ERISCO MAIL ITEMS

Ellesmere Guardian, Volume X, Issue 943, 12 September 1891, Page 3

ERISCO MAIL ITEMS

Lord Saliobury refused the Grand Prmeian Order of the Black Eagle, o€dred him by the Emperor of Germany during hi* recent visit. Several Colonels m the British army have applied to the War Office to suppress (he circulation of socialistic literature among the soldiers. Lody Caithness, by virtue of her monpy and her entnusiasm, sncceeds Madame Blavßts'cey as High Priestess of the Theo aophical movement, or Esoteric Buddhism as some call it. Cardinal Manning made public on August 16. a letter denouncing raffles, church fairs lotteries and all games of chance, ostensibly to benefit the finances of the church. On August 16, Canon Farrar spoke m Westminster Abbey at a special service for delegates to the Congress of Hygiene. Ha delivered a brilliant address, m which he argued that students of hygiene and other scientists were assisting m the work of religion by adding to the wellbeing and enlightenment of the world. Any religion which opposed the advances made by science was a degrading religion. The preacher scouted the idea that science involved any taint of irreligion. So far as the Church of England was concerned, it walked hand m hand with tcbnce. Tb<v ierinon closed with a patition lor a special blessing upon the labours of the Congress.