Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1865-12-30

crease and spread, until the whole city
will feel its beneficial effects.
THE Sabbath School scholars and
teachers of the. Ingle Street NJ. I'LL
Church had kind Of Christmas reunion
and jolli6cation on Wednesday evening
last. We were unfortunate enough to
bsout of the city at the time and we're,
subsequently, deprived of the satisfac-
ton we should have experienced in be-
ing present We understand from those
who attended the meeting that it was
both pleasant and profitable. The ex-
efcises consisted Of singing Rotations,
&c, such as usually characterize such
meetings. Under the faithful superin-
tendenee of Mr.. s. N. Curnick, the In
GLE Street SchoolI may be ranked with
the most prosperous in the city.
We also learn that the minister and
congregation of that Church design
commencing soon q series OF protracted
religious meetings. ~
REvIvALs IN TIE E1sT.-The Adrocote
and yoarna1 Dec 2Ist, notes the follow
! ing Seventh Street Church, New York,
| over 100 CONVERSIONS and .accessions;
Jsnelstreet Church, 20; South Third
Street. BrOoklyn,iJ. s. Inskip, pastor, 16
Milan, Duchess CO., New York, 40 Bar.
ton, Wyoming Conference, 20; North
/ I
Abingdon, same Conference, so; Eli
colts Mills, Md, CO. 2
Very encouraging revivals of religion
4 are in progress in different parts of the
States of Ohio and Indiana. From the
correspondence of the Western ADVOCATE
! we condense the following:
A meeting Of AZ days at Westman
Chapel, Gallipolia, resulted in ten CON
versions and six accessions. Another
meeting at Porter, which ia still in pro.
gress has resulted at the time of writing,
in six accessions aud nine conversions.
"a AT Rushyille Ohio, thirty have joined
Ethe Church, and still the work goes on.
4 Q AtSalem, Indiana, twenty have Joined
the Church and twelve experienced reIi
! gion.
7 At Vienna Indiana, meeting of IL
days resulted in So applying for member
ship in the Church.
4 On the whitewater circuit, north In
diana Conference, meeting has been
in progress several weeks. Forty-twc
have Joined the Church, many of whom
have made profession ofreligion.
| NEW ENGLAND MRTHoDIsM.- Her.
add says that the total increase of mem
bers throughout the entire connection in
the United States is 939, yet. 1.-THE net in
crese in the six New England Confer
fences alone. has been z, 1851; not bad
showing fol. "the decline of Methodism
in New England"
i JANUARY SEvENrH.-0f this impor
tsnt day in Methodism, the Western
! Christian Allocate says:
This first Sabbath of the new year il
in our denomination to be devoted to
the Centenary Of Methodism In every
tcongregation the whole subject should
be fully set forth, and the plans proposed
: infinitely and carefully explained, A
broad and deep foundation should be
laid for the appropriate reflections and
, duties of the year By showing the
IAgrounds for our gratitude. Some large
] views OF the manner of houoring this
] year with our substance viii not fail to
be inculcated. Our gifts are not to be
: for a week, q year, bat for a CENTURY.
, They are to be over and above, entirels
} aside, FROM ell we would have given had
} there been no Centennial celebration.
!, The noblest minds will think that the
largest gifts Of their lives can alone be
, commensurate with the claims of so
Z / great an occasion. If from every pull.
pic on this day the trumpet gives no I'M
certain sound, the hosts of Gods elect
! will rally fer the grand occasion, This,
tth0ngh one of the first things of the
1Centenar7 year, 10 not one of the least
important. - sas
II METHoDIsM AND RoMAEIsM COMPARED.
The AdUocate and Journal, December
18th, says:
i The census of the United States for
1861 gives in two lines the following
Istatement: Msthodists: number of
! Echnrches, l2,487; aggregate sccommo-
dalton, 4,2O9, 1888; value of church pro-
perty, $l4, 636, 671. Roman Catholics !:
lnumber Of churches, LIP; aggregate
! accom- mediation, 620.950; value of
church property, s., 973, 1888.
But what about their respective popu-
lations2 Before answering this ques-
ton an important qualification should
be stated, namely, that the Papists keep
no other records than, their baptismal
registers; their popular figures, there
/ fore, show their baptised population;
the veriest drunkards, occupants of pris-
ons, etc, are all reported in their esti-
mates. Methodism, on the other hand,
maintains the most rigid terms of mem
bership known among the leading evan
Igelical denominations. Its Discipline"
would annihilate almost any Popish
Church in the land in twenty-four hours,
Eff as fairly applied as it is in its own
Churches. Now, our new Commenta-
~ Book" just out, gives us, from the
latest and best authorities, the aggre-
gates Of the Methodism which sprung
from the oil John.Street Church Of
1856 These results for 1865 are:
Members, 1872, 7705 travelling preach
ers, 1850; local preachers, $4,000;
colleges and academies 200; period:
Gals, 30; population-adding three
non-communicants to each communi~
cant-8, 100000. The two Methodist
Episcopal Churches-npart from all
other branches of the determination
have l9l colleges and academies, and
an army of 81, LOG students, taking the
last report of the Church South before
the war- since which it has made none
land our owns REPORTER 1865. From
these aggregates must be deducted
\ comparatively small portion for Upper
Canada; but with. this abatement they
leave Us nearly double the Catholics in
I actual population, and the United States
census gives usnearly eleven times their
IRumber of churches, worth greatly more
as property. Add now all the other
d Protestant bodies Of the conamuni-
| tyl to the Methodist force, and Popery
sinks I'd its proper comparative place in
the pale of our civilization and religion.
In Pppefy is, no doubt, very bad thing
n for the land, as we see in all our prisons,
pauperhonses, filthy suburbs, etc., and
especially see in our occasional mobs, as
the last one in New York city; bat its
ecclesiastical force in the country is
continually exaggerated by our public