Religious Gleanings.

Te Aroha News, Volume III, Issue 130, 28 November 1885, Page 5

Religious Gleanings.

No More Persecution. Br»T to-day the light w dawning. Men and vt'omei. are becoming ashamed to p rsecuU in tne name of rtli^ion, aud we see the Jew honoured on all Hdee for real woith and 'er\H pntii< tif-m 1 here can be no beating bildi.d tLe bui-h. 1 litre if 100 much intel igtnce and libtraht) ucucnu tutu in tht Aorld toadmit of unyihingakin to applaud ■or injustice to tbtnv loiaelitit-h br«'h«en Whan accoun's of the Koutnanian uiid Ku^ian atrocities Faw the hyhr. of da> heie were bleeding hearth amonji ( htiptian.»s well an Jew*. They felt lor «ho poor down trodden Ipra lite, and view to-da) wnh ifjUij^iittfJon that any civilised nntioi ran bo 80 degraded «s to smite the f-übjcci ' h>*t is only too willing to aid and eve.idit for hia native countiy. — "'Jewidh Pro

Christian Conversation The arb, if we may call it so. of Christian conversation, is little cultivated, and tarel) practiced. In fact, it seems to be an accepted canon 'hat religious convbr-ation, "yen among Chiitirimit*. is not at all tbt thing to be practied, or, at most, at ran intervals, and only on special occa.-i< n.». When the pastor makes a call \\c, of course is ex | ected to ••introduce the sur>je«t," ann the pari-hioner is exptced to respond ii such manner as he or she may be able to. But the matter is quickly over, and o hei topic* wre introduced. We have often no i iced that, when the subject of God and tbt aoul, the Bible and religious life, is undei iii>cupsion— eepecial'y it" the matter imade personal -there is more or Jess re straint, even between pastor and j ec<ple ; when a-, it a new bo< k, the laj-t f-oci*! iten. of news, the work of the • hurch, </r, indeeo my outeide and worldly thing, it* taken up. the conversation becomes fluent; again Even the question of ''the difficulty in t>tiiiring good eervauts" can be made thively theme of conversation. Ot courct heie are exceotions to this rule. Then ne households and individuals withuhon and among whom it is a delight to hold & lijiiou." conversation. The pieciou> trutfu of G>)d's v\'ord, the personal ex^eri^nce <•' the soul, earth and heaven in God's ?ight. ife nud death, immortality and glory, an matters that are eivgerty dwelt upon. Thithowever, is* not the rule, only the excep don — "New York Independent."