Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1900 — PULPIT AND PREACHER [ARTICLE]

PULPIT AND PREACHER

The centenary of the Presentation convent in Kilkenny, Ireland, was celebrated recently. The Rev. Dr. Lyman Abbott has been chosen to serve another year as university preacher at Harvard. The Rev. J. C. Brooks, brother of the late Bishop Brooks, is at work upon a collection of the bishop’s letters. A great Japanese statesman has recently said that he feared that religion, would be lost to his people unleu they deified the Emperor. At a recent meeting of the Boston Baptist ministers’ conference, which was largely attended, it was voted to devote its sessions for one month to prayer for an increase of religious interest in the churdhes. By a ukase issued by the Russian senate it has been explained that Jews residing within the pale of settlement have the right of temporary sojourn in rural plates or villages, while the time of neb sojourn is to be measured by the necessity which caused it. One hundred and sixty-nine students haVe registered this year in the School of Theology of Boston University—wine mere than last year. The Bev. George Schambach, a Lutheran minister of Newark, N. J., during hi» ministerial career has performed 6,714 mrrrlnge ceremonies. The Rev. Dr. F. E. Clark thinks that in the virtue of free, outspoken confession of faith Anglo-Saxon Protestants at* singularly lacking. “I know,” he says, “of no race that is so shamefaced about its faith, so unwilling to declare its /allegiance.”