Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1867-01-24
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In this peflOu IL mas huh cieNei iiiii'i'sf
the last of whom, DIR. Hawks. resigned after
serving 10 years.
TIE EPISCOPAL Church in the United
States is said to he divided into 2306 parish
es, having 2530 clergymen and 16l ,225 lay
members. During 1866 the members OF this
Church contributed S3,95l.661 for Chart
able purposes.
UNION MoyEMENT.-Th Two Presbyterian
churches New and Old SchooDin Manches-
ter. Ohio have merged their organization.
Both were feeble. The united church sun
ders itself temporarily from any higher &C.
clcsiastical relation until after the meeting
of the assemblies of 1868. After that it will
attach itself to whatever preslytery may he
chosen by two-thirds vote.
REV. DIR. CHENEY, Baptist, in a sermon
before the San Francisco Association, stated
that in all North America there are 5,032
more Baptist churches than Baptist ministers,
not excepting those who are past service, or
otherwise incapacitated on account of health,
or engaged as editors of religious papers, or
professors and teachers in institutions OF
learning. AS to the Pacific coast, he said
that there is no Baptist ministers in the State
of Nevada, but one in Idaho, and only one
OF two in Oregon, wholly devoted to the
work, while in California north of Nevada
city and south of Santa Clara, there is not
one wholly given to the ministry.
REV. CHAs. II. SPuRGEoN, the eminent
Baptist Minister of London, lately preached
a sermon, in which he declared high church
| ism TO be bastard popery, and broad church.
ism dishonest infidelty. The great danger
| to the church came, he said, from within,
and not from without He deprecated legal
| interference, however. He did not want the
bishops to interfere with the ritualists, be-
cause what service had the bishops ever rem
dered to the church, or what benefit would
they ever render it? Neither did he want
parliaments to interfere with them He
wanted the Holy Ghost to lift up the stand
ard against them.
THERE ARE IN NEW YoRK 3l4 churches
and chapels and halls set apart for religious
services Of these the Protestant Episcopal
Church has 6s, the Presbyterians 55, Metho-
dsts 40, Catholics 32, Baptists 90, Israelites
25, German Reformed 20, Lutheran 8, Uni
versalists and Unitarians Z, Congregational
lists 4, Friends 8, and other miscellaneous
denominations 81 In Brooklyn, which is
called the City of Churches" there are
l79 religious edifices, of which the Metho-
dists have 49, the Episcopalians &c, Catho
lies, 23, Presbyterians 81, Baptists IS, Con-
gregationalists II, German Reformed, Is,
Universalists 4, Israelites 8, and miscellane-
Gus denominations IA.
The SOCIETY OF FRIENDS AND THE LATE
WAR.-The Friends Lateltigencer, publish
|, ed in Philadelphia, discusses the proper
course of action towards these members of
the Quaker societies who have borne arms
during the war. 1t says no genaral or uni
form rule has been allowed in these cases.
Some of the guilty persons have " offered
acknowledgements, which have satisfied
their monthly meetings Others are unable,
, | as yet, to see their fault. The 1ntelligencel
would have great lenity shown to those who
"were induced to buckle on the sword, es-
pecially as they were encouraged "by the
expression of sympathy and interest in the
, cause at issue by those who were older and
| were looked upon as consistent members oi
. the religious society,".
. But it thinks that for the future, Friends
), should give an increased d prominence TO the
!, ''peace principle" in religious teachings, that
especial care should be taken to impress i
upon children as early in life as possible, ant
4 that this institution should not be neutrali
9 zed "by placing in the hands of the littl'
: ones the toy drum, pistol and gun, with thu
!, tin battalion, which, though inertivc in them
: selves, are significant of hostility and re
: taliatory temper.
! OPPRESSION IN MARYLAND. A colore'
l minister, in one of the lower counties o
Maryland, some time since, addressed tn
following letter to Judge Bond, of Baltimore
complaining of the persecution his peopl
suffered in the apprenticeship of their child
c rem, the burning of their school houses, an
l. the beating of the teachers of the colore
e schools. We conceal the name and resi-
le tlence of the writer, since if they were dis
e closed they would inevitably fall a prey t
N rebel vengeance:
,f My DEAR JupGE.-We poor colored pee
,c pie are being shot down while we are on on
- way to church, and our children are take
"a away from lis (by the apprenticeship law
n and there is no help. Come down, if 70
of can, and see what can be done before "
ID are all lost. And if you can't come, writ
y to Judge Goldsburgh, or some good ma
| .t,n ,,,;n hnx,a G,a1 fppt1 IN. not nj
rs children.
ig We have been favored with Judge Bond
ne reply to the above letter; and as it seems
indicate novel remedy for the evils con
of planned of, we print it for the benefit
til s'whom it may concern"
c, BALTIMORE, 1866.
s. My DEAR SIR THE sad story OF yo
:, difficulties is the common complaint OF Il
~ colored people in the lower part OF Il
NJ State.
no How we are to remedy the wrongs whit
yh are done you, and of which you complal
h. without the assistance of the religious sem
IN ment of the people, even if we have Il
OF officers of the law ready to use its power i
its your protection (Which i fear we have mol
do not know.
Yet You know that it is impossible to =
ne any clergyman on the hay shore to hint ey
lg in The pulpit that men are under any Chrisii
We obligations to be kind or benevolent, mu
-. less lust toward the colored people.
hs think what is most wanted is a reyiy
We of Christianity that is not afraid of perS
he cuiion, religion that has Il martyr at lea
,ry once iii a century, and is not the mere retl,
,rs tion Of public opinion.
Ia think that all the outrages of viii
Nv you complain. and the burning Of twel
lily churches and school houses, could ia
es. place, and all the pulpits remain as sile
,,d as il the millennium had dawned, is mary
N Gus.
lhe You colored ministers ought TO make yo
os complaint known TO the authorities OF
churches to which these clergymen belo
,cd in the North. You might shame them ii
an the enforcement of some prccept of CHI
az tianity remotely bearing on a mans duty
as his neighbor, ''if he be black !" and heal
of ier public opinion would he establish
on which, for many purposes, is a better p
l., lection than the statutes themselves.
io- An anppal to such church authorities,