Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-04-28
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.
Concerning Churches I'm Northern
Ohio.

FSASCIAL. The Morrow County
Bible Society held its 18th anniversary
meeting in Mt. Gflead on the 18th. No
ney received from all quarters, 1884, e1-
pended 1854.
Mrs. Donelson, of Delaware, o, cores
ponding secretary Of the Ladies' Central
Centenary Association, publishes an ap-
peal for the purpose of raising $4,000 to
be expended in the purchase Of q library
for the Ohio Wesleyan Female College.
PERsoNAL-The congregation of tho
I'd Presbyterian Church, Delaware, o.
have refused, by a unanimous vote, TO &C.
oept the rendered resignation Of their pop
ular and efficient pastor, Rev. o. II. New
ton.
Rev. Oliver d. Spencer, President of
the Iowa State University, who is a grad
uate of the o. W. University at Delaware,
o., has been appointed Consul to Genoa
and will sail for his field of labor in about
ten days, accompanied by his family. The
Trustees Of the institution over which he
presides, granted him fifteen months leave
Of absence and continued his salary.
Rev. S. R. Kerr, formerly of Pittsburgh
and at present a resident clergyman of
Youngstown, delivered a lecture OF
aTaste7 before the Sons of Temperance
of youngstown, a short time since, which
was highly spoken of by the press of that
place.
Rev. @. Hartley, pastor of the Metho-
dist Church in Norwalk, delivered an elo-
quent anniversary address in that place
on the 18th, on the assassination Of Presi-
dent Lincoln.
Rev. Henry Il. Bawden, who has occu-
pied the pulpit of the Baptist Church in
Akron, for several weeks, has accepted e
call from the Church to become their
Pastor.
New CHURCHES, IMPROVEMENTS, ETC.
Movements are on foot in Napoleon,
Henry county, to procure the necessary
means to build two churches in that viii
lage-one for the Presbyterian congrega-
ton, and one for the Universalist denom-
ination.
The Baptist congregation in Wauseon,
Fulton county, intend erecting a house of
worship at an early day in that place.
The old church of the Methodist Socie-
ty in Toledo is now being torn down. On
its site viii be reared 8 new church of
larger dimensions and more symmetrical
in Its proportions. The new church, it is
estimated, will cost s35, Ooo.
SUNDAY ScHooLs.-The Oberlin Sab
bath School had $50 teachers and scholars
in attendance last Sunday. Probably no
other town-of equsl siEe-in the world
could show 50 lsrges one.
MISUNDERSTANDING fiscal year OF
the American Bible Society, Just closed,
has been the most prosperous in Eastern
Ohio Of any in its whole hist ~. In the
twenty-five counties that compose the
Eastern District of Ohio tbere has been an
increase Of about 90 per cent. Twenty
one counties have been canvassed 1885
families have been visited, and every &C.
cessible and destitute household has been
with a copy Of Gods word.
Upwards of $4,000 copies of the Scrip
lures have been distributed during the
year, and So, 900 received for the cause in
this district. This exhibit is in no small
due to the efficient and energetic
of DR.. T. c. Hartshorn, Of Ravenna,
the agent of the society in Eastern Ohio,
han whom the society and the Bible
,ause have no more devoted or valuable
.aborer.
Forty-two persons made application for
admission 10 the Presbyterian Church In
last Sabbath.
The regular quarterly meeting of the
Board of the Ohio Baptist Convention
vas held at Mansfield on last Tuesday,
Rev. Mr.. Burton, of Akron, presiding.
The business of the Board is in connection
With the spread of the Baptist cause in
he State, and to provide for the support
# feeble churches.
OTHER LocALITIEs.-A report was
ubmitted to the Methodist Conference at
Sew Orleans, calling for the election of i
tx new bishops. The Committee on
recommended the abrogatEon Of !
he probation system of the Church, max ,
1g membership dependent upon profess s
on of faith. Also, that class-meeting no
be regarded as a test of member
pip, but only as a privilege.
Under the direction Of the Troy Con-
,renee of the Methodist Church, in SEES
at Cambridge, New York, the re- !
lains of Philip Embury, the founder of J
in this oouatry, were removed t
their long resting-place In an old :
nd obscure graveyard near that town to D
le large and tasteful cemetery now in Il
;e. An address on the occasion was f,
Il L. Ds-L.- L.