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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXI, Issue 47, 23 March 1894, Page 7

The Peruvian Governmsnt has accepted the offer of the Pope to mediate the dispute been Peru and Eucador.

Catholics in Great Britain will recollect the indictment made a couple of years ago by the late revered Monsignor Munro on " The Methods of Evangelical Preacberp," in whieb that eloquent prelate took to task the Protestant pulpiteers who degrade their profession, and Christianity in general, by the sensation-mongering titles of the themes on which they chooee to discourse. Apparently the evil it not confined to Scotland, nor, indeed, to the United Kingdom. A minister in Ohio lately enlivened his discourse on gambling by a skilful manipulation of a pack of cards with which t r e performer explained the " three card Monte trick," to the amazement of hit congregation, if not to their spiritual profit. A contemporary, re* porting this performance, comments that " One is sometimes tempted to regret that a firßt-claes fakir was spoiled to make an indifferent preacher.