The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-07-04

Streets, IS a location for the new
church. The property is two hun
dred and two feet front on Delaware
Street, and one hundred and ninety
FIVE feet on Vermont Street, and the
price paid is seventeen thousand dol
lars. IF the Rol ert's Chapel people
carry out the idea of having a park
church, it certainly will he the finest
one In the city.
We received from Rev. A. Andrus,
Pastor of Trinity, neat Card, upon
which is an engraving Of the Met
ropolitan Memorial NJ e. Church
of Washington City. This magnifi
cent edifice. one of the finest in the
United States, is built mainly By
the contributions of the Methodist
Churches outside of the Capital.
There has already been expended
upon it S170, 900. and it is estimated
that its entire cost, when completed,
will be over 5000, 000
1t is stated that the Rev. DIR. Tut
tie, of Wabash College, (Crawfords-
ville,) oontemplates a trip to the
Rocky Mountains during his Summer
vacation.
We learn that the Rev. DIR. Burt,
President Of the Ohio Female Col
Iege, who has recently returned from
an extended trip to the Holy Land
and the Oriental countries, has been
invited to deliver his interesting lee
ture on Bethlehem" in this city,
at an early day. and that it is very
probable that he will accept the inyi-
tation. IF so. our people may antiei-
pate rich intellectual and religious
feast.
Rev. j. p. II. INGRAHABT, the pop
ular rector Of Christ Church, of this
city, returned home yesterday from
an extended visit North, looking visi-
bly, improved in health, and alto
gether better for his journey.-I1,-
dianopoIis Journal, End.
MORRIS JACOB RAPHAEL, a dis
tinguished Hebrew scholar and wri-
ter, preacher and rabbi of the Jewish
faith, died in New York on Tuesday.
in the 80th year of his age.
TIE four Catholic Archbishops in
New York protest against recruiting
men for the Papal army, and propose
to raise money therefor instead,
IKE TREE CHURCH QUESTION.
TIE Cincinnati Gazette of Monday
says:
At the First Presbyterian Church,
system went into operation for the
well filled. All the exercises were
marked by the spirit and fervor, the
singing being truly-and, we may
add, delightfully."- - congregational
The pastor prefaced the sermon with
a few words of explanation, stating
that the seats were, in the fullest
sense free. Families wishing to sit
together could select pews and retain
them as long as desired. All were IN
vited to add to the subscription list
for the support of the church. but
such contributions were entirely vol
untary, and had no connection with
the occupation of seats.
In an editorial upon this subject,
the Chicago Standard (Baptist) says:
We have seen in our dag a good
deal in relation to the free-pew sys-
tenn in our churches, and an oeca-
sional flourish OF trumpets whenever
it was adopted. We have also seen
it tried in numerous instances in vari-
Gus denominations, aud it has always,
without exception, so far as our OBJ
servatiOn goes, proved failure. An
| attempt has been made TO carry on an
| Episcopal Church in this city, on this
plan, but it is weak and powerless,
| the congregation is small aud lifeless.
and we understand it has to be sup
ported mainly from without. The
same result has followed wherever
the experiment has been tried The
fact is. as a general thing people
even poor people-are too proud to go
to a free-pew church. 1t is an ac-
acknowledgement of poverty which few
Americans are willing to make.
RTTUALIsM.-Bishop McIlvaine. of
Ohio. has taken high grounds against
Ritualism in the Episcopal Church,
more especially against the practices
of opening and closing public worship
| By a procession of supplied choris-
tiers entering the Church singing
hymns, while the congregation stand
on their feet. The Bishop objects
that the prayer book prescribes a GER
tain form Of words with which to be-
gin morning and evening prayer, and
that the singing of hymn at all, and
still more so in procession, is a viola
ton of the rubric; that the wearing
of surpliee By any other person than
an ordained priest Is an unauthor-
lied innovation; and, generally, that
this professional singing Is a revival
OF a Romish practice, growing out of
that discontentmeDt with the old
ways of our litureical and Protestant
worship, as established by the laws
and nsages of all the centuries since
the Refor nation, and out OF that NOR
DID coyetlng ofincreased ceremonial.
OF which the extreme Ritualism in
these days IN England, and in certain
places TINS side Of the sea, is the no.
THE GREAT MORMON TEMPLE.
The Temple block is forty rods
square, and contains ten acres Tba
centre of the Temple is one hundred
and ifty-six feet and a half west If
the east line of the block. The an
tire length Of the building is one hun
dred and eighty-six feet and q half
including towers, and the widtb
/ ninety nine feet. On the east of the
front end there are three towers. and