The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1892-10-16
Religious Notes.


Bishop Gillespie thinks that theological
seminaries should expel any student who
perseyeres in using tobacco.
The profit on General Booths Darkest
England" was $4,000, every cent of
which was paid into the Golfers Of the
Salvation Army.
The Synod Of the Southern Lutheran
| Church at Knoxville, Tenn, received
proposition from Mr.. i. l.. Terry, of
| Salem. Va. 10 give it real estate worth
| $4,000 and $4,000 in money to found
an orphanage, provided the synod raise
| within specified time an additional
| sum of S5O,OOO.
James Monro, late head of the Lon
| don police. is delivering missionary lee
lures in Calcutta with marked success.
Miss Octavia Hill and six other women
will be among the speakers ut the Eng
lish Church Congress-
Among the people of twenty-seven ma
tionalities who inhabit Chicago there are
thirty-one Sandwich Islanders.
A. Connecticut church is to have
special shed for the storing of bicycles
during service.
After hearing two missionary sermons
in Melbourne, Australia, recently,
man i'm very moderate circumstances sent
$500 to be divided between missions
in India and New Guinea.
Mr.. Joseph Arbely, a native of Syria,
and IL graduate of the Syrian Protestant
College ut Beirut, has started in New
York city a weekly paper in the Arabic
| language for the thousands OF Arabic
| speaking people now in the United States.
| The title of the paper is the hankop
| America Tor Star of America).
The Church Standard agrees with
| Risbon Whitehead that the Methodist
| presiding elder is virtually a blshop, ana
| adds that 1.-THE officers whom the
| Methodists call bishops are really arch-
bishops"
The Government has given Miss Sybil
| Carter permission to enter any Ihulin
reservation in the country TO carr! on
| her work among the women.
In the lay services which George WI,
| liam Curtis at ifferent tunes cohuuc'cu
| in the village where he hved, ne always
! used the Book of Common prayer.
rho American missionaries in Persia
| are said to be doing noble WORK aihohs
| the sufferers from cholera.
The Rev. ]. Wilbur Chapman, ID. D.,
pastor of Bethany church, Philadelphia,
| has resigned his pastorate for the pui-
| nose of entering on evangelistc work.
| DIR. Chapman has had considerable ex-
nerience in such work, having been asso-
! ciated with the Rev. B. Fay NILS IN
| Jersey City, Providence, Philadelphia
and Cincinnati. He also conducted some
| very successful meetings In Cleveland;
| His work in Bethany church Is evidehceu
by the addition during the past Two years
| of LOCO persons to its membership
The school for Christian Workers at
| Springfield Mass has begun its eighth
| YEAR with increased facilities, larger
| classes and teaching force. The chapei
| in tbe rear of the main building mas
| been remodeled so that it has seating
| capacity of $50. Among the new ue,
| nartments are the schools of music ana
| physical culture; also CORRESPONDENCE CORRESPONDENCE
| school for Sunday-school superintendents
| and assistants The department OF ChrlS
fan Evidences and Bible History VIII
be under the care of the rev ~. II
Knight. late of the Park-street churcn,
| West Springfield.
The evil in the feminine dress OF 10.
| day lies not with our rich women pu,
with our women OF average 1 Ine'IS,
writes Edawrd w. Box in the July La
! dies Home Journal. The wealthy
women rarely overdrcss; the average
woman far more often, and she stamps
herself lev that very indiscretlon. IL IL
not the mistress who 0yerdresseS SO
much as il is her servant who tries TO
initiate her. The nice and rehned
women. the women of taste, are not iDe
purchasers of the snowy dress patterns
and misfit hats which we see III the snow
windows Just in proportion as woman
- ro6nod in her nature is she quiet III
her dress. A refined woman never
dresses loudly. -,
The Mortified Training School opened
September 10Th with more students IMAM
at any time previous. Mr.. Moody mas
renewed his offer to the Societies OF
Christian EndeavOr throughout the coun-
FRY to take twenty-five members OF the
society at $50 EACH instead OF the regu-
lar tuition of $50 for the term OF twelve
weeks. There has been a great demand
for the graduates in home mission, Gty
mission and church temperance work.
| The Bible Institute in Chicago is also
making extensive preparations Tor the
| coming wear. with special reference TO
| the crowd that will be there during the
| Fair.
Sir Julian Pauncefote is a musician OF
| ability and also has published a number
| of original compositions. Among them Is
| the "Sybila Waltz" dedicated to his
| second daughter The name is assocla-
| ted with an interesting romance In the
| early history of the family. One or the
| members. named Sybil, was betrothed
| TO a knight who had gone to the Holy
| Land. He was captured by the Sar-
| acens, who refused all ransom except
the right hand of his betrothed to be Sc
vered i'm presence of the Saracen messen-
| gers. who were then 10 convey it with
| MI speed to Palestine. According TO the
| hrief annals that have come down, the
| heroic woman without delay gave her
| hand as Il ransom, and the Saracen cmel,
touched by the unexpected devotion, at
| once made good his word by releasing the
| knight.
A successful business man thus ex-
presses himself regarding business cour-
tesy, and emphasizes truth which some
| people forget or ignore, 10 their own in
| Jury: Il make it piont TO reply to
| every communication of a business ma
ture addressed to me. 1t doesn't matter
what il is about. provided il is couched
| in civil language. l do this because
courtesy requires that ! should; but
apart from that, find also that it is a
GOOD policy. Time and again, in my life,
| | have been reminded by newly secured
| customers that | was remembered through
| correspondence opened with me years be-
| fore. and many orders have come through
| this passing and friendly acquaintance
| with people On the other hand have
| known plenty of business men whose
| disrespectful treatment of correspond
| ence has been bitterly remembered ard
repaid with compound interest Silence
| is the meanest and most contemptuous
way of treating anybody who wishes 10
| be heard and TO hear, and resentment is
| jts answer every time"
Miss Frances Il. Wizards visit to Eng