The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-07-07
RELIGIOUS.

The usual religious services will be
held tomorrow in all the churches of
the city, SO far as we have been
advised. rarf0g :
st. Paul's Church, Rev. HI. w.
Spaulding, Rector-Services as usual
on Sunday next at 1O1 o'clock A. M,
and "a P. NJ. There will be no SER
mon at the evening service Sunday
School at 9 o'clock A. NJ Wednes-
evening at "a P ~ No lecture.
We are glad to see that our
churches are generally more largely
attended this year than in years past,
yet still there is room for more, and
we can imagine no greater pleasure or
privilege than that of sitting for an
hour and listening to well digested
sermon, and were it not duty oblig-
atory on all to attend Church, we
would be still surprised to see so
many lounging about the street cor
ners, evidently dissatisfied with them
selves and wishing that this day of
rest and relief was over, when our
churches present so many attractions;
such as comfortable seats, delightful
music and interesting and instructive
discourses, delivered by learned and
elegant divines. 1t is indeed strange
that when the churches are at our
very doors almost, so many are too
listless to attend. We have known
persons in former years to walk six,
and even nine miles for the privilege
of hearing the Gospel preached, and
ladies thought nothing of walking
three and four miles Sabbath after
Sabbath, to church, when they could
have been provided with horses for
the asking. But times change and
We change with them, and now we
hear persons excuse themselves for
being absent from church when but
half a mile or less distant from their
homes, because the distance is so
great. We believe it is the duty Of
all to attend church regularly, a duty
for the neglect of which they will be
called to answer at the great day"
WASHINGTON STATION, INDIANA
CONFERENCE.-The charge, writes
Rev. I. N. Thompson, is having pros
perity under the labor of Reverend s.
Bowers, where heis spendinga second
year Their house of worship is now
too small TO accommodate the stated
congregation. The Sunday school.
which numbered Sc scholars at the
commencement of the year, now num-
bers 200. They have some earnest
workers, who know how to make the
Sunday school interesting to the adult
and attractive to the children.
A GLORIOUS BEGINNING.-At a
meeting of the Trustees of Morris
Chapel, held on Friday evening last,
subscription was opened to build a
new edifice. Only nine were present,
and their subscriptions footedup $46,-
600. The six absent Trustees, should
they come up to the same scale, the
Trustees subscription alone will
amount to not less than SIS 1000. They
have exchanged their present location
for one of the best sites in the city, on
the corner of Smith and Seventh. All
will agree that this is not to be beaten.
Two of the Trustees have given $10,-
600 each, and others will do likewise.
= Western Christian Adoocate.
BISHOP AsSBURY-Harper's Nigga
zine for July has sketch, with por-
trait, of Bishop Asbury. There is
much of truth in the opening sen
fences:
There is a man, not even named in
our leading historians, who yet has
wrought more deeply into American
life in its social, moral, and religious
facts. than any other who lived and
acted his part in our more formative
period. His name was Francis As
+ bury. His life is overlooked, and so
spiritual, pervasive, and effective a
force is left unnoticed. And this is
but an instance in which history is
ever repeating its own method.
We have this concerning the person
of the Bishop: