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OHUROH GROWTH THOUGH PEACE'
It is the design of the gospel to
renovate and reform mankind ; and
those who become the subjects of its
influence it “purges from their old
sins.” It transforms by the renewal
of the mind in the divine image, and
conducts the feet, no longer reluc
tant to follow Christ, into all the
paths of a sincere and impartial rigliti
ousness. It purifies the affections,
softens the disposition, controls the
temper, gives a tractable will, renders
the deportment affectionate and gen
tle, inspires benevolence and truth
fulness, in fine, adorns the life with
every form of social virtue, as truly
as it adorns the heart with every
form of spiritual grace.
Clothe men with these beauties of
the soul, and send them forth to
walk up and down in the midst of a
‘‘croked and perverse generation”—
a fallen race. Let their graces be
contrasted, in the light of every day
life, with the selfishness, pride?
malice, impatience, envy, suspicion,
falsehood and treachery of the na
tural mind—the mind subject to the
sway of man’s depraverty. Will not
their superiority be manifest even to
blind prejudice ? Will it not be im
possible to conceal the excellencies
of a character raised to such a height
above all the attainments of a nature
destitute of regeneration ? They
may fall short of the ideal of perfec
tion, when held up before the mirror
of divine law in its infinite holiness ?
but when placed side by side with
outbreaking corruptions of human
society they will be accounted (in
apostolic phrase) “blameless and
harmless.” And, despite their ex
posure now and then to the hatred
with which sin always regards holi
ness, they must pass the ordeal of
general public sentiment “without
rebuke.” In fact, so clear is their
title to confidence and to honor that
the apostle docs what would bo de
cided in us “the extravagance of
poetry” or “the wildness of fanati
cism,” be exhorts them to shine
among men “as the heavenly lights,”
to be, each in his own measure and
in his own sphere, as the sun which
floods the day with his dazzling glo
ry, or as the moon which shades her
milder lovelier lustre in the night.
It is obvious what influence these
moral and spiritual excellencies must
put forth on those who take know
ledge of them. Qualities so diverse
from the tendencies and operations
of our apostate nature, must excite
inquiry after the unique and wonder
ful cause which gives them being.
Traced back to that cause, as pure
streams to their purer fountain, they
are found to flow out of the gospel;
and the admiration K which they had
awakened is transferred to it. Thus,
by the moral power of example they
prepare the way and make straight
the paths for the intellectual power
of truth and the spiritual power of
gracious influence. With this three
fold cord of persuasion what multi
tudes may not bo drawn unto the
kingdom of Christ I This is the door
through which most of us enter it
—the door opened by those who arc
in Christ before us, and who win us
by what they are to the hopo that
we may be like them as they arc like
their Lord. Hence, it is by their
character and life, their purity and
union, their love and peace, that
Christians are represented, not only
as holding, fast, but as “holding forth
the word of life.” And this is their
shining as the heavenly lights—this
shining of Christ’s truth and Christ’s
spirit in them.
In the light of these statements,
is apparent how the right arm of
their power may bo palsied and hang
helplessly by their side. Let their
moral and spiritual excellencies bo
sacrificed ; let but this be done, and
though they hold in their grasp firm
ly every other clement of prosperity,
the time will surely and swiftly come
when we shall need to write upon
their doorposts,“lchabod,”— the glory
the true, the whole glory is depart
ed 1 The works of Christian piety
and Christian reputation block the
stream of Christian progress, and
changes it to a stagnant marsh breed
ing disaster, decay and disease.
But of the excellencies, what char,
actcristic occupies a more distinguish
ed position in the regard of man
kind, or wields a more potent in
fluence over the welfare of mankind,
than the love of Christians for each
other and their consequent peace
with each other ? This is first. The
whole world concurs in the expecta
tion that good men by virtue of their
goodness will agree; and where that
is not the case there is a distinct and
distasteful disappointment the
shock [of missing something which
w as reasonably looked for and wrong
fully and shamefully kept back. So,
in popular opinion there can be no
darker blot on the piety of a people
than the spirit of murmuring and
disputing ; for want of peace is want
of love, and want of love is want of
power with both God and man.
