The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-11-03

NdHiUfld. Up 10 81 uudfyy 1000, this
was the extent of the effort to organ
ize churches of this order in the State.
In October, 1865, one year ago, the
Churches numbered Is, with 537 mem
bers. Since then there has been or
gapiEed IL more, making 20 in all.
Twenty-Five of these churches are
north of the Missouri river, and IL
are. south of IT,. The number of min
listers is now. thirty one, against TWEEN
ty year ago. Notwithstanding bust
ness was transacted by the conference
and a series Of patriotic resolutions
adopted,
THE CONVERSION OF SENATOR Will
SON. - The religious conversion of
Senator Wilson, which some have
affirmed and others have denied, is
announced by the Senator himself in
the following remarks made BY him
at a revival meeting at Natick, Mass,
last week, The recent converts being
invited TO speak, Senator Wilson was
one Of the first 10 rise. and spoke in
substance as follows: r...ra. 80
He felt he owed il to himself, to his
friends about him, and TO the cause
of his Redeemer, to say a few words,
though he did it with some reluc-
tance. For more than thirty years he
had attended the services Of God on
that spot, and had listened TO hun
Idreds of sermons. He had been con-
yinced of the truths thus set forth,
and had no excuse to offer ifsv so long
delaying TO give his personal atten-
ton to the subject. He had never
shielded himself by infdelity, or de-
Tended his position by that poorest of
all excuses--the faults Of protesting
Christians, Whenever addressed per-
sOnallyrOn the subject, as he had often
been by friends from various parts Of
the country, he had always felt him
self guilty before God, and yet he had
lived more than fifty years rejecting
God. ~ fra tf.dtff .+
He had, seen the Christian die in
the triumph Of faith, and had often
stood BY dying soldiers and longed to
speak some word of Christian com
fort, and cheer IN their ears, and he
could d not. He had. stood by the
graves of those he loved best, and
Thought how often those lips, now
cold IN death. had breathed his. name
to heaven, He trusted that ia answer
to the prayers of dear wife, Of those
dear departed ones, and Of other dear
friends, he had now found abiding.
peace, 4 He would not exchange the
hope he, had for any earthly hOnore.
He had enjoyed more peace and as
surance during the past week than in
any other period of his life. He gave
himself, all he had and all he hoped
for, to his Lord and Master, and if
anything bad been Kept back, he
prayed that it might. be revealed to
him. The Senator was particularly
glad to see so many young men CONF
ing forward in this good work, and
calledrupon his neighbors and friends
not to delay in making their peace
with God. Scared and scanned as we
all are by sin, or at any rate as he felt
himself to be, he rejoiced that there
is mercy and salvation at the foot Of
the cross. 3i1aa9 aiis ga
The General Assembly of the Cum
berland Presbyterian Church, In 1864,
passed loyal resolutions, the Southern
members then being absent, The
Assembly of 1866, which was held at
Owensboro, took an action which, in
the view of the Pennsylvania Synod,
was, in effect, a repeal of the deliv.
erances of 1864 in regard to the sin of
rebellion The Synod has, there
fore, resolved that rs the resolutions
of 1866 :, from the ambiguity as to
their intended bearing on the deliver
anceiof 1864, are the occasion. of much
difference of view as to their import,
and since the constitutlonalIty OF the
Owensboro is doubtful. the General J
Assembly be memorlalizedr to meet !
in 1867 to investigate the legal |
ity of this years session. The !
synod also declares It's adherence to \
the deliverence of, 1864, and if the |
next Assembly refuses to reafrm !
that deliverence, or ,pnegulyoeally re-
cognize it, the Synod VII, in common
with others who adhere 70 the dellvft
GRANGE, claim to be the true Cumber-
land Presbyterian Church in the
United States 1sl sdj uI Iol 4
SECOND COMING. LIN a late number
of his Lectures on the Apocalypse,
DIR. Seiss says - ( taansl
: tnAny one of these days and nights, !
and certainly before many years have
passed, here one, and there another,
caught up like Enoch, invisibly, !
noiselessly, miraculously, shall vanish
from the company and fellowship Of
those about them and ascend to their
returning Lord. Strange annonnse-
ments shall be in the n,ornipg papers
Of the missing ones, rtgf 100 ys1y /