The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1891-11-01
GENERAL CHURCH NOTES.

Praying for Light Moody and Sankey
to Travel Together Again.
Mr.. Ira d. Sankey sailed for Scotland
last week, where he will help Mr.. Moody
in case he should tarry there this winter
Should Mr.. Moody 90 around the world.
as he wants TO do, Mr.. Sankey will ac-
company him in his journeyings. Mr..
Moody and family expect to sail for Lon
don next week.
pronounced vein OF humor must
certainly have run through the eurate
who said to his flock.-'sI fear, when / ex-
planned to you in my last charity sermon
that philanthropy was the love Of our
species you must have understood me to
say specie which may account for the
smaliness of the collection. ! hope you
will provo by your present contributions
that you no longer labor under the same
| mistake"
A writer in the Christian linton says
that upon Que occasion one of the clergy
was Iamenting to DIR. Philpotts, Bishop
/ of Exeter, the vast popularity of Mr..
| Spuraeon. "Ohln exclaimed he, "if we
only had MI Spargeon a.. What s1 pity the
severe, aud asked:-'rIs it not written,
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbours
ass
| The Universal Peace Congress is to be
| held IN Roma, from the 9th TO the 10Th of
| INOfEmDcEs dlteE Lue CHLl1aulEnbdI
! Peace Conference, whose sitLin gs will
take place from November TO 8. The
| Executive COMMITTEES OF the congress
| consists OF Prince Ruspoli (president),
Count Pic di Brazza Sayorgnan. Count
Pandolphi. Signor ,eismit-Doda and
has promised his official aid to the con-
| gress. 1t will hold its sittings in the
| Grand Hall of the Capitol. kindly lent by
! the authorities. The delegates will be
invited to reception BY the Syndic in
| the Capitoline Museum. The Colosseum
| and the Forum will be Illuminated IN
honor of the congress. and excursions by
| special trains will be made to Ostia aud
Pompeii.
DR.. Robinson, of Brooklyn, who lately
| returned from the Holy Land" de-
| scribes Eastern modes of housekeeping
/ aud cooking. Ia the matter of house
| cleaning he continued, 1T was interest
ing to observe that the natives used their
! feet instead of their hands, fastening the
brush with which they cleaned the
| floor to the soles of their feet in suck q
| way as to permit them TO slide about ia q
| leisureiv sort OF manner, and do their
work to tine accompaniment of sort of
chant which included but two or three
! notes, but which was pleasant to listen
! to. They always sang. but varied the
time according to the work they were
doing, SO as TO assist themselves in their
faster they worked. They washed their
| babies without water sand was the
material used, and 1t was effective If
not pleasant 10 the youngster who was
| cleaned"
A story is told of q parson who had
had call frcm little country parish TO
| large and wealthy one in big city. He
asked time for prayer and consideration.
| He did not feel sure of his light. A
month passed Finally some one met his
| youngest son on the street. How is it.
| JOSIAH" said the neighbor, lis your
| father going to BIZ" tWell," an
swered the yonngster judicially, Paw is
still prayin' for light. but most Of the
| things 10 packed"
The exhibition Of the Holy Coat for the
generation at Treves has closed. 1t is
| again Enclosed in its Theoretically sealed
shrine. Two million pilgrims visited it.
The model of the Father Matthew
| statue, which was recently unveiled at
Dublin, will be exhibited at the Worlds
| Fair.
News OF wholesale change OF religious
views comes TO Paris from Cahors. 1t
| seems that the Bishop OF Cahors refused
the celebration of a second mass in the
church of the village of Murat on Sunday.
and that in consequence of such refusal
the people of Murat became alienated
from Catholicism aud all embraced Pro-
/ testantism.