The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-05-12

WAS never D. member VI GlS OAuICA u
Christ. In SO far they are denomina-
tional, and depart from their own
principles.
q The Baptists require subscrip-
ton to articles of faith, as a term of
church fellowship; while we enjoy
simply the teachings of Christ and tie
Apostles as authoritative 4 e4an
20, The Baptists have been strongly
Calvinistic-disposed to insist on the
essential points of Calvinism as if they
were the essential points of the Cos
pei of the grace of God. We,on the
contrary, give them no importance
whatever. eo
A. Growing out of this, the Bap-
fists has cherished ideas of abstract
spiritual inhuenee-which have led to
the adoption of the anxious seat and
other appliances In conversion, and
what they style religious experience
as a test of conversion; while we,
preaching the gospel as the power of
God to salvation, call upon all who
believe and repent to come out from
the world, and accept the. yoke of
Christ, and accepting their obedience
to the Gospel call as the proper ey-
idence. of their repentance, sbaab; s.
rs. The Baptist have insisted that
believers should be baptised because
their SINS aoere forgiven we, that they
should be baptised for the remission
of SINS
They practice the monthly OBJ
s gasp ct the Lords Epsu .gq aag we
A society has been formed in Paris
for the purpose of exeeutingga Totally
new and complete translation of the
Holy Scriptures. The task will be
confided to learned men of the Catho-
he, Protestantl and Jewish Religions
Sylvanius Packard, merchant of
Boston, who died a week or two since.
left $3.50, 900 to Taft's College, a Uni
yersalist institution at Somerville.
Massachusetts, to which he had been
a liberal friend during his life. time.
USE OF COOP MEN IN BAD TIMES.
1t is very necessary that good men
should Ii re in very bad times, not
only to reprieve a wicked world. that
God may not utterly destroy it. as he
Gid In the days. of Noah. when all
flesh had corrupted its ways; but also
to season human conversation, to give
check to wickedness, and to revive
the practice of virtue by some great
and bright examples, and to. redress
those yiolences and injuries which are
done under the son at least to strug-
gle and contend with corrupt age
which will put some stop to the grow
ing evils, and scatter such seeds of
virtue as will grow up in time. 1t is
an argument of Gods care of the
world, that antidotes grow in the
neighborhood of poisons; that the
most degenerate ages have some ex-
cellent men, who seem to be made on
purpose for such time, to stem the
torrent, and to give some ease to the
miseries of mankind. - Dean Sher-
lock. 50 s8m ISIS -
GENERAL ASSEMBLIES AND. SY-
MODS. The conventions of religious
bodies will meet this year as follows:
GENERAL ASSEMBLIES.
Presbyterian General Assembly
(Old School --St. Louis, Mo-, Thurs
day, May 18th. asI 3so} 9a 'os MIRO
! Presbyterian General Assembly
New School -St. Louis, Mo-, Thurs
United Presbyterian General ASH
sesnblyAAllegheny City, Pennsylva
MIA, Thursday, May 31st. a'a
Cumberland Presbyterian General
Assembly Greensboro, KY. Thurs
day, May 18th, s9aIa 3iit1i = iie.ll
l's GENERAL sYNODs,. If..ai
Reformed Dutch Church. General |
Synod-New York City, June Both
Reformed Presbyterian Church.
General Synod-Xenia. o.. Wednes,
lay, May 10th, 49, f. .il !" F4I
Evangelical Lutheran General Sy-
lodIFort Wayne, Ind, Thursday, i
Way 18th. ''' l;g,.,so. ~, ~ q.
AN INTERVIEW WITH THE POPE.+s
Letters received In New York. state
that Bishops Stevens, of PENNSYLVANIA
md Whitehouse, of Illinois, of the
Church, were In Rome on
5he 9th ult., and had private inter-
view with the Pope, of most agreealil
Die character. On the following davl
hey had private audience from Car
iinal .Antonelll, also. iGa sg eIadl
"A Naples letter writer says that sew
sral Roman Catholic priests have de.
dared their intention of marriage
lnder the new law which makes mar lar
'iage civil rite, and one has already
1een united to a lady.of Naples. The
writer thinks the example will he
extensively followed. 81 g