The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-05-13
CHURCH ITEMS.

The remains of Philip Embury, the earliest
American minister of the Methodist Episcopal |
church, were removed from Ashgrove Gene
terry to the Woodland Cemetery near ~, IN
Cambridge, Washington county. n. T., thirty
one miles northeast OF Albany. Two hun-
dred ministers walked in the procession.
Although ninety years had passed, the skele-
ton, once animated with a. crusaders zeal,
was in good state Of preservation. Bishop
Jones spoke for half an hour.
ris reported of DIR. Barnes, the distin-
euished Presbyterian minister of Phllsdei-
phia. that in a conversation with Rev. DIR.
Fish Baptist, of Newark, he said: ii confess
to you that, logically, you are right on the
communion question but think yon are not
upon the baptismal question. There Is a dit
ference between you and me, and the diher-
ence is there
ACCORDING to an article in Harpers Aaga-
zine, Sam. Houston, the noted Texan, who
Sied in june 1868, died as he had lived
number of years. Calvanlst Baptist. in full
faith and fellowship with his church. HIS
last days were given to prayers tor his DIS.
tressed family and country, and in spiritual
preparation while yet on the narrow strip OF
land which separates man from eternity.
A CONVENTION has been called Of ministers
and elders Of the United Presbyterian church,
to meet in the fourth week in May. for
conference and prayer. The subject OF
the conference will be, The present demand
upon the L. P. Church, aud how they may
be met.
The General Conference Of the II. +.
Church, South, in session at New Orleans,
La, we learn by telegram. have just elect
ed four new Bishops. namely: Wigh1man,
of Georgia McTyeire, Of Louisiana; Dog
get, of Virginia; and Marvin. Of Missouri.
STURGEON replies to the charge that he was
aiming to form a new sect thus: There Is
no word in the world SO hateful to our heart
as that word Spurgeonism, and no thought
further from our soul than that If forming
/ a new sect
The American Baptist Home Missionary
Society makes an appeal to the women of
that denomination for one hundred thousand
dollars, to aid by q special effort the great
! and pressing work which Providence has
/ imposed upon them among the freedmen of
| the South.
The twenty thousand dollars, raised in
Louisville, Baltimore, and other places, for
! the support Of Southern ministers, has re
! lieved about one hundred and forty ministers
/ families, in sums Of fifty dollars TO three hun
!! bred dollars.
4 JuDGE Scorr charged the grand jury of
Kings county, N. Y, week before last, that
the disposal of goods by chance at church
l fairs was in violation of law, and ought to be
! SO treated.
| The wealthy admirers of Rev. Henry Ward
Beecher. in New York city, offer to build .
tabernacle and parsonage for him II lie will
! leave Brooklyn and come to that city, at a
! cost Of one hundred and eighty thousand
| dollars.
The General Synod Of the ReformM Pres
bytcrian Church, in North America, will meet
in the Xenia, Ohio, on the 10th day Of May.
Opening sermon by the retiring Moderator,
| Rev. David Heron.
! ARRANGEMENTS have been. made by the
Christian Union Association for the celebra-
ton of the Lords Supper in New York during
the Anniversary week.
i The two General Assemblies Of the Pres
byterian Church meet in the city Of st. Louis
Mo-, May 18th.
THERE are SIX churches now existing in
Boston, that were founded in the seventeenth
century.