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THE SOUTHERN WORLD, OCTOBER 15, 1882.
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CHURCH GOSSIP.
Cardinal Manning has warned English Ro
man Catholics against the Salvation Army.
Somebody has discovered that cats are no
where mentioned in the Bible.
Special religions services for policemen are
held in Manchester, England.
The total amount contributed annually for
the support of religion in the United States
is $47,635,406.
“Alas! that somany people look upon reli
gion simply as a fire-escape!” exclaims a
Southern preacher.
The property owned by the Young Men's
Christian Associations in the United States
and Canada is valued at $3,330,000. Their
annual expenditures aggregate $500,000.
The United Presbyterian Synod, in session
at Saratoga last week, initiated measures to
raise $500,000 in honor of the quarter-centen
nial of the organization, which will be cele
brated next year.
During the past century the population of
the United States increased eleven fold and
its churches thirty-seven fold. A hundred
years ago there was one church to every 1,700
inhabitants; now there is one for every 529.
Dean Burgeon, preaching from the Cam
bridge University pulpit, recently said:
“ For my part, I am quite content to seek my
ancestors in the garden called Eden; let
others, if they choose, look for theirs in the
garden called Zoological.”
“ What salary do de Lord call you from,
Mars’r?” asked a clergyman’s colored ser
vant “ I get a thousand dollars here,” said
the clergyman, meekly. “ An’ how much
de Lord call you to 7” wasthe next question.
“ I expect $3,000,” was the reply. “ Mars’r,”
said the servant, solemnly, “when de Lord
call you back from t'ree thousan’ to one
thousan’, I spec he hurt his voice before you
come."
The Chicago Inter-Ocean, commenting on a
recent sermon in which such expressions as
the “primordial fire-mist,” “ uncommeasur-
able eternities,” “ redemption-conditioned
creation,” and “ internal self-determination
impaled upon the sharp retribution of an
overmastering omnipotence,” occurred, says;
“Imagine the sermon on the mount trans
lated into this kind of English, or the para
ble of the prodigal son jammed full of jaw
twisting words like a boom full of logs in
high water.”
The total issue of Bibles by the American
Bible Society, for the last year, amounted to
1,524,773 copies. The copies for the blind
numbered 507. During the thirty-six years
of the Society's existence it has issued 40,408,-
584 copies.
The Rev. W. P. Harrison, the Southern
Methodist Book Editor, has forty-seven ver
sions of the Bible in his library, and has
given them years of careful study.
Ninety years ago the first English mission
ary offerred himself, and now the whole
number of evangelical foreign missionaries
is 5,000, and they are leaders of a native host
of 30,000 helpers of all kinds.
Among the Presbyterians the proportion
of Doctors to non-Doctors is 11'A, and among
the Episcopalians 1 to 6X. No fear is ex
pressed that the letters D.D. will become
without significance, but the same assurance
is not felt in regard to the degree of LL. D.
Dominie Stimson'* Wit.
Yesterday’s meeting of the Baptist minis
ters was opened by prayer by Father Stim-
son of Kansas. Father Stimson is 80 years
old, and has preached for fifty years. Stories
are told of him in which those who expected
to raise a laugh at the old Dominie found
the tables turned against themselves in the
most unexpected manner. One runs as fol
lows:
Father Stimson owned a good horse, but
the keeping of the beast was somewhat of a
drain on the Dominie’s pocket, and he was in
the habit of dropping a hint to his parish
ioners once in a while that a little hay would
be acceptable. One day a church-member
asked him to bring Mrs. Stimson to dinner.
“ Certainly." said Father Stimson, “and,
os it’s baying time, I guess I’ll put some hay
on the wagon when I go back home.”
“ All right, Father,” replied the church-
member, "but bring a one-horse wagon.”
Father Stimson took his wife to dinner
in a wagon with an ample hayrick that would
hold a haystack.
“ See here,” said the parishioner, as he
helped Mrs. Stimson out of the hayrick,
“you said you were going to bring a'one-
horse wagon, and now you’ve appeared with
the most capacious hay apparatus I ever
saw."
“Oh, I’ve brought the one-horse wagon,"
said Father Stimson, “but the hayrick—
that’s a two-horse hayrick."
He drove away after dinner with 2,200
pounds of hay.
Father Stimson was the first to use gospel
tents in the West. He put them up himself.
A fellow who passed him one morning as he
was hard at work on his tent called to him
in a loud voice:
“Hullo there! Are you going tohnve a
circus 7”
" Yes,” said the preacher, continuing his
work without looking up, “ and I’m looking
for a baboon. Don’t you want to hire your
self to me?”
The preacher was Chaplain in the Ninth
New York Cavalry in the war. The Colonel
was fond of leading the soldiers through deep
puddles at the regular drill, and the Chap
lain one day rode around the puddle, and
thereby fell out of the regular order. The
Colonel noticed it, and at the close of the
drill, when the officers came together, said
with a sneer:
" If Capt. Stimson is afraid to ride through
muddy water for fear of soiling his clothing,
1 will carry him across the puddles myself."
“Thank you,” the Chaplain said, “but as
the Government provides horses, I don’t sec
any reason why I should ride on a jackass.”
This is the Boston//eiaid’s plan: People
who think the waltz immoral will be inter
ested to hear that a patent, irreproachable
waltzer has been invented. It consists of a
stout frame of light wood, five feet in height
and remotely resembling an old fashion kite
frame. At the top of the frame is a padded
rest fora lady’s hand, and at about the mid
dle of the frame is a jointed arm, capable of
being placed around a young lady’s waist,
and securely fastened in that position with a
thumb screw. The frame has two feet fur
nished with casters, each one of which has
a universal joint, so that it can turn freely
in any direction. The whole affair Weighs
only five pounds, and is made to fold to
gether, so that a lady can carry it in her
hand, either with or without a shawl strap.
A society girl, however, would consider it a
poor substitute for a young man.
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of their acquaintances, will receive ny return me
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VIOLIN BOW, BOOK OF INSTRUCTION
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