New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-03-08
WHAT A CITY PASTOR SEES
ITEMS OF PERSONAL INTEREST TO
CHURCH PEOPLE

The American Sunday School Union reports that
more than seventy-hve thousand children and young
people were brought into its Sundayschoo,s by It's
missionaries last year many Of whom had never
enjoyed the privilege before. yet more than ten
thousand professed to begin the Christian life; In
Of the union says: THE new year has begun. ana
the urgent appeals for the extension Of this effort
TO the needy settlements. both the frontiers and
In older States and The rare opportunities open iSr
now have no rel gious privileges lead Us . hope
that you will extend this work by an offering Tor
its support II you have not already done So
At the mathematician services in Cooper
Union tomorrow there vii. be prayer-meeting
$40 p. IN. led by the Rev. W. c. Blackburn pas
tor of the Church of the Strangers The song ser
vice will begin at o'clock. led by W. S. Weeden
and Miss Anna Park. cornetis This will be fol-
lowed by an exposition Of the Temptation of Jesus
At o'clock Dr. G. p 3'n q Hrookyn A. VI,
Religion-Which?' The Rev ". j. Hsrsha. pastor
Of the Collegiate Reformed Church, will preside
1t Is pleasing announcement which DIR. Greer
made this week TO party visiting st. Bartholo-
news Parish House. that 1t is soon 10 be increased In
size. In fact nearly doubled. In his Year Book Dr.
Greer says speaking of the work Of the parish;
LAS the work goes on. it goes forward II cannot
60 on without going forward. No good work can
1t goes forward. however. upon the old lines. and
If some things to be new. the newness which
they exhibit Is the neWness OF an" a. new
ness which results from growing. and which as i
provides new mehSds to meet nS Of oSr
parochlal growth It Is like the growth OF seed;
or like the growth, rather Of that Kingdom Of the
s sSs S 81 them the ear after that the full Of
corn
Dr. B. b. Tyler OF the Church of the Disciples. is
preaching series of sermons on The Worlds DEBT
to the Churches" This evening he VIII ds-
cuss The Lutheran Church" Last Sunday even
Tha
Church is more nearly entitled to the use OF the
word catholic than is any other Christian body IL
comes nearer reaching every nation. tribe kindred
and tongue beneath the whole heavens than does
any other ecclesiastical body. 1t also comes nearer
reaching all classes of people-the king on the
throne, the peasant in his hovel. the prince in his
palace the beggar by the wayside. the rude and the
refined. the aged and the young-than any other
body. We indebted to Catholic for the discov-
cry Of the New World. 1t was a Roman Catholic VINO
invented the of printing the art preservatvc OF
all arts during the centuries intervening between
the completion OF the sacred canon and the beginning
Of the Protestant Reformation. This great Church
preserved for us the Word OF God. We are In
debted the Roman Catholic Church for the preser-
walton Of the manuscripts. now studied with such
Roman Catholic Church preserved order among the
people and maintained stable civil government The
history OF heroism the mission heds OF the world
would be incomplete withou, the stories of Chrs,ly
service on the part OF members OF the Roman cam
Ole Church. There are not le" frotestahts VINO
believe that the golden age VI the workingman was
at period OF time when the Roman Catholic
Church dominated other period In It's
history It's present care for the poor IL certainly
worthy OF imitation by all Protestans. The Ro-
man Catholic Church furnishes sample Of union
that Is worthy of praise. Its different orders are.
In fact. so many religious denomna tons but there
is TOO much good and too great devotion as 10
what is regarded supreme importance 10 break
away from the Church and establish separate or
CARNATIONS. There is no better devotional litera-
ture In the world than that of the Roman Catholic
Church. When we 90 to Europe TO ADMIRE me
architecture o. the world We ought 10 remember
that those miracles In stone were planned by Roman
Catholic minds and were wrought by Roman Cath
Ole hands. There Is no such stately music as has
been written by the sons OF this Church. We are in
debted 10 the Roman Catholic Church for the finest
sculpture and the most magnificent paintings on the
earth"