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RELIGIOUS NEWS The Seemless Coat of Jesus Christ-Which of two? ACHRiST’ANXITIZENSHiP Movement to Inaugerate a po litical Party of That Kind. The Ideal Minister,Mis sionary Steamer to be Equipped A SEAMLESS COAT OF CHRIST. The- Catholic church at Argen touil, a lit tic village near Paris, boasts <4' being the possessor of a seanL coat or gaom:.., the very one worn byour Lord while on earth. Treves, is a town in Rhenish Prussia, disputes this possession, claiming itself to have the sacred tunic. 11 is preserved with great car ■ in a sealed cave, and only once in fifty years can it he seen, when the seals are broken and the .walls tor down for a period of six weeks. The relic at Treves is a garment .which draped the shoulders and fell to the feet. It was not a work mins dress, such as Christ mu-t have worn, and, besides it is not SUIMII loss. The garment possessed by the • Church at Argentuell is without a seam and made of camel’s hair. It is one and a half yards long and a yard a.id a quarter wide. It is sim iliar to the dress worn today by the Judean Peasant, and that is precisely what Christ wore. Avery precious document at the church in Argenteuil, called Charta Hug mis, and dated 1156, declares that Christ's vestment was “offered for the veneration of the faithful, and from the most ancient times had ooen kept in this monastery. Many proofs are offered to show (hat the garment is authentic, and a critical chemical analysis proves cefVtoA *iftTge spots on the tunic to be blood. FOREIGN IMPRESSION oF AMERICAN CHURCHES Ihfc Chiistiau Lead -t, „of Glas gow, recen iy published some in terest.'ng immersions t f a Scotch ’pastor guim d from a tour tn this country Among other things he said : Amercan cl. urctn s 'seem to aim at greater varity aid brigh - uess in their services than Seut- A.ish ones. It is in away pleasanter to go ■to chutv'i in America than h< n , ’Lieiois more sunshine in the build r iug; tin re is more musie;the mm . ste.’ j.> ■ i u > s >-nn to be carrying ■suoti tkuidmi, uor letting the pen i.eL-.d Li., weight -ofit -to music, .Nc: mat i always liked th- mu sic. It strikes h strauger sometimes •a,* rather professional lor the occa sion, and a solo which is not an inspire idem is very apt to be ait as- U iclion,” c IRISTIAM CITIZENSHIP, ’A call is being circulated in Uli- * wi* >G»r aSt de riass-meet’ng to, lie held at ..Chicago for the purpose >f organizing a good .citizensnip political party. 1 The Christian Endeavor Society of the movement, ’lacked by its 45,000 members. ■Th Epworth League, with 30,- 000 members, and the Baptist Young People's Society, with about KiqQOO, have joined their forces. The platform of the new party will be to have men independent in I .politic* who are willing to fight every sa oon man that may be nominated on any regular ticket. It.is believed that, the party will either overwhelm or absorb the P<jhihition party, and it is not - loulited that the Catholic Church, with all its societies, will unite with the Protesfanf 3 on this qUeS tj O 1, THE IDEAL MINISSER, Not the least among the inter esting departments of that bright paper, Lie Golden Rule, is the “Open Parliament,” which has ap peared weekly, but which hereafter t0.1>.“ a monthly feature. lit objex-t is the discussion <f an idea and wish to express it. One of the most useful Parliaments yet is that in the issue preceding J the current number: “The Kind of Minister I Like Best.” It might well be recommended to all clergymen. Pastors who are racking their brains for new meth ods to interest and hold the peo ple: ministers who would be suc cessful church workers, who strive : for .sociability, progressiveness and I other necessary qualifications to perfection, could not do better than to study the suggestions em bodied in some hundred para, graphs bv so many differen twin tors A MISSIONARY SCHEME. The London Missionary Society proposes to carry out an idea that should result m great good A steamer is to be fitted up for evan gelical work in the South Seas,and the young people have been asked to pay tor it as a centenary offer -1 The cost will be about sß‘ooo, The steamer fa to be ISO feet long and will carry twelve European missionary workers and thirty na live teachers It will cover a