The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1857-06-25
Prom the Chicago Democratic PrssA
IOWA MATTERS.
orrENAr cosoaEoATioxAi.A ASSOCIATION.

"bNENAS SoroNsSAAASrAl.A S5oSIATIoN.
This important body, the representative Of
he growing Congregational denomination in
Iowa, held lis annual meeting this year at Dem
mark, Lee county, near Burlington The ses-
sion commenced on Wednesday evening The 3D.
inst, and closed on the following Monday
Rev. J. G. Holbrook, moderator, and Messrs.
French and Windsor, scribes. There were
present, belonging to the Association and cor
responding members, IS ministers, IS lay del
egates, and a considerable number Of other per-
sons from abroad. The meetings were haimo-
nious ard interesting
From the reports of members, IL appears
that there are now liz churches OF the ORDER
IN the State, and 100 ministers, including pro-
fessors in the college and agents and a few
without charge. The number of local asso-
Citations has been increased from five to eight,
Tue three new ones being Grinnell. in the CEN
trail, and GaiRayillo and Mitchell in the north
ern part of the State. Quite a number Of new
churches have been formed during the year.
There are churches IN nearly all the large towns.
and some of them are among the strongest of
any denomination in the State. One Of them
reported So 600 contributed during the year
for benevolent purposes; another $4,000; two
81 GOO, and one $500, besides defraying their
own expenses for pastors salary, &c.
The congrega.ionalists have a very flourish
College at Davenport, (Iowa College,) TO
which gentleman in Burlington recently
contributed $4,000 towards establishing
Scientific Department, giving encouragement
of adding $4,000 more per annum until it is
endowed. The denomination are also interest
ed in the Chicago Theological Seminary Gen.
gregationaD to be opened in October. two or
three churches in the State having already
contributed upwards of $4,000 to its funds.
| Among the resolutions passed was one de-
claring that the Association regards the op,n-
ion Of the Supreme Court in the bred Scott
case inconsisten. with the law of God and the
spirit of our National Constitution. The As
ISOLATION is composed mainly of young and
middle aged men of earnesiness and enterprise.
Although the meeting was IN the southeast cor
ner of the State, yet Council Bluffs Associa
ton and the extreme north were represent
ed.
The next meeting will be held at Dubuque,
on the first Wednesday in June, 1855.
| DENMARK
is model western settlement, composed of in
dependent farmers with good farms, good
houses, fine academy, with stone edifice and
well endowed, spacious brick church build
ing, and no groggeries OF gaming saloons. The
people are nearly all of New England origin.
The Congregational The only church, except
a Baptist one, now without minister Here
was lanted the first Congregational church in
the State in 1898, BY Rev. Asa Turner, Jr.,
who also founded the first Congregational
church in Illinois, at Quincy. Father Turner
is the patriarch of the Congregational body
in Iowa. The people of Denmark to man
are anti-slavery, and to punish them for not
voting right the administration refuse to give
them more than weekly mail.