Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 November 1887 — RELIGIOUS NOTES. [ARTICLE]

RELIGIOUS NOTES.

You will never have a friend if you must have one without failing's. Evangelist Thomas Harrison js in revival work at Chestnut Street, Providence, R. I. The missionary work of the Religious Tract Society of London is carried on in 186 different languages. Rev. D. Kemmerer, of Wooster, Ohio, is said to be the oldest Reformed minister in the world. He is eighty-six years old, hut preaches regularly every Sunday. The Balvation army, of England, recently sent fifty missionaries at once to India. Twenty-five dollars is all that is allotted to each one for support after arrival on the field.

Joseph Parker: It is but a short gray day we are together. There ought not be time for strife, and debate, and harshness.aiul bitterness. The hand is already laid on the rope that shali ring the knell. The memorial of St. Paul, which some Americans propose to set up in his native city of Tarsus, w ill take the practical shape of a training school for orphans oi which there are a great many in Cilicia. Archbishop Heiss, of Milwaukee, thinks there are 8,000,000 Roman Catholics in the United Btates,of whom 3,000,000 are Germans. Oflthe eleven archbishops, and sixty bishops, however, only one archbishop, Dr. Heiss himself, and eleven bishops are Germans. The Independent says of Col. Ingersoll’B reply to Dr. Henry M. Field, in the North American Review: “The paper is the brilliant, rattling force of an advocate who keeps atheism on hand to amuse him when Guiteau, star-route and Anarchist cases run low.”

The gospel says Dr. Arthur Pierson is a two-edged sword, having law on one side and grace on the other, but they meet in a point. As the sword loses its value, to a degree, if either edge be dulled, so the gospel is shorn of its power if only a part of the message is given. F. W. Farrar: No man ever yet asked to be, as the days pass by, more and more nobie, and sweet, and pure, and heavenly-minded; no man ever yet prayed that the evil spirits of hatred, and pride, and passion, and worldliness might be cast ont of his soul, without his petition being granted, and granted to the letter.