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r CHRISTIAN HERALD. * 9 ■~r -4— what is spiritually helpful and words of him who spake as never A daily service for jockeys is a inspiring ? The monastery, men man spake; of him who himself novelty. The Dowager Duchess of say, is the place for such a life. sought to hear, amid the stillness Montrose intends to remove the re There is room for the wearing of and solemnity of the mountain mains of the late Mr. Stirling Craw sackcloth and the repetition of woods, the Voice that *speaketh ford, her husband, to Newmarket, endlessprayer; b u t Lore iuwn —Build yi your ow r r busy world, where all is rush and room an altar for morning and oleum, attached to which will be a turmoil, there is no time for devo evening sacrifice, and make every chapel, whare daily afternoon ser tion ; no place for daily communion day a day of atonement when you vice will be held for the jockeys and with God and our own souls. 1'hat shall enter the Holy of Holies and stablemen who crowd the neighbor- is the work of the hermit and the stand face to face with God. Then ! hood. Of Church and Stage we priest. In the morning we must will be an end to your lukewarm have heard enough. Of Church hurry off to our business, ami at faith, a Beginning of your growth ami Turf as allies this is the first night we are tired and worried, in grace ami your knowledge of instance. unfit for the contemplation of Christ. T1 icn the prayer-meeting things divine. How many thous will be an hour of consolation and At the thirty-eighth annual ses and Christians must confess to the joy, when lips cannot withhold the sion of the New England Christians, truth of all this ? And, even where expression of their new-found in held at Franklin, N. H. June 7', res they do hold family worship,” how spiration and hearts must voice th# olutions favoring constitutional pro sadly conventional it often is, the fullness of their love. No harm hibition were passed. prayer becoming a mere orison and can befall the Church of Christ, no The yearly meeting of Fiiends the Bsble-rcading a perfunctory evil overwhelm the individual life, task. so long as we daily seek in God our was held at Portland, Me., June But the defense is made in refuge, and follow him who went 8-11. Among other prominent per behalf of this style of living that up into the mountain apart .to pray. sons present were the poet Whittier, Isaac Sharp of England, and one one cannot ignore the homelier and ,—N. F. Independent. from Canada, and one from North plainer duties of life, even for the J C . There = Current Religious News., arolina,—-------.- are mouths to be filled and bodies The Methodists of Woodland in The Southern General Assembly of clothed, and every available hour tend buihfin'g a church, to cost be- Presbyterians places the figures of of the day is demanded for these tween $5,000 and $6,000. . the denomination at the South as ends. All honor to him who toils follows 13 synods, 6G presbyter for daily bread. But can man live A dictionary of the Chi or Ashan- by bread alone I' Is there not that tee language in West Africa bas been ies, 1,081 ministers, 2,010 churches which is as indispensable as food completed by a missionary of tj*e and 123,806 communicants. and raiment, if we would “ lay Bible Society, who bad prevou^ly The Sunday trains on the Hoqs- hold of the life which is life translated the Bible into it. atqnic Railroad were stopped on indeed ?” Yes; and this can be A home for needy widows of the Sunday last by the Massachusetts done too, while we are in the midst authorities. The clergymen in of the busiest employments and Protestant Episcopal church is to be Berkshire Conuty, Mass., presented fretted by the gloomiest cares of erected at Nineteenth and E street, petitions against the running of the world. The life of Samuel Washington, by Mrs. Elizabeth .trains on Sunday, but the railroad Wilberforce, with all its ecclesiasti Stone, who has given the ground company disregarding them, the cal ambitions and varied activities, and $25,000 for the purpose. trains were stopped by State author did not shut out devotion. His An old colored preacher in Atlan ity, and on Sunday, June 3 passen spiritual life was ever uppermost ta, Ga., was lecturing a youth of his ger trains were not run further and “ no outward success was fold about the sin of dancing, when than North Canaan, Conn., near the allowed to profane the inner sanctu the latter protested that the Bible Massachusetts line. ary of his soul.” ' plainly said: “There is a time to No rule for the exercise of devo dance.” “ Yes, dar am a time to The Chicago Tribune thinks that tions can be laid down for the dance,” said the dark divine, “an’it’s a large corruption fund will be used universal observance of men. The when a l oy gets a whippin’ for goin’ in the Illinois Legislature to defeat time and manner of them must to a bail.’ the lligh-License Bill. We hope vary according to our several cm A Sunday school for the benefit the friends of temperance in the ployments and opportunities. But State will be vigilent: elect the let us not forget that the “ Soul of the resident Chinese has teen or-, right men and stahd by them may be upon its knees, whatever ganized in Milwakee, Wia:, by a Whatever form of legislation is the the attitude of the body,” and that number of leading ladies in that city. wisest, let all friends unite upon it, wc may, obedient to the words of There are now about fifty resident and put down the traffic. Jeremy Taylor, preserve amid our Chinese, and some ten or fifteen most commonplace pursuits, the more are on their way from San The Jewish Messenger justly re Francisco to join their brethren spirit of prayer and aspiration. We proaches the Russian Government there. Among the number are two need these hours of solitude; we for invoking at the coronation the need to breathe this life-giving Chinese women.___ name of the “ God of Jacob ”• as a atmosphere of prayer, if we would In the Moravian Church, when a defence, and yet neglecting to grant walk with Christ and learn what church building is burned a collec the fullest fredom to tbe'children of it is to work out our own salvation. tion is forthwith taken by all the Jacob — “proclaiming liberty Take up the Bible before you congregations in aid of their acillt- throughout the land and to all the go to rest, and read again the od brethren. inhabitants thereof.” o* _ -.............. < ... The Reformed Presbyterian Synod at Philadelphia adopted the following resolutions : First—All officers of churches are advised to leave off the evil habit pie renders it difficult and discour aging to prevent its use by the youth. Second—All members are admon ished to abstain, on the the ground that it defiles the body, is a useless waste of money, and often renders a man offensive to his neighbors. The remark of a Mohammedan, in Turkey, to a missionary, indi cates the possession of a large measure of truth : “ Our race is not pure and good, like your race. It is corrupt in every part. It was created so. But God can change us, and I pray every day: ‘ Oh, God! thou seeBt our rotten condi tion; thou knowest that we cannot be pure or do right ’ Be merciful to me and change me, make over the blbod-iirpvci y~vein uf my body; that it may be no longer corrupt, but as thou wouldst have it.” The view in which the Turkish Government takes of Christian mis sionaries was recently set forth by an official in this wise : “ We toler ate the Protestants because, politic ally, they are useful by*breaking up the Armenian nation into frag ments, which are not likely to coalesce for political agitation ; but Moslems should not, therefore, re gard Protestants as favored by the Government. On the contrary, the aim and tendency of Protestant teachings is subversive of the laws and institutions of Islam. Any Moslem, therefore, who consorts with these people in any degree must be regarded as a traitor to his country.” We see it stated that the breth- ren in Missouri tell a good story of the lamented Bishop Marvin. He was one day, while preaching, inter rupted by the shout of a steward in the amen corner, whom ho well knew to be a little " near” (as the Scotch would term it.) Turning to him in a kind manner, he said in a firm voice: “ Brother, have you paid your quarterage ?” ** No,” was the canfused but prompt reply. “Then,’’ said the bishop, “ stop shouting, brother. No Methodist ought to shout who does not pay his quar terage.” This may account for the decrease in shouting in some sec tions.— Raleigh Advocate. .