There is nothing which in the judg
ment of those around us more cer
tainly and more swiftly drags us
down to their own level, and chains
us there, like Prometheus to his
rock, while the vultures of contempt
and scorn prey on the vital of our
Christian name, vitals, alas, not ever
growing, like his, when rent and torn
by beak and talon. If a church un
fortunately declines into this low (we
had almost written lost) estate, the
days of her usefulness is numbered;
she has lost the confidence of men
and can never regain it—never un
til she recovers from so fearful an
apostasy—never until a long repent
ance and a new wealth of charity
washes so vile a stain away. If she
would be new again to our souls,
this Achan must be led forth from
the camp, and stoned with the whole
household of its kindred wrongs,
and burned with every part and par
ticle of its belongings and gaining s.
She must seek the peace which can
come only through love, because
growth come on through peace, that
peace.
”THE CENTENARY OF MISSIONS.”
In this year of grace 1892, we are
professedly celebrating the “Cente
nary of Missions.” The basis for
the celebration is that in 1792 Wil
liam Carey and his co-laborers or
ganized the “Baptist Society for
Propagating the Gospel amongst the
Heathen.” All the world has heard
the story of that gathering in Ket
rering, England ; or if it has not,
it is not bcause we Baptists have not
beasted of it loudly enough. How
many of our missionary orators
at these “centennial celebrities”
have proudly proclaimed that we
Baptists originated the grand mod
ern foreign missionary enterprise !
Wo should reverently praise God
for what humble part he has per
mitted our denomination to have in
this enterprise, but the time has
come to call a halt to the boasting.
The facts of history do not bear it
out.
Evon among English Christians
we cannot claim to be the pioneers
in mission work. In 1701 the En
glish Church organized the “Society
for the Propagation of the Gospel
in Foreign Parts,” and ever since,
that society has been more or less
actively prosecuting its mission. It
has been said that this society con
templated only the preaching of the
Gospel to English colonists in for
eign parts ; but careful study will
show that neither in design nor
work was its purpose so circumscrib
ed. On the contrary frequently it
endeavored to reach the Indians and
other heathen with whom the colo
nists came in contact. Then, too, it
is unquestionable that the Pur
itans who camo to New England
made efforts to convert the Indians.
The charter granted by Charles I. to
the Massachusetts Company in 1628
expressed the hope that “the colony
would win the natives of the coun
try to the knowledge and obedience
of the true God and Savior of man
kind.” The colonial seal bore the
impression of an Indian with a label
in his mouth bearing the words,
‘Come over and help us.” Every
body has heard of Eliot’s Indian Bi
ble, perhaps the first attempt of En
glish speaking Christians to trans
late the Bible into a heathen tongue.
This pious man in 1640 devoted bis
life to missionary labor among the
Indians.
Among German Christians the
name of Count Zinzendorf is justly
honored for his missionary zeal. He
began his great work in 1731, and
by his efforts many men were sent
forth to labor for the salvation of
the heathen in Greenland, the West
Indies and other parts, Some of
these missionaries were sent to Af
rica, where they preached to the na
tives in Guinea and other sections of
the dark continent. His biographer
says that “the salvation of the hea
then lay, day and night, upon the
heart of Zinzendorf.” Thus began
that most consecrated of all mission
ary bodies, the Moravians. In 1882,
not the “centenary,” but the one
hundred and fiftieth anniversary
of Moravian missions was celebrated
appropriately at Herunhut, and in
the Moravian churches of Germany
and the United States,
The charter of the East India
Company, as grunted by William in
1698, and renewed by Anne in 1702?
THE CHRISTIAN INDEX: THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 10. 1892.
stipulated that there should be a
minister at every military station
and factory, and “that he should
learn the native language, and de
vote some oi his time to the instruc
tion of the natives in the Christian
religion.” True this was not mis
sionary w’ork distinctively, but it
shows that the idea of saving the
heathen by the preaching of the Gos
pel, had taken hold of English Chris*
tian hearts before William Carey.
The Roman Catholics certainly
have been pressing then- missionary
work among the heathen for several
centenaries. In the sixteenth centu
ry their priests had penetrated to
the interior of China and Japan and
elsewhere, where they established
churches of their faith which have
continued to this day.
These are some of the historic
facts which dispute our boast of hav
ing inaugurated foreign missions.
