The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1892-07-24

| own that they are wholly deceived. AS for
me, feel compelled 20 declare that it is a
cursed falsehood which long made me
| blind"
Religious Notes
The University of oxford has conferred
on Pisbop Potter the degree Of Doctor in
| Divinity.
Buffalo Bilps troupe Of Indians, Next
| cans, cowboys and C0ssacks recently at
tended service in st. Paurs Cathedral,
! London.
ono member shall be permitted TO drink
the white mans grog" is one OF the laws Of
newly formed Zuia church in Africa.
The Roman Catholics will erect in Lon
don to the memory of Cardinal Manning a
refuge for homeless poor without distinc-
| ton Of creed or nationality"
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Combined statistics Of fifteen counties in
| Maine show that Of 49, 45 families, 81, S42
are not attendants upon any church what
ever.
| Bishop Walker, whose "csthedral car
| has done good work ON the railroads of
/ North Dakota, is TO have church built on
barge for use at places on the upper
| Missouri,
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Nearly every member Of the United States
| Supreme Court is actively interested in
church work Of some kind. Chief Justice
Fuller has been lay reader at st. Marks,
| Chicago.
The Governor Of Toxic recently advised
] his subordinates by letter TO refrain from all
| games OF chance, whether Japanese or
| foreign.
Dean Hale, Of Davenport, Ia, recently
| elected Assistant Bishop Of Springfield, has
twice visited Russia, and Is conversant with
! the Russian language. This fact made his
! advice and assistance very valuable In the
recent movement TO send relief from Iowa
| to the famine district i'm Russia. For his
! connection with this work he has now re-
ceiyed letter Of thanks from the Countess
| Tolstoi.
~
The "Cathedral Car" is call over the
! place" in North Dakota. The sweeping
| and dusting as well as seating, IL often
done by the Bishop himself. But every one
helps-trom English Earls, who have
ranches in the West, to other and possibly
| less aristocratic frontier farmers. Bishop
| Walker has proved himself eminently the
man for the position he fills.
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! A German doctor has started theory that
most drunkards can be cured by very
/ simple and pleasant course of treatment,
namely, by eating apples at every meal.
| Apples, DR.. Tuplett maintains, if eaten in
/ large quantities, possess properties which
! entirely 40 away with the craving that all
/ confirmed drunkards have for drink. The
| doctor says that in many bad cases which
! have come under his notice he has been able
/ 10 effect a cure by this means, the patient
! gradually losing all his desire for alcohol.
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1t is interesting TO note that a memorial
has been placed in Westminster Abbey TO
Major-General Charles George Gordon. The
memorial consists OF bronze head in high
relief supported on a bracket, with shield
below. The background Of the relief is filled
with foliage and the space around the shield
with scroll work, on which is inscribed:
Mandarin of China Pasha Of Egypt;
MajOr-General OF the British Army" On
the shield is inscribed: "ln memory Of
Charles George Gordon; born 1888; killed in
Khartoum, 1885. Erected by the Corps Of
Royal Engineers"
The memorial, which is the work Of Mr.
+. Onslow Ford, ARA, occupies the space
over the belfry door, within the trefdl Of
the early English wall arcading, imme-
the nave, and 10 close 10 memorials of two
distinguished officers of engineersviZ.,
MAJOR James Rennell and Sir Richard
Fletcher.
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Mrs. Spurgeon has done the right thing
in explaining that the Ell 900 at which Mr..
spnrgeon's will was proved includes the
estimated value Of his copyrights and furni-
ture, aud life policy for { 1000, apart from
4s.ff. ~. Il y IA
great Baptist preacher left Ell, 900 in hard
cash it could not be said that he had done
more than make needed provision for his
widow, and he certainly ought not to have
done less. That he lived in comfortable
circumstances was known to all the world,
so far anybody chose to inquire, and that
such surroundings were TO him a necessary
Of life in his later years is beyond all ques-
ton. 1t would have been easy for Mr..
Spurgeon 10 nave amassed ten times / II 900
by simply holding the hand OF charity; but
all who knew the man are we'll aware that
the heaping up of wealth was about the last
thing that he had in bis mind.
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The death Of DR.. Henry NJ. Scudder, ,lr.,
ends u very sad story. He was born on
missionary soil in India, the son and the
grandson Of missionaries, himself was ell
gagged in the same work and won high dis
tinctiOn for his services as physician al
the time Of the famine. His health broke
down, and he returned TO this country and
entered upon practice in Chicago. Some
weeks ago he was arrested for brutaly
numbering his mother-in-law, and has now
suddenly died, perhaps by poison self-ad-
ministered. The physicians, who have made
an autopsy, declare that the appearance OF
his brain shows what his father, the vene-
rable DR.. Scudder, had for some months
before feared, that he was insane. This is
the only explanation OF an act which was
utterly inconsistent with his whole life,
training and character, and it somewhat
relieves the terrible tragedy.
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Ocean parties for the poor will be accom-
modated al the Peoples Seaside Home, West
Conev Island. Excursions sail by one Of
the iron steamboats, from the pier at North
River and Twenty-thlrd street, AT nine A.
NJ. and return during the evening. On
landing at the iron pier at Coney Island, the
messengers will be conveyed 10 the Home
Two miles 10 the west. A luncheon will
then be served on the piazza. followed by
rest for the mothers ana games Tor tue
cbildren. Then comes surf-bathing, aIter
which certain families may be selected TO
remain NJ the Home for season OF rest.
These ocean parties are conoucteu ioi pre-
yention rather than cure, leaving 10 o.ner
Charitable societies the care OF the very SICK
aud the conduct OF hospitals ana dispensa-
rles. The whole scheme 10 one OF the many
noble ones emansting from the Association
for Improving the Condition OF tne roor'