Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1869-09-22
onURCH ITEMS.


The tolmnization of the marriage OF
Gibson 5. Cleveland and Jane n. Thomp-
son took place this moinmg, at 9 O'clock
at the residence of the Hon. II. y o.
Packard. The parties so East. We shall
welcome them home, and
s.With prayers and wisccs for their future veal
We crown them both this happy wedding morn
The usual services at st. Thomas church
will be omitted next Sunday and the sue
ceeding Sunday. The writer of these
items VIII gather material for his next
haI column in sight Of the rainbow that
spans Niagara Talls.....St. Paul's Church,
La Porte, was reopened for worship last
Sunday. The services were exceedingly
interesting and the vocal and instruments
tai music was exceedingly brilliant......
Bishop Randall lately laid the corner
stone of college building at Golden City,
CulOrado......The dedication OF the sixth
chime of church bells in Massachusetts
has just taken place at Trinity Church,
HarveIhill. The Bishop of Connecticut
has confirmed within short time l,ll9
p, sons. ..... Four bishops of the Southern
dioceses are spending short time in So
cial fellowship at the Unive rsity of the
South. THE eloquent Pere Hyacinth, of
Paris, has renowned the Papacy..
Washington, Madison, Monroe, Harrison,
Tyler and Taylor are the only Presidents
who have been communicates in any re>
! ligIous body during their term Of office,
and they were Churchmen... The church>
men of Syracuse, N. Y, have purchased
delightful residence for Bishop Hunt
ington as the Episcopal residence of the
al lac al nf
the diocese of Ohio, Bishop McIlyaine
directed that there should be 10 extern
pore prayer meeting in connection with
the session of The council. 1t is law
of the Episcopal Church in this country
that no church can be consented unless
free from debt. :. Mrs. Colt, of Hartford,
Conn.,, widow of the inventor of Colts
revolver, has built the most artisiically
beautiful church in that stateT The
congregation OF Chris;'s Church, Louis.
vile. KY, has taken the inilatory steps
towards the erection of Boys Orphan
Asylum. The Church Sunday School
Association of indianapolis is about 10
publish, for the use of the Church Sunday
Schools OF this diocese, a new singing
boak-being a compilation Of the best
Sunday School hymns. chants and music
now .1tuClUlldll Is tOuN
siderable excitement on account of the
effoIt OF the Roman Church TO exclude
the Bible from the public schools. The
Superior Count of the State of Illinois
will render decision in the Cheney case
within a month. 1t is already intimated
that the decision of Judge jameson viii
be reversed, and the ecclesiastical court
allowed 10 proceed......T late Council
of the diocese of Illinois gave an expla>
nation OF its own canUIs almost unani-
mously sustaining the Bishop and the
ecclesiastical court as against Judge
jameson Interpretation. Judge Muir
ray Hoffman, oil New York. the eminent
jurist and author of Hoffman's Law Of
the Church" has written letter review
ing Judge JameSOn's decision. lie states
that Judge Jamesons decision has no
precedent in this country, and is entirely
wrong in its views of the relation of
Church and State in this country, and in
its Interpretation of the conons of the
Church.