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At an ancient church at Valsbol, Rus- sia, it has been customary for the con- gregation, before leaving, to turn to a perfectly blank wall and genuflect re- erently. The origin of the custom was lost in myth. Inquiring travelers re- ceived no answer, even from the old priest who officiated there. But while some repairs were being made recently, beneath many layers of white-wash and paint, was found a picture of the Virgin Mary, which must of stood out brilliant- ly on the wall five or six centuries ago. John Burns in a speech at London connected the abnormal infantile mor- tality in England with canned meats and intemperance among women. Andrew Carnegie, when opening a free library at Peterborough, England, was made the first freeman of the city. The casket containing the certificate was made from a beam taken out of the belfry of Peterborough Cathedral. Religion's Pleasant Ways. It is not religion, but the lack of it, that fakes people unhappy. Many think of religion as a galling drudgery, as the surest source of moroseness, melan- choly and unhappiness--a system of suf- fering to which many people submit here that they may not suffer its rewards after death. But religion is a present joy and ever-continuing blessedness It is the gladdest, happiest thing in all the world. "Her ways are ways of pleas- antness, and all her paths are peace." Religion gives us the bright things in life and sin the dark things. Religion goes down to the deepest springs of our mental and spiritual well-being. It brings. untold measures of peace and joy. It takes the sting out of the past. It takes the worry out of the present. It takes the fear out of the future. No Doubt Of Effects. Ere Ellison Capers became bishop of South Carotina, his eloquence made him much sought after. One Sunday in a distant parish he chose for his subject "Economy." At the end of the service' a couple of prominent vestry- men congratulated the bishop. "Your sermon on economy, sir," they said, "was a very sensible discourse. "Thanks," said- the bishop, "It seems to have been appreciated, judging from the appearance of the collection plate. -------------- At the fifty-first annual convention NEWS OF CHURCHES THE VARIOUS DOINGS IN THE RELIGIOUS WORLD. S------ Piigrimage of Chinese Students to Japan--A Prayer By the Som of the Murderer--Will Eventu- ally Win in China. All Hallows' Church, Goldsmith St, Exeter, is top be demolished. The foun- dation dates from 1222. At St. James' Hospital, Gankin, China, the dispensary patients have reached 1,100 per month. Canon and Mrs. Ledgard; returned from India, spent forty-three years there as S.P.G. missionaries. The U.S. Presbyterian Board is to send forth this year to foreign stations forty additional missionaries. Among the Karens of India are 150 Christian villages, two thirds of them as Christian as English villages. The Oxford mission of sympathy to Calcutta, for educated classes, has cele- "brated its first quarter of a century by a London meeting. Nearly £100,000 has been spent on restoration of Peterborough Cathedral, and further repairs are necesssary to the central transept. Towards Liverpool Cathedral £230,000 has already been paid in givings. The choir and lady chapel will cost this amount alone. The foundations are laid. "The Y.M.CA. in Japan is making considerable headway. The branches are 67, membership 3,286: six associa- tions occupy their own buildings, valued at £8,000. Canon Edwards, vicar, South Lam- beth, has started services for men, on their way to work at 5.30 am. and flowers are placed for them to take away. The marble canopy over the high al- ta at Westminster R.C. Cathedral has cost £12,000. In the Brompton Oratory is a white marble altar brought from Italy. It cost £30,000. An interesting festival was that of the London Juvenile Society at the Crystal Palace, London, when 23,000 children were in attendance and reviewed by the Lord Mayor and Bishop of London. Dr. Maloete, Japanese, made a stir- ring address in the Rame Theatre, Del- hi, to a large audience of Hindus and Mohammedans, urging unity, patriotism, female education, abolitiof of caste, to bring India up. Last year, Union Seminary, New York, received $1,000,000 for building on its new site adjoining Columbia Univer- sity. This year, at the recent anniver- sary, gifts totalling $325,000 were an- nounced and $400,000 more asked for. The quaint ceremony of blessing the crops took place recently in a field at Burnham. A large number of farmers and their men attended from villages in West Norfolk. The local clergy were present in robes, and music . was rendered by a surpliced choir. The royal commission to further dis- establishment . in Wales contains only two out of nine at alt opposed to degra- dation and spoliation of the church-- Lord High Cecil and the Archdeacon of Carmarthen. Earl Candor and Al- fred Littleton declined to serve. The Ministering Children's League reports 21 institutions in England and the colonies, including homes for desti- tute children and convalescents, asyl- ums, and industrial schools. In Russia 22 branches are rescuing thousands of children from captivity with their par- ents, Twenty years ago Rev. J. Bell Cox, vicar of St. Margaret's, Liverpool, was sent to prison for ritual excesses. he has ben elected, while an E. C. president, in that low church diocese, by the clergy of Warrington