Civilian & telegraph. [volume] (Cumberland, Md.) 1859-1875, 1859-08-18
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Religious intelligence.

Chicago Record thus cordially speaks of the
BishOp-elect of Minnesota, aud with authority
for Chicago is the place where he is best
known:
at is with the most urbuunded qualification
that we take up our pen to inform the read
ers e the Record, that our beloved Brother,
Rev Henry Il. Whipple, Of this city, has been
elected Bishop Of Minnesota. If ever new
Diocese started right, Minnesota has done So
We conceive him to have peculiar quaificu-
tions for the exercise Of this holy Office in this
Western Empire In tie prime of youthful
manhood q most thorough and uncompIon-
/ islng Churchman, devoted to the duties ot the
| ministry, rs gentle as a woman, and rs firm
rs rock, lie seems TO have been the very one
! especially fitted for the position TO which he
has been chosen With singular uuanimty
! Much as we love him in Chicago, and hard
as lis place will be to fl, we give him up
10 Gods great Church cheerful!y. If there
/ is man in the American Church better fit
ted for the position of a pioneer Bishop in
| great State on our frontier, we never saw him.
| That the Church Will march forward to large
conquests under Gods blessing upon his en-
ergctic administration in Minnesota, there is
nodoubt. Many prayers will accompany
aud follow i'm to his new field Of labor
EAsy PHEACHINc. At the last meeting
Of the Ednburg Free Church PrcsLytery, Dr.
| Guthrie said: "ln the matter of better preach
ing, which DR.. Begg thinks is wanted, also
agree with him. Preaching is not at all all
thing. They only find it easy who make cd
sy work of it. Laughter | know Robert
Hall was not of that opinion; for when some
! one asked him how many discourses a clergy
man could get up in week. he replied-"If
he is deep thinker, and great condenser
he will get up one and if lie is common
man, lie will get up two; and if he is an idiot,
he will get up six. [Laughter.l Now, a.
gree with Robert Hall; and, as we will admit
Of improvement, | agrece with DR.. Begg, that
If our ministers, in certain instances, would
stretch Themselves, more to the work, they
would attach the people more to them. ana
would get better and hrmer hold of them. J"
Reform ~ THE CHURCH.-We zee b. the
London Correspondence of the Churchman
that pretty effective war is making on what
is called "Pew System" in all the Churches
Of the Establishment in England. The object
OF the wa" IS To dcmolish the pews altogether,
50 that rich and poor may meet together on
The same level, without distinction The rev.
enuc lost in pew rents, it is proposed to make
good by voluntary contributions.
We are not sure that this is not a genuine
'reiorTn," There were no pews, nor velvet
cushion, nor anything Of the SORT in the DAYS
OF primitive Christianity. The multitadcs
who listened to the Apostles never heard of a
| pew, yet who will say that The Christianity
they preached was not, to say the least Of it,
as pure as that which is served up 20 the mis-
erable sinners in our own day, who say their
prayers and coulcss their sin3 in crimson and
velvet? The fact is, ''pews" are luxury, and
Il the Church ever expects to reach the mas
ses, y it will drive the luxury out
| 4 NEW CHURCu IN WAsHIEGTog'-Pr
atoms are made for commencing tho erection
Of splendid church on New York avenue.
| between 18th and l4th streets, on the site .,
the present second Presbyterian Church
The congregational the L street PRESBYTERIAN
Church have united with that church. The
propretors of Wilard's Hotel have purchas-
ed the + street Presbyterian Church, which
adjons their hotel, and contemplate building
an addition to their magifcenl hotel on the
site. The enlarged hotel will contain over
seven hundred rooms.
Dr.. Mason (Baptist) yisitit.ns part of
| inc NdTch (lh!lhj country, says: no White
man was ever here before, yet in this village
is a Christian population Of 100 families and
a wellsustaiued school of 20 pupils, while a.
round see or s other Christian villages.
These results have come in two years, the
Board has not expended a rupee, and the
missionaries have had ho more to do in il
than in planting the lofty pines that crest Tho
mountains, or painting the gorgeous rIrodod.
eudros that bloom in every nook and covert
Mr.. Thomas Cooper, the infdel lecturer
was recently baptized into the fellowship oI
the Baptist church in Leicester, England
During the day he preached three times t,
large congregations.
Rev. Dr. IIoldich, OF 5lc Secretaries Of the
American Bible Society, has sailed for Eng
land, designing to,conlcr with the British an,
Foreign Bible Society, and make himsel
thoroughly acquainted with the wants Of tht
foreign field
Tie number CT local preachers in the Meth
od;at Episcopal Church. in the United States
exclusive Of the Church south is 7.lG9. o
which number 37l belong to the old BaIti
more Conference a higher number than is at
tached to any other conference. That Of II
lincis contains $50; Philadelphia 3G8; Sort!
ern Illinois contains 500; New Jersy, 257