The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1894-06-29
RELIGIOUS NOTES.

Forbear to Judge, for we are sinners
all.-Shakespeare.
Guard well thy thought; our
thoughts are heard in heaven.-Young.
or what use ie II to live long when
we advance so little?-Thomas a KEN.
pis.
There are now published in Great
Britain 2'O61 magazines, OF which All
are religious.
The first chapter Of Genesis never
made an infidel, and no explanation OF
1t can remove infidelity.-H. q. Wes-
ton. d. ID.
The Scriptures In our hands and
their words in our hearts, this is the
best preparation for our tarry here
and for our journey heavenward-
Luthardt.
Old Hurd church was built near
Harrodsburg, KY, in 1907, and 1t is
said that weekly meetings have been
held there ever since without q single
exception.
Two simultaneous deaths in the Col
lcge Of Cardinals reduces the body TO
fifty-nine, which Is lower than usual.
The list OF new cardinals Is expected
next month.
NcNP sVui tstc UP, uOt uOWu tetcT
walked safely on tn. very waves and
found them like a solid pavement un.
der his feet until he looked down
then he went down.-Anon.
There are two kinds of antidotes
against all the troubles and affiictions
OF this life, namely, prayer and pa
tience; the one hot, the other cold;
the one quickening the other quench-
ing.-Brooks.
The catalogue Of Lane Seminary
shows a total number OF twenty-three
students, of whom two are in the sen.
ior class, six In the middle and twelve
in the Junior. the others being in pre-
paratory departments.
One of the features of Easter at
Peoples church, Boston, Mass. was
the presence of 1,1O0 various plants
symbolizing the LOO converts who
have professed personal salvation AT
its altars since Dr. Brady became pas.
tor in October last.
The Rev. George II. Bowling, d. D..
has been confirmed by the Right Rev.
DIR. William Lawrence, Bishop OF
Massachusetts, and expects in about
a year to enter the Episcopal minis
try. DR.. Bowling was formerly
Baptist then went over into the Dutch
Reformed church.
The National Bible Society of Scot.
land reports for the year an income
of $169,225, of which S110,925 was
from free gifts. the remainder from
sales of Scriptures. Arrangements
have been made for an increase of
colportage In France, Italy, Spain and
China.
The vote in the Methodist confer.
ence in favor of granting laymen
equal representation with the minis,
ters in the General Conference ap.
pears to be going, so far, strongly
against the proposed change. Re
turns from nine conferences give 523
votes against and 404 in favor.
The wife of the most efficient mis-.
sionary on the Congo, supported by the
English Baptists, is negro lady of
African birth She travels with her
husband and has immense power over
the interior tribes. The German Basel
Mission fOrbids its missionaries in
Africa to marry negroes, and If other
boards do not have the same rule we
are afraid that in practice they would
be about as strict.-New York Inde
pendent.
The London Guardian says that the
religious statistics of Belgium for
1890 give the number OF conventual
institutions, and their inmates, in the
kingdom-229 monaStries, with Ats
! monks, and 1.546 converts, with 25,323
sisters and nuns. There are over 20.
900 men and women belonging to .ie
various orders, and, taking the popu-
lation of Belgium in 1890 at 6O0O,O0O
we find one "reli eligious"-monk or sis
ter-to every 200 persons.
The following figures afford some
idea of the work done in New York
city during 1893 by the Slum officers
of the Salvation Army: Conversions,
5S1; families visited, 1887; saloons
visited, 17.117; persons dealt with in
saloons dives, etc, Pitts; meals
given to absolutely starving cases,
2,T63; garments given away to urgent
cases, 1925; children cared for, 1894.
The Rescue operations for fallen wO-
men are attached to the Stun work,
| and thirteen women have devoted
their lives to this work.
Louis Kossuth was a Lutheran In
June, 1855, in a letter to the Indepen-
| dent, he said: II am a Protestant by
birth, education and conviction. l be-
| long to that community which profess
| in principle the Augsburgian Evan
! gelical Confession. So the followers
Of Luther call themselves, and are
| called in the covenants and funda-
mental treaties to which our perse.
cuted ancestors Il have some among
mine who died on the scaffold, others
who died in exile for religions sake),
sword in hand, have pledged the
Hapsburg in faith and oath.
an World.