RELIGIOUS | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Dec 12, 1892

RELIGIOUS.

—At a National W. C. T. U. Convention at Denver, Charles N. Crittenton, the evangelist, gave to Miss Willard $5,000 for social purity work.

—At the World's Convention of Christian Workers recently held in Boston, the "gospel wagon," in all its forms, met with warm approval.

—The New York Christian Union, one of the most prominent religious papers of the day, "wishes to be regarded not merely as a reporter of the work of the Salvation Army, but as believing in that work, and wishing it Godspeed."

—J. H. Thompson, secretary of the World's Fair Sunday Opening Association, has received a letter from his eminence Cardinal Gibbons, of Baltimore, favoring the opening of the Fair on Sunday, provided the machinery be stopped.

—Dr. Emil G. Hirsch's Reform Advocate says: "Perhaps to-day Baltimore is one of the few cities where proportionately Saturday is observed to a large extent as Sabbath, not merely in the synagogue, but actually by a considerable number of our co-religionists."

—Since the directory of Union Theological Seminary has so decidedly taken sides with Professor Briggs as to withdraw its connection with the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, wealthy sympathizers have donated $175,000 toward its maintenance.

—A dispatch from Baltimore is authority for the statement that Mgr. Satolli, the papal delegate who has been in this country some weeks, has been empowered by the Holy See to hear and decide without appeal all religious questions between bishops and priests in the United States.

—The Jewish Exponent says: "A Rothschild has become a Roman Catholic on account of her marriage ties. Matrimony is a high social duty with which religious considerations ought not to clash at all. But it is the testimony of deep thinkers that where there are creed differences ab initio, there are sure to be unhappinesses in subsequent relations."

—The New York State Central Sabbath Committee says, "The American rest day [Sunday] must be preserved for the poor as well as the rich." But while the rich man's carriage may be run with impunity on Sunday, the "Sabbath Committee" would put an embargo on the poor man's carriage—the street car. The religion of Jesus Christ, which recognizes no such innovation as a Sunday law, is the only principle on earth which places the rich and poor on an absolute equality.

—The boys in the choir of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Cincinnati, went out on a strike November 25, because girls were brought in to sing. The occasion was the visit of Bishop Dudley, and the house was full. The boys were on hand ready to sing, when the girls were also marched in, and the former refused to sing unless the latter were withdrawn. Their demand being refused, the boys immediately left. There is said to be hard feelings arising among the interested parents.

—Miss Ray Franke, a Jewish lady of this city, who has occasionally done acceptable pulpit work, proposes to enter a Hebrew college, and make full preparation for the ministry. Regarding her intention, the Jewish Exponent says: "The female Jewish preachers of the past have confined their work to their own sex. But there ought to be no objection to a woman in the pulpit teaching God's words in the larger house of learning, when there is none to her instilling religious thoughts in smaller rooms to children of a lesser growth."

—The Catholics have been making a great outcry against Indian Commissioner Morgan because of his alleged hostility to their Indian school interests. The facts, as shown by the appropriations of the government for Indian schools, show that their complaint is selfish in the extreme. Out of a total of $525,881 set apart for all contract schools the current year, the Catholics are to receive $369,535—more than twice as much as all the Protestant denominations combined. And for the past eight years about two-thirds of the amount thus appropriated have gone to the Catholics. On the principle that the government has no right to appropriate money for sectarian purposes, the Baptists have consistently declined to ask for it or to receive it. The Methodists have also abandoned the practice, but they did so presumably in hopes to bring about a cessation of the system because the Catholics were getting the lion's share of the appropriations. The Presbyterians have also publicly condemned the principle, but they still receive a small sum, and the same may be said of the Congregationalists and Episcopalians.