The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1867-05-05

That dear little one
Guide, reprove, and ever
Let the work be done
Gently. mother, gently.
RELIGIOUS IETELLIGEHcE.
WITHIN the last fifteen years fourteen Bap-
tist Churches have been erected in Philadel.
phis.
TIE Southern Methodist Church has CONF
menced preparations for the election of lay
delegates to the ensuing Annual Confer,
ence,
In British America there are $50 Regulaf
Baptist Churches, and forty thousand mem.
bers two hundred and seventy OF these
churches are in Canada.
AT Grace Church, Wilmington, Delaware,
Bishop Simpson recently asked collection
of $4,000 but the people gave $14. 400, snd
still continue giving.
IT is stated that the Buffalo Common Coun-
Gil has passed an ordinance fixing penalty
OF $50 Tor swearing in the streets.
IsEngland, Independents and Baptists
unite in worship, the Baptists being in open
communion. The question 10 mooted of Z
similar union in this country Of Congrega-
tionalists and open communion Baptists-
RKv. MILFORD d. HERsDoS, Missionary
Of the Baptist Board, was for many years I
slave he learned to write at the age of 40,
and is now one of the best laborers in the
field of missions.
THREE Hartford Ministers pay tax upon
$174, 709-Rev. DR.. Geo. II. Clark (Episco>
pail, S97,975; Rev. DIR. Jonathan Brace
$49,375, and Rev. DR.. Horace Bushnell,
$27 1859.
EPIscoPAI--It il stated that of 1897
Episcopal churches in the United States,
269 bear the name of Christ, 264 of st. John,
257 Of st. Paul. 242 of Trinity, liz Of Grace,
and 122 Of St. James.
SANDWICH IsiASDs.-The Sandwich Island
Friend, for February, speaks of greatly in.
creased religious feeling in Honolulu result
ing from the observance of the week Of
prayer.
METHODIST. The Wesleyan body appear.
to be fast declining. The Methodist state.
that in New England, where in 1866, they
had fifty Ministers stationed, they have not
had, for some years, more than from five &c
eight. In few cities they are extinct
INFLUENCE OF LITTLE THIxGs.-Chemist,
tell us that a single grain of the substance
sand times its weight of water. 1t is SO in
higher things one companion, one book, one
habit, may effect the whole Of life and char
acter.
The FIRST WoRDs.-"Wist ye not that
must be sbout my fathers business These
are the first recorded words of Jesus. Not
the first he ever spoke. He was not dumt
until his twelfth year. But these are the first
of his words that we're preserved and written
down, the first that were spoken to rs and
the world.
To every living thing be kind;
The merciful shall mercy mud
Whit evil hearts in evil hoar
VIII surely find that God has power.
God, by affection, separates the sin BIZ
hates SO deadly from the soul that he loves &C
dearly.
The receipts Of the Baptist Missionary Un
ion for the year ending March 81, we're Sl9l,
TIA, and the expenditures we're Slss,077 70
leaving-a balance against the Union Of 81
S63 10. Tbs amount OF donations is $18,-
044 os, in excess of the previous year. Will,
the amount from legscies is $l2, $50 less tn III
the year before. The receipts of the yea
Just closed from this source are above thu
average of the previous year.
TuRxgY.-A letter from q missionary q
Kharpoot, Eastern Turkey, February IL
gives q glowing account Of deep religious in
terest at that station. Great numbers ar,
anxiously inQuiring into the truths Of tb'
Gospel, and many are avowing ,hemselve
Christians.
In 1868, the Congregationalists had ut
church or minister in Wisconsin. Now the,
l.. H. 4 a - ,trsr fo<
- ndred and fifty churches, nine thous
eight hundred and twenty six members
t@elve thousand nine hundred and fifty Sun
day school pupils. There are one Thousand
houses OF worship, owned by various evan
gelical denominations, one thousand en-
hundred and seventy ministers, and ebou
one hundred thousand church members.
The Union Chapel for public worship q
the great Exposition in Paris, was expecte
TO be completed in . few days, at the last ad
vices. The proposition to close the Amer
can Department on Sabbath is not likely Il
prevail, as the question of opening or closin
Is in the hands only Of the Imperial Com
missioner And as the building 10 inHl Dcef
trio circles, to shut up one country, wO0ld Gu
Of access TO the others.
AxpovER SHORTER CouRsE.-Miss Sophi
Smith, of Hatfield, niece and heiress of oil
yer Smith, Esq the founder of the Smit
Charities, has given to Andover Theologici
Seminary thirty thousand dollars to found
profesaorship Of theology, homiletics, etc
in an abridged course. The donation Ps
comes available on the FIRST Of August, an
the professor is expected to be chosen SO I
70 enter upon his duties with the opening I
the new Autumn term.
LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN, TEsxwTbe wint,
term of the Educational Institutions"
Lookout Mountain has just closed. Rev.
F. Williams, who has lsbored here With gre
energy the past year, now retnrns TO u
Andover Seminary, takes his plsce asprinc
pal.
TIE METHODIST SEMISARr.-The Meth
dist Theological School removed from Co
cord, N. H.. is fixed In Brookline, Mass
and site of thirty-six acres has been pu
chased on Aspinwall Hall, about three mill
from the State House.
HARVARD UsrvEaslrY Mics {ophia Bisl
aud Susan Dimock, on applying for admit
sion to the Medical College of Harvard I'm
versity, received note from President Hi
the other day informing them that there
no provision for the education OF women
any department of that University, and thl
On the de1k of great ship at sea, mot
er sat gazing At something lying befCse he
while tears flowed like rain. For days al
nights she had been watching and prayiI
over her little child, so anxious and 80 ca
nest that it might live. But the beaatii
flower dropped and faded and died. And d
vas nov looking at it, vaxen lhce aad han
As il lay in its rude little CONN, reedy 70
buried in the great deep. where no eo'
could mark its grave. A single sweet dewe
the only one in the ship, was clasped b
tiny hsnd. The passenger were eli eather'
around. silent and sympathizins, and nan
In tears. The great ship slided swiftly o
knowing nothing Of the sorrows within he
The hardy sons of the ocean had bee
piped 80 bury the dead - and, groepil
round the windlass, they thought Of the bea
tiful child that 80 lately was heir pei O.
spoke OF the sweet face, and another of 4
mothers less. All vas resdy now. II
coffin was placed on the main matches -
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