The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-09-01
RELIGIOUS ITEMS.
PRESBYTERfAN.

completed its subscription towards
building the missionary ship g Morn
ing Staf.9li II amounts to the very
=zcreditable sum of forty dollars.
The Presbytery of Salem, with
which the Walnut Street Church OF
this city is connected. meets at Mount
Zion Church, Ireland. Dubois County,
on the 18th of September. New
School Presbyterianism is considered
s4pretty sound politically. We hardly
thought there was enough of that
kind of element in benighted Dubois
to sustain a Presbyterian Church.
1--WE sheper the brethren will aeave
enough, leayen5 to improve il, pOliti-
cally. : =
W TIE Presbyterian Churches N. So
of Ohio and Indiana areicontributing'
funds to furnish the students rooms
of Lane Theological Seminary, near
.TCinoinnatig The amount reported is
about 81, 600 $50 .T9AaATL9
Rev. III. c. Hovey, of Florence,
Mass, has received9a unanimous call
to become pastor of the Second Pres
byterian Church in. New Albany, Ind,
(late Rev. DR.. Atterburysl and will.
enter upon his new duties in October.
ass Twenty-eight ministers es a and elders
oflthe Presbytery of; w est Lexington,
20. s., have issued an address " to
the Presbyterian people Of Kentucky
in which they deprecate, the course of
the signers Of the Declaration and
'oIsstimohy; 1 q I, express dissatisfaction
witho the action of the General AS
sembly touching these men; refusing
to place themselves in the attitude of
hostility to the General Assembly;
declaring the hope that Ythe next
y Assembly, may do something in the
WAY of relieving the Presbyteries af4
elected from the infiction of the order
nef the last Assembly; and exhortihg
to efforts to preserve the peace and
unity of the Church. ages IN
+, A Big SUNDAY ScHooL1The Sec
Ond Presbyterian Church in st, Louis
maintains Mission Sabbath School
in the German portion Of the city.
The whole number of pupils enrolled
lis over, 5000, while the average at
tendance from October, to the LIST of
May is over 1000, and during the
Summer from l 300 to ], ZOO. 2. ga
o. The secession members. of the Old
School Presbyterian General Assem-
ebly held iraleng -talked-of Conven-
etion at St. Louis on the 15tha Itiwas
"a slim and sorry affair. There were
two sympathizers from illinois. pres
ent. F1'
fhamwar. aEETHODIsF. !, asa sa8'T +
We clip thefollowing extracts from
the !. Western Christian Advecate of
this week: 0
-sSAl the class and prayer meetings
ARE well attended, and conversations
are frequent in the use of the ordina-
ry means of grace. A-few years since.
this charge was supported in part, by
now far. from rich; yet they have
raised this year, in cash and subscrip-
lions, as quarterage, for current ex-
penses of the Church, and regular
Conference collections, So, 81 The
membership, which was one hundred
and fourteen two years since, has in
creased to three hundred and twenty
five. The pastor. Rev. Aaron Turn
er, closes prosperous year by taking
better half to share the tolls and
triumphs. of his itinefant life.Ei3s9E
OUR, WORK AMONG THE FREEDMEN
Whatever measure pof success may
attend the efforts of our. Church
among the white population of the
South; there is anIinViting1and prom
Using field among the freedmen, which
only needs Iaborers and labor to Sc
cure alfull harvest TheD Southern
Church may regard our dmissienary
movements an encroachment, the
whites may treatouf missionaries with
indifference or, contempt, I but the
freedmen will welcome these earnest
and faithful laborers, and hail with
delight the replanting among them of
the Church they love. Here is the
epen door-in our own land Ethiopia
stretches. forth the hand-from the
freedmen the Macedonian cry is heard
The loudest. ni 7is ia iHi5f57 o' ESQ
bss' According to reports made in
church papers, and facts collected
from private sources, already $1,000
O09 have been subscribed for the Cen
tenary of American Methodism, Yet
in some of the Conferences the work
has not yet been commenced h
Ee E EPISCOPAL. aglU4fu
Rev. DIR. Huntington has declined to
become Episcopal Bishop of Maine,
feeling that his field of labor in Massa-