Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1867-01-31

DR.. thompson I'm letter from germany,
to the Congragationalist, comparing theolo-
gical schools there and here, says
In the important particulars of disciplin-
ed thought, of systematic training in theolo-
gy as a science, and of parctical preparation
for the life-work of the ministry, our theolo-
gical schools will not suffer by comparison
with any in Europe; though in other parti
culars European institutions and methods of
instruction-in Germany at least-are so far
superior that our teachers may well come
here to be taught
HAVE You EVER READ THE BIBLE ENTIRE
LY THRoUGH?-A plan to read the Bible
through every year During January read
Genesis and Exodus February, read to 10th
Deuteronomy March, to 10Th fist Samuel;
April, to 18th of End Kings May, to 9th
Nehemiah; June, TO 100 Psalm; July, 10
50th of Isaiah August, to Goth Ezekiel; Sep.
tember, to end of old Testament. About
sixty-fivc TO seventy-fve pages for every
week day, and four pages for every Sunday,
BIsHop SMITH, of Kentucky, ordained
Joseph S. Atwell-a colored man-deacon, a
few Sabhaths ago. The service was partici
pated in by profoundly interested congre
CATION of colored people. II was held in
St. Paul's church, Louisville. Mr.. Atweli
has offfciated during the past summer az law
reader. He is recently from the Divinity
School, Philadelphia is good scholar in gen
eral literature and sacred philosophy and.
complete theologan.
THERE are in MASSACHUSETTS at the present
time 1893 Orthodox Congregational churches,
26i c. Baptist, $50 Methodist, i69 Unitarian,
lol Episcopal In the city Of Boston there
are 10 Unitarian, n Orthodox Congregation
al, IA c. Baptist, IA Methodist, 10 Episco-
pal, and G Presbyterian.
The published - Year Book of the Uni
tartan Congregational Church for 1867 I"
gives the whole number of Unitarian church
es in the country as 294. an increase of l6
from the statistics of last year. The whole
number of Unitarian ministers whose names
are enrolled in the list is 357.
During the last year 1856 members were
added to DR.. Cuylers church, of Brooklyn.
making the total present membership 1885,
| the largest Presbyterian church in the United
States.
The 9 Loyal Georgian says that s6,ooa
persons, formerly worshipping under the dis
cipine of The Methods, Episcopal Church
! South have transferred their member ship 10
the African Methodist Episcopal Church.
In Illinois, the Baptist churches have =
total membership Of 4G.l29, or one to every
40 inhabitants.
A woman, in Mo-, an .unheliever,
shot herself because her husband held a re-
ligious meeting at their house.
Since ihe Pope has been overturned
At Rome the Protestant churches have been
turned out.
-Philadelphia is stated to contain norr
Methodists than any other city IN the world.
The Freedmen of Natche2, Miss. have
bought a church for nine Thousand dollars.
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FltsE SOCIAL LAWS. Every one has y
right 10 avail himself OF laws which r,lara
his leisure and hi, privacy from the Intrusion.
Of those uncongenial 10 him, A democracy
which slloud olilige NJ 10 spend oir days
walk. ride. drive, breakfast, dine and SUP
with peoplcof different education. .hablts.and
mapncts would hc the most obnoxious des
potism the world ever saw. The false law 4
ot socciy. however. are those which inii
!, tutc distinctions, uot between one ranh anfi
auoier and moi between virtue and vice
or even between one Kind yiee aud another
hut between vice in high places snd ,ie,,
in low hetwrcn yice in man and vice IL
woman: between vice cloakcd lay -i,n,'
Transparent, galtAe ot responsibility seen
through hy every eye and only adding by
pociSy 10 ~hamc,) and vice whose cloak ha.
the blast OF inamy.
l.el man he very wealthy "a powerful
siaicsnan-a brilliant writer How does
society con,lone his debts and his dishones
ties, his drunkenness gambling, profligacy
domestic crueliics. The same faults would
make an ordinary man social outlaw in =
week. Or let man contrive 10 throw some
appearance Of decency over life of vice.
How does the world nnocently pretend Ia
believe him saint, even while every one
whispers 10 his neighbor the scandal which
lies under the Semhlance of honor The
very same vice, not one feathers weight
,cors0, only CHANGING to he exposed in such
manner that the pretonce OF not knowing II
e can no longer he kept mp, is enough to make
e society stop its ears with holy horror, and
a o,,, ,sf,r,o;f,. ib;r, with trle plari0saic