The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-10-03
RELIGIOUS NEWS.

RELIGIOUS NEWS.
A DISPATCH from Washington City
announces the death of Rev. DIR. L.
D. Gurley, q prominent minister OF
he Presbyterian Church (O.S.). The
indianapolis Journal says DIR. Cur
ley is we'll known it that city by very |
many citizens, who will remember
him as a pioneer of Presbyterianlsm
in Indianapolis, and as combining a |
larger proportion of the qualities OF
Christian excellence than are often
met with in one person. DIR. Gurley's
last malady was cancer of the stom-
ach, from which he has been suffering
for more than a year past.
Rev. Mr.. INaERsoLL, of Plymouth
Church, indianapolis, is to give
course of Sabbath evening lectures
upon Bunyan's Pilgrims Progress"
The first of the course, John Bun
yam and his Times" will be delivered
next Sabbath evening.
Rev. HENRY WARD BEECHER's
sermons are to be regularly published
in octave pamphlet form, issued every
week. i4 1oti
THE congregation of Montclair
Church, New Jersey, have extended
a call to the Rev. G.. III. Harshall, of
Indianapolis, Ind.
TEE desire to hear and see Rev.
Stephen Ell. Tying as he preached In
the open air in the city of New York
was so great that the windows and
roofs of houses in the neighborhood
were occupied by people.
THE Roman Catholics are building
a cathedral at Columbus Ohio, one
hundred by one hundred and eighty
seven feet in dimensions, and with
tower two hundred and fifty feet
high.
REV. G. G. MITCHELL, formerly
stated supply in the United Presbyte-
rian congregation of Pittsburg, Indi-
ana, has gone to the Old School Pres
byterians, and is preaching in their
church at Delphi, Indiana.
THE Methodist has an article con-
trasting past and present camp-meet-
ings, rather to the disparagement of
the latter. 1t says that conversions
are not so numerous now, owing, in
part, to the fact that social objects
have crowded upon the religious fea-
lures of those meetings. The preach
ing, of late, has been more schOlartic.
with less direetness, and point, and
power.
THE Wdtchnaan and Reflector says:
The most eloquent speech made
in the Missionary Union was deliv-
cred by colored preacher from Libe-
ria. He is a genuine African, and as
unpromising in looks as can be con-
ceived. He sets the rules of phre-
nology, and almost all other sciences
that pretend to judge of character, at
defiance He is tall, slim, aud quite
lame. But he is as eloquent as
Cyprian, and swayed the meeting as
the trees are swayed by the wind.
ONE hundred and twenty nine
years ago the first Methodist edifce
was erected, under the immediate su-
pervision of Rev. John Wesley, near
Bath, England.
On the 18th ult., at Montreal,
vote was taken by the Episcopal Syn
cd of Canada, aud a resolution was
adopted forbidding the Elevation of
the Elements, the use of incense, and
the mixing Of water with the wine,
the use of the wafer bread, or lights
of the communion table, and the
wearing of vestments while saying
prayers. 4f-1
The AMERICAN BoARD.-The ex-
act figures of the receipts of the
American Board, for the past year,
are given at 1886, 1888 50. All Of this,
save $8,675, was from donations and
legacies. The receipts in the month
of August were s142,66O. This leaves
a balance in the Treasury of $500 96.
Such a noble response is a wonder of
free giving. 3 e aa Z.
BISHOP THOMSON, at the Mission
airy Anniversary of the East Genesee
Conference, said that in his recent
visit to India he witnessed an encamp-
ment of seven hundred and fifty
thousand persons. who had assembled
along the banks of the Gauges, for
religious worship. The principal GER
emony was this: The priests watched
carefully the heavens, and when the
stars reached certain. position, sig
nal was given, at which the vast mul-
titude plunged into the sacred stream,
and came out, as they imagined, NOR
ally purified.
We clip the following from the
leading editorial of the Boston. PsL0t
the official organ of the Roman Cath,
olic Church. Several times we. have
mentioned the fact that these Romish
papers are all exceedingly bitter in
their partisan expressions, and vet
that we never hear any complaints
against them for meddling in politics.
We apprehend that these political pa
pers that are so easily Mortified at the
idea of religious journals having any
thing to say of public affairs have
been sleeping of late: 1
The policy of the so-called Congress,
winch has, by usurpation, obtained con-