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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
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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.”
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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.”
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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. .