Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1867-08-10

GuNDAY
Nor Little aast thou know
r.p'". ~ wfetc ecarss, waat utter " e
.t flase b-tor words. tdsi stern rep
s,e IA d den~aanr snd tVmPovttg eYr.
r as4,h s.ettier.e upf v "a kcener dart
Than lak,us words IA Noman's trusting heart.
asaop Lee has recently tied 0.tuul~
,n1 ia Monies, prCachias and. coa-
sf0.te ~. olGum -, b. aim ttei % tie
lt5ly order Of Lelcon.. Me-. 1homs4 L.
h,mp. Epl-cops parishes have ast been
o e,n led 10 Charlton. Aisia, Mant.s,lio
ana Cceseo.
lf;nere are any desires which We 10 net
~ prayer, let II not be bscsu~e We
r0lld hi64 them, Tut becausc we rvuoune
taem. AL HAT is Ia us ousl To- b. troaEa
{ 0 BOD, be q bIilteI t. bis inil erce, "A h.
ttat ne may overcome il, or that nc may
consec'atc II. Lat Us open oar Whole hear,
1, hun, with fuli trust ~ hts love. Let rs
not fear that he would punish us by sn>
swering an unwise prayer We may pray
with freedom God lays 10 -nsirs ior Us.
In 1865 there we're nine orthodox Greek
churches in the region whica has oeen
istely ceded to The United States. These
churches numbered 1900 parishioners.-
Five Of the ordained ministry were natives
Of the country, Of the mixed foreign and
Indian descent. Religious books bad been
trabsl tied into naive tongues. Several
schools were connected with the churches.
rhe spiritual Sem nary" Ind been lately
removed from New Arctangle TO iakoot k.
Not one crire has been reported ~ thear
parishes for forty years
They are to have n new monastery a. ~
buuue. The Hcrdtt saya Of i me
budding IS 10 be OF ssone, now beng q"af>
red AID when finished Viii be the mot
magnificent and imposing tuildtng " lhe
S.fe. It. ,~nu.nkions will he el al TO "a
block Of buildings Ia the city, WIN slie
. vLis 40 feet nigh, and on the chIrch .
lower 800 feet hish. Ia the center OF the
h4ldng vill be n court 50 Iare OF 100 ftet-
Ihea.igus. il carr ed out, will give Dupu-
que a monastery 50 nrthing Ike the grand
OH structures Of ltaiy."
An exchange gives the following item
Illustrative of tie practical fruits OF
Liberal Christianity - The own OF
Chelmsford, Mass, has for more than n
quarter OF n century been under the control
of the Unitarians AID those who syinpar
| Ia ~ with them. Some time ego a lady,
/ belonging to the Episcopal church, gathered
"A few children around her and commenced
a Sabbath school, which grew to a SINAI
congregation that had occasional preaching
The town hail was Obtained Tor the services
l A peti,i,n sign cd by the UniveT sallsts ant
UnItarisns OF tue town, was presented e
the S.leotmen, asking that the hall nigh'
bc closed The petition was granted. ant
the feeble congregation was turned into III
street"
III is estimated that not less than four
fffh, of tho male members Of the German
Lutheran ohuiches in tue eastern cities be
ong Ia some secret ord.r-such As the Ma
sons. Old Follows. Red Man, Turner's ant
he like. Under the conditions prescrib.'
~ the Missourians anu the JOINT Synod /"
ONO every one Of these will ave to be cx'
c mmunica,e !, or renour C their connecliQi
" IN those socictica, before they can becom'
an integral pat OF the General Council
proposed at R,adlng. How many VII K
nnnnee Their connection with The secret Or
der 10 which they b,longf We venture Il
! ai'itm rot one ia !! thousand. 80 says til
LpiderH,.. Ia ollrn tunes, churches trained
ala tier batteries against he devil sn'
hhs eo~helpers-noW. they ecen to have 81
tnat wtrfnr and SOME of tNcm are llttrn|
t..cii ptlut ~stitugfh = as ST 20 Is ties found
81 on ia, ~ffiendshnp al n brotherhood II
sise ~ the t%,rri'nry pressed hy mpIt.3 81
The sdresdlul" secret societies ~hose help
mr hau.l aud klui works NIL visited lums'
.ulesing and elevated man ln%teiigeuc1
.n : lrlore church 4 .ors wcrc opened. ~.
sun exist despite ignorance anl pr dc.
