The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1894-10-28
Religious Notes.

The Parochial Mission Society OF the
Protestant Episcopal Church has uecIheh
10 postpone for year It's proposed gen
eral missions In New YORK ana other
large cities.
Bishop Watterson, in an address In
Chicago. at the Father Mathew celehrd-
ton. used the following language IN Ic-
ference to saloons,
"If the liquor traffic In particular
places becomes SO bold, SO outrageous,
so overmasterug and defiant that II can
not be controlled In any other way IMAM
the legal WipiHg ont Of the saloons tHel
let the saloons be- legally wiped out. and
1 say, i'm Gods name, and IN the name
of an outraged community the sooner
they are legally wiped out tn thht case,
the better FOR the community
Some idea Of what the Protestant
Churches in the three Baltic Provinces of
Russia must suffer for their refusal 10
accept the blessings OF the orthodox
Church can be had from the Official re
port that no fewer than ~ Lutheran
pastors have been uned and imprisoned,
some two and three times, for violation
Of Russian state ordinances against re
igiOus Dissenters. In all there are 5o-
Protestant pastors I'm these provinces
namely: 10 In livouta ,llt IN 'urdlaud ana
g. i'm EsthOnia. or the "culprits,' - were
form Livonia, and i've from each OF tho
other TWO provinces,
The Nrchbshops u the Roman Catholic
Church held their annual conference IN
]
presiding No statement has been given
az to the subjects considered in tie con
ference beyond that of approving the
American branch Of the ancient order Of
Hibernidns. The question OF the \. Z. \.
was not taken up. According to Arch
bishop Ryan. their graces do not consider
II worthy Of notice. The prelates we're
entertained at a banquet by the tdthohc
Total Abstinence Union. Cardinal Glib
bOns I'm his address said several Of the
archbshOps were total abstalners, among
whom he mentioned Archbishop Elder.
who when stricken down with yellow
fever in Mississippi. was saved through
his abstcmious hablts-lHdepend
A New York church. the Eighteenth
street Methodist. proposes to organize
Sunday nursery IN its basement Mh're
infants may be- left during church hour.
1t Is hoped that many mothers, relieved
Of care Of their children, WiH use thht
hour and Il half OF rest In attending
church services,
The Methodist Annual Conference I'm
Germany has been fixing the salaries OF
alt preachers within maximum and min
imuu figures. The largest sum given To
any preacher is $50 and the lowest $50.
There are gradations according as the
preacher is married, unmarried or has
children. La Berlin the conference owns
property worth $4,000 marks, a large adj
vance on the riginal cost. The churches
are rapidly approaching ssii-supppFt, ana
as soon as that IS reached the state VIII
grant corporate rights enabling them 20
bury the dead without consent from the
State Church.
a Christian EndeaVor Society, with
forty members and representing six dif-
ferent denominations, has been formed In
the Eighth regiment OF the National
Guards Of PennsylYania.-Courie Journal,
The Hungarian Upper House opened
debate last week on "A bill granting lib
erty Of worship To al scots. In the
course Of the discussion Cardinal Sch
LAUGH Archbishop Of Pennsylvania, de-
clared that the BIZ. II IL should become a
law, would ruin society and the State
The Seryian Patriarch and the Romanian
and Orthodox bishop spoke In a similar
! s'rain EX-Nnister Cz1ky and the cal
, whist Bishop SvasZ warmly supported
the proposed reform. which was intro
duced by Minister Of Public Education
Baron EOetyOes. declaring that tho Bill
was prompted by a true sense Of liberty.
and was the outcome OF the spirit Of the
age.
At the recent Anglican Missionary Con-
! ference in London, Canon Jacob said that
! If things went on as they are doing the
/ conversion Of India would bee due not 10
Britain, but to Americd.-Digest.