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the printing of a cheap edition OF the COS
pels and the Acts for circulation among
the italian people.
The recent Congregational nationa'
council approyed the proposed union with
the Methodist Protestants n United
brethren. A request from the Free Bap-
lists to ioin the union was also acted upon
favorably.
November 81 will be Worlds Temperance
Sunday. On the following day the w. Z.
T. u. will open Its national convention IN
Philadelphia.
For the first time the Protestant Epts-
copal church has passed the SOO,OVo marx.
At the recent Boston convention the mem.
bership was reported as sO4. sos. This means
that the church has increased per cent.
faster than the population.
Presbyterians are talking OF making
their evangclistic work a permanent part
of the UNCONVENTIONAL organization. Inc
consolidation of che home mission board
and the evengelistic committee has been
suggested, but Il rather looks as IT the
latter will be made n permanent assem-
bly,, with headquarters in Philadelphia.
and with Rev. DIR. j. Wilbur as
one of the secretaries.
lDr. WllIIHUl JdIueS OdWSOu NV "Ssa
known Congregational minister of Lon
don, who is now visiting America, is likely
to receive a call by the Clinton Avenue
Congregational church of Brooklyn.
A curious form of benevolence is the
sending of secondhand spectacles to India.
Congregationalists this year sent more
han a thousand. They are used by ma
tives. who are unable to pay the great
cost OF such articles in India.
General Booth wants half a million
dollars for the building Of four additional
shelters in London, each large enough
to care for 800 men. Already the Salvation
Army shelters $500 men a night in Lon-
don, but the unusual amount of destitu-
ton In London this winter calls for en-
larged facilities.
William T. Stead, who, because Of re-
ligious scruples has never attended the
theater, Is this winter visiting all the
London p%layhouses in a first-hand inves-
tigation of the modern theater and its
moral influence, and is writing his impress
sions. Both dramatic and religious circles
are manifesting great interest in the in
v~estigation.
A remarkable instance OF missionary
endeavor is quoted by 1.-The Record Of
Christian Work" Seven shoemakers in
the city of Hamburg banded together to
promote the spread Of the gospel, and in
yCdic tIcy q CSNhOblStcu ~
self%-supportihg churches. had gathered
10000 converts. had distributed 400. 0Od
Bibles and S.O0O.0 900 tracts. and had carried
the gospel to 50,OO0.0 900 of the race. !
A dining room bible class is held every
Monday in the Philadelphia Y. NJ. c. A..
Half a hundred business men meet for
luncheon at noon and are then led I'M
half an hours Bible study by Rev. DIR. b..
l.. Whitman.
SEVEN SENTENCE SERMONS. 4.
They are the weakest, however strong;
who have 10 faith in themselves or their!
powers.-Bovee. I
The look Of sympathy. the gentle word.
Spoken so low that only angels heard;
The secret art Of pure self-sacrifice, ,
Unseen by men, but marked by angelss
eyes
These are not lost. Anon. !:
To do great things a man must live aa
II he had never to die.-vauvenargues. +,
Mems thoughts are much according to-
their NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. |
We are all building a soul house,. yet;
with what different architecture and what
various care!-Beecher.
One who never turned his back, but!
marched breast forward :
Never doubted clouds would break;
Never dreamed. though right were worst!
ed. wrong would triumph,
Held we fall to rise, are bafied to fight
better, !
Sleep to wake. Browning.
Patience. humility and utter forgetfull
ness Of self are the true royal qualities:
Thomas Hughes.