, 1863-07-25

4 few ecces6ionfsts refused to illuminate.
Tho people ported pIekets around the town
to keep Of the militia, and then proceeded to
clean out tue premises Of those rebels.
RELIGIOUS 1NaELL1GENcE.
The Bishop Of London has set on foot
subscription to raisc one million sterling, or
live million dollars, In ten years, to relieve
the spiritunl dc.titn.ion Of nis diocese. The
Biel5p offers to giTe e20, 900 toward the
amount required, or 2,oo0 per year for the
ten ycarf.
The Rcr. Dr.: Sheldon, eenior pastor Of.
IL noN ii the t1tty-third year Of his pas.orate,
and during the whole Of that time his lived
III the same parsonage.
The following is the statement OF Rev.
Charles Deecher Lately on trial Tor heresy in
Massachusetts,:
Mr. Beecber stated that he had preached IN
elaborate sermon since be had been pastor Of
Georgetown. tie object cf y hich WAS to anui-
hi:ats Uriye1ta1ism. a quotation Was given
in proof &c stated to the council that he
never had doubt that the wicked and al
1i1rs would have part III the lake that barn
c131 With fire and birthstone. He asked the
courcil if he could advance such sentiments
IS tic extracts Ehoa cd htm to hays advanced
with such so'emn warnings to the impenitent,
and yet moi believe them. To Offset the state
ments made by witnesses that he never
preached :tbuut tic wrath Of God, he rc8d
from one Of his sermons which contained pas
saees ii crest solemnity and force relating to
God3e wrath against the sinner.
From q sermon preached in April, 1862, It
appeared that he warned sinners ''by the bor-
rofe Of The second death, to repent" From
SERMONS preached Norcmbcr27, 1862, Noyem-
hcr 50. 1856, June, 1868. md 3larch and April,
1868. ext1acts were read, Eouched In strong
"a I'm fNnfo
| the wicked. ID another sermon, recently
preached, upon eternal Judgment, be clearly
tct forth The doctrine Of eternal punishment
| he did not believe that there would be a lit.
| 61al place Of torment, or that tue wicked
would be coatinue1ly increasing in capacity
the reality, Us cannon at long range must be
elevated aborc the mark. Tie redeemed In
the world to come would be in the matorfty
and the lost In small minority. Wherever
the world Of despair might be, it was the
prison Of the Universe
The earch- destroyer would not snatch from
Christ the great majority Of the human race.
| There would be no need OF force 10 exclude
the wicked from heaven. Nothing but On
impotence could dseg them into 1t. The pun.
able extent, consist in the kno Wedge Of what
| they had lost he declared to the council,
before Almighty God, that he Was not a Uni
| yclsalist nor Rtstorat1onist, neither had he
adopted the doctrine Of the humiliation Of
the wicked In regard TO contrary expFes-
eons aid sentences, he had h1rdly need to
deny them, and &et nc did entirely. BE did
not beli.re the witness who had taken notes
| Wis ek11r1l reporter, aad no person who was
| fee from prejudice could possibly have fmag-
t iued such words as were attributed to him.
He had attacked tho doctrine OF universal
| salvation for the Sesg purpose Of proving
] eternal punishment.
| Nj, Beechet did not produce any witnesses
| t. prove the truth Of the rusi!ions he had as
| suinel. He thought his own sermons, such
would be sufficient. Hv next passed to con
| elder the charge relating to his views on the
| atonea ent and dtyfne sorrow. He believed
TINT Christ suffered In both natures. The re.
beIliou Of man had, from the beginning, put
thorns into the divine being and nails INTO hls
feet, He believed the atone1nent was punitive
in its nature, but he differed with others u
| the belief that the gnilt or suffering ot slI
| was inflicted upon SATAN and not upon Christ
| The atontme WIS in the nature OF an argu
ment to shoW how God could save the right
| cons and punish the guilty.
| The following curious calculations wert
| asce1tained by an English gentleman residing
at Amsterdam, 4. D. 1s73 also By anothe
rcrtlsman, wIo made similar calculation 4
D. 1Gl6. and they are raid to hare taken escl
Zion: -,
The Old Testament contains 80 books, o.
chapters, 23,214 verses, so, ,4S9 words, 2, 123,
100 letters. Tie middle book Of the Old Tes
lament is Proverbs; the middle chapter Is th
:sy,h of Job; the middle verse is the secon!
