Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1866-04-14
RELIGIOUS


Services will be held in the two
Methodist Churches to morrow as usual
Sabbath School, Preaching, and Class
Meetings will all be held at the regular
times and places.
The Third Quarterly Meeting ofIugle
Street NJ. E. Church passed of most
agreeably aud pro6tably to the members
Of that charge and congregation ON last
Saturday aud Sabbath. The Presiding
Elder, Rev B. f. Rawlins, was present
and ofEiciated The occasion seems to
have been looked forward to with
prayerfnl interest, and the religious ex-
ercises were participated in with a
fervor that indicated deep feeling onthe
part Of those connected with that charge,
who have taken upon themselves the
name Of Christ On Sabbath afternoon
the ordinance of Baptism was admins
tered to large number of young adults,
who have made profession Of religion
during the protracted meeting of last
ia winter. The exercises wero solemnly
interesting and spiritually profitable to
those who Witnessed them. Immediate
ly afterwards the Sacrament Of the
Lords Supper was partaken of by an
nnusualIy large number of Communi-
cants. Eva Z
On Monday evening the regular Quar-
terly Love Feast vas enjoyed by large
number Of Christians. those who par
ticipated in the exercises say that it was
time Of great spiritual strengthening.
The Quarterly Love Feast ia, and has
always been regarded BY Methodists, as
one of the most important means Of
i-R grace" ~
Presiding Elder Marriott writes the
h Advocate, March 29lb, that in his Dis
= trict, Lima District, Central Ohio Con-
ference--not less than / ,000 have nro-
fessed faith in Christ, and united with
the Church within the last four months. !,
Rev. J. 81. Hull, Of the indianapolis
District, Northwest Indiana Conference,
writes that there have been nearly or
quite 1000 added to the Church, in the
bounds of this district, during the win
ter, and some Of the preachers are yet
holding meetings with success.
METHODIST STATE SUNDAY SoHoo1
CoNvESTroE.-The State Sunday School
m Convention of the Methodist EPISCOPAL
Church for Ohio, is held this year at
Dayton, Wednesday and Thursday, NAV
9Ofh ard 2Ink Rau II II -
sistant Corresponding Secretary OF the
Union, viii be present, and exhibit his
plan of holding a Teachers Institute.
Both profit and interest, we have no
doubt, will be mingled with the exercises.
A VETERANS TEsTlMoEY.--A new
educational building at Chetham Hill,
England, was dedicated Thursday.
March 9Th, Revs I. jackson, DIR. Dixon,
and DR.. Hannah, being present and par.
ticipated in the exercises In reply to
most tender and affectonate address,
rendered this veteran Wesleyan ministe-
rial trio, Rev. Thomas Jackson said that
he had been Methodist preacher for
nearly sixty-two years; and if he had
his life to begin over again, be should
make the same cSoice. he had been a
hard reader, and had gone through
.sa many thousand volumes The more he
studied, especially in the Bible, the
deeper was his convictions that the
Methodist doctrine was true, and the
Methodist discipline was in character
Scriptural, and in tendency holy. Long
life, he believed, was generally sought BY
mankind; but he must say that almost |
every day he trembled at the recolIec- |
tons of his past lifes His only hope |
was IN the atonement, and his heart |
went along with them this morning in
singing,
" Friend of sinners spotiess Lamb
Thy blood was shed for me-
He was thankful to say that now. in his |
eighty-third year, and with his many
mental in6rmities, he had no disease, |
and was never in better health. He |
never had a melancholy hour. He was |
Fastening to the better company that
await us above. He had seen two gem
erations of preachers pass away, and his !
memory end his heart still chung to them. |
he was full of the hope of Immortality, |
and contemplated the future without |
alarm and without dread, believing in |
his final acceptance with God The con-
nectlon had seen glorious days, and |
would see more glorious still. He was |
going to heaven, and might not see them |
g here; but there he should look on them |
with deepest interest He trembled for |
those boys in theology who rejected the |
doctrine OF Christ's atonement God /
was their Lawgiver, as well as their
rather, and could have no dealings with |
ms apostate offspring, except through, |
the medium OF the slain Lamb. Hell
trusted that the Methodists would hold
to this doctrine while the sun and noon