The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-08-18

terry UJ. p of Ohio, at Hamilton, on
the Goth ult., the complaint against
Rev. w. G. McCune was put in the
hands of committee consisting of
Revs. Richey and Turner, and Mr.. L.
Findley to illup certain blanks among
the specifications, the charge being
that of holding and defending fun
damental and serious errors on the
subject of Church Fellowship" ifa
Thirty 1.-TWO Congregational Churches
in Kansas report this year a member
ship of 1888. The benevolence Of these
Churches has been remarkable, con-
sidering their circumstances. Twenty
four, with an aggregate membership
of $50, report 81 sol raised for minis
tiers salaries; $3,775 for church cree
ton; and for all religious and benevo-
lent objects they have given $l3,596,
or at the rate of $24 05 per member.
The Archbishops and Bishops of
England have determined on the
formation Of new order of laborers
in the Church, called readers.
They are to be publicly appointed,
after an examination by {. Bishop,
and are to minister in outlying dis
tricts. They will be not unlike the
local preachers of the Methodists, and
it is thought their influence will draw
the masses toward the Established
Church. .ieaa48
Rev. J. N. Pierce, stationed at In
dependence, recently had an appoint
ment out in the country. On his way
to 1t, accompanied by his wife, he was
stopped by some bushwhackers, who,
with drawn pistol, threatened his life
and made him turn back. His wife
tainted and fell from the buggy.
Brother Pierce returned to Independ-
ence, but on the next Sabbath went
out again, il company with posse of
friends, and preached. He is not the
man to be scared off by blood thirsty
rebels. We have very few preachers
in Missouri who cannot face death
fearlessly. 81 We. thank God that our
work. is manned by brave men, who
can and will watch and fight and
pray So says the last Central est.
Louisl Christian. Advocote.
Attic late meeting of the General
Synod of the Evangelical. Lutheran
Church in the United States, the long
rising diVisive feeling eliminated in
an organic divisions the large Penn
sylyania4 Synod leaving the General.
Synod and becoming an independent
body, and probably the nucleus of a
new organization upon a national
scale. The division, as we understand
the matter, grows out of High and
Low Church Lutheranism, the form
er more rituaHstic and sacramental In
its type, and tenacious of an intense
construction of the Augsburg Con-
| fession, and the latter, more in ac-
cordance with what is generally term
ed the evangelical view of conversion
and religious experience, is distin
guished from mere sacramental grace.
VALPARAISO Some $4,000 have
been raised in Valparaiso as a Cen
tenary fund, to be used in the i'm
provement of the College there 1t is
expected to secure $4,000 before the
work is through.
HALF THE misunderstanding
to reports made in the Church papers,
and facts collected from private
sources, already one million of dollars
has been subscribed for the Centena-
ry of American Methodism. Yet in
some of the Conferences the work has
not yet been commenced
CHURCH STATISTICS IN OHIO AND
INDIANA According to the census
reports the statistics of the principal
denominations as to- number of
churches in Ohio and Indiana, are as
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