Of Chronicles, 10th chapter, between the lit
, and 18th ve1ees. The longest book Of the Oh
is Isaiah, having G0 chapters: shortest book
Obadiab, having chapter longest chspte
: Psal1ns JIG, having 176 verses; snoEtest cta2
Ter Psalms Ill, having verses; longest yeEs
Esther, Sth chapter and 9th verse, having .
! cknf4aEf
, Chronicles and 25th verse, having words an
The word aand" occurs in the Old Testa
1nent IS 54S times; the word Jehovah Or Lor
occurs 1875 times; tie word Reverend occul
but once in the Bible, namely, Psalns III
\ coffin was Joseph, in Genesis, 9Th chapte
: book Of Kings and 57th Of lsalah are allkt
The 2lat verse Of the 7th chapter Of Ezra col
tains the Alphabet. and J being as q one e,sa IN
tere, sud neither Lord nor God is to be foan
therein. The sth, 18th, 2lst aud 3Isr yersf
of the 10Th Psalm are alike: each verse
n the 15Gth Palm end alike. There are =
words or names In tho Bible Of more than q
bic to read arc the "a chapter u Job and Il
The Apocrypha mot inBpfred) contains 1
chu{,te1s, [, ,0sl verses and 153 1s5 words.
Tie New Testament coatains 20 books, = =
:, chaptcre, 1883 veraes, ISL ,523 words, $3.50
= letters. The middle book Of the New Test
u,ent is the ID Epistle to Thcssalonians; t
middle chapter is between the 18th and y
II Romans. The middle verse Is ACTS II
~ chapter aud 18th verse: The longest book
- chapters; shortest book I'd .Eplstle Of JoI
HayIng chapter; longest chlpter Luke t
1T, having 30 verses; shortest ch ptcr'
IT.. Epistle Of John, 1st chapter, having 10 verse
lopgest verse in Revelations 10th chapter q
Al verse, having 276 Letters and G5 wore
shortest verse is John 18th chapter and 8
verse. having letters and 3 words. Tue wc
,,, stand'' occurs in the New Testament 10
81 times. Nowhc,e, except in the 1st chapter
sAa I'd Timothy. ts the name OF GrandmoLl q,
contains CO books, LIED chapters, 81
verses, rs, ,Go2 words. and SCI, 49, letter.
TIC middle chapter or division Of the Bi
q: Is the l17th Palm. the middle Terse IN
ssn; VA bible is Psalm 1l6th, ycrse 10; the mid
line is 2d Chronicles. 4th chapter, p ,;e ana J.
1R cjeg into chapters and verses is attributes
Ste,,l1cn LarEdon, Archbishop Of Canterb1
IN thc reign Of King John, in the latter I
If tic tweiNh century, OF negtnniog q T,
thirteenth. Cardinal hugo, IN IN ths ~ m1a1s ~
the thlrteenth century, divided tae g. u,a nn- Ae =,
r. % ent trnpElation. In 1851, Atbias, a Jeg
red: Ansterda1a, divided the sections OF u
into yerfcs, rs VIC now. have them. Ko
S,elhens, French printer, had prevlol
a,d ! {155l) divided The AeH Ies1aue1t titc se
s-lz ~ tLcy Low arc. A Bible In the unlyel
= II Gotiingen Is written On 6,476 palm lea
From tho Cleveland papers we sathe'
= following, relative to the Esle Annual Coz
al encc, now in session:
ecreI su1,hn ne31p Conference paper having f
hodS AAe AAs ,r;Ih,rf 3e .cfIs nf tha
ceedi0gs Of each day: Ftem attend Z; a.E vel 81
that Tie exercises Of the Sabbath were 20, o,
> usuM interest,", ~ B,shon 8
o q ! Was numbclea ~ euoae ot aonrraw,ffnn
TT ! son addressed t1e Gltsas WYE.
it.n8 --nro in 1he forenoon. Al6 QSCou1eE
AeeN ora +1ri3}Iup1v c1o1uent.