Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1865-12-16

Baptist.
The protracted meeting in the Baptist |
Church still continues at Marble Hall,
with the best of results. Penitents have
thronged to the anxious seat" and
many have made profession of faith in
Christ, and that they have experienced
change of heart Several, We under
stand, are to be baptised on next Sun.
day, who have already been received
into the Church. Rev. Mr.. Pentecost
seems to be doing good work, and is
rejoicing in witnessing the fruit of his
labors.
The American Baptist Publication
Society has issued On appeal to all the
Baptist Churches to raise, this year,
IS 900 for the purpose of recognizing
Sunday School Missions among the
whites Of the South, and beginning them
for the blacks. This fund, it 9calcu-
lated, will sustain Sunday Schools coll
porters in every Southern State, and
supply 1000 scholars with libraries. =
"A Baptist Missionary in India writes:
+ "Quite a number of our best boys
have given up very remunerative gov
eminent employ, and have entered the
ministry. This cheers me. / feelthat
we may look for success, such as we
have not seen yet. " - - -
He further writes:
| CAT our annual meeting we had re-
reported fifteen travelling preachers;
put the Board was SO much encouraged
at the report of the preachers, that they
appointed ten new men, so that we=are
now securing twenty-five more as tfay-
cling preachers" -
FREEwILL BAPTIST CHURCH -Thesnew
Freewill Baptist Church, on West Jack
son Street. Chicago, was dedicated on
i Thanksgiving morning, and was re-
dlced to ashes BY shutdown Loss
5000, with partial Insurance. 7Bup
posed to havearesulted from defective
1 flue The same afternoon FIVE build
ings, corner of jackson and2 Clark
Streets, were consumed, involving the
loss Of s60,O00-the work of an incen
A diary. The Chicago Times Copper
head) has an editorial in which II at
! tempts to prove that the burning of the
Church was sProvidentiale retribution
The crime committed was the advocacy
:. by the preacher on the occasion of-unf
kversal suffrage. e
i sPuRGEos ON THE SECOND ADsExr. $500
4 Mr.. Spurgeon having had sent to him
some tracts, pnrporting to be written BY
himself predicting the end of the world
as likely toicosie next year, that divine
has made thefeupons the following de-
| liverance: ANAJ as - Z
| You will hear of me in iBedlam when
| you. ever hear of such rubbish as. that
Y from me. The Lord may come in 1866,
and sbalibe glad to see Him; butt
4 do not believe he will, and the reason
why do not believe He win Is, because
all these two-penny, half-penn prophets
say He willG If they said he would not
come, should begin to think herwonld;
but, inasmuehlas they are all crying out
4 as one man that He will come In 1855
!. or 1857, l am inclined to think He will
not arrive at any such time. 1t seems
to me that there are, q great many
prophecies which must be fulfilled before
the coming of Christ, which will not be
fulfilled within the next twelve months
and prefer to stand inathe position Of q
Il man who knows neither the day nor the
hour in which the Son of Man cometh
looking always to his appearing, but
l never interfering with those dates And
figures which seem to- me to be only
proper amusement for young ladies' who
have nothing else 10 do, and who take
to tina. instead of reading novels, and
for certain .divines who have exhausted
their stock of knowledge, and therefore
try to gain a little ephemeral popularity
by shufling texts Of Scriptures the
Norwood gipsies shutiled cards in days
gone BY 4
II Rev. ]. De Garmo3 writing the
Journal and Messenger from Lawrence.
burg, says: ~
: 81 have been baptizing every Sabbath
for four weeks. Our prayer meetings
are interesting-about' two hundred in
attendance. Nine received the hand Of
fellowship last night; eighteen have
been added to the Church, thus far, by
baptism, letter, and restoration, and the
good work seems to be spreading"
| The Seventh Baptist Church; BALI.
more, of which Rev. Richard Fuller,
ID, is pastor, has membership of
l,022,sor nearly one-fourth of the whole
number in the Association. $
4 Atthe Freewill Baptist General Con:
ference, at Lewistown, Maine,za short
time since, resolution prohibiting the
ordination of ministers who usetobaeeo
was adopted. & =