance of last wears deficit
not yet cancelled. 1t is we'll known to the
Church that in the administration OF our
FOREIGN missions the appropriations for the
several fields must be made year IN advance,
and that when made they must be met in full.
the missionaries being authorized TO expend
on the basis of the appropriations.
According TO the official Year Book of the
Church of England. which has recently been
published. during the past five years the vol
iintary offerings OF the people for church
building and restoration have amounted 10
almost S25 900, 900. The sums contributed 10
endowing beniflces during the same period
reach the amount of -. $50 0OO For the build
inc of rect0ries or parsonage-hOuses s2,250, 900
has been raised: and for buriI-grOunds, $40
600 In other words, during the past five
years. the Church has raised by voluntary
contributions. outside altogether Of the
amount raised for the annual maintenance Of
church mission work at home and abroad, the
huge sum OF $50, 000. goo.
The Sacred Heart Review (CathOlic) plead
ing for popular devotion in the vernacular,
saws: 1T must be confessed that services con-
Quoted in an unknown tongue are not calcu-
lated 10 be so edifying as those which are UNI
derstood by the people. and especially when
the people are called upon to participate" 1t
confesses. too. that the full significance of the
mass may seem mOnOtonous, and even dry
and meaningless, TO those who do not under
stand the service: and it believes that PRAYERS
in English would probably prove
more acceptable to the majority of
the people than the finest music that
could be produced" This the Christian
Register Unitarinn) regards as free ac-
Acknowledgement that the aesthetic or merely
emotional element in liturgical services is not
sufficient. and that Catholics are asking for
moro intellectual elements, which will inter
pref the symbols they use SO long As the
worshipper does not understand the meaning
of the service il matters not whether 1t Is rem
dered in Latin or ChOctaw. A service III the
vernacular would be a concession to the intel
ligence Of the Roman Catholic laity. ser
vice in Latin may be intelligent to the priest,
but it cannot be very intelligent TO the people.