The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-03-06

Church of Washington City, was ded-
icated on Sunday last. 1t was crowd
ed to its utmost extent, and some
like fifteen hundred people went
there without being able to gain adj
mittance. The dedication sermon
was preached by Bishop Simpson. 1t
was a discourse of great force and
power. General Grant, Chief Justice
Chase, Speaker Colfax, and half the
members of the Senate and the House
were amopg the auditors. The after
noon services were conducted by Rev.
DR.. Eddy, of Chicago. During the
day and evening about seventeen
thousand dollars were subscribed
toward the payment Of the church
debt.
THE Unitarian papers are Boosting
that during this last year (the Uni
tarians) have received more access
sions to the ranks of their ministry
from the Methodist clergy than from
all their theological schools together"
Wesley once exhOrted his followers
never to leave the Church of Eng
land, lest God should leave them"
Some are now leaving God it seems.
Two Roman Catholic priests have
recently returned to the Church of
England, and the agitations there, in
stead Of producing movement totodrds
Rome, arc actually drawing from
Romanism. The ablest pamphlet of
the day is a defence of the purity and
Catholicity of the Church of Eng
land, by a ROmanist writer, Ffoulks.
ARCHBISHOP MANNING has been
saying in Rome what Father Hecker
has said in some public lectures in
this countrS-Ind for which he was
laughed at-that only those govern
ments prosper which are Obedient 10
the Pope, and that Romanism is the
best religion for the world. Spain
and the Spanish American States
make the logic of these gentlemen a
little faulty. Rome itself, which en-
joys the blessed presence of His
I" Holiness" is full of foreign bayo-
nets to guard his person. Nightly
patrols guard the streets. and the ex-
cess of expenditures owe receipts to
maintain the Pope's army, and other
Injuries, amounted the past year to
six millions of Papal ~lievres.
THE great Hooker, author of 'Ec-
Elizabeth. once said. IF SO be It
were possible nat all other ornaments
of mind might be had in their full
| perfection, nevertheless the mind that
| shO,ll ,0aaaso khann- A1uaroaH from.
piety could be but a spectacle of com
which adorned with sundry other ad-
mirable beauties, wanted eyesight'"
THE State of New York contained,
ia. 1888, one Bishop of the Episcopal
Church. Itnow has FIVE Bishops and
the same number Of Dioeeses. The
census of the entire State shows that
the ratio Of increase in that body is
nearly ten per CEN greater than any
| other religious organization within
the limits of the State.
BIBLES, Prayer Books, and other
Protestant Books are now sold freely
in Spain, while in Portugal an Eng.
lishman has just been banished for
six years on a charge OF making pros
elytes to PrOtestanism.
FIFTEEN HUNDRED.-The Revival
| Department of the northeastern I'D
UocGte of February oath, records some
1900 recent conversions and Access
sions within the bounds of its circula.
ton.
THE General Conference of the
| EVANGELICAL Alliance will not meet In
the Fall of 1869, but in 1870. The
| Alliance has branches in Britain,
France, Holland. Germany, Switzer
| land, Sweden. Palestine, Persia, Tur-
key, New Zealand, Australia aud
Africa. At the last General Confer
| ence, in Amsterdam in 1867, most of
these branches were represented.
REV. HENRY BANNIsTER, ID. D.,
and Prof. j. s. Jewell, of the Garrett
Biblical Institute, Evanston. Illinois.
81 to Europe, the Holy Laud, Egypt,
and Asia Minor, in the Spring.
Criticisms on the Temperance
Cause."-Rev. Il. o. Haven, ID. d.,
LII. d., of the University of Michi-
gan, contributes an article to the
North Western, under the head of
| Criticisms on tho Temperance Cause.
We quote the following:
/ have heard many temperance ad-
dresses within a few years, but have
not been so fortunate as to hear one
that exposed fearlessly the crime of
getting drunk. The Incorporate man
has been held up as the victim of APP
petite, as a weak man, as a good,
whole-souled fellow, liable to be led
| aGfr0us nonHorE,1 oans,oao ha-a haan
referred to-poets, statesmen, orators,
and even clergymen-that have sue
cumbed to the willy arts of the rum
seller-but the positive guilt of swal-
lowing the poison has not once been
sharply and powerfully portrayed.
Is this right? Is the. rum. seller
any worse than other men who do
business for money without regard to
the moral effect OF their occupation
on the community? So far as I have
observed, retail rum.sellers are gen.
orally weaker, and therefore less
wicked, than rum-drinkers. They
are usually of a low grade of intel
lect and moral sense They are un
willing to dig. ashamed to beg, and
have small capital to trade with, and
are not troubled with what men call
heart, or conscience, aud sell rum for
the same reason that our farmers
raise hops-beeause it will pay. These
hop-growers are good men; why not
the rum-sellers2 They do not trouble
themselves to look after consequences.
They say, 1t takes two to make a
bargain. NOBODY needs to buy unless
he wishes TO. If he buys he does it
of his own free will, and he is respon-
sible for his own act"
/ am not inclined to apologize for
this fraternity, but one thing is pretty