The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-02-22

Inere are Apostolic Vicariates es-
tablished in Idahoe, Montana, Ari-
zena, Colorado. For the last we re
joice to learn our friend and oldeu
time tellow-laborer in this Diocese,
Right Rev. Priest (Pr@jectus) Mache-
beuf, Vicar General Of Right Rev
Bishop Lama, of Santa Fe, now at
Denver, has been selected. He Is,
indeed, soldier of the Gross.
The See of Nashville has been
transferred to Memphis.
We regret to learn that the See of
Marquette Is not supplied. The nOtulCg
or informatiOns presented to the
Council by tho late Bishop Baraga,
for the choice of an administrator, or
a successor, were either mislaid or
deemed insUfhci Mt.
The erection Of so many new Sees
and Wicarites, and the selection of
such worthy incumbents, demand the
liveliest gratitude Of the Catholics Of
the United States to Almighty God,
the Holy Father and our own HE
rarchy. t
The various natioualities Of clergy
are represented in the appointments.
s. II. Rosecrans. McClOskey, Me-
Quad, Becker, Gibbons, Shanahan,
are Americans. u. NJ. Melcher,
Heiss, and, we believe, two or three
of the Wears Apostolic are Germans.
Nj. NJ. Ryan bishop, perhaps o Hara
and Mullen, arc Irish, and NJ. Mache-
beuf, is French
A Belgian and two Spaniards were
named for Idaho-all three in Cali
fornia.
An Italian, a Frenchman, and an
freshman, for Montana.
Arizona three different nationah-
ties. We cannot state at present who
were the chosen for those Vicariates.
1--WE find the following original
poetry" 10 the Bo1nv.lls Enquirer of
this week
[Wri ten for the Boonville EaQuirer.l
A BAPTIST SONG.
In reading Of the Scriptures, an ordinance
And in the Third Of Matthew, that ordi-
EnJoined on ali believers; come witness
now the Son
runner, JOHN.
Not at the river Jordon, but in the flowing
stood John The Baptist Preacher, when he
Baptized the LAMB;
So. JESUS CHRIST the Saviour, ouG of the
To show that We must follow aud pattern
after HIM.
Now John he was a Baptist, when he Bap-
tiZed the Lamb,
And Jesus was Baptist-from this the
DsaENf TEFE lrrnE
Ana II You follow Jesus, as Christians
ought to do,
You would come and be Immersed, aud
be a Baptist too
There are many that viii tell you this
But You 90 read the Scriptures, and you
will ind them true;
You win find The, there were none Baptized
And that the Lord Of glory will no one
else receive.
You have heard and read the Scriptures,
go read them through againi
but did repentance bring;
If you believe in Jesus, be immersed like
As long as you neglect 1t, to you it is a sin.
Go read the Third of Matthew, go read the
1t is a guide to Christians, to teach them
what TO do;
In those days came John the Baptist into
the wilderness,
A preaching of the gospel of Jesus right
eousneSS.
Some say that john the Baptist was moth
ing but Jew,
The W ord of God informs US that he was a
preacher, too;
A preaching to the people, the gospel
truths impressed,
And then and there informs us, a Saviour's
righteousness.
Those infants brought to Jesus, were
brought to him TO bless,
And all that Jesus blesses, is sure to find
his rest;
Come, then, ye tender parents, come bring
your babes along,
Not to be baptized, for Jesus baptized
Phillip he was a preacher, as we do under
stand,
He join'd the aunoch' s chariot, it was
the Lords command;
He opened to him the Scriptures, the
eunoch did believe,
And he Baptized the eunoch as you may
plainly read.
JUsTUs MATTHEWS.