The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-07-30
SABBATH IN THE CITY.
WHAT THE PREACHERS SAY.

WHAT THE PREACHERS SAY.
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Church Marrriage-street Preaching
| IS CUMBERLAND PREsBYTERIAN.--
Rev. j., C. Bowden, who has been
filing the pulpit Of this church, has
just completed his first year. His La
bors have been very successful and
satisfactory to his people; 40 members
have been received into full fellow.
Ship, the Sabbath School NEARLY
doubled in numbers, and the church
in full working, condition. s.9 81 1 ses.
The pastor Mr. Bowden, with
Christian fraternity, exchanged pull
/ pits. with the Rev. Mr., McCarer, and
4 preached yesterday morning in the
Walnut Street Presbyterian Church.
Taking asl.his1 text Psalm xxx7 :27,
3 lei Hepl Shout for 3i6g and be glad,
| INF 4atP,.. my ri.9hte94s eause, y &C., he.
discourseden :. What sort of prosperi-.
ty in Gods servants win give Him.
! pleasure" There is a course Of con.
duct which leads TO success il IS the
course which God approves.
The work and labor of the Church
is greater now than ever before The
open attacks of infdelity and error
are not dangerous; these have been
met and silenced long ago. The
| danger is from Indifference and leth-
argy on the7part of Gods people~.4 It
lis the error sown IN the dram-shop,
the Sabbath dissertation, and evils of
society. While men sleep, the. enemy
sows the tares, l'Vs 3iiiaiiai0a5st3
| God rejpicess not in the success of
ambition, of the miser, of the riches,
Of the rum seller, but in the triumphs
of his people over temptation and the
world. He delights in the service of
His, people, and their faithful labors.
He closed with a fervent appeal to
sinners to devote themselves to
the services. of God, which is His de-
light. Mr.. Bowden is an animated
|, speaker and a devoted pastor.
ST. -PAUL,s Episcopal. CHURcH.-
The services at st. Paul's Church
yesterday, as usual, commenced with
the morning prayer, during which the
Rev. H. w. Spalding, who oficiated,
read the xvi chapter of Numbers,
and Paul's noble defense before King
Aggrippi, after which the choir. under
the leadership of our excellent friend,
Capt. George Warren, sung the one
hundredth psalm. Following the
morning prayer, came the Litany, and
the communion exercises, which were
devoutly entered into by the congrega-
ton, solemnly, imposingly; well cal
culated to impress the mind with re-
ligious reflections and thoughts. '''s
The sermon was preached by Rev.
Mr.. Spalding from a text selected
from the 10th chapter of Exodus, Bird
verse, " Thou shalt haze no other Gods
before me, It was divided into four
general heads, and the subject ably
handled Mr. S. is a powerful reason
er and clear thinker. His discourse
led him to speak Of Atheism, Deism
and Polythiesm, and during his dis
course he labored to impress upon
the minds of his congregation the
fact that to ''haUe God in the true
sense of the word was to worship him
not simply by acknowledging the.ex-
istence Of a superior being, while the
devotion of the person was directed
towards another object The sermon
was, Throughout, a plain, practical
one, full of reason and scriptural ar
gument, couched in we'll chosen
language, and delivered forclbiy and
earnestly. Itwould require too much
space-if we were capable-to give a
full synopsis of the sermon. The
above will serve to give-a fairsidea of
the discourse.
! STREET PREACHNG-Rev. G. N.
Sims held another service on Main
Street, between Second and Third, at
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