This much may be justly claimed
for Carey and his Kettering col
leagues : they unquestionably quick
ened the slumbering conscience of
English-speaking Christians in re
gard to the importance of the work,
and the solemnity of their responsi
bility in the matter. God has great
ly blessed our denomination in this
department of work for the Master
and llis kingdom. His smile has
rested upon our efforts, and no de
nomination has more cause for grate
fully saying, “hitheito hath the Lord
helped us.” In the Baptist Year
Book for 1892, is a table giving the
statistics of “foreign missions of
American evangelical churches, ex
clusive of Protestant Europe.” From
that table we gather these figures :
The Baptist Missionary Union (the
Boston Board) has 744 churches,
1390 stations, 378 American mission
aries, and 90,225 communicants in
its mission churches, of whom 9,752
were baptized last year. The South
ern Baptist Convention has 74
churches, 209 stations, 97 American
missionaries, and 4,577 members in
its mission churches. Baptized last
year 501. From the same table we
learn that the Northern Methodists
have 35,207 and the Southern Meth
odists 5,033 members among the
heathen. The Presbyterian (North)
have 28,494, and the Presbyterian
(South) 2,072 members. Altogeth
er the American denominations re
port in their mission churches
255,075 members. Os this number
the Baptists of all sorts have 96,778.
These various American denomina
tions gave to foreign mission •work
last year the sum of $4,584,179, of
which amount the several Baptist
boards received $625,737.
Shall onr centenary celebrations
pass without realizing our hope ?
The Southern Baptist Convention
purposed to raise this year for mis
sions a half million dollars. Is the
aim too high ? Surely not if our
brethren will pray and then give as
God has prospered them. The
350,000 English Baptists have al- )
ready raised their half million. ’
Shall the 1,250,000 Southern white
Baptists do less ?
In the November of the Baptist
Teacher, issued by the American
Baptist Publication Society, we find
the following editorial paragraphs.
Certainly we who have our home in
this dear Southland appreciate senti
ments concerning our noble people
so true and so just.
“Our brethren of the South have a
race problem on their hands of the
greatest gravity. Our brethren of
the North have a dozen race prob
lems instead of one, with which to
grapple; our brethren of the South
have this immense advantage, which
none of us perhaps now fully realize.
They all believe in the old flag and
loyally rally ardund it.
“One of the most thrilling inci
dents of the mighty meeting of the
Young People's Baptist Union of
America at Detroit, was when on
the occasion of the presentation of
banners by the several states, the
State of Georgia, having none of its j
own on account of its being yet un- 1
organized for the work, was most
worthily represented by Rev. Dr.
Lansing Burrows, who, with dram
atic effect, caught up a United
States flag, and with fervid eloquence
presented it in the name of Georgia.
Never was there a liner exhibition
of the combined beauty and strength
of piety and patriotism.” »
O God, to be always begging and
never thanking, and yet to call this
prayer, what a gross offence it must
needs be in thy sight! Lift thou us
to the higher plane, where wo shall
thank as well as beg and thank more
than we beg. Will not thanking
serve better to reach thy heart and
open thy hand than the mere beg
ging over did or could ? And let us
thank thee for the privilege of
thanking, the privilege of angels and
of the spirits of just men made per
feet brought down from heaven to
earth.
The editors of the Homiletic Re
view are “acquainted with not a few
ministers of the gospel who absolute
ly refuse to repeat an old sermon,
even on a strange pulpit,” because
“they hold that a sermon once preach
ed has accomplished its mission for
ever.” This is absurd, to a painful
degree. On the contrary, we main
tain that a sermon preached but once
is a sermon arrested in the making.
A man has never the best opportuni
ty to make a sermon, without the
privilege of preaching it several
times to help him. ■ The class of ser
mons most likely to have no missions
to be accomplished, or to have at
least no accomplished mission, is this
class of unrepeated sermons. A ser
mon really cannot die with one
preaching; its very vitality will make
it say itself over again, and in a
fresher, more natural way, if occa
sion offers. Not that this repetition
is easy; if it were easier there would
be more of it; there is often less
difficulty in making a new sermon
than in putting preaching life into
an old one; and, many times, there
fore it is the sloth of man which
throws the old aside for the new.
This means less thorough prepara
tion ; means less theological precis
ion, mean less unction, means less
pulpit power ; means, more and more
sermons less fit to be preached even
once; means fewer and still fewer
thoughtful people, year by year, car
ing to hear the ministers of whom
these editors speak.
A question here, by the by. Can
a Harmony of the Gospel be con
structed which will not show that
Christ repeated his discourses? And
is it even safe not to follow in his
steps?
