The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-11-10
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| puIypOFL, hahsachusetts. f9f ~i4f
MISCELLANEOUS.
The ScHIsMATIc MoVEMENr AMONG
THE OLD School PREsRYTERIAss.-.
The Presbytery of Lewis, Maryland,
at its recent session tried to dodge the
question Of excluding the signers Of
the rebellious Declaration aud Tes-
tim0Dyp from the Church courts, by
allowing the Rev. w, 9. Handy to re-
tain his seat, on the ground that be
had appended his name to the cen
sured document since Lle dissolutiOn Of
the AsseygbM The Baltimore Synod,
10 which the Presbytery Of Lewis be-
longs, has disapprpved this decision,
directed the Presbytery 10 refer the
case TO the next General Assembly,
and in the meanwhile for hidden
the admission. Of the Rev, w. G. Han
day as . member Of Church court.
SouTH CARoIINA.--Neao School
Presbgterian Missioa. The Synod Of
New York and New jersey has re-
commended the churches within its
bounds TO assist in raising funds for
the erection Of house Of worship
for the benefit Of the +" Mission Pres
byterian church and congregation
composed Of freedmen and Others,
&c. j. Adams, PASTOR at Charleston,
s. q. n qq00g ~ e ed
Rev. II. w. Beecher was installed |
pastor Of Plymouth Church in 1913. |
The Church was organized In 1916, |
with twenty one members. The pres |
ent membership is about eighteen |
hundred, and the congregation num-
bers nearly three thousand. Z y
PALESTINE RETURN or THE jews
TO THEIR lam, AN association has
been formed, styled the International
Society Of the Orient, the chief OBJ
ject Of which is the return Of the jews
10 their own land. The Rothschilds
and Sir Moses MonteHore are said to
be engaged IN it, and Napoleon and
several other soyereigns have given it |
countenance, The Sultan has virtu-
ally parted with his sovereign rights
over Palestine, All Christendpm
watches this movement with the most
intense interest, ,c..4ea, 81 TT" |
A new weekly Catholic journal for
the working classes, called the Uai-yI
gersoL EsrIgess, commenced in London
on the 9Th of October The second
number will include portrait Of DIR.
M'Hale,l Archbishop of Tuam, and
Cardinal Cullen, Archbishop Man
ming, DIR, Newman and others will fol-
low. ~ y. n yH eaaI rais
CHURCH SINGING In GERMANY
Rev. NJ @. Burt, ID. D., pastor of the
Broadway Presbyterian Church, Gin
cinnati, now in Europe, thus in a let
ter to the members Of his cohgregA-
ton says 2at ~ ~ g. l.a
The Protestant Churches here in
Germany have what may truly be CALL
ed congregational singing: There
is no choir; but the singing is led bya,
huge organ, perched in a lofty gallery
at the end of the church,, Everybody !
ngs-apparently withoutia single ex-.
ception. The door-keeper even dis
tributes hymn-books TO strangers that
they may participate. The music
sung is rot very interesting. II is
slow and lifeless. 1T is Of the choral
style, ike Old Hundred excepting
that there is much less tune in il than
there is in Old Hundred. AL the
people sing the melody, while the or
gan plays such q harmony az the per-
former pleases, SIS A8aWrqnw OF "A
I Civil WORTH OF THE SABBATH. -
1oil needs tito wipe off the CRIME
and sweat Of labor; TO refresh by
change of apparel; to restore and In
vigorate the body, exhausted by la
Dor; to enliven the mind by change
Of current of thought; and by all this
to fit laboring men for the renewing
tolls of the week ord uu 9R'l
Capital needs the Sabbath--to ale.
viate by inter;nission the care Of ac-
cumulation; to ease the unbending Of
the strained and exhausted mind; 10
give a sense of the value of lnobler
objects than silver or gold; to keep
mems humanity and consciousnessI
alive; to shield capital from harm, by
securing the power and triumph Of
law and order in society fgf II loiI
The lStote needs the Sabbath-to
illumine the public conscience, that
guardian of public safety TO cause
men to recognize the eternal Lawgiver,
as to honor the earthly powers that
be; 2 to secure the moral atmosphere
in n community which is the only |
aura eunnnrt ne law nUft eUfrr