The Evansville journal., 1868-11-14

year. Under it's present editorial
management the Advocate is improv-
ing.
Rev. ABEL STEVENS, LII. d, the
eminent historian Of Methodism, is
reported to be engaged writing His
tory of Mohammed-His Religion
and His Followers"
For the first time in its history,
Garrett Biblical Institute, October
29th, conferred, as merit of scholar
ship, the degree of ID. on two of
its graduates-Rev. j. w. Waugh, of
India, and Rev. O. III. Fowler, of the
Rock River Conference.
Iowa CONFERENCE.-THE Annual
Register of the Iowa Conference. Rev.
4. III. Waring, Secretary. shows the
number of members, 1888; prOba-
TONERS, 2,174; local preachers, 22O;
total, 20,742-total last year, 1881
total increase. 1875; churches, 163,
valued at s399.SOO; parsonages, 56,
valued at $50, 900; raised for missions,
$6 O82; Bible Society. 81, ,234; Sunday
School Union, $203; Church Exten
sion, $276; Freedmen's Aid Society,
$l59.
A CONGREGATION of the NJ. f..
Church South has been organized at
Jcffersonville, and conteme!ate build
ing a church edifice.
A CALL has been issued, in circu-
lar form, by ministers and members
of Evangelical Churches in various
parts of the United States,
for a Convention, both lay and
clerical, to be held in the Re-
formed Protestant Dutch Church
in New York City on Tuesday. No
vember 18th, at 10 o'clock AM. The
object of the Convention, as we learn
from the call, is to devise means to
more fully develop Christian zeal
and render efficient the gifts and
energies of the Church of Christ" A
series of topics for discussion is sub
mitted with the call, and gentlemen
designated to discuss them. We pre-
sumo the Convention will be very in
teresting, and be largely attended
from all parts of the country.
DRESSING FOR CHURCH." Very
estimable, and, we trust, very religious
young women sometimes enter the
house of God in a costume which
makes the acts of devotion in the
service seem almost burlesque. WheI
a brisk little creature comes into a
pew with her hair frizzed till it stand:
on end in a most startling manner
rattling strings of beads and bits ot
tinsel, she may look exceedingly
pretty :and piQHant;; and if she came
there for a game of croquet or tab.
eau party. would be all in very gooC
taste, but as she came to confess thai
she is miserable sinner, that she hal
done the things she ought not to have
done, and left undone the things sht
ought to have done-as she takes upoI
her lips the most solemn and tire.
mendous words, whose meaning runs
far beyond life into a sublime eternity
there is discrepancy which would
be ludicrous it it were not melan.
eholy.'
| THE american ChWrchmGn, or
An exploded bit of nonsense, says
there Is nothing which so much in
lures religion as the follies committed
by foolish good people In its name
| And in no Christian land are such
follies more common than In our own
Men have so lost all knowledge oi
the true methods of Christian work
ing, and in the individualism anG
self pleasing of sectarianism have
been so compelled, each to invent his
plans for himself, that nowhere sc
perfectly as in our own place aDC
time have inexperience, and self
opinion, and misguided rashness sc
wasted the zeal and energy of Chris
tian men. La every short space Of
time some patent plan is invented
some new contrivance devised to
effect some great work In moral OF
religious reform. And such things
have done untold harm. They have
created distrust OF the common
instrumeDtalities of the Gospel
A striking case of this folly
; which misleads well meaning peo
pie, and dIsgusts many thoughtful
men with the very name of religion
has just worked itself out in New
York. One of those gentlemen calleC
Bohemians - penny-a-liners,
ETC., a manufacturer of sensations t
order at so much column-furnishe
for the new enterprise an account 0
a visit to disreputable den in a low
street somewhere In the great city
the keeper of which he calls $ tn,
wickedest man in New York" Ii
the first place, the name is a falls
bit of humbug. How does thi
literateur know SOhO is the wickedes
man In New York? Ii would bt
quite as reasonable to seek for tina
distinguished character up town a
down townwin palatial residence
as den on Water Street. Th,
! name betrays cant and humbug, which
confounds respectability with virtue
and clean linen with good morals.
But the sensational contributor Is
not the only person who has tha
{ amount OF sincerity and insight. I'm
mediately a number of enthusiastic
gentlemen conclude that havinl
Iound the wIckedest man in New
YORK, they will convert him.
/, lie has no objections to the gratui
tous advertlsement of himself and hi.
business; Like all coarse villains, hi
4 is proudof notOriety-takes a prid,
d in beingthe biggest villain he knows
These weak, good folks are fatterin,
his vanity and feeding his love of mo-
tice. They have come to pray fol