Do mortals love to pose as pro
phets of evil to their fellows? It
would seem so. A few years ago we
were told in all the scentific journals
that mankind were rapidly growing
bald, and that by and by only gener
ations without hair would walk the
earth. Next there came a host of
seers who in the injury wrought on
the eyes of the young by our public
schools recognized by the sure token
of a time when blindness should b e
the rule and vision the exception
among men and women. And now
a prominent dental authority, Sir
James Crichton Browne, paints a pic
ture of toothlessness as laid up in
store for the coming sons and daugh
ters of England. Why do not these
gloomy forboders strike hands and
take their stand together on the
position that it is the destiny of man
to civilize himself out of existence,
and that the path of culture is the
world’s appointed path to a solitude
without inhabitant? If they hesi
tate to assume ground of such gross
and palpable absurdity, perhaps they
will suffer us to retain enough of the
old-fashioned trust in Providence, to
believe that God, who preserves the
senses and organs of the body to the
lower animal tribes without the cul
ture and the civilization, will in some
way make our hold upon them cer
tain in spite of these things—even if
these things are as fraught with mis
chief as they are ever and anon said
to be.
A correspondent of the Presbyter
ian Observer gives the experience of
Rev. Dr. Cooper, Detroit, .Michigan,
with a burglar a few days ago.
“A young man called at his door
with a request to see the doctor
alone. He was shown into his study
and closing the door behind him,
and bracing himself against it, he
coolly pointed a pistol within two
feet of the doctor’s head, who had
risen from the desk to receive the
caller. The burglar warned him
not to make an alarm under peril of
his life, and demanded his money
and his valuables. With great pres
ence of mind, seizing a favorable
moment, when the man’s attention
seemed to be diverted by some noise
outside the house, the doctor, who is
a strong, athletic man, sprang upon
his assailant and pinioned him to
the floor, and called for help. His
brother-in-law in the adjoining room
rushed to his assistance, and in the
grasp of the two the man was held
securely until the police came and
marched him off to the lock-up,
where he now remains awaiting his
trial.”
The young man has been identi
fied as a member of a very respecta
ble family, living not far from Dr.
Cooper’s residence.
Coolness and courage, in emergen
cies, are rare qualities, but backed
by physical ability, would put many
a scopndrel where that “respectable
young man” now is,—behind the
bars.
Here is what may prove an open
door to a new form of ill-beseeming
rivalry between churches and minis
ters. We have long been accustomed
to certificates in favor of patent med-
’cines from divines of every denomi
nation and of every degree. But it is
a quite recent thing that one of the
Western churches confronts the pub
lic with a certificate of its own in
that line. Is this thing to grow, un
til, for example, rival remedies for
dyspepsia shall dispute the patron
age of afflicted stomachs, the one
with the certificate of a popular
Methodist Doctor of Divinity, and
the other with the certificate of a
wealthy and influential Presbyterian
Church ? We hope not. Let the
churches keep out of the business,
and let ministers get out of it.
Toward the close of the year 1800?
Carey said, “Yesterday was a day of
great joy. I had the happiness to
desecrate the Ganges by baptizing
the first Hindoo! His name is
Krishna-Pal. I also baptized my son
Felix.”
This was the beginning. Behold
the amazing progress of the work in
the bands of a self-denying consecra
ted Christian, who has a fixed pur
pose, a definite plan, and who
steadily pursues it in the face, of
what seemed to many, insuperable
physical obstacles, and the discour
aging comments of unbelieving co
temporaries.
“The Bible was translated into
over thirty dialects, rendering it
accessible to one third of the human
race, and as a result of his preaching
he saw, before his death, twenty-six
gospel churches planted in India,
within an area of about 800 miles,
and about forty laboring brethren
raised upon the spot amid them. As
he lay dying, he spoke of God’s great
goodness to him in his work, and
said, “I have not a wish left unsatis
fied.”
This was the man who when he
asked if “the churches of Christ had
done -all they ought to have done for
the salvation of the heathen nations,’’
was sternly rebuked by an older
minister who said, “Sit down young
man. When God wishes to convert
the heathen world He will do so
without your help or mine.”
Nothing daunted, he held firmly
on his way, until he waked up the
sleeping churches of England by his.
memorable sermon preached at Not
tingham, in the year 1792, in which
he uttered the tw’o thoughts, “Ex
pect great things of God; attempt
great things for God.”
These were the key notes to
which his whole life was turned,
llis attempts were great, because
his expectations were great. Os
God, and for God, constituted the
inspiration, amd purpose of his life.
