Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1867-05-04

las commenced tho work Of building a new
hcrch at Lagnola, Harrison county. The 4
Star proposes to contribute the revenue" [
'ecsived from five new subscribers, to the I
Association.
The UniversalIst Society at Eldora will /
rect fine church this summer.
The Marion Register says the Quarterly |
Meeting Of the Board of the Iowa Baptist !
ltste Convention has been in session in
Aarion during the past week. II VAS CON
,esed Of Ministers from oil parts Of the
Isats, earnest, active pioneers in the Gospel
werk.
9Ths Iowa CITY Sunday Sch o. Union
las been revived. Seven churches are rep
rssented In the Ceonit,se n Organization.
The Univsssaliss Congregation At Iowa
sity hsss lstsly Introduced -plendsd or
gan into their church.
The Bohiaian ladies VI Iowa City and
vicinity held n grand Fair end Festival on
Easter Monday aud the week following, for
the purpose Of raising funds TO build them>
selves church.
The colorsd people (Baptists) Of Burling-
ton are going TO build church the coming
summer.
The Congrsgationalist Association Of Iowa
holds session in Auscatine, commencing
or the 29th.
The CongregationalistS Society at Iowa
City are taking steps TO build q new church
About 4.47G havo already been raised.
For.y>fvs persons have been added to the
Methodist Church at Nevada.
Al Ottumwa ferry four have joined the
n. 4. Church on probation ard nine By
letter.
A revival at Dscossh, lows, hes resulted
In the accession u fifty~si members 10 the
Methodist Society.
A resent revival in the n. E. Church
q Aaanoss twenty persons made prssss
sion.
Rev. Merean Edwards. ths lsoeus ssvi>
val sailor preacher 10 holding . series Of
msstings u Kcokuk.
The Herald says ths psws in the Unvsr
aalst Church Of Dubuque were rented few
dsys ago fse nearly three thousand dollars.
Eleven slips brought one hundred dollars
each.
An Epscopslisn church will BE- built at
Toledo the present year.
The members Of the Methodist church At
Bentonsport have purchased . parsonage
for their pastor.
- u. Ia -
ted at West Union the present season.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The Spiritualists are said to b increasing
10 New England.
The General Assembly Of the.O. s. Pres.
byteriass will be held at Cincinnati.
DR.. Thomas Worcester, the oldest pastor
In Boston, has recently resigned his pas.
torate after sixty-six years Of ministerial
labor
A comprehensive Dictionary Of tho BIZ
ble." based upon the Bible Dictionary Of DR..
Smith. Is in course Of preparation and will
shortly be brought out by the Appletons.
Two membersj compose the gradnatins
class Of the Cambridge (Unitarian) Divinity
Schecl this yeai. The Iatsliigsncer says
they are understood to diverge somewhat
in their theological views, aud, to avoid a
tie, they have gone into "a compromise in the
selection Of the preacher who is to address
| to them the farewell sermon"
Two-thirds OF the Annual Conferences in
regular official cooperation with the Gsner.
nj Conference Of the Methodist Protestant
Church, having united in the call for Q Gen.
eral Convention, Is recommended BY the
late General Confer cnce, the General Con
vsntion will be held In the city Of Mont
gsmsry, Alabama, on the frat Tussdey Of
May.
The Cincinnati GosettS says that the
churches Il present created in that city will
accommodate 81, 700 pessons. There ere 10
Catholic houses Of worship, 10 Baptist, 81
Methodist Episcopal, Is Psesby terrain and
4 Episcspalian.
The Rochsstss Catos states that ihsrs ass
at present 149 churches in that county,
which will seat 62.473 persons, and the to
tai value is Sl,267. 1896. The expense Of
maintaining the clergy amounts to about
Se3,5oi, aud the number Of people that
usually attend chuech is 30,57o.
The NJ. l.. Sunday School Union now en-
braces Is. 1856 schools. 1872. 900 officers and
teachers, and 9S6,766 scholars. In the liz
brarss OF tho Sabba,h-schools there are ..
G49,2i5 volumes. The Sunday school
Journal oirculatss II. 800 copies, while the
maximum circulation Of the Sunday >school
Adrocate reached tho enormous number OF
$4,000 c)piss-larger than that of any
other Sunday school paper in the world.
The funds placed at the disposal Of the
Union for the year were $l9,62O; ITS ex>
psnditurcs were nearly 1000, leaving IN
Indebtedness Of 34.77S.
The United Prssby tssisa Mission in Egypt
have established at Cairo . printime press,
which marks IN svsutful era In thee dark
land. Il has already issued in that Arabic
. selection Of the Book Of Psalns. snd
5000 Of Browns Short Catsehisms.
Dishsp Wightaan ordained three eslsrsA
pssashsrs u Nashville, On The 7tA q April.
= The tsia,nial Cosvtns;oa Of he Cone,,.
eatienal Churches Of The Northwest was 70.
eeatly IN session several days. il Chicago.
The representation, lay and clerical, wae
lares.
when 0asshaldi ssrivsd q the Sailread
depot at Verona. . child Was prsssntsd 10
him By Ito parents 10 b baptized. He &C
copied the e6cs. II baptizs thee" he said
IN the name Of God, and Of the legislator
Jssus. May thou become an apostle Of
trstA. Love thy nsighbor; assist the UNI
fortunate; bs strong = combat the tyraat
Of the conscience and ofshs body be wos-
Thy Of the brave Chissi, whose nsme give
thee. Adisu 7" The crowd chcersd franz
ically.
The Young Mons Chriseiaa Association
Of Chicago nev take the lsstero whish are
mailsd without being stamped aad forward
mem TO their Destination. A quiet way Of
doing good.
In csrtaia Sabbath school the Su,s,ip-
tsndsas made powerful appeal - the schol
srs 70 be active end useful. and amone
other things he told them that they should
all be locomotives, each takiag aioag his
train to Heaven. The next Sabbath. lust
~ the school oponea, in-cams one Of the
best ard most jealous boys, With thirteen
new scholars behind him, aud went up the
aisle altering a noise-choo, chso-imita>
tive OF the engine, to the ana1snsnt Of the
superintendent and scholars. "What does
shs mean p asked The astonished Superin
'sndent "Why," answered the boy, you
sad We must be all locomotives, and here
:" with thirteen cars behind me-