MS Mtsoii,' ssss "fhe proposed un OF
between ,le Hctitoii-, pialestsals and la
Methodist Church South. seems not 10 pres
pei. The Baltimore Nitol.sf P,ot,stan
as res lis Methodist Episcopa! brethren
that ia no event can they Get tie drncml
nation oa the teams tt,A proposed. II he,
w,.h IA union, and 1ot u mere whelcS,lt ac
ce,sl,n 10 thou number OF men aud pr T.
crty. let lhrm propose an equitable has : q
union Thus, one 10y one. ';l tie pr icct
If Methodist rc>ualon have totally ial ed
Many VII lcase tie mailer Method
bodies for the larger, but nothing more n
present can be elected.
The Ninth General Assembly Of the Uni
tel pre,by terrain Church convened ia Arnia
oaio. Nay 2ti, 1861. DELEGATES were pres
cit tiom al the fresbyteri,s IN the Dnite
States, and from Egypt and India, and fror
varicn other Presbyterian or1anizition
From the published minutes We extract III
following items: Whole number Of churehos
III; No. Of ministers. al OF member,
G5 is9 increase during the year, 1,995
conttibutious-llnme Missions, $40, DIS
Foreign Missions, 30, $50, Freedmen
Missions, Sl4 .25l; all other contribution,
- FAI - tAs.f ...tfN4tf4Yt,T CN1l ~
The church mas Missionaries IN Egypt, Sy
IA, India, I in.dad, China and Italy.
Ia Ireland. the Roman Catholics consti
tutc tour i.,hs OF the population IN Brll
ish America, twc.h tbs: In the Unite
states. ene~,enth Dr. Rassis, one nintt; j
Prussia aud other German states, one third
~ Great Britain exclusive Of Ireland the
are one and a halt millioas out of twenty
three milllors; 10 France, thirty five out {
tairty seven; IN Austria, twenty-seven GU
OF thirty-five; in Switzerland, ore out
two and a half; in Italy, twenty.one out Z
twcnty>twe. OF the thirty millions OF Men
leo, Central America and South America
nearly all are Roman Catholics. Tie sam
is true of Portugal with its four millions
Spain with il, sixteen and . half millions
aud Belgium with its four and a half mil
lions. In Norway, Sweden and Denmai k
there are but six thousand Roman Catholic
among a population Of eight millions. Tt
entire Roman Catholic population os tn
globe is about one hundred and eighty iy
millions the entire Protestant popu,ation
about ninety five millions.
We have received tho minutes of tn
PRESBYTERIAN General Assembly which me
1t Rochester. The following statistics shov
a large increase IN the ministry ard mem
ber.hip Of the church anil q great ajvanc
in contributions
ls67 Isl
SYMBOLS. % Q
rsoNierIss ......+.-..... log IL
Nun sters ............... l.sso l,7S
i'centiates.. .......... j. lis ii
Canriiates ~ g.
Churches. i,5F l,s2
Acded ON examination -. 1923 logs
Added on cer tincate. ...... s,.3i 6.si
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. l5l.75s 1890
ofwhom unkn" m. ....... $50 G,3g
Adult bsptisms. ....... 4.2sS 81.
Infant baptlsns.... ... f,5>T B,Y5
y. ;. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. los AZ las. sS
tea-ral ASS nbly fuud.... tg.i3 xe.S 81
IiuIre ,s~ions..,. l1p,. 60 Zoo 81