The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1867-07-07
SUNDAY READING

IT was the saving Of Sir Robert Peel, aI
never have known man to escape failure,
either in body or mind, who worked seven
days in the week. ;"
CoNGREGATIoyALIsM IN CONNECTICUT Il
Attic recent meeting of the General Asses
citation of Connecticut the following stats
tics were reported:
Number Of Congregational churches in the
State, 28s; number of members, 46,774, Of
whom 1924 are men and 81 $40 won en-; ad
ditions during the year, 1858 Of which 3,262
were by profession of faith, and l-397 by lei,
ter; baptisms, of adults ,459, ofinfants sl6;
children in Sunday schools, A, 707; charities,
$226, 4S4. This last item indicates an aver
age contribution of between four and Ave
dollars from each member.
TINS TENDENCY TO UHIoN.-The Congreod.
tiondlist remarks, editorially:
1.-THE Union tendency of the day is not
for the merging OF different denominations,
but the opposite of this. tits a consolida-
ton, a closing OF the breaches, strengthen
ing for earnest work in the separate families
of Christians, as is SO strikingly manifest
among Presbyterians. The UNCONVENTIONAL
feeling never was stronger than o-day, when
we are learning that true Union and practical
cooperation consists in broader generaliza
and organizing the different natural and nee-
essary divisions of the great army of the
Lord into one grand whole for the common
aims and purposes, while in minor affairs
those who agree are left to walk together
TEMPTATIONS OF PREAcHERs AT CAMp
MEETINGS. DR.. Curry, of the Christian Ad-
rocate, thinks ii Of questionable propriety to
hold camp meetings on the Sabbath. Clos
ing an article on the subject of camp meet
ings, he says;
Where fifty or hundred preachers attend
such gathering, and only ten or dozen
sermons are to be preached, there are temps
tations to vain glorying on the one side, and
envious dissatisfaction on the other. Then q
new temptation comes to the chosen ones,
inclining them to improve the occasion to
selfsglori6cstion by "star preaching which,
whatever may be the purport of the words
uttered, is preaching self instead Of Christ.
1t indeed requires great deal of grace TO
one self-mueh more than on ordinary oc>
casons.
Wewill also venture carefully to suggest
that no little harm has resulted from special
style and kind of matter in camp meeting
sermons. 1t seems to us specially inappro.
pirate to make such an occasion the time Tor
ventiating any bodys specalities. The MS.
sembly is promiscuous one; large share OF
them not well informed as to our doctrines,
and unused to our Technology !; Ito such,
preaching on specialiies must be modifying,
and probably misleading. This remark DIP.
plies especially to the doctrine of Christian
perfection, which. from the nature of the
case, must always be somewhat esoteric, and
therefore should not be so freely used in
promiscuous assemblies as the more funda.
mental and elementary lessons of Chris.
tanity.
THoRouCHLY DRlLLED.-The Scotch are
drilled from childhood in the study OF the
Bible, and, as n natural result, there have
been fewer heretics in Scotland than in any
part Of Christendom, DR.. Guthrie alluies TO
this in the following paragraph:
:. When George Whitfield came to Edsn-
burgh nothing struck or pleased him so mach
rs the sound that rose in the church when he
happened to quote a passage OF Scripture,
giving book, chapter and verse. His hearers,
as was their wont, had taken Gods Wbrd
with them to Gods house, and as they turned
up the passage, the leaves of two thousand
Bibles rustled like the sound of the wind
among the trees, in his astonished ear. To
their thorough Bible knowledge instruction,
illustrated by shat anecdote, aud given TO her
youth in the house, and in all her public
schools, and to the complete drill and training
which children, young men and young women
get in that shorter catechism, which, the
work chiefly of English divnes, and re-
markabe compend of theology, takes hold
of the mind singularly firm, Scotland owes it,
that though hundred storms have blown,
and blows their worst, she rides to-day over
the ground where the Reiormers dropped
their anchor three centuries ago.
THE CHOICE OF MosEs.-Rev. Scott Chinn,
colored, delivered. a sermon, June 10th, in
the Marais Methodist Episcopal Church, New
Orleans, on the Choice OF Moses, the cons
cluson being in these words;
The same spirit that converted ST. Paul
converted you and me, so we must be of a
common stock. Any how, we shall all have
common grave, and the worms will eat the
rich dead in the marble tomb and the poor
slave in his humber grave. Cut my veins
and the same kind of blood will flow from
them as from a white mans veins. Some
white folks say that there is kitchen in
heaven for niggers, but | think there is but
one heaven for all, whether black or white,
qrizzle, gray, or red. And let me tell you
Catholics, that as there is no kitchen for the
colored man in heaven, so there ia no purga.
tory out of which you can come into glory.
You are all on the road to heaven or hell.
Do YOU suppose that the Lord will let you
come scorched and singed out of hell tc
smoke and sneeze us Christians to death in
heaven? No, he won't So make the good
choice of Moses tonight, and save your soul,
alive in glory.