The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-06-15

A handsome Methodist Church
was dedicated in Greenfield a few
weeks ago, by DIR. Eddy, of Chicago,
The house is a neat brick edifce,
forty by seventy, and twenty feet from
floor to ceiling, with a handsome tower,
one hundred and FIVE feet high, and cost
seven thousand Eve hundred dollars.
The seats are built in good style, and
nicely grained. The pulpit is COM
posed of three elegantly marbled col
umns. - E.fD u II ii
Rev. L, F. Drake, Presiding Elder
in Jonesboro, Tenn, has been favor
ed with anonymous letters, warning
him to re,cross the, Ohio River He
informs his correspondents that he
cannot comply with their requests,
unless by order of the Bishops.
The subject of transfers is occa-
sioninga considerable anxiety and
trouble to some of the Conferences.
"A resolution was passed by Minis
terial Association of. the tennessee
Conferences, Considering transfers as
tending to impair the itinerant sys-,
tenn 10 this the New York IlNethodistI
replies. = ~ D'''
/. We regret rthat,ywe. cannot, wholly
agree with the ministers who adopted
the above resolution. The transfer of
the preachers from one place to.
another, at longer or shorter intervals,
constitutes the itinerancy. This. and
this only, distinguishes it from III set1s
tied pastorate. At FIRST there were no
recognized territorial bounds within
which transfers were to be limited. 1
The Church is a unit. Ours is con-
nectional system truly. The preach
ers are not the property of an Annual
Conference; they belong to the Meth
odist Episcopal Church In its entirety.
The greatest kindness the people can
do the, ministers, Is to secure the
rapid exchange of them from North
to South, and from East to West. Let
the Churches stoutly resist the ten
dency to ma e the Conference lines
walls lof separation, with here and
there gate to let stranger through.
That is an innovation, and a most |
dangerous one, too, ! aponS original
Let us have transfers,
only more of them. Let the East ex-
change with the. West, and the North
with the Border. IF this be done
abundantly, it will be next to impos-
sible for American Methodism to
sink into decay. ..e..-..-,.,..s.sat
A member of Roberts Chapel, In
ilianapolis, writes the Christian Adj
rocdtc a history of what has been ac-
there, under the two
years jurisdiction of the Rev. A. s.
HUMAN. He says, since the 7th of
] une 1866, 723 have joined the Church
On probation and by letter. On the
10th of December last, 50 probation
ers were transferred to the City Mis-
sion and organized into "a mission
Church, in the bounds of the Indiana
Conference. This is the third swarm
rom this oldfhive, andsa committee is
now looking for church lot to start
another mission.
Half of the classes support a prayer
on Thursday evening, and
he remainder on Friday evening, the |
7oung men holding theirs on Monday
evening. The trustees havel offered
he chapel now occupied for sale, and
the building Of "a newt
house of worship, square further
north. The prayer meetings are not
in interest, perhaps any
where in the country One 'hundred
md fifty and two hundred persons of
en- may be seen in each of the regu-
ar prayer meetings, and often thirty
md forty persons take a part in the
exercises of one meeting; generally
rom one to ten persons ask prayers in
he prayer meeting, and nearly always
ONE one joins the Church at the
lose of the service, Since Confer ,
nee, or in the last six weeks, forty
i've have joined US by letter and on
aa les '-h as.esi