Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1867-07-27

n f0%e NrttlN w \ ulfNptt1 manu-,
A ring aud slightest vow
Three golden links on a broken bark.
y uns traes on tbe spow-wirts sand,
Aud fearless ana siuless brow.
There's tincture OF grief IN The beautiful
song,
That sobs Ia the slumberous arr.
And Loneliness felt in the festive ihrong,
Sinss down ia the soul "a i; tr.m sles along,
From a cline whore the roses Iie.
We heard i. first at the dawn ofdAv
And IT mingled with msttn chimes,
But years ave di.tsDced the beautiful lay,
And rs melody foateth from far away,
And we cali il now Old Times.
Rrt,a,oS ON SusDAY.-The tide comes
ts,ce day IN New York hsrbor.
Int they come Only once in seven
days In Gods Harbor OF the sanctuary.-
They rise on Sunday, and ebb on Moniay,
aud are down and out all the rest OF the
week. Men write over their store door.
" business il business" and over the church
door, Religion is religion" aud they sss
to religion, Never come in here. ana 20
business, Never go in there. Lei us
have no secular things in the pulpit, they
say. we get enough Of them through thc
week in the Citv. There all - stringent
and biting setishness and KNIVES, ano
rfebes. aud larcets, and hurry, aud WORK,
! aud worry. Here we want reposc and re
! d,tiy.s and hcs.ng balm. All IS prose
over there. here let us have poetry. we
: want 10 sinr hymns aud to hear about
] Heaven ard CALVARY IA short we want
he pury Gospel, without any worldly IN
! term, ,,ure" And so they desire TO spend
a pious. quiet Sabbath. full Of plessan,
,marininr. and peaceful reflections; but
when The dav is gone all is laid aside
hey will lake by the throat the fret debtor
whom they meet, aud excla'm. Pay mr
what thou owest. IL is Monday" And
when the minister ventures to hint to some
thing about their duty to their fellow men
they say, "Oh, you stick to your preaching
You do not know how to collect your own
debts and cannot tell what man may have
10 do in hi. intercourse with the world :
Gods law is no, al owed TO go into thu
week II the merchant spies It IN his store
lie throws II over the counter. Ii the
clerk sees IT in the bank, he kicks II out a
the door. Il it is ,und IN the street til,
multitude pursue II, pelting it with stones
az If II were . wolf escaped from inenag'
erie. and shouting, "B.ck with you. fo,
have got out on Sunday" There IL no re
ligi, n in nj, this 1t is mere sentimental
sm. Religion belongs TO every day; TO tn
place OF business AZ much as the chui CHI
uivh IN an ancient bciiry there 10 clock
and once q week the old sexton winds 1t ui
but it has neither dial plate nor hands :
The pendulum swings and there It goes
ticking. ticking. day IN and day out, unno
ticed aud useless. " hat the old clock Is
IA its dark chamber keeping time but neve
showing, that is the mere sentlmentality q
religion, high above life, in the region c
airy thoughts; perched up in the top {
Sunday, but without dial OF pointer to lie
the people know what clock It is, OF Time
81 OF Eternity. Rev. II. W. BErcnEs.
Ing CHURCHES or NV YonK.-The Ne
York City Mission has published churc
directory of this city, complied from III
census OF 1868. which contains some intel
, csting facts The popuat on Of the city
800 was 40, 1886, of which 400. 1872 wei
born in the United States, 3l3,417 vel
foreigr born. In 1889 the foreign born e.
cecded the native born, 22,36S.
The number of churches in 1850 WI
elS, or one church 10 every twenty eigt
' hundred OF population. In Brooklyn, New
: nfk. aud many other large cities, the ratio
churches is nearly one TO every thousand
population.
The largest number of churches of ar
Denomination belong 10 the Lpiscop
Church, of rhich there are sc, valued
!, "a 49q 300; tas mex; highest IS he Presb
terrain, Al III number. valued NJ 5 $4,000
- the thiid hi beet is the Methodist, "a, VI
> ucd at seas, 300. The Catholic church
number 80, valued III & 4S2, 900. The X
=, formed Dutch have only /. chuIches, whs
:, are valued at 81 ,163. 5000, or more than
"a PRESBYTERIAN churches. The avera
=. capacity OF the Catholic churches is grea
:, than thu OF any other denomination, sea
j. ing over one thousand 10 "A church, wi
. the PRESBYTERIAN churches seat an svcra
=, Of tive hundred.
:, The churches are capable Of seating ~
800, and the usual attendance is loo. BOB.
Il. The number OF communicates Is 1924
- rhe salaries OF the clergy amount to 500
.. 500.
The number # churches, chapes a
missions above Fourteenth street is $50 a
be cw Fourteenth street, 10. In 1870 I
as number Shove Fourteenth street was OF
~ r.. Since 1865 the number above Foi
q. tccnth street has iucreas from 100 to j
q. and below that point the number has
o creased from 800 - ITO
Inc number of evangelical Sabb
lac schools IS 3l2 the number Of scholars
a. HE rolls ~ SO, and the avetage atten
ms Hncc Is 90.
0r In the Ii 81 six wards there are twcni
re seven cAnrches and mi-siods Tor n pope
err ton OF 1000 In the l4th ward, with
s.. population of % 600, there are only th
All churches and four missions.
at GorNG Ur.---The Mulerites, or Adve
t. ists. are again preparing to "go up III
n. d appointments have been many, but II
h have rong faith that the end OF munds
tie affairs is NJ hand, and that the milleni
n, Will be duly inaugurated on or about
he st Of October. An exchange saws:
rs at appears that there are still found p
n> pie sufficiently credolous, even after
vs. many cruel dissppointments they have
he perienced, to believe in an imminent
m, proach OF the millennium. A number
ed the saints are now assembled nj small pl
in Connecticut, hopefully and contideu
nd waiting to go up"
10 To which the Syracuse, New York, 10
n. nat adds:
he I'VE understand . bevy OF second adv
cd rists are holding . tent meeting il
oh eastern part of this city. and that the lie
ut ing spirit among them predicts an earlv
ice cension- October at the fasthest. A fir
le> who s,rolled in upon them one evea
Ar heard the preacher p cad for permission
Az permission for a speedy departure on
Ars ground that the world was growing wick
he CT rvery day, and the Lord knew II.
.
re-; An Important Decision.