Morning journal and courier., 1892-02-08

"Almost, if not quite so." Nearly oppo-
 site to the Bethlehem Presbyterian church
 at Philadelphia is the Grace Baptist Tenn
 pie, one of the most important Baptist
 churches there, in which there is a heroic
 figure window which fills the entire west
 end, while for the Methodist Episcopal
 church ip Newark the house has now un-
 der way, from the design of Walter Crane, of London, a window which will be sec
 ond to none in the country in figure i'm
 portance, the subject being St. Paul preach
 ing on Mars Hill. This will be, when fin
 ished, the most important of its kind yet
 erected. The Methodist Episcopal church | at Harlem (St. James, has during the re-
 decoration this last fall introduced not
 only entirely stained glass with figure in
 terest, but has a decoration in mosaic
 above the pulpit platform, where in per
 msnent and enduring form is set forth the l text from St. James.
 The renaissance in America began di-
 rectly after the Centennial exposition, and
 took the form of a new and vivid medi-
 um, stained glass. Under the artistic
 leadership of MT. John La Farge many re-
 markedly fine examples have been e1eeu-
 ted, and most, if not all, of the churches
 have been willing to accept the beauty of
 color for the window openings as an en- richment to the church building. The
 second step of the renaissance, the sdorn- l ment of the wall surface, is now in pro- l gress, in advance of the Columbian expo sitIon and without the stimulus of foreign | work. Under the direction of & few American designers, who believe in the possibility U. mosaic as the most enduring
 and artistic medium yet employed, impor- tant commissions are now being executed. | Of course this is but the renaissance of the most ancient of all the arts; but, in the conversation with MT. Lamb, was l pleased to find that it is S renaissance in | the best sense of the word-not a mere | literal imitation of old work, but a care I full study of the principles that guided the | ancient men and their application under the modifying influence uf the century in which we live. This is the only way in which enduring art can ever be secured;
 and if American work is to make its mark in the future-it it is to live at all-it
 must be as the exponent of the time in
 which it is produced.
 To summarize the ideas, the tendency | would seem to show for modern churches the acceptance of mural painting and mo- safe for the enrichment of the wall sur face in connection with the use of the finest forms of stained glass for the win dow openings. thus making both wall and window one continuous scheme in color, U. where possible, the selection of these sub jects is bsing governed by the name of the church and the particular ideas to be em- phasized by each individual church as diff ferentiating it from other churches of eith- CT the same denomination or of other sects. "Men are but children of & larger growth" and as the child turns to the H.
 frustrated Bible, and by the illustrations learns the Bible stories, so the older child .aa s,, -ts .t
 be impressed by and to carry away with him the stories told Ly the artists hand, whether in mural painting, mosaic panel | or stained glass window.
 RUsr 5. LEWIS. Notes.
 Dr. George F. Pentecost, who is now in India, has made an excellent impression
 and has done much by his preaching to
 commend Christianity to the native Hin
 doos. Late sdvices state that after the
 Dashers meetings-gatherings held annu- ally of missionaries and religious workers of all denominstions-Dr. Pentecost con-
 tinued his services at Lucknow in a tent
 which had been sent from Scotland for his special use. The tent accommodated about eight hundred persons, and during
 most of the time it was comfortably filled. The preacher spoke to English speaking residents upon such themes as Justifca- ton, Sin, Regeneration, Peace and Chris ton Hope, and set forth the cardinal points of Christian faith as sources of en- couragement to prof.ssed Christians. He then addressed to the educated nations a series of diseourses on such themes as ''The Infallible Word of God, !" "The Son of God" ''The Reluctant Skeptic Con- vinced" and 1.-The Crucial Question" The impression on the Hindoos was such that a meeting called by some of their more prominent representatives, and attended by large number of the leading native gentlemen of the city, was held to consid- CT "The Claims of Christianity on the Hindoos"
 The Rev. Hubert Sowerby, of the Epis- copal mission at Ichsng, China, writes en- couragingly of the progress of the work at that place. "The riot at Ichang," he says, "had nothing to do with our mis- sion. It was entirely political, the Ro- manists were made the excuse, and all the foreigners the victims" Speaking of the outlook general he says: "Of this we may be sure; that China will not be evan gelized until the native scholars are inter ested in the work. Nor will Christianity
 make any progress until the women of China are won to Christ. The surest way
 of this is our girls day schools. And the future church will be the church that has the best educated native ministry and is best supplied with native evsngelists." There are said to be twenty four con | verted Jews serving as missionaries to their race in various parts of Engl@d d, | Germany, Austria, Turkey and Ryssis,
 and during the last few years it is erimed | they have made hundreds of c/ ivsrts. | The persecution In Russia is re .ponsible | for vast migration of Jews, Hamburg re- porting five hundred to one thousand ex- | iles as passing through it weekly. While
 many of these will avail themselves of the | opportunities for colonization in the Uni | ted States and the Argentine Republic of fered under the Baron Hirsch fund, it is claimed that the national aspirations of s
 majority lead them to prefer Palestine. Hence the Chovevi Zion, or Lovers of Zion,
 a society formed for the colonization of their ancestral country, of which many Jews in Great Britain and elsewhere are | members, paying weekly into a central | fund in London for the purchase of ground | as soon as conditions can be arranged with
 the Ottoman government.
 Palestine now hss one hundred thousand Jews, of whom forty thousand are in and | around Jerusalem. There are twenty-five Jewish colonies in the vicinity of Jaffa,
 Cesarea and Safed which are reported as
 being in 8 prosperous condition. Some of
 these have as many as two thousand acres
 of land, with real villages, synsgogues,
 schools, doctor and other provisions for
 the comfort and well-being of the commu-
 nifty. $. GIFFARD NELSON. l Deadly Poison on Coins.