The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-03-01
Religious Notes.

The King Of Siam has donated to the Bap-
tst mission at Bankok S2i0,0 900 for hospital
and school.
There are now 200 regularly ordained wo-
men preachers in the United States, where
forty years ago there was only one.
The Presbyterian Church has in the State
Of PENNSYLVANIA l. 1876 Sabbath schools, IL, 924
teachers. and l75 $50 scholars.
Census returns show that the Salvation
Army has S6,662 members in the United
States. with 329 organizations. 40 church edl-
fees; 2S7 halls, with total seating capacity of
1922 6l.
The American Home Missionary Society
will hold its annual meeting in Saratoga. New
York as usual. 1t will meet on June I'd In
the next three months the society must re-
ceive S225, 900 to end the year all square"
1t is proposed that there shall be at the
Worlds Columbian Exposition. in 1898. an
exhibit which shall present. so far as Is prac-
ticable, the history. present position. distri-
button, and work of the churches and other
religious organizations of this country.
There are nine-two Baptist churches in
Scotland. In forty-six churches there has
been total increase in the membership If
the church of COL n total decrease in twenty-six
churches 223; in fourteen churches the num-
bers are unchanged. The aggregate member
snip. allowing for non-~e pOrtinc .churcleg, is
ll,si6, rs compared with IL .543 the previous
year
A sense Of danger is essential to safety in
all the walks of life. "The way 10 be safe Is
never 20 be secure" said old Quarles Safety
IS freedom from harm, while security is free
dom from care. He who has a sense of inse-
curity and constant peril may be all the safer
through the watchfulncss that that sense en-
genders. On the other hand, "let MIN that
thinkcth he standeth take heed lest he fall. {"
DIR. Tucker. the evangelical bishop who has
succeeded to the dangerous diocese of Equa-
t0rial Africa, rendered vacant by the murder
OF the heroic Bishop Harrington, has arrived
at Uganda. after terrible and prolonged suffer.
ings. A hundred miles Of the long journey
were through a dense. fOodless forest, ill.,
tested 10y savage robbers who murdered
stragglers and stole loads at every opportuni-
~
The question of admitting women into the
General Conference of the Methodist Episco-
pal Church IS taking on larger proportions
than was at first thought likely. The popular
majority in favor of it, in a vote recently had
was nearly 100 900. But the fight is not vet
over DR.. Buckley and those who stand with
him insist that the new movements squarey
in the teeth of Scriptural teaching. and will re-
slst 1t to the end. We pray for the peace of
Jerusalem.
Emerson exclaims: What is aTgreat man
but one of the great affinities who takes up
into himself all arts sciences, all knOwables
as his food? Every book is q quotation, and
every house is a quotation of all forests and
mines and stone quarries. and every man is
quotation from all his ancestors" Let not
the minister he ashamed, then, to incorporate
INTO his sermons all the best thoughts of all
the godly and true men who have gone before
him. Thoughts are common property Make
them your own by brooding ov, them PRAYER
fully. Clothe them in your own language
and utter them out IF a full and fervent heart,
and God will bless the resurrected germ as
ne DIesses the new growths of spring with
delicate flowers and luscious fruitage.
The Methodist Episcopal Church has IS, 900
ministers. 5000 parsonages, IA, 900 local preach
ers. $4,000 church edifces, ~ 1000 Sunday
schools. 1873 annual conferences, $500, 900
chnrch members, l6 deaconess homes, 20
weekly newspapers, 6 new hotel enterprises,
10 schools OF the prophets. 100 colleges and
seminarles, OChautauquaa assemblies. /. $50. 600
Sunday-school pupils, church dedications
per DAY. nearly 1000 young preachers on trial.
~, 3o0, 500 invested IN church edifces. more
than 200 annual camp-neetin2s. growing
woman's mission societies, 81. s22 1858 invested
IN publishing interests, l66. 200 Sunday-school
officers and teachers.
The truth is that there seems TO be a craze
IN certain quarters for human machinery
w W. me Church. There seems to be want
OF confidence in the efficacy Of the agencies
and means which our Lord has instituted II
lsa subtle form Of unbelief creeping into the
Church. What We need is not more ma
chinery. Seek and Save" Societies. Societies
OF Christian Endeavor," etc. but more dill
gent use OF the means and agencies divinely
appointed, and more fervent prayer for the
power OF the Holy Spirit 10 render thess
means and agencies e6ectual.