Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1865-07-08

are smaller and the prayer bneetiBgs but
thinly attended. ia
Rsvivals.4oar religious szeh.ngss, Y
generally speaking, are barren Of re-
vival items. The drouth Of summer is
upon the Churches It-is strsnges but
true, that few revivals occur in the sum
mer season. I'm former times, at camp
meetings, the Methodists, in particular,
were favored with large numbers of con-
versions and accessiops to the Church,
during the most sultry portions of the
year. But with the abandonment of
eamp-meetings, as a special means Of
Grace, the revival spirit seems to have
forsaken the Church, so far as summer
Manifestations Of the Spiriss powerTis
an indication of that fact
Wenetiee that the old-fa shioned camp
meetings are still sustained in some por-
tons of our country and in few places
in our, own State, but little interest 10
taken in them BY the great bulk of the
Church membership. 1t would be profit
able to the Church, we think, were those
meetings reviFed.srfs sgqF
X A few Sabbaths since delightful
scene was witnessed at the North Broad
Street Church (Nss )Phila delphia, ih..ths
reception of 81 persons into theirseom-l
munion-2s on profession, and 9 by Lett
ter. Most Of these we're from the Sab
bath School A number Of other young
persons are waiting TO avail themselves
of future communion. One hundred
and one persons have been added to this
Church in the last nine months.
A revival has been in progress at Har-
rison, Ohio, which continued more than
week, duringR which timeT % were
added to the Church at that place. -.
IL ~E.H 81 '-- ~ u
Miscellaneous. - Bishop Gregg,
Protestant Episcopal, OF Texas, directs
his clergy to resume the Prayers for the
President in use before the war broke
out ..-4st7u essrr
Bishop Andrews, of the Methodist
Church, South, the man whose persist
ency in holding slaves contrary. to tbs
:. Church rules, led to the Methodist dis
ruption in 1874, has also issued an Ad
n dress counseliug snbmission. ,IE5s 3
The Second Presbyterian Church il
Louisville has lately met the enemy anC
bearded him in his den. At the election
! of ruling elders, secessionists were de
q feated and the righteous prevailed = Z
English omnibuses. have been -sstAb
= lished which run from Jerusalem Ant
Bethlehem to places in the neighbor
4 hood.
eati says that one of the Cincinnati
churches pays its minister So 500 pc
annum. Three Thousand dollars of thi
sum are contributed by thirty-six per
lm sons The largest Subscriptions is stw
= hundred dollars the smallest ten, o
which there is but one and the neT
- smallest forty. Five hundred dollars j
ID made up from the weekly collections
-Four Of the Methodist churches in th
: city are Weather than this one, and ia
r. more numerous, yet the highect salsr
paid scarcely reaches s2,500. ..
n. The Pope of Rome was severty.thre
years old on the 18th Of May, and o
ri the 10th Of June reached the nip eteent
year of his pontifcste. Out of th
:. long list of two huadred and 6fty-nip
Popes, only eight have worn the tar
E. for g longer period than Plus IX.i"
. Bishop Ames has appointed RsvsG Gi
bert Haven, D. D., q, missionary to I'll
Southern work in Vicksburg, Mississipp
Brother Haven has shown his high 81
rs preciation of this work, and has positiV
,Sn views as to the mode Of carrying it TO
.sw ward. We shall be glad TO know |
g. enters the tield. sea' s-a se Isre3T .
aes, Miss Maria Mitchell, formerly OF Ma
re- tucket, has been invited to the profe
Gu serial Chair of Astronomy of the VASES
"a. "a Female College, Poughkeepsie, Ne
sss. York. The Astronomical 0oservatol
CT this institution was erected at an 9
: pense of $4,000, aRd contains mo
p valuable instruments.
Bishop Kingsley hasYsafsly arrived
Denver City in time to meet the Col
2 RADIO Conference on the 22d ultT 1
soon as the session is over be proceet
). at once to Olympia, w. T., the seat
the Oregon Conference His journ,
had rather improved his health tbs
sr otherwise. A later letter from the Bis
- op expresses great doubt as to his beir
able to reach the Pacific overland on q
count Of the Indians. Nothing pos
.aS BILE, however, will be left undone to I
: oa q cure this object.
Ites. SO Fl 3
-sst To-MORRow. - Victor Hugo write
There is only one way of refusing I
pity morrow; that ia to die" Since Il
" world cannot die, it must accept /
- morrow 1t cannot have another To- dd
5t. 1t deludes itsef continually by chllil
= each new day by the same old nam
=. bat that is nothing. Whafs in q nam
>N The morrow must come with new a.
H. better life; else, why not snd with
a7e day2 Some people distrust the futu
10 unless it will repeat the past. But "