The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-08-18


to occupy the pulpit of the Trinity M.
4. Church, in the absence of Rev. Mr..
SIMS, the Pastor. The congregation
are requested to worship with the
brethren of Trinity Church. is 6
The Sunday School at 8 A. M, and
services for the children at 3 p. M,
and the regular service at 7:45P. NJ,
will be observed. H.,a A
There are 1874 Baptist churches in
New Jersey.1sv8 Re as
s. Katharine Luther, the last descend.
ant of Martin Luther, died recently
in France, ..a., IN e g. r. 81 . I.
I The General Convention of the
Universalists in.America will hold it's
next annual session at Galesburg,
Illinois, commencing September Is. /,
"a Rev G.. II. Brigham has received
the appointment of District Secretary
of the American Baptist Missionary
Union for Ohio and Indianaanli 81.
b Rev. E. w. Hathaway; of Fall river,
a recent graduate of Meadville Semi
nary, has been settled over the Uni
tartan Society of Marietta, Ohio. e
ia Rev. Cyrus Byington, for forty five
years missionary among the Ch0ctaws,
has been compelled by his growing
infrmities, to abandon his field Of
labor a.sa9sI III
The Waldenses have twenty five
mission stations in Italy, in which
5000 persons, born and educated in
the Catholic Church, come regularly
to hear the gospel; LBS are commu-
nicants.
Lord Lyons, British Ambassador
to Constantinople, is acting the part
of Sir Stratford Canning, one of his
predecessors, and exerting a. strong
influence in behalf of full religious
liberation in Turkey.
Jay Cooke, of Philadelphia, has
given $25, 900 toward the endowment
Of new professorship in Kenyon
College, Ohio, and has nominated, as
was his privilege, Rev. DR.. Bronson,
rector of the Episcopal Church in
Sandusky, to fill the chair.
Ten years ago there were only eight
Lutheran ministers and four Lutheran
churches in. Paris. Now there are
twenty-ene ministers and fourteen
churches and chapels of this. order.
Vast numbers of German. laborers
have been attracted to Paris of late,
and hence this rapid advance. -1sm
III The National Baptist of last week
states that DR.. r. Jeffrey, who, being
invited to the Presidency of the new
college of Kansas, has rendered his
resignation as pastor of the Fourth
Baptist Church of Philadelphia, has
been induced to recall it by the strong
desire his people have expressed for
his remaining with them. '.9aI
Natchez, Mississippi, has four col
ored " ministers Of the gospel" duly
authorized to celebrate the rites Of
matrimony. They are Revs. Charles
Burce (Methodist), and Reys. George
w. Bryant, Jesse. T. Boulder and
Randall Pollard Baptist The for
mer three are from the old free State,
and Pollard, ne-armed man, was
formerly a slave of Andrew Brown,
Esq. of Natchez. b3li6ag ag-la 4
An affecting scene took place in a
,colored church in Richmond, Vir-
ginia, last Sunday. A letter was read
out in church. asking for information
of mother by daughter, who had
been sold South thirty years ago,
under the old slave regime Mother
and daughter were both in church at
the time, and fed to each Others en-
brace with tears Of joy. 5 Ia ia 9al !. +
A peculiar religious movement ID
making in Maine, looking to emigra
ton to Jerusalem. A bark is now
lifting out at Jonesport to carry the
pilgrims to their new home in the
Holy Land. She is expected to be
ready to sail about the middle of the
coming month. Land has been pur-
chased near the ancient Joppa, where
ut Is proposed to make a permanent
settlement. Is tsas bi1a 81 FL 49,. s i.
a corresp0ndent'writes from 6ase-
vile, Georgia, July 30, as, follows
- There have been two large reyitals
of religion in this district among the
i-Methodists, Rev. G. a Evans late >
.Br1gadier General G. s. A., is con
ducting the meetings, zone at Kings
ton, the other ten miles south. About
fifty have already been added to the
church, and the meetings still pro
sgress with increased interest. y