route of 18,000 miles. Electricity will be used for lightning and the speed is placed at ten knots an hour She will also be supplied with sails tor an emergency. The heat of the tropics is so un bearable thbt the cabin will be on the deck This ship is to be named John Williams, in honor of the great missionary to the South Seas and is the fourth vessel to bear his name. PBIEF NOTES During the pusc year the Mir mon Church his seat out 400 missionaries to all parts of the world. Methodism in lowa c lebrated its semi-centennial a week or more ag > at. Cedar Rapids. The denom ination was represented from all parts of the State and numbers 120.000 members. The collections in England on Hospital Sunday amounted to $209, 000. The Cumberland Presbyterian Church reports 184,138 cants, The additions m member ship were 16.818. There are 2,881 c .mgregations, 1,708 ministers and 266 liceutlates- Two dimes as almissiou to a NewYoik Method's!, church enter tainmeni to see the holy bonds of matrimony burlesqued by a squad ot callow girls and boys! I’he religi ous press rightly trounced those responssble for thus cheapening marriage. “Father Endeavor” Clark orig in tor and President of the United Society of Christian Endeavor.has gone to Bremen on a flying trip in search of needed rest. True to his progressive and restless spirit. he will seek to introduce the Endea vor movement in Germany, Den mark and Scandinavia,almost the oulv countries that have not al ready welcomed this advance movement. RELIGIOUS NOTES. The Rev. Mr. Fischer, pistor of the American Methodist Episcopal Church in Rome, has become a Catholic, and has-been duly bap tised in that faith. Rev. George K. Morris,, D. D., formerly of Philadelphia and at present pastor of St. Paul’s M. E_ Church, Cincinnati, has elect ed to the chair of practical theolo gy in the School of Theology, Uni versity. The London Missionary Society celebrates, this year its centenary. The society finds itself in debt about $150,000, and needs an in crease of SIOO,OOO in its yearly in come. An effort has begun to raise a centenary fund. —Presbyterian Observer. It is sometime said that the doc trine of future retribution has been banished from the preaching of to day. We do not believe this is true. The doctrine is stated in dif ferent terms from those of forty years ago. It is less prominent in modern preaching. It is the back ground against which the gospel of salvation is preached, firmly held by many preachers who sel dom distinctly avow it.—The Con gregationalist. THE HUSTLER OF ROME, SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 30 1894 People’s Society of Christian Eu I deavor has been the most iemarkab!e ■ of all in point ot growth. The average increase for the last four years ha j bten ( vt r 300,000 members per year, and over 5 000 socities. The increase during 1893—94 has been still larger. The facts aae noted.not for the sake of hoisting concerning a man or Jan organization, but as a sober and in spiring fact to all who are interested in the great movement.- New lurk Observer. According to the recent statis tics there are now in Japan 613 Christian missionaries, 377 church es (of which 73 are self-support nig) and 37,400 church members, of whom 3,636 were added during the last year. Th< re a1507,393 pu pils in Christian schools, and 27,- 000 Sunday school scholars. Then? arc 286 native ministers, 257 the ological students and 665 unor dained preachers and helpers. The sum contributed by the native Japanese Christians is given as 62,400 yen, or $40,000. SEED THOUGHTS. There mny be times when you cannot find help bnt. there is no time when you cannot give help— G, 8. Merriam There is no tit search after truth which does not first of all begin to live the truth which it knows, — Bushnell. Nothing is so 'strong as gentle ness; nothing so gentle as real strength.