Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-09-13
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JOSIE LEIGH.
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, Mr., Morris. Tying, son Of Rev. DR..
, Tying, has left the law and politics and is
studying for the ministry.
The Boston Young Mems Christian
, Union has leased q spacious suite of
rooms at the corner of Washington street
and Suffolk Place.
James Eels, late pastor Of the Church
on the Heights, Brooklyn, edits the Oc
cident, in San FrAneiscO-an able Pres
!, byterian paper.
: Baptist Noel has resigned his pasto-
rate to devote himself to Evangelism, in
| his seventieth year A bright and time
ly example.
The Protestant Churchnldn impugns,
historically and scripturally, the institu-
tions of parishes and diOceses as human
usurpatiOn.
Christopher R. Brown, a eOlored
graduate of Union Seminary, New York,
has been ordained as pastor Of the Tenn
pie Street Church in New Haven.
The minutes of the late General
Convention of Vermont report 1876
churches, 81 of which have pastors, and
rs acting pastors; total church member
ship Is, 2SS.
Hon. N. B. Judd, of Chicago, has
given Rev. F. s. DeHass, Pastor of the
Metropolitan NJ. Z. Church, D. c., $1,000,
in order to secure Chicago memorial
window in that church.
The Methodist Missionary cOntribu-
tions last year lacked about twenty live
per cent. of what they were the year be-
fore, and twelve per cent. this year, so
far.
Isaac Newton, a Second Advent
preacher, was prosecuted lately in Mas
sachusetts for preaching too loud. Moth
ing came OF it; the prosecution was evil
IDENTIFY prompted by odiunl tiOIogicun1.
"A Baptist congregation in Railway,
New Jersey, was recently preached to by
a Methodist minister and Methodist
/ congregation by Baptist minister sy
mistake. All parties We're pleased.
- The Spiritualists held their Fifth
/ National Convention at Rochester, New
| York, last week. A prayer, purpOrting
( to come from the spirit of John Pierpont,
| was offered. The attendance was large.
Washington University, of st. Louis,
has given up the Polytechnic Institution
into the hands of the city school board,
the latter assuming its liabilities, which
actually amount to SIS0,000, but are
nominally 500, 600 more.
Columbus, Ohio, is to have mag
nificent new Roman Catholic Cathedral,
with front of one hundred, and length
of one hundred and eighty-seven feet.
There will be tower and chime OF bells.
The building will be In the Gothic style.
George II. Stuart and his Christian
liberty. both survive the edict of petty
sect. He was out the other day at the
national esmp-meeting at Mannheim.
Will the MethOdists get the great stone
which the Reformed Presbyterian build
ers refuse?
The Second Presbyterian Church,
Indianapolis, Ind, Henry Ward Beech
er's old church, is finishing a beautiful
stone edifice, while the old white church,
once painted by Mr.. Beecher's own
hand, is being altered to suit other pur-
poses.
The Young Mems Christian AssOcia-
ton, of New York, are called to send
delegates to the third annual convention,
to assemble In Auburn on Tuesday after
noon, September 8, at half past three
O'Clock, and to continue in session during
the following Wednesday and Thursday.
-The Catholic University at Notre |
Dame, at South Bend, Indiana, was re-
opened on Tuesday, with over 300 new
students, The directors propose to erect /
a fine observatory tower, during the year,
in which they will mount the telescope
lately presented to the college by the .
Emperor Napoleon.
The London Midnight Mission re- |
ports that scarcely girl has ever been |
rescued by its agency from life of shame, |
who had not been Sunday scholar. |
The "last sensation " in the reformatOry 1
line, is an article in which this fact is /
perverted to seem an evidence that a
majority OF abandoned women are from I
our Sabbath schools ! Anything for
sensation.
-Camp-meeting, says the Church
Union, Is flourishing with renovated
youth. At the late SiDg-Sing camp
meeting, some 300 persons profeesed con-
version, and at the closing lOve-feast, $50
persons spoke in an hour and a half.
But 1t is nothing new for as many TO
speak in half minute on such occasions.
The Marths's Vineyard eamp-meeting, 4
opened last Monday, has 800 taber-
nacles,p some costing as high as $500.
The Pittsburg Caristian Advocate re-
marks the general falling back of expe-
rienced Methodist preachers into third
rate positions, and the filling up of all
first and second rate appointments with
young men and men under fifty. It at
tributes this loss of power with years
which ought to be q gain-to the reflex
influence of preaching over ole sermons.
The sermon is as good as ever, but af-
fects the preacher, and therefore the
nearer, less and less every time il is de-
livered. Musty sermon, mnsty preacher.
Among the receipts Of the American
Board for July was S75 in gold, from
Hon. Anson Burlingame, to the two
schools in China under the charge of
Rev. Messrs. Chaplin and Goodrich. The !
various sums, large and small, received
at the Mission House in Pemberton
Square, on Monday, the last day of Au-
gust, amounted to Sl3, 900, and the en-
tire receipts for August were about $685. {
000. This would close the financial year
with debt OF s45, 900, but the books will l
be kept open till the first of the next {
week for any contributions which the
donors may desire to have counted in
with the receipts OF the past year.
Speaking of the feeling of Baptist
ministers for performing the sacrament
OF Baptism, the Examiner says that the
only other instance In which We have ,,
ever heard of baptismal rites, was in the !
case OF the eolored preacher who, after !
ImmersiDg sixty candidates, charged !
them dollar a bead for his services. !
Upon the next 5aptismal occasion, only /
two candidates presented themselves,
the preacher declined to pro-
,eed, upon the plea that he wasn't going
TO slosh himself alI over for no two dol
lars. These two instances, which we sus-
pect are about equally authentic, consu.
.ute the sum total OF Baptist precedent
md practice in this direction. II