The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1898-04-03

and the whole fabric falls
Twelve ignorant common laborers went
to the University of Jesus for three years,
and when they graduated they shock the
intellect of earth.-Rev. Frank Crane.
Princeton Theological Seminary has
graduated 45H students for the ministry, Of
whom 1851 are living.
The Wesleyan Methodist Church of Eng
land is trying to raise f1,00O000 to COM
memorate the commencement Of the TWEEN
tieth century. Their plan is to have 1,oOO,'
900 Methodists guarantee Ell each.
Two hundred and sixteen officers of the
Salvation Army in Australia have volun-
teered for work in Java, India and Japan,
where they will be sent shortly.
The Y. NJ c. A. of Kimberley, South
Africa, which is only two years old, has
a membership of over 800.
The Union Church of Honolulu Is a
stropg and influential Christian church.
The attendants are chiefly the white people
resident in the city. and as the name in
| indicates, it is union organization. The
president of the republic is member of the
congregation. Rev. Douglass p. Brine,
who has been pastor for the past three
years, has recently resigned because of his
intended return to the United States.
John Wanamaker has been superintend-
ent at the Bethany Sunday school for more
than forty years continuously He began
with two teachers and twenty-seven pupils.
| Now the school numbers JO0 DR.. Chap
man, the pastor of eBthany church, has
nine assistants, and the membership num-
| bers $780,
The second international council of Con-
gregational churches will be held in Bos-
ton September Goth to 2Sth. 1898, for which
preparations are already being made. 1t is
expected that the churches of the United
States alone will send 200 delegates while
those from abroad will more than double
this number. Rev. p. S. Moxom will repre-
sent the national council at the spring
meeting of the Congregational union of
England and Wales, where the English
delegates will make further arrangements.
| Let what is natural in you raise itself to
| the level of the spiritual, and let the spirit
ual become once more natural. Thus will
| your development be harmonious, and the
| peace of heaven will shine upon your brow
always on condition that your peace is
made, and that you have climbed your
| Calvary.-Amiel Journal.
| Missionaries in Japan report that the
| spirit of self-support is getting a firmer
hold in that country, both of the preachers
| and people, although their ability to give is
| small.
Waiting will not take away the chronic
| all, restore nerves and bones, and remove
pain; nor will it bring to the empty arms
| and lacerated heart what they are always
| crying for. But waiting bring the beatitude
of God-quiet, peace, strength, trust, hope
not with the old bound and jubilance, but
other graces better-quiet, peace, strength.
| j. +. w. Ware.
1T seems in some quarters to be consid-
cred formidable objection to Christian
ity," says the Living Church Up. E.) Of
Chicago, that a great number of men do
| not believe in it. This is spoken of as If
it were quite new phenomenon, and there
| fore d portentous and fatal thing. AS
! matter of fact, there is nothing new in 1t.
| The Christian religion has never seemed
| charming to the great mass of worldly
| people, and there has always been large
| and important body of so-called thinkers
or philosophers, who could not tolerate it,"
Rev. F. S. Bacon, pastor of the Taber-
| nacle, Manchester, N. H., at recent Sum
day morning service requested a 10 per
cent cut-down in his salary, to conform to
| the cut-down in the mills.
GLOW mistaken on some points of re-
ligion are twelve hundred clergymen of the
English church may be inferred" say the
New York Observer (Pres), from the
| fact that these high churchmen have
united in recommending a volume entitled
| A Book for the Children of God,' which
| contains the statement that the Catholic
church is the only abode of the Spirit OF
| Cod who, it says, does not make his home
| in any dissenting sect This remarkable
| misstatement is added: Sometimes peo-
| pie quarrel with the church and break
| away from her. and make little sham
| churches of their own. We call these
people dissenters and their sham churches
sects' Those clergymen have not yet
| learned the A B of Christianity, which
| Is a system larger than the one flock Of
| Anglicans or of Catholics Other sheep
Christ has which are not of that fold. That
is a sham church. wherever it it, which
| fails to illustrate the teaching and spirit of
the Master; that is a true church, whatever
its particular poity. which holds to the
Bible, and by testimony and life inter-
prets Christ to men as Christ taught him
self"
| During the nine years of its existence the
Catholic University of America at Wash
ington has educated over 200 priests.
| 'He would be rash man who should try
to prove that the Roman Catholic church
is dying out" says the New York INDIE
pendent. "The facts prove the contrary
1t is having a healthy growth. 1t has
gained in the last seventeen years nearly
350O,0OO in Catholic population, which is
about "a per cent. The fact of growth is a
conclusive fact, borne out by other items
of Catholic returns as to which there can
be less question of accuracy No one, un-
less he has some special purpose to be
served by covering up or denying the
truth, will dispute that the Catholic church
is growing, and growing handsomely. But
If it would be foolish to argue, in the face
Of these facts. that the Roman Catholic is
dying out what word should we find to ut
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