The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-10-27

on profession Of faith. This ID o
larger increase than has ever charae.
terized any communion here covering
the same time. The new house OF
worship erected for his Church il cx-
pected to be ready for occupancy be-
fore the year closes
The Rev. II. r. Brown, formerly Of
| Madison, Indiana, but late Of Chicago,
has resigned his passionate Of tho Cen
trail Presbyterian Church In that city.
Rev. II. Happergett, d. D., a
member Of the Presbytery Of stock
ton, and for many years one Of the
Secretaries Of the Board Of Domestic
| Missions. Of the o. s. Presbyterian
| Church, died ia California, on the I'd
Inst, after weeks illness caused by
foyer,
FaATERNfzATIoN - At the meeting
Of the Presbytery Of Carlisle, last
week, Q delegation from the Presby.
terry Of Harrisburg New sehooD ap.
peared, consisting Of the Rev. Drs.
Dewitt aud Wing, and ruling elder
Weir, Of Harrisburg. DIR. Dewitt.
through the iniirmities Of age, not be-
Ing able TO stand, sat 40 the right Of
the Moderator, and read an address
full of beauty aud tenderness, adv0-
eating an organic union between the
New and Old School branches Of the
Church. As he referred TO the one
ness of our earlier history, and re-
called the memory Of men Of his nc
quhintance In this Presbytery half n
century ago, the sentiments he ex-
pressed, coupled with his own. emo
tons, caused tears 10 gliaten in the
eyes Of many present.-The Prcsbg-
terrain.
IMPORTANT LITIGATION - LARGE
CHARITABLE BEoURsT Our former
weilakn0wn fellow citizen, Isaac Gro.
mic, who died August 10 1865, after
bequeathing various portions Of his
large estate to his relatives, devised
property aud funds, now valued ut
100000 TO the Louisville Presbyte.
rian Orphan Asylum and the Sisters
Of Mercy OF New York-each in equal
proportions. Unfortunately in writing
his last will and testament, the proper
title OF neither institution was given, |
ms required by law that in this city |
being the Louisville Presbyterian Or |
phan'a Home. Upon the ground of
this failure, evidently through want Of |
caution in drawing the instrument, the
heirssat-law have instituted suit be-
fore Chancellor Pirtlc for the estates.
The managers of the Presbyterian
Orphans Home have fled cross
bill in Chancery, and although there
may be n difference in the name their
institution bears and that mention
ed by. the testator, they feel conf
dent that justice ana equity will award
them the $4,000 that the charitable
deyieor evidently intended for the
benefit Of the orphans of our city,
But q new difficulty has arisen, and
one that 10 quite Ms perplexing as the
legal, This IL of theological eharae.
ter, growing out Of the recent diseen.
.iona in the Presbyterian Church.
The constitution of the Orphans
Home prescribes that the members
IF the Society shall consist Of the ORR
ginal signers Of the constitution, the
pastor, ruling elders, deacons, and
.rusteee of the various Presbyterian
Churches Of Louisville connected
With the Presbytery of Louisville, the
synod of Kentucky, and the General
4 Assembly of the United States of
America Louisville Democrat Oct 2
The Rev. r. Il. Bliss, laboring in
Tenn, writes, in a late let
or TO the Secretary Of the American
Home Missionary Society as follows:
Northern people are coming to
eel more and more insecure. Scores
# men and millions of capital have
'een turned away from this city and
egion because of the wretched state
IT things which parties visiting here
ave witnessed. Every religious and
enterprise is paralized.
Doubt, distrust, insults, abuse, threats,
nd every form of traitor and hellish
malice, are the portion Of those from
he North who engage in these enter
rises
NEsssrHNAaRUane