Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-05-20
RELIGIOUS INrELLIGENCE.

1900
Between thirty and forty ministers were pres
ent, none of which are identified with the
definite time movement. Almost every Adj
vent Church in the United States was repre-
sented. The meetings were held in the Chris
tian Church, on Broad Street, and were much
crowded. Elders ]. " Hines, Ostler. Itch,
Shipman Sherwin, Robinson, Pearson, three
Burnams, Daniels, White, Crowell, Griggs,
and Plummer, were among the speakers.
PoLYeAMy IN UTAH.--The late episodical
discussion of Mormon Polygamy in the House
of Representatives, has revived the discussion
of the subject by the newspaper press One
class Of Journals fatty condemn the Mormon
practice, and call upon Congress to disfayor it
in the most emphatic manner, while another
class contend that the Mormons having made
Polygamy an ecclesiastical or religious ques-
ton. Congress has not the Constitutional right
to interfere 1t will be remembered by news
paper readers that for long time, the exis-
tence of polygamy, as an institution, i'll Utah,
was artfully concealed by the Mormon dele
gate to Congress, but the indifference which
the General Government has evinced, and its
weak policy in retaining Brigham Young,
with his forty wives, as, Governor of the Ter
ritory, has encouraged the delegate to greater
candor and boldness, while among the Nor
mons themselves the corrupting example of
the crafty successor of Joe Smith has not been
without its effect.
The question raised in Congress is a very
simple one, and little sound republican doc
trine will expose the nonsense of those who
argue that making polygamy an ecclesiastical
question places it beyond the reach of Con-
gress. Until the Territories are formed into
States, they remain under the care of Con-
gress, and though Congress may leave the
people of the Territories to manage their own
local affairs, it abuses its great trust when it
permits an odious vice, destructive Of a car
dinal rule of social and national morals to be
established in the heart of the country by men
gathered from the four winds of the earth.
Ii Congress cannot abate a nuisance IN the
Territories of the United States, which would
virtually exclude its own moral citizens from
participation in their advantages, what is the
use of having Congress at all
If it can only vote away the public revenues
and the public lands for the benefit of poll
ticians and spectators, its mission is neither
an exalted nor an honorable one. Our fathers
fought for liberty based upon Christian NOR
atty, and could they now rise from their
graves how sternly would they rebuke the
degenerate men who would permit this Re-
public to be made the refuge and theatre of
the worst features of infdel Oriental barba-
rism. The institution of marriage is the most
important of all the social relations, and the
State or Nation that neglects to throw around
it wise and virtue preserving safeguards must
sooner or later sufferthe penalty of Gods
outraged laws. Decay and destruction will
be its doom.-N. Y. Saa.
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY of the old school
Presbyterian Church Of the United States,
commenced it annual meeting in Buffalo, on
Thursday. This is the great body of that de-
nomination that most strictly adheres to the
peculiar doctrines of John Calvin, and cher
ishes most Of the dogmas of the Puritans.-
Somewhat these sentiments have lost their
hold upon the public mind yet those that
most repudiate them must still acknowledge
that they have had powerful and favorable
influence i'll developing character and advano-
ing mankind. AS hard and stern as Calvin
ism was in former times, its adherents were
brave and honest and good men, and where
they have lived, in Switzerland and Scotland,
in England and America, there have been the
most freedom, intelligence and genuine vir-
tue.
The goth anniversary of the American BIZ
bic Society, was held at New York, 10th inst
The receipts for the year, for the general OBJ
jects of the Society, amount to 1894, $4,000,
being an increase over last year of $47, 1885,
0S. The number of Bibles printed during the
year is 900, and sos, 900 Testaments. The
number of volumes issued is about Sl5, 1893,
being an increase of 5000.
The American Tract Society held ats 10Th
anniversary, on the 18th inst, at N. York.
Total receipts for the year, including dona-
tions and for sale of books, $415,OO0; expen-
ditures, $406,0O0.
The 2Sth anniversary of the Home Mission
airy Society, was held the same day. The
receipts of the year were about $l9I 900, ex-
ceeding those of any previous year by nearly
$4,000. Expenditures and liabilities, $780,
900.
GOSPEL IN TURKEY.-In more than fifty
places i'll Turkey, the gospel is now proclaim
ed every Lords day. Among the Armemans,
there are thousands who are Plotestants in
sentiment, where, twenty-five years ago, not
a Protestant could be found. In conse luence
of English and American missionary efforts,
there are now nineteen Protestant clergymen
laboring in Constantinople and its suburbs,
twenty-five Protestant sermons preached in
different languages every Sabbath, and four
teen Protestant schools. In all Turkey there
are at least sixty-fve Protestant ministers,
Episcopalians, Congregationalists, Presbyte-
rians, Lutherans, and one Waldensian, labor
ing harmoniously together.
Boston hberality is known everywhere.
DR.. Holrich, endeavoring to raise funds for
the endowment of the Wesleyan University,
says, that the Methodists of Boston, number
ing but one-fourth as many as they do in New
York, and far below them in point of wealth,
have challenged their brethren of the latter
city to raise $500 for that object as soon as
they will and one man has pledged $4,000
towards the same.
HONORABLE AND Liberal CoNDucT.-The
intelligent English merchants residing at
Constantinople, have always given Their friend
ly support to the American mission, and for
several years have contributed from ten to
forty dollars each to the charity fund of the
mission, for the relief of poor and prosecuted
Protestants, and to aid i'll the support Of the
civil officers of the Protestant community. Had
their gifts been withheld, says missionary,
it is difficult to see from what source these inn
portant objects could have been provided for
PRoTEsTANTs BETTER THAN Z" CHRISTIANS"
DIR. Lobdell, missionary at Mosul, says the
Protestants are gaining the respect and conf
dence Of their neighbors, particularly of the
Mohommetans, who often say that they are
much better than the g Christians meaning
those of the Greek and Armenian churches.
/" There are none like them" say the Mos
lens; they love their enemies just like
God.'
Rev. Samuel Mott, D. D., of Franklin, Ct,
lived to reach his Goth year, aud was settled