He died saying, “I have not a
wish left unsatisfied.” God was
faithful who had promised.
The leading members of the fac
ulty of the Chicago University are
said to appear in “black gowns.”
The titles “Prof, and Dr.,” are drop
ped, and all the members of the
faculty from the Pres, down are ad
dressed as Mr.
Mr. Stagg, instructor in “physical
culture” has informed the young
men that they must all take part in
foot ball.
Dropping the titles may be well
enough, but putting on the black
gowns is a piece of ostentatious pro
fessional foolishness.
Perhaps, as a contrast, and to give
light as well as shade to the mourn
ful picture, it may be well for those
members of the faculty who follow
to put on white gowns.
But gowns, or no gowns, titles, or
no titles, we notice, according to Mr.
Stagg, that the culture extends from
head to foot.
It is said there is in England a
woman’s tombstone, on which the
epitaph is written in shorthand. If
she was a good woman, “a mother
in Israel,” “a daughter of the King,”
we are not surprised that recourse
was had to shorthand in setting forth
her excellencies, since no ordinary
tombstone is of sufficient size to
contain all these excellencies if re
corded without abbreviations or
symbols, in words of full length.
But by the time that Macaulay’s
New Zealander stands musing and
moralizing amid the ruins of London
what a puzzle that inscription will
prove to astute antiquaries.
The Baptist and Reflector has a
well deserved word of ridicule for
the prevailing “society craze:”
The alphabet craze has well nigh
exhausted the twenty-six letters.
The ,B. Y. P. U. A., and the Y’. M. C.
A., the W. C. T. U., and Y. P. S. C.
E. have been before the public for
some time. Now a new claimant
for recognition appears in the O. P.
8. R. J. C. P., w hich being interpre
ted is: “The Old People’s Society
for the Regulation of Juvenile Chris
tian Precocity.”
THE BAPTIST ORPHAN'S HOME.
“The friends of the Baptist Or
phanage in Virginia are gratified to
observe the general interest which
our Sunday Schools are taking in
the orphanage work. More than a
year ago, the Grace Street Sunday
School of Richmond decided to give
one month of its collections to this
good object.”—The Baptist Balti
more.
Is there not a hint in this para
graph which the Sunday Schools of
Atlanta, and of the whole state,
might take ? The Baptist Orphan’s
Home in Atlanta is sustained almost
entirely by voluntary contributions.
A portion of the money contributed
by our Sunday Schools to charitable
purposes, could not be more worthily
I bestowed, or do more good, than to
{be given to the Orphans’ Home. If
given regularly, at stated intervals,
say once a month, it would put the
support of the institution on a sure
basis. Will not superintendents,
teachers and pastors take this hint,
and act on it ?
“The great forces of civilization
are all working in favor of combina
tion, co-operation, organization, cen
tralization. The churches could not
resist this powerful tendency' of the
times, even if they tried. The very
stars in their course are fighting
against existing sectarianism and de
nominational competition. Carlyle
somewhere describes the insight of
genius as a “co-operation with the
real tendency of the world.” Those
who are seeking to bring the frag
ments of the dismembered Church
of Christ into closer relations, and
finally into -organic union, may be
said to possess this insight, and may
see their triumph from afar.—Dr Jo
siah Strong.
“Finally into organic union.” “See
their triumph from afar.”
If Dr. Strong means the organic
union of churches of “the same faith
and order,” those who are seeking
it within that sphere may “see their .
triumph from afar,” yes, from very
far.
But if he means “organic union”
of denominations differing in faith
and order, the triumph will be so
far off that an ecclesiastical telescope
equal in power to that of the Lick
Observatory sweeping the field will
prove it to be beyond the range of
vision.
A touching incident occurred at
the* annual meeting of the Pastors,
College, London. Just at the con
clusion of one of the addresses, Mr.
Spurgeon, father of the late C. 11.
Spurgeon, and who is eighty-two
years of age, entered the lecture hall,
accompanied by one of bis daughters
and Mrs. James Spurgeon. As the
aged man walked up the hall the
whole assembly rose, and in subdued
tones sang, “Abfde with me, fast
falls the eventide.” The prayer of
the father of the great preacher,
mingled as it was with flowing tears,
touched every heart as he prayed :
“We mourn his loss for thou didst
make him of great use in this world-
Bless the widow and the sons. Sanc
tify our bereavements. Soon we
must follow. We know thou wilt
never leave those who put their trust
in thee.”—N. Y. Observer.