—Francis de Sales. Man cannot be saved by perfect obedience,for he cannot render it; he cannot be saved by imperfect obedience, for God will not accept it. —Sabbath Outlook. THE SEVEN BIBLES OF THE WORLD The question is often asked whether there is any Bible besides the Christian Bible. '1 here aie seven. Each faith believes its own to be the Word o> Gu<l. They ai'H the Holy Scriptures, the Koran of the Mahometans the Tu Pit ikes of the Buddhists, the Five .Kings of the Chinese the Three Vedas of the! Hindus, the Gcmdaveeta of the i Persians, the Eddas of the Scan dinavians. The Eddas is a eemi-sa-’ cred work and was boru in the fourteenth century. The most re cent of the real Bibles is the Ko ran, which is a collection of saying from the Christian Scriptures and the Talmud and dates from the seventh century after Christ,. The Vedas are the most ancient of Hindu liter ture although th fe commentators do not ascribe them to an earlier, period than the twelfth century before Christ. The j Pentateuch was written by Moses ' 1,500 years before Christ so that ; tbe Christian Bible antedates-the I oldest of its rivals by three ceutu ' ries. ‘'ANNIE BES-ANT AND HINDUISM-” “Mrs Besant seems to have taken to Hinduism and all its dogmas most heartily,” says the Harvest Field. She believes in the Hindu I* gods; she tells Hindu .audiences ' that she was a Hindu pundit ini former birth and ns visiting her own land after a sojourn »»> the West where she was incarnated to know the nature of the matovialis t:e civilizat ions of those re gious-1 It is no wonder that she gets crowded audiences to listen to her 1 She is a forcible speaker; she I knows how to-adapt berselS io tier ( audiences and hence they do n«4. i hesitate to call her Sara&s&ti, the Hindu Goddess of Learning. Her visit will doubtless revive for a season, the waning influence of Theosophy,, and there will be an increase opposition to Christianity as a result. This shunld encour-l age all Christians to continue their ■ efforts to-'ekilighten the people of India, and seek to deliver them trom the eudless maz.es and mys tical teachings of Theosophy, ——— “Orange Bios som’’ gives imme diate relief and permanently cures! all diseases peculiar to ladies, Jioßl by D. W. Curry, Don t take internal remedies for Female Diseases. Common sense I requires a direct application like ,‘Orange Blossom.” Sold by D. W EV ENTS OF LIFE The Mysterious Visitor or a Doyle Detective story The door opened and there came • into the Clark street office of the 3 famous night watchman and detec 1 j five, a tall man with a wrinkled face and a pair of keen gray (‘yes V “You are from North Clark ‘ jSi reet,’’Said the detective. I The man started convulsilvely. " i “How did you know it ? he asked “By the two shiny white spots 'I on your coat sleeves. These spots mark where your arms rest on the ’ window sill while you are leaning I out to watch the cable cars go by ' Every one on North Clark Street does that. Youliveon the west side of the street.” “Wonderful I ’ gasped the visitor. ‘ Y hi ask me why I know. B - cause cur right arm is longer '■than the vth-r. ]?. Oaiyhiug Ug s j c ibie cars you eft’<lll *he rail with | your right hand, and the j rking , which you receive day by day has 1 le igth- nedyour arm so that to a ' tr lued eye the diff -rence is ap parent. If you lived on the east side of the street you would use 1 your left hand for catching tl.e ’ rail. You are a widower and your wife was red-headed.” “True enough.” said the visitor ’ staring in amaz ment. “How do I know these thii gs? | Because I see the watch chain on your vest. It is wove -i of red hair. If your wife were alive you would not think enough of her to wear a chain made out es her hair, and if you had re-married you wouldn’t dare to wear it. You have jusbcome from Lincoln Park I can smell peanuts on you. ‘At one time you were a police of x.cer. I saw you look both ways be fore you came ir. that doer. Force of i habit } you know. You have been j shooting craps. Your right baud is i - soiled from your little finger back to your wrist. This is caused by raking ■ up th” dice fr >m a dusty table. You I need a shave and cte a soft boiled egg | [for breakfas'. Now what can Ido | for you?"’ and the great detective | and nightwatchman got back m aj i iiateni/ g attitude. “Just wanted to ask you if t' 8 Pansy Chromo c mpaoy had an office in this building.” Thus what might have been al great detective story came to a snort stop —Chicago Record. DON’T FORGET The Cundell Lumber Co.,sells Cheap shingles a 11 ■grades. Cheap lumber all grades. : Cheap ceiling and flooring, sash, doors, and blinds. 9-7-Imo, Flour 40cts. at Mor ris Telephone 26. 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