Omaha daily bee., 1899-03-05

before they know divinity. Some want to
take Latin and Greek who do not know the
personal. pronoun in English"
Among the institutions for popular educa-
ton controlled and supported by the Society
or Friends are Haverford college. Bryn Mawr
college, one in Wichita, Kan, and Penn coll
lege in Iowa. The Friends deserve much
credit for their interest in education.
Prof. Horatio w. Parker, head Of
the musical department. at Yale, has raised a
storm OF discussion by a paper he read in
Boston in which he said that much of the
music in the Episcopalian hymn book was
light and frivolous and unsuited sor the
purpose for which it was intended.
Three women of high rank, one of whom is
the daughter of the archduchess of Tuscany,
nave decided to found in Berlin a new re-
ligious order for women, which will be called
the Congregation of the Sisters of st. Joseph.
These future nuns intend to devote them
selves specially to the women and girls EN-.
ployed in and industry ia Berlin.
A western churchman once asked the late
Blshop Williams of Connecticut what the
latter considered the best bit of work he had
done IN that state during his long episcopats
there. WELL the venerable bishop replied,
perhaps the best work I did for the diocese.
and for the church as well, was to keep q
number of men out of the ministry"
The Church Standard of Philadelphia de-
clares that the Church of England has sell
dom been in greater danger than at this mo-
ment and that the hope of peace is ended. A
few agitators are plunging the church into
revolution. Disestablishment, which had al
most been forgotten, Is now nearer than ever
and disestablishment means a large measure
of abandonment"
1t is stated that the 60, 900 Syro-Arabians
In this country and Canada are not united
in their religious beliefs. The Holy Or
thodox Catholic Apostolic Church. Of the
East numbers about 20. 1000. They have two
churches in this country-one in Galveston, 4
Tex, and one in New York-with two
priests. They are under the Jurisdiction eS'
a Russian bishop.
Speaking of old bibles, NJ. Siebhart of Mar
quette, Neb., reports that he has one
printed IN 1856 and written by DR.. Martin
Luther. 1t is a German bible, about eight
cen inches long by fourteen wide and six
inches thick. 1t has wooden lids covered
with heavy leather and bound with rope.~~~
Luther was born November 10, 1433, ami
died February 10, 1916.
The communicates in the Episcopal-the
Established Church of England-are officially
given as follows: 1896, $50. The member
ship of the free churches is given as 1,S97,-
IT'S. OF the latter the five Methodist bodies
number 994,25O; Congregationalists, AIS, O72;
Baptists. S36,51S; Presbyterians, 71,444. The
Established church gained last year 45, 70S;
the free churches, 47526.
One hundred and two churches, at a cost
or ~$l23'6l3, have been aided during the last
year by the Congregational Church Building
society; $4,000 was loaned to forty-twd
churches and $2S, 625 was loaned to ffty-
seven churches en- parsonages. Grants were
made to eighty-three churches, amounting
to $47,4l4. OF 1859 churches aided, all but
twenty-five were west of Ohio.
A large part of the estate of Washington
G.. Benedict, the real estate and electric
railroad operator who died last week, has
been given to various churches and
eG the tse sa! e.t5tn Army; The amount
able, but 1t is reported To be in the neigh
borhOod of 81, O00, 900. The Salvation Army's
snare IS about one-fourth and the money is
to be used for slum work.
The Churchman states that not only is tho
Church OF England not endowed by the State
or Parliament, but there Is no such organiza-
ton as the Church of England to endow. In
law, the Church of England is only an assoc
citation OF some 5000 parishes and cathedral
chapters and 1t is to them in their individual
corporate capacity that the revenues of the
church are paid.
Rev. James Duane, a vicar bishop In thu
African Methodist Episc pal church. South,
Is on the way to Cape Town, Africa, where
ne expects to start a school and church for
the instruction and redemption of the Kaffirs.
lie Is himself a native Kafir and for tho
first fourteen years OF his life lived as a
among his people. The proposed
school will be modelled after the Wilberforca
university in Ohio.
Lyman Abbott says: Il have tried to in
my own conviction that religion con-
sists not in believing something about God,
or thinking about God, but in trying TO 1.-Two
the divine life, Religion is simply the art of
liying-not even the art of right living, for
living Is the beginning of death. Religion
means for the merchant honesty, for tA,s.
truthfulne9s, for the soldier heros\
Ism, for the minister sincerity and candor." '