Thomas Cooper, the Chartist poet,
died a short time since, at the age
of eighty-seven. It is supposed that
he suggested to Kingsley the charac
ter of “Alton Locke,” in the great
novel of that name. Cooper, when
a boy, was apprenticed to a cobbler,
and rose at three or four o’clock
every morning in order to study.
At twenty-three he knew Greek,
Latin, Hebrew, French, and mathe
matics, and had besides a fine gener
al knowledge. At what a cost all
this was acquired, however, the fol
lowing note left by him shows: “I
not unfrequently swooned away and
fell along the floor when I tried to
take my cup of oatmeal gruel at the
end of the day’s labor. Next morn
ing, of course, I was not able to rise
at an early hour; and then the next
day's study had to be stinted. I
needed better food than we could
afford to buy, and often had to con
tend with the sense of faintness
while I still plodded on with my
double task of mind and body.”
Rev. Wm. Brenton Greene, Jr., D.
D. has been elected Professor of
Apologetics in Princeton Theolog.
ical Seminary. He has been pastor
of the Tenth Presbyterian Church
in Philadelphia for several years.
He is regarded as “sound in the
faith,” and well qualified for the
position to which he has been called.
Rev. Thos. Spurgeon has set out
on his return to New Zealand. He
had become very popular with the
Tabernacle congregation, and the
farewell was marked by much affec
tion.
A telegram to the Baptist Courier,
Greenville, S. C., says that the Wai.
nut St. Church, Louisville, Ky. raised
over S7OOO for the Centennial Fund
on Sunday, Oct. 30th. Well done! The
spirit of liberality is catching and
spreading. News like the above is
inspiring. We believe that May,
1893 will find the plans and expec
tations of Southern Baptists glo
riously realized. Then there will be
thanksgiving, and rejoicing.
The Foreign Mission Journal ack
nowledges receipts from September
15th to October 15th as follows:
From South Carolina, $1,445.32;
previously reported $2,200.75; total
this year $3,646.07. Received from
all the States $13,855.70; previously
reported S2O, 402.98; total this year,
$34,258.68. Georgia, Kentucky, and
Virginia only reported larger sums
than South Carolina.
Rev. Jos. Hiden, son of Dr. J. C.
Hiden, has been forced to give up
his work in Ala. He is, at present,
with his father, in Richmond, Va,
He is represented as an earnest, con.
scientious, hard working preacher
and pastor.
MUSIC AT OHUROH.
A lady who had been instrumen
tal in getting up musical services in
a church in the north of Scotland
was very anxious that an old nurse
of the family—a Presbyterian of the
old school—should have an opportu
nity of hearing them. Accordingly
she very kindly took her down to
church in her carriage, and on re
turning asked her what she thought
of the music. “Ou, it’s varra bonny,
varra bonny. But, oh, my leddie,
its an awfti’ way o’ spendin’ the Sab
bath”—Scottish American
Just so. Much of the music heard
at church on Sabbath, is better suit
ed to the Concert Hall or Opera
House than to the House of God.
Calvary Church, Kansas city. Mo.
has already contributed SI2OO to
the Centennial Fund, and will in
crease it.
Liberty, Mo., gave SIOOO, and the
students added S4OO more.
Princeton, W. Va., has raised SBSO
for the same fund.
Walnut St. Church, Louisville,
Ky., has raised S7OOO, and it is be
lieved that Broadway Church, will
do as much. McFerran Memorial,
and Twenty-second and Walnut
Churches have each given $l,lOO.
It is not improbable that the Louis
ville churches, will go to $20,000.
Rev. Charles Ferguson who was
rector of St. James Episcopal church,
Syracuse, N. Yk., has resigned and
will go to Boston and engage in
work with Rev. Mr. Bliss, of the
Brotherhood of the Carpenter. He
proposes to support himself by work
ing at the bench, and to continue to
preach the gospel.
He says the ministry “has capitu
lated to the world for the sake of
supplies.” There goes another min
isterial crank.
Recent reports from China indi
cate immense dammage to life and
property by the overflow of the Yel
low River. The district overflowed
is 150 miles long by 30 wide. A
number of towns along the banks of
the river are said to have been
washed away. Fifty thousand lives
are reported lost.
It '
Clifford. Hlackman
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