Arch deaconry, 40 to 29, to be proctor in con- vocation. The annual meeting of the Girl's Friendly Society the Archbishop of Canterbury, spoke of it as the driving wheel of the machine which labors for the young women of England. The Bishop of Manchester asked that they undertake the formation of guilds of godparents, ensure that children should be trained up in the faith. Rev. F. Minty, rector of Edlaston, Derbyshire, had an alarming experience recently. He was arranging the sacra- mental vessels on the altar when he felt the floor giving way. He had the pre- sence of mind to jump clear of the spot; a moment later the floor fell into a deep vault, the arched roof of which had collapsed. The vault contains the remains of a previous rector, who met with a fatal accident. The college of the U.S. mission board, St. Paul's, Tokyo, established by Bishop Williams in 1874, is the largest and oldest Christian school in Japan The first home of St. Paul's was a house rented from Mr. Longfellow, sor of the American poet. Here the school was opened on a modest scale with three teachers and five students. Of the 573 students, more than half are from Tokyo The only college in Cawnpore ig the P. G. missionary institution. In its carly days it met vehement opposition from a powerful Brahmin; lately" he has sent two sons to the college and has built a classroom in memory of his father. Civilization has to acknowledge a vast debit for 1000 mission colleges and 10,000 elementary schools through- out the world Seventy years ago John Williams, the first missionary to the New Hebrides, was killed and caten by the savages at Dillon's Bay, Erromanga. This year the meeting of the New Hebrides Pres- byterian Synod was held on the spot of Williams' murder, and its first session was opened with prayer by the son of his murderer, who has been for years an elder The pilgrimage of Chinese students to Japan continues and represents seventeen out of eighteen provinces Over 9,000 are studying in Tokyo. They are of the official and influential classes, and being surrounded by immoral con- S of the Sons of Temperance of Great Britain, it was declared that in the re- cent British elections sixty per cent. of the candidates marked on the Brewers' Almanac as favorable to the liquor trade were defeated. The number of abstain- | ers in the last parliament was 66; there | were 210 in the new parliament. The | liberals are not admired by Anglican | churchmen, yet have some excellent | personal merits. : A lover of good order, rebelling over a flower festival, declares that some day | we shall learn better than to mutilate natute's most beautiful manifestations --shall cease to bind carnations on cart wheels and write our savage delight in the petals of dying roses. d | the crimes of bungling appreciation! i God forgive | | Atchibald R. Colquhoun, in the Fort- ditions, through absence of decent hoarding houses, and being prejudiced by revolutionary Chinese politicans, they are apt to be a dangerous element later on. ' At Delhi an address was given by a Brahmin, 'Sister Rashi 'Bai' She is of a band of six educated Hindu widows who have set up a Home in Poonah for the education of their class. They take no salary; receive only board and lodg- ing, giving their whole time to train- ing young widows for teachers, doctors, nurses, midwives, and domestic service. They have seventy in the Home, and to support the institution two sisters travel about giving lectures and collecting money; two teach, and two look after the home. Christianity in China, the efforts of Christians to raise the Chinese stand- ard where it is lowest--in humanitar- ianism and respect for women--will eventually win a recognition which no propagandism could attain" In other words, that the Chi will accept the Biblical criterion, their fruits ye shall know them" No religion is worth much which fails in this test, Ne e------ PECULIAR PRIVILEGES. ------ Old' Customs and Rights Still Exercised Two towns in England have the pri- wil of electing churchwardens, both in mersetshire. At art a quaint little old-fashioned place, the town council has elected the warden since the town was first incorporated. His installation is the occasion of a deal of ceremony. ring morning service on Easter day the head of the borough police marches up the aisle and hands the vicar a document notifying the appointment: The mayor and cor- poration attend 'in state. The parish of St. Mary Magdalene, Taunton," has the same prescriptive right, only it is exercised by the par- ishioners themselves. 'There are three wardens, and the vicar has no power of appointment. Easter Tuesday is the day for the election, and no public notice may be given. If it were, the privilege, exercised for three centuries, would be lost, Then Portland possesses a peculiar privilege, still exercised and a great saving of money. This is what is term- ed church gift. A man desires to sell a field or other lamded poperty. Instead of employing a lawyer all that is neces- sary is for vendor and vendee to go into the church and theré¢ draw up an agree- ment between themselves. The vicar of Norham, in Durham, has an odd privilege. If the banns of marriage be published three times and thén the marriage fails to take place, the refusing party can be mulcted in forty shillings for "scorning the church." Religion In Universities. A notable service to the church and the state has been