Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1867-07-06

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a. yel'. and wncn to>W"flo" ou"a
asy I, 100 viii be called TO day and then
~ shall think OF 1t.
The New York annual Conference OF the
African u l.. ZION Church met IN Troy on
jane It, Reu. Sampson Talbot presiding.
Providence is like a curious piece Of Ia.
pestry, made OF n thousand threads, which
single, appear useless, bot put together
represent beautiful history to the eye.
\ At the late Baptist State Convention
held at Wilmington, N. e., Mr.. Eagles,
colored man. was ordained to the work OF
the gospel ministry.
wa,son's sI.ife Of Wesley" has recently
been translated in an abridged form into
the iiindostsni. BY Rev. II. Manssll. ef The
| Indian Mission Conference.
| A Turkish FirnIan grants the right to
hold lands in the Empire to aliens This is
important 70 all Americans who desire 70
acquire real estate IN the Holy Land.
The Enfield Shakers how number 200
persons, dividep into three families, and
owning in common $500 acres Of land high
~ cultivated. The vslue Of their entire
propssty 10 estimsted Al 100000.
A religion that never sufbces TO govern
man will never suffice TO save him that
which does not sufficiently distinguish b. m
from wicked world, will never Distinguish
him from perishing world.
The African Meihodists arc building a
new brick church at Indianapolis, Ind, to
cost over 100000.
The new and revised edition of the disci
pine 0! the NJ. T.. Church, South, has been
issued by the Publishing House Of that
/ Church, with the changes nuthrized by the
, concurrent action Of the General Conference
and the Annual Conferences.
, In Japan an ancient unrepealed law
making Christianity capital crime, still ex.
lists. The attention Of the government Of
that country has recently been directed to
e the matter by Secretary Seward.
4 Charles r Browne (Artemus Ward sent
4 for a Catholic priest during his last sick
: ness, received the rites Of that Church, and
u died ia ito faith.
' Charming says, an humble spire pointing
e lleavenward from an obscure Church, speaks
e oil mans nature, mans dignity, mans des-
tiny more e,oqucntly than oil the columns
- and arches Of Ureece and Rome. the Maus-
10 oleums of Asia, or the pyramids Of Egypt
T. The publication OF the Union Presbyterian
is edited by Rev. w. {. McCune and other
id United Presbyterian clergymcn, Is 20 be
l.. discontinued. in consequence Of the with
- drawal Of Mr.. McCune from the United
u Presbyterian Church.
r. The John Buu understands that ut tn
lot usual meeting Of the bishops Of Lambeth OIL
= Ascension Day Universities Tests Bill vii
:" be considered. and . programme arrange'
he Tor the Pan Anglican Synod.
he The Bishop Of Havana tCuba) recent
lite collected $500 to repair the seminar
an building OF that city, and has taken It VII,
g., him to Rome, with the avowcd intention q
=" Offering it rs = present to the Pope. tn
RS, ,ubscribers are much exasperated ct thi
Ter pious fraud.
aw The followers Of Theodore Parker hav
m. given up their regular service in Boston
he strongest kind of talent has been EN-
=" ployed, from Ralph Waldo Emerson TO Lis
u'' zie Doten, the medium" but the coDgre
ais cation could not be kept together.
The New York Ecangeiia contains tele
gram from it, editor, Dr. Field, in Londol
sd> to the following effect: The Free Churc
=. of Scotland has decided by vote Of thre
TO enc 10 20 On with the negotiations {
''y union; aud ty an oycrwhe ming inaiority
. to make tue State Endowment ii til
lea church an open question in the event I
"a. union
n Bcrnsrds thoughts upon the excellcnc
of humility aud the baseness of pride ar
exquisite Iiumlily,n says he, "must be
ed- glorious thing, since PRIDE itself puts it o
N not to be despised. Pride. must be Of it>e
he something deiormed and shameful, since
:. dnres Dot show iif If naked, and Is forced t
- appear IL mash"
me The Gtrishan Register says: mo churc
sh> Of the denomination has shown greater cart
The sstne,s that the Church Of the Messiah, Ne
.lv Orleans. For five years It was kept alive ,
lay reading every Sunday, and, at the en-
OF this long and hard probation, the accu
ent ,nulatcl debt Of $4,000 has just been \
ry, tingushed under circumstances of grct
9th difficulty aud disc oura cement
cry To you who are in trouble there arc SON
"A. chapters, some particular promises 10 tn
word OF God, made in . most especial man
re- ntr, which should never have been your
ed, SO ns they now ARE, il ye had your porto
ted in this life as others have; and, therefor
;.h all the comforts, promises and mecries whc
:, God ofiereth To- the a.nic,ed are 40 so man
tue love letters written to you. Take them
red you. Claim your right, and be not robbet
a. The Conference of the African NJ
crs Church, which was composed Of Georgis
nv Eloriia, North and South Carolina, was III
:, vided Al its last session, which met in Viii
mngton, North Carolina. in March. q
I've May 3oth. the Georgia Conference met
Mscon, Bishop Wayman presiding, for IL
purpose OF organizing and of examining nm
the ordsining q number OF Ministers who hn
~, not been able to attend the Wimiucto
the Conference.
: The Forty eighth National Conyentio
'' OF the New Jerusalem Churches in III
~ United States OF America, was held the SCI
"s ond week In June in Cincinnati The RI
IN ports oil State associations show that ther
S. are connected with the New, or SwcdenboI
's> eian, Church in this country, about 81 mir
A'n listers and icentiatcs and about 60 socetei
" which average only fifty members. maxim
~ ss' the numerical strength of the den ominatio
'a> but little, # any, over 5000.
-. Agitation is part Of tho sublime orde
q, OF nature. In thunder it makes stagnan
Nc, air pure, which would otherwise breed pes
A. thence. In tempests II purities the dee
-. which would otherwise exhale masma an
-. death. And in the immortal thoughts O
,ar duty, Of humanity and liberty, il SO arouse
~ the hearts OF men that they think them
-, selves inspired of God and not the merce
49, nary clamor Of the market place, nor tn
~, outcries If politicians, clutchipg at tn,
-. prizes Of ambition, can suppress the utter.
ances that men believe lheaveu committed
to them TO declare.
% At the recent Episcopal Convention TO-
y the State of Ohm, It was stated that wheI
the diocese was organized. in 1919, il hat
lrs present IN convention but two ccrgymer
" resident in Ohio, and lay delegates from fv,
sh churches. Until seven years later no oshs
ct, diocese WAS organized west OF north Of shs
ler Carolinss, and there WAS only 265 Protest.
,ut ant Episcopal clergymen in the United
ng States. Now one fifth Of that number resid,
u in the diocese of Ohio.
IN At the late Anniversary in Chicago. O
ne the Home Mission Society, the Secretar,
sre remarked that the largest contribution cvei
as made by living person was decsop o
'es marlborough Vermont. who hat
or given during the pas, year $4,000. iona
40 than Cutler. OF marlborough Was the per
be son alluded &c, and while the ADniver sarie.
rs were being observed. he died a, his resi-.
~ dcnce ia marlborough, on Wednesda,
tie 10Th ult. aged "a yevrs