Worcester daily spy., 1858-09-04
ReIIgious Summnrx.-

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at the Church of the Unity, Elm street, on
Sunday morning and afternoon.
Rev. James B. Simmons of Providence, R,
l., became pastor of the Baptist church, in
indianapolis, Ind, in November last, since
which time about one hundred and twenty
members have been added to the church
The congregation has become too large for
the house and they are about to build new
one.
The venerable Rev. John Angel James, in
a volume on ''Chrstian Hope" just issued
in England, says: - In the seventy-third
year of my life, and the fifty third of my
ministry have no need of a special revela-
| tion to assure me that l " must shortly put
off this my tabernacle !" by the course of ma
ture this cannot be far off, The shades of
evening are gathering thick and fast around
me. find it most consoling on the border
country of the world unseen, to go forward
into what would be otherwise a dark un-
known, guided and cheered by hope full of
Immortality"
An American lady in London, who recent
| ly heard that great pulpit paixhan, Rev. Mr..
Spurgeon, says his great points are excellent
lungs and ready wit"
The pastoral relations of Rev. ]. Emerson
Swallow with the North Congregational
| Church in Nantucket has been dissolved, at
his request, in consequence of ill health.
Rev. Cyrus Brewster was installed pastor of
the Congregational church at Haydenvile on
| the 18th ult. Sermon by Rev. q. Eddy of
! Northampton.
The proposal of the London Missionary So
ciety to send twenty additional missionaries
to India within two years, was made, says the
London Patriot, scarce three months since,
and yet four-ffths of the men, and more than
one-halt of the estimated means, are already
at the disposal of the director.
The amount contributed to all the mission
ary and benevolent societies in Great Britain,
last year, was about one million pounds, or
FIVE millions of dollars. The amount expend-
ed in the same time in intoxicating drinks
was seventy million pounds, or three hundred
and fifty millions of dollars
Evangelical labor is carried on in SPAN
with very encouraging results. The priests
are bitter in their opposition. but the people
welcome the laborers, and receive thel tracts
and volumes distributed among them gladly.
Converts are multiplying.
Ten persons were baptized at Beverly. last
Sabbath, by Rev. J. C. Foster, making the
whole number added to the First Baptist
church, during the last four months, ninety
four, of whom eighty-three have been receiv-
ed by baptism. The pastor has recently
preached his second anniversary sermon, and
the result of two years labor has added one
hundred and twenty. three to the church,
and of that number one hundred and two
have been baptized,
The Baptist church and society in Milford,
have extended unanimous invitation to
Rev. H. G.. Hubbard, recent graduate of
Madison University, to become their pastor.
He has accepted the CALL and already entered
upon his labors.
Foreign Missions. The receipts of the
American Board of Commissioners for Foreign
Missions for the month of July, were uncom-
monty large, amounting to $54, 800. Massa-
chusetts furnishes $l8, 304 of this sum, or
more than third of the whole amount, and
New York $S, 1872. New England contribut-
ed $29, ,374, almost three htths of the whole
amount, while the united contributions of all
the slave States was only $l,726.o .or about one
half as much as was paid by the little inland,
farming, but free State of Vermont From
foreign lands and missionary stations, ST., ,24S
was contributed, including 1871 from the
| Sandwich Islands, and $500 from Montreal.
| The total receipts of the Board for the hnan-
cial year, ending July 81, have been $780,
| 075.
g Parson Broson1oD. A Southern news
| paper, the Recorder, of Louisville, KY, thus
| speaks of " Parson Brownlow":
This notorious Methodist preacher, and
| political editor and speech maker, has under
taken a mission to the North. to advocate the
blessings of slavery. The Mobile Advertiser
is not well pleased at the prospect, and COM
ments on the subject as follows 80 w hat
must be the impression as to the character of
the Southern people upon the minds of the
masses of the North, when they behold and
| listen to this blackguard Tennesseean, and
are told that he is minister OF the gospel,
and the chosen champion of Southern institu-
tions, sent among them by the people of the
! South f? 1t is an unfortunate Joke for South
ern gentlemen, as they did it doubtless only
for the fun of the time, to have encouraged
this coarse brawler in politics and religion to
| go into the North and exDound the merits of
Southern institutions and Southern society.
| But the mischief has been done. The rever-
end rutiian has already crossed the line, and
| the enemies of the South are doubtless. by
this time, chuckIing at the prospect of the
damage which the reputation of the Southern
| people is certain to suffer in the minds of the
Northern masses from the backguard exhibi-
ton of this Tennessee parson.'"
Il Sad SigAt.-A cigar in the mouth Of a
clergyman, as he rides on his way, on Sab
bath day, to make an exchange at some
neighboring village, thus commencing the
day in an act OF animal indulgence The
excuse for this filthy, demoralzlng habit, is
simply that he has praeticed other kindred in
dulgences in eating too freely of unsuitable
food, and, having gratified his aprstite in par
taking of the food, he feels justified in the use
OF the tobacco, thinking thereby to relieve
himself from the effects of his over eating. and
be hetter fitted for the service of the day-for
he is to discourse to the people upon night.
eousness, temperance, purity, and self dental
teaching them to abstain from feshly lusts
which war against the soul, and to present
their bodies blameess, living sacrifice holy
and acceptable to God, which is but their rea.
sonable service.
1t is indeed a sad sight to see any professor
OF religion indulge in the filthy, perniclous
use OF tobacco Watchman and Reflector.
n Life Hid Nth Christ in God.-Isay not
that we are to be looking away to heaven as
being disguised with the world much less
to be praising heavens adorable purity in
high words of contrast, as il to excuse or atone
for lack Of all purity here. only say that
we are TO be much in the meditation of
of Christ as glor6ed, surrounded with the
glorihed to let our mind be hallowed by its
pure converse and the themes in which it
dweils to live in the anticipation OF what is
most pure in the universe, as being what
we most love and long for in the universe
and so we are to be raised by our longngs,
and purified with Christ by the hopes we rest
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