The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1892-06-19

| no wills 10 make, the people VINO Walleu loi
inheritances could not get them, the Ola men
| STAYED in all the professions ana occupations,
| 40 that there was no room for the young VINO
were coming on, and the earth got over
crowded. and from all the earth the cry went
I'D: ooh for Death Where Is DeatnF' linen
the people came 10 the poor woman ana OeBgeu
her 10 let Death descend from the tree. IN
svmpathv for the world she consented 10 let
Death come down on one condltlOn, ana that
was that he should never modest OF take hel
awav and on that condition Death was al
lowed 10 come down, and he kept his word
and never removed her, and for that reason
we always have Misery with us.-Ialmage'
Religious Notes.
Chicago has four hundred churches and not
one public bath.
Great Britain, with 100000 people con-
sumes as much liquor as the United states,
with 81, 100000 people.
The average duration Of a rectorship IN this
country is about two years and hail.
One OF Bishop Ferguson's clergy in the
African NJ ssion has become Secretary oil state
Of Liberia.
A Chicago paper notes that our popular
| monthhes are all upon the side OF practical
| Christianity"
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Negotiations have been carried on for some
time for a union between the Welsh Calvin
istic MethOdists and the English Presbyte-
rians, and there are indications that the union
will be eonsummated before long.
In Canada the Roman Catholics take the
lead with ]. 900, 465 adherents, the MethOdists
have ST, 400, the Presbyterians 759,lJ9, the
EpiscOpalians 644 1906 the Baptists 3OG, I49, the
Lutherans 63,979, and the Congregatioralists
| ., l55.
Since the death Of Mr.. Peter Henderson, the
scotsman, OF New York, his relatives have re-
| ceged over eight thousand letters expressing
| the writer's sense Of personal loss through DIS
death. The majority were ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
| of moral help and stimulus received from
him. This man, who started as WoIhlng
/ gardener, took as his rule OF life the maxim,
/ @Attack first whatever work is the most DIN
cult or the most disagreeable," and worked
! himself up to a worldwide reputation.
| -
Nakamura Messanao, a leading japanese
statesman and philosopher has died. lie was
| well-read in Chinese and Western literature
and philosophy, and delivered lectures after
/ the mannerOf the Greek philosophers. These
! lectures were attended by hundreds OF disci-
| pies. and riyaled those OF Fukuzawa9 the
| "Socrates Of Japan" lie received many
/ honors, being last OF all, IN 1880, appointed
| life member of the new house Of peers. For
} 1oonv Years before his death he had been
/ Christian. and had greatly assisted the trans
latOrs Of the Bible into Japanese
-.
The General Conference of the Methodist
| Episcopal Church decides how many epls-
| cOpal residences there shall be, and where
they shall be located. The bishops themselves
! are allowed 10 choose their residences accord
ing 10 seniority of election. A great many
| changes have been made since the General
Conference met last month. Bishops Bow
man. Foster, Merrill, Andrews, Warren, Foss,
| Hurst Walden, Joyce, and Newman remain
nj their old residences; Bishop Nlnde moves
from Topeka TO Detroit; Bishop Mallaleu
| from New Orleans to Buffalo, y. y; Bishop
| Fowler frOm san Francisco 10 Minneapolis;
! Bishop Vincent from Buffalo TO Topeka;
| Bishop Fitzgerald from Minneapolis to New
Orleans; Bishop Goodsell from Fort Worth TO
| san Francisco.
Christian 4. BOrella was born in Denmark
in 1925 and for many years was on the sea,
/ serving his time before the mast and finishing
/ his nautical career as captain, altef having
visited perhaps every country on the globe:
/ AS a missionary be was particularly well
| known TO seamen Of all nations, having lor
many years been th most active representa-
/ tive In the port of New York OF the American
| seamen's Friend Society. Several years ago
| he felt himself called 10 work in Africa, where
! he commanded little steamer on the congo
/ for Bishop Taylor's missionary workers
! He died at NiYi, on that river, August IL,
| 1891. The Church of the Sea and Land, which
/ now holds memorial services for bin, was the
/ center OF Borella's labors in New York; and
| tablet is 70 be placed in the.church. comment
orative Of the unselhsh labOrs OF lifetime.
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| 1t Is gratifying 10 note that every member
i nit O.
| lively interested IN Church work Of some
! kind: such examples are productive OF untold
! good, particularly among the young men who
| will in the course of time direct the destinies
| Of this nation. Justice Strong, who is presl-
| dent OF the American Tract society, presided
/ over the sixty-seventh annual meeting OF that
| organization, which was held here this week,
at which interesting addresses were made by
| General D. D. Howard, the Yice-president,
| and Rev. William A. Rice, ID. d., OF New
| York, the secretary. The annual report
| showed that this society utiliZes loOlanguages
I'm preserving religious truths 10 people In all
| sections OF the world, and that 1t has issued
! 12314 distinct publications, OF which b64, u.s.
/ O39 copies have been circulated. During the
| past year the employees OF the society have
Visited III 1908 families and distributed So, 1876
voiumes.-The Home.
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Considerable excitement has been Occa-
stoned in Russia by the arrest Of Prince
| Khilkoff and his Punishment 10 Asiatic
! Russia without trial or accusation. The ap-
parent cause was his quoting several texts Of
| The New Testament IN answer 10 priest who
| was opposing Stundism, Bible reading and
| similar movements. Alter the Russo Turkish
! War in which the Prince fought with great
| bravery, he spent year IN the Caucasus and
became interested in the Molokans. On re-
ceiving his ancestral lands, valued at 5000
mounds. he sold the whole Of them 10 the
nneasants' commune and received from the
ppeasants in return six acres on which he
fNsI. cultivated his own land and deyoting
49, le,sure to the physical and moral eeya-
lion of the poor. More than once be has been
| threatened with banishment, but hitherto the
political influence OF his mothers family has
| s,ravpnfpd IL.