Show A stray billet doux three ministers sat in the pulpit of an east liberty church on sun day evening A rising young arlist who exl a comfortable studio rif studios are ever comfortable on a threet running from water to liberty who is one of the workers in said church walked bravely to the pulpit before service and gave ono of the ministers a notice to read before benediction the services were about being closed when the young artist again went forward and reminded the ministry that he must not forget the notice ortho temper ance meeting down town aster legged pardon for hie remits ass took the slip of paper from his vest pocket rea it looked dazed bis eyes then smiled he parsed the note to a brother minis berand he smiled then all smiled then no remarked that he would like to to the young artist ane latter advanced to the pulpit received the notice looked at it colored very red and looked ai nhounh lie would like to jump through the window lie and given the pastor a notice of a temperance meeting which read something like this apar john I am sorry I cant let you come to see me as usual but papa and mama think I not receive even my very dear lanten sea noi its awfully disagreeable if not positively cruel but then you know we episcopalians Episcopal ians cant go back on lent I shall see you oftener than usual I hope when the holy season baa gone i where the woodbine gwineth tw ineth BOB and tho little number of infidel lecturer writers and have been very busy for years in demolishing the religious faith of the of tins country although agomo trifling buc ceng is to be conceded to their clamorous efforts other forces have been active in the wide field of popular condic tion and their work has been of far taster efficacy the american bible society which with the sole exception of the british and foreign bible society esthe greatest agency for the diffusion of the scriptures in the world has reported is receipts for the last year is over this gum more than came from legacies and other gifts nearly three fifths of the receipts ther store expended in giving away bi bles the society issued during the year 1879 a total of volumes which contained the whole or parts of the scriptures and of these were circulated in foreign lands since the society wag organized organised sed 64 years ago id issues havo amounted to more ban the and foreign bety which was established years earlier has distributed 80 yr 90 millions cf bables ala ments or portions there and if we add the number circulated by the five other leading cleties cie ties of the world the scotch hibernian ua lands we nn d that more ISO ef the scriptures lieve been all over alp world since the beginning of this hy hese and adding to aliee number the issues circulated by in and private printing house aft may well set the figure at buo after ahe note of their recent observations of the wither all over the globa concur in the statement alie last two years the most notable phenomena have been the very marked the prin ary in diflo of alie world particularly in the western europe n certain and in tho eastern portion of the united states it has beebi marked in by winters of increased severity and an undue preva lanco of moisture in the spring and summer y yary conse j to in great britain france and somo other the last winter on tho european continent as as in Grott tala has been one of the severest upon rp coyd ajl lc e the thermo i as been go I low sanc 1795 alla when theold however Ro wever was but of short duration |