The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-07-05

sacardotalism md modern unbeief. Nv. Con-
cregationalism and the world-the claims of
congregational communities throughout the
world on those of England and America and
the claims of Foreign Missions
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There probably have never been such
flood of petitions sent 10 the German Parlia-
ment az has deluged that body in the Jesuit
return agitations. The total number OF sigma
lures asking for the return OF this Society Is
$50 0O0 the total number against Is yoO.VOO.
As the Protestants Of the Fatuerland number
20. 1863. 900 and the Catholics I6,7s50ol, the ex;
cellent organization of the latter has secured
o proportionally larger list OF slgners. but
then. the Catholics had begun the agitation
year and moro before the Protestants even
thought Of a counter movement.
Al a Meeting of the Tamil Lutheran
| Synod at Tranquebar. India, twenty-iour
| German and Swedish missionaries. all gradu-
| ates of the Lepzg Seminary or Luna uni
yersity, met sixteen native pastors graduates
| of the Seminary at Poreiar. one OF the Iht-
| Ter read a scholarly essay on the Two natures
III Christ: another related me nisso, tb;rd
| Jesuit missionaries at Madura ana tnliu
read a paper on the perpetuity, Of the punish
ment in hell. All showed marked ability and
profound theological knowledge.
rb. .to,ist,cs Of the wesleyans of England,
| Sreaf britain of 424. 8O3, which shows let IN
| crease of Gss in the year. with 25,09o ON triai
for church membership. and G2.4l6 young
persons meeting in junior society classes
Last year the increase was 2.G35, ana IN 1922
( 16I The Methodist Recorder gives dla-
Gram which shows that the increase in British
Mehodism for the past forty years IS 1900,
or lust over 80 per cent. aud that during the
past thrty-fve years, in which there has been
no secession the increase has been l63,4l5, or
little over 81 per cent.
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Last week an Italian boy. thirteen years
old, was arrested in Newark, n. j., city
with a hundred churches. for passing coun-
terfet money When brought before the
court lawyer objected to his evidence on the
ground that he did not know the nature OF an
oath. The boy declared that he had never
heard of God nor Of the Bible did not know
who made the earth or the sky. nor what pun,
ishment would be given hereafter - wicked
people who take false osths. Christian people
seem TO forget what responsibility they have
for the heather growing up at their doors
Such a case as this will add some point % NJ.
Cahensley's effort to have special bishops APP
pointed for the various nAtionalltles. But
perhaps a good part Of the lesson belongs to
prOtestants.
A remarkable movement has been started
in Madras. India, by two Mohammedans.
which has for its object the preaching OF the
Gospel of Islam and the conversion OF Hin
dus and. if possible. Christians. 20 Moham-
mechanism. The young men who 60. out
preaching are FREQ from the preJudlces OF the
old-fashioned Mohammedans. try TO live true
lives. and claim to lie ut one with the unita-
rians of America and England The result is
an increase in the spirit of inquiry that IS
abroad. The leaders adopt English as the
medium Of preaching Islam, and acknowledge
the fatherhoOd of God. and thus overthrow
the old-fashioned prejudice against the Chris
tian expression 'SOn OF God" Gods chll-
dren," which many Mohammedans consider
blasphemous.
The difficulty Of providing for the Jews,
whom the Car is so anxious 70 get rid OF. is
stirring the inventive faculty on every hand.
The number of solutions Of the problem IS
rapidly increasing. One Of the latest comes
from 1t. Petersburg. and calls attention to
strip Of Arabia extending along the Red sea
from Fort Aksba to FL Wight, where the cll-
matte conditions are favorable and the soil
fertile At present there are only about 10000
Arab nomads in the whole section, which
could easily. tho author of the plan says sup
port half million Russian Jews: IL is said
that the subject has already been preached to
the Egyptian Government of establishing here
an autonomous principally, with the Khediye
as suzerain.
Both Professor William r. Harper and his
brother Robert +. Harper leave \ ale Uniyer-
sity at the end of the current year, the former
10 become president of Chicago University,
and the latter for Europe, to edit IN connection
with MT. Piuches, Of the British MuIeum.
complete corpus Of Assyrian historical texts.
This is a serious blow to the cause of Semitic
study at New Haven, but the trustees are
determined that tho vacancies shall be rs well
filed as possible: and in Professor Harper's
successoT Professor j.. l.. Curtlss. who is called
from cCormick Theological Seminary. n man
is found of unusually fine scholarship and adj
mirable teaching power. Professor Harper
gives him the warmest praise. Mr.. Frank q.
Porter has also been chosen professor, III the
seminary, of Biblical Theology. lie is a
young scholar of high attainmsnts and bright
promise.
Among the most pcrpeIing questions that
meet the foreign missionary - that Of prOvis-
ion for his children during the time of their
education in this country. It's not every one
who hasreatives or immediate friends so cir
cumstanccd "a TO lie able 10 care for them
and there have cen not few cases OF special
hardship because If the lack of homes for
such. The Aubulndale Home, near Boston,
under the care Of Mrs. Eliza n. Walker has
done Il good work and some friends Of the
missionaries in Oborlin, o.. have formed the
Oberlin Missionary Home Association which
undertakes TO meet the same need. II ha. re-
Gently purchased site for building. and as
soon AS its funds will warrant proposes TO
erect n home Mt a cost of $4,000. portion Of
this has been subscribed on condition that tho
balance nodded lie raised IL is in the charge
of Mr. T. j. Goodrich, of Oberlin. ..
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A correspondent of the London Methodist
Times who has been investigating the con-
ditiOn of religious communities IN Russia,
states that in the extensive district lying be- |
tween tho great chain OF the Caucasian and |
the Turkish and the Persian frontiers, are |
hundreds of small settlements Of Russian |
peasants who have been baniShed thither Tor |
conscience sake In Ciscaucasla are numerous |
colonies of a similar kind and in the |
provinces contingent TO Siberia. in Siberia it. |
self and in 1urkestan are thousands Of these |
banished "heretics," including Molokans |
Baptists and others. thousand Stundists |
in the Province Of Orenburg have been |
obliged TO leave their homes. owing TO the |
intolerablo prosecutions 10 which they have
been subjected. Eighty Stundist families |
have been banished BY "A recent Administrative
order TO the distant province of Elizabethpol |
The correspondent states that over all parts
OF South Russia, on the passes across the eau
casts there are wandering presbyters As well
linn H. a..rsl ID.