Birmingham state herald., 1896-06-11
RELIGIOUS NOTES.

The Roman Catholic church authori- ties in St. Louis, it is reported, will soon formally forbid their co-religionists to sing in protestant church choirs. The church objects to attendance by its mem- bers at protestant church services. Sing ing in the choir is, of course, worse of- fense, as that is participation in the ser vices.
 Altogether Turkey contains 223 foreign missionaries and 1094 native pastors and workers. Since 1921 America has sent to Turkey 550 missionaries American mis- sionary property is valued at 900, and we send Turkey every year $225, 900. America has spent on Turkey from the beginning of our missions there until now at least $10000,000.
 A newspaper published in Jerusalem, printed in Hebrew language, states that Dr. Bless, supervisor of the Palestine Ex- ploration fund.- lately discovered near Mount Zion the exact course of the city walls of Jerusalem built before and dur ing the Roman era; also a number of vases and mosaics of high historical value.
 The efforts in England to reform abuses in the Established church receive encouragement from churchmen on this side of the water. One of these great abuses is the sale of church patronage at auction. The Churchman of New
 
 lent bill permitted to have voice in the election of their minister"
 Prof. Smaller Matthews in the Ameri- can Journal of Sociology, discusses Jesus teaching respecting the state. Was, then, Jesus a socialist, monarchist, a democrat? Again it must be said he was neither He stands committed to no po- litical teaching. He held himself sternly to the duties of a preacher of religion and morals. It was enough when he had shown the fatherly monarchy of God and the fraternal obedience of men,"
 Cardinal Manning once said to an inti- mate friend "To write my life ade- quately I should want at least three biographers-an Oxford man for the first period, a priest for dogmas and councils and diocesan business though doubt if the same one could do the Roman part and the Westminster parD, and for the political and social questions of my lat ter days, third, in rebus vitae publicae apprime versatuS."
 The Primitive Methodists of New South Wales have taken an important step to- ward the union of the various Methodist bodies in that colony. At their annual conference they declared by 50 votes to in favor of union on the basis of the Wes- leyan general conference, and expressed an opinion In favor of organic union, to be consummated not later than the year 1900. Nearly 100 churches and mission stations were represented in the confer ence.
 Leading Mohammedans are proposing to assemble congress in the autumn of the present year to consider matters of vital interest to their faith. The discus sions of the congress will center about l two important questions, namely, how Islam may be reunited and how to but | tress the faith against the encroach- ments of Christianity and the advance of Christian nations upon the lands of Islam.
 A Swiss pastor who visited London not long ago has been giving some of his views of things as he saw them in the churches. At the City Temple he met with such a sermon as he certainly had never heard or seen before. It was the twen- tieth anniversary of the opening of the | City Temple and pr. Parker took for his subject, "Dr. Parker, as Preacher, Pas | tor and Student" Viewer In all my life, ' l said the Swiss pastor. have I heard a man so frankly boast of himself, nor could believe it possible"