Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1867-05-11

IOWA.

lies OF Newton have recently purchased
Cabinet Organs for their churches.
Rev. G. A. Holmes, ID. D., late of Pitts>
burg Conference. has arrived at Mt. pleass
ant, Iowa, and will shortly be insuguraisd
ss President Of the Iowa Wesleyan Univer'
si,y.
Tho First Congregational Church Of De
Witt 10 preparing 10 erect church ediiiee
40x70 feet, with tower, bclfry and spire--'he
whole 10 cost $1,000.
The New Congregs tianal Church at woos-
ter, jasper county. isto be dedicated to-day
Rev. Mr.. Merrill, Of Fairfield, officiating.
Bishop Ames, while In attendance at the
late session Of Nsbssska Conference, In
Omaha, saceuragsd the brethren Of that
city 70 commence % once the erection Of .
new church sdsAcs. Ito cost about 80. O00)
and subscsibsd d. 900 toward the amount
He alee gave $500 toward the erection Of .
new chusch in Council Bluffs, on the opP'>
ate side Of the river from Omaha
A religious discussion between i's,. "ss
shon, Of the NJ. Z. Church anu nv IN
Bradneld. OF the Christian oocie'y. ~"
commence At Peru, Madison county on tne
9th II June.
n. Geoaee Thatcher. for seven years
pct, Of the Congregational Church at
Keokuk, has resigned his pastorsh'p and
started on . tour through Europe on the
27th
GENERAL INTELLIGENCE.
The Old and New School Bsptis,s are 60
ing 10 melt into each other.
The dying words OF Bishop Timon were
"Jcsus. love thee! Jesus, | adore thee
Jesus. Mary and Joseph, pray for mel
Within the last fifteen years. fourteen
Bap.ist churches in Philadslphia have cree.
ted editiecs for public worship.
In British America there $3.50 regular
Baptist chusches, with about 10000 mems
bers. 275 Of these churches are in Canada.
The Presbytssy Of Cincinnati has ap>
pointed commistss 70 Organize . church
ct NJ. Auburn, Ohio.
| Arrangements have been made for coma
dieting divine ssrvies,in various languages,
Al the great Paris Expositieu.
Rev. John Campbell, ID. d., The we'll.
known Scotch preacher and author, died in
I.ondsu, March 26th, aged u.
Ono Of the Prssby tories OF Scetlsnd has
been trying Rev. DR.. Cunningham and bis
session, for introducing On osean In their
church.
Tho Boston Transcript states that within
. few years past thisty~ churches have
Been burnt within fourteen miles Of Boston,
Mass.
The woodsrful revival still costnuss In
Over eight hundred persons have professed
| -. Al. - A.A
In Boston, the most successful religiout
services Of the season have been the Sum
day evening" sermons By Unitarian divines,
held In the Boston Theatre.
In 1900 the population Of the United
States Vas 5,8O5, 900, while tho church
members were 800. 900, In 1850 the pope.
lation WAS 81 900. 900 and over, the church
members. 3. s55, 2Gs.
Rome, With scarcely two hundred thou
sand Inhabitants, ccatains three or foul
hundred churches. many Of which are rich
and magnificent to degree beyond concep
ton.
Charleston, which, have been in the posses.
sion Of the United States authorities, have
been released from the custom house, and, 4
few Sundays since, chimed the familiar
sounds Of alone Again"
Bishop Vail, Of Kansas, formerly Recto,
Of Trinity Church in Muscatinc, who was
left widower by the death Of his wife Ii
1854, was married IN Philadelphia. on tn,
22d ult., to Miss Ellen Bowmen, daughter o
the late Bishop Bowman, Of Philadelphia
The nuptial rites were performed by Bishop
Clarkson, of Nebraska, an old and intimate
friend Of the parties. aud who went from
Nebraska to Philadelphia for the sslc pur
pose Of officiating st the wedding.
pa said little Claiming to his pater
nal ancestry, holding up . Sunday Schoo
picture book, "what il this ?" "That, m,
son." gravely replied tho father, "is Jacol
wrestling with the angel" "And which
licked, Par" innocently continued the youn,
hopeful.
or the six stations in Pekin, that of tn,
London Mission was established first il
1851, the American Board being last in il.
occupancy Of the q eld Twelve chapel,
have been erected, in which the words o
lifc are proclaimed almost daily without iea
or molestatiou. All the missionaries reside
in the elmer city
Henry Boehm, of the Newark Conference
and I.aban CLARK, of the New York Eas
Conference are now the Oldest living minis
ters Of the Methodist Episcopal Church
The former is nincty.two years Of age snt
has been in the iuncrant work sixty-tiv,
years; the latter is aged eighty igh. ant
has been in the itinesant ministry sixty 81,
years.
The East German II. +. Conference me
at Newark, N. J in mid -April-BshoE
Simpson presiding The following are some
OF the statistics selected from their report
Members, 2,l20; practitioners. $40 loca
preachers, 81; churches, 90; value OF
church property, $203 500; parsonages, Ii
value, $33,700. Collections for all pur
poses, including centenary, about $50. 1000
The Nashville Christian Adrocate claim,
that full count Of all the votes cast BY tn,
several conference, gives the requisite ma
jority for lay representatives. The Who'll,
number Of votes cast is boo. Three fourth,
Of this number is 1867 The afirmativ,
votes number III, ten moro than 10 70
CURED. In several Of the annual confer.
ences preparations are already mskiag fo
the election Of delegates. Each presiding
elders district 10 entitled TO four lay repre-,
sentatives.
The msdssnissd Jews are building an 81,
sgant synagogue in New York. 10 cost $500,
600, IN which The primitive rao's horn II 4
Be supplanted BY costly organ and tn
worshippsss will cit - faniliss in moders
pews, instead Of the men and women 6sinl
separated. The new Jews rcpudiats TIL
eanitarv portion Of Noses Law. The hog o
Palestine they regard ~ diseased and pois
enous; not - Cincinnati ham. The oys
tess Of Syria were coppsry aud unwhele
some; not % the oyster. Of Princess Bay
This new osdef contends that had the Jew
lived IN Rnosia inslsad Of IN Syria, the lav
about making Ore on The Sabbath Dc,
would NOT have sxistsd.
An ELoounnf PAssAas.-Ths finsst thin
, George d. Prentice ever wrote, 10 this iuim
, liable passage:
ut cannot b that earth 10 mans onl,
abidinG place. It cannot BE- that our life /
q . bubble, cast up by the ocean Of eternity
. to float moment on il waves and sinl
into nothingness. Else why is Il, the higl