rendered by the Uni- versity of Illinois, in reporting the dis- cussions in connection with the instal lation of Dr. Edmund J. James as its president. The conviction that a great university ought to minister to the en tire cycle of human interests, including the life of the spirit, was made evident in the important place given the confer ence on religious education. Varying shades of opinion are preserved in per manent form, from distinguished edu- cators and other leaders: mm religious thought. While betraying denomina- tional predilection "and wide apart "as regards the solation of the problem, they are phrased in a commendable spirit of harmony and desire to seck the truth. On the one hand it is said that formal religions education cah never have a legal status in a state university; upon the other hand it is asconvincingly urged that universities may appropriately of fer fundamental courses in the philoso- phy, psychology and history of-religion, in which the religions of the world, the Old and New Testaments, should be given their simple, legitimate place There is, however, a substantial agree- ment in the existence of a. common plane of spiritual life which fhe university can rightly recognize and cultivate. One not picviously informed is surprised to find the range and extent of plans now working in this direction. Experiments in Canada, and in various central and western states, arc grouped in fascinat ing profusion. This fine testimony that the conference is but a sign of the times, and that the religious element is to be recognized and ministered to through the university is Anent Church Union. The advantages of church union from an economical point are casily recog nized. With the multiplication of sects and denominations, much energy, time and money is spent in proselytizing and maintenance, to the hindrance, rather than the help, of churchmen of all de- nominations. And those who are out side the churchly pale, who belong to no communion, whether they bé pagan or merely civilized, are only bewildered by the long vista of creeds down which they behold pastors and priests, deacons and elders, bishops and moderators; on the Anglican side vergers, sextons and wardens; on the dissenting side, ushers, janitors, and treasurers, with 'an occa- sional Salvation Army brass band in its usual presumption occupying any part of the scenery it chooses If the church were amalgamated on a reasonable basis and the bewildering multiplicity of interpretations of the Bi ble done away with, Christianity would regain much of the importance in the progress of the world which it appears to be fast losing. The only obstacle to amalgamation are the differences in ex- planation of a few verses in the Bible, concerning which theologians will argue from century to century and never be a whit the wiser. But we are all creatures of prejudice and these arc larger obstacles than they seem. stray Notable Consecration. A picturesque account comes from South Africa of the consecration of the new Church of St. Cuthbert's, one of the great centres of the missionary work of the Cowley Fathers. - The last service it the old church was held early in the morning, and a thousand people mar- ched to the new church, for the service of consecration, followed by Holy Com- munion. Afterwards a "giving service" was held out-of-doors, at which £400 were subscribed. Many of: the gifts were "in kind." After the services a great barbecue was held, the natives and whites being separately seated. The menu included seven head of cattle, twenty sheep, eight sacks of grain and beans, huge pails of coffee, and last three bags of tobacco, for which there was a wild scramble. Weak Lungs It is the old story of a weak throat, a tendency to weak lungs in the fam- { ily. 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John Fawcett, an English Baptist™pastor, was the author of several beautiful hymas. In 1772, after he had served the little con gregation at Wainsgate for some years, on a small salary, he decided to accept a call to an important church in London. He packed his goods and prepared to leave. But his affec- tion for his people led him to recall his ac. ceptance and to remain with them. On that occasion he wrote this hymn. He little knew that he was writing a hymn that would be sung in many lands and at countless mes of parting and of reunion. Hlest be the tie that binds Our hearts in Ciistian love; The fellowship of kindred minds Is like to that above Father's throne ardent p Before our We pour our Our fears, our hopes Our comforts and our cares, Ws are one, mutual woes, 1 burdens bh We share Our mu And often The sympat When we asunder part, It gives us inward pain But we shall still be joined in heart, And hope to meet again This glorious hope revives Our courage by the way; While each in expectiition lives And longs to see the day From' sorrow, toil, and pain, And sin, we shall be free, And perfect Jove and friendship reign Through all eternity On The Instalment Plan. They have queer ways of getting their DD's in, and from, America, The story goes that recently a congregation in one of the southern states wrote to a college dean. "We are anxious to get our beloved pastor a DD. We enclose all. the money we can raise -at present, Je good enough to send one DD. now. We hope to raise sufficient for the other D. by-and-by." 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