The Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1870-1875, 1870-12-31

.d Pm. Glass Meetings at PM. The
Feak Of Prayer win be observed in this
Church.
VOICE culture is regarded BIZ many
newspapers as the great want in
American pulpits.
HARvEy Brown, . veteran of the
New York Conference, died on the
10th. at the age Of seventy-seven.
THE envelope system of collections
for the support Of the church is be-
coming very popular in some parts of
the country.
TIE New Albany Sunday Schools,
like our own, put in the time diligent-
~ during the week with their festivals
and Christmas trees.
THEODORE Triton has been editor
Of the New York Independent for If
teen years. He will be succeeded by
Henry 2. Bowen the proprietor.
A WRITER in the Iat.rior complains
that the late New School Presbyterian
churches arc not doing their duty 20
the Board Of Foreign Missions, since
their withdrawal from the American
Board.
ONE Of the largest meetings ever
held in the city Of Boston was that of
the Woman's Fo-eiga Missionary So
ciety Of the M. Il. Church, on the 14th
inst. The addresses were eloquent
and soul-stirring.
DURING tbs last two years the
Methodists in Rhode Island have in
creased eighteen per cent; the Epis-
copalians forty-four; the Congrega-
tiohalists seventeen and a quarter +;
and the Baptists seven aud three quar-
sers.
PRoF. Moses Colt Tyler, Of Michi-
gan University, having months fur
Tough from his duties In that institu-
ton, has been commissioned by the
IndependeRt to spend this interval in
Washington as special correspond
ent.
BISHOP JAMES recently delivered
three lectures before the Boston The
illogical Seminary, and designs re-
peating them for the benefit of the
students in the Drew Theological
Seminary. The Bishop is sixty-three
yerrs old, yet very active.
THE New York Methodist urges
every Methodist Sunday School in
the land to give the Berean Lesson
System, prepared By DR.. Vincent, a
trial. The system enjoins and facili-
tates the daily reading of the Scrip
lures il and By the family.
TIE Rev. Abraham Reeves, Of
Kentland, has been unanimously
elected Rector Of St. Luke's, Camel
con. Mr.. L. arrived in this ely on
Wednesday night and is detained
from visiting his Parish in conse.
quence Of the ice blockade.
The Roman Catholic Bishop o.
Quincy, ILL.,. has communicated fol
year nearly the entire congregation
at New Albany for engaging in
dance on Sunday, Nov. 6th,i opposi
ton to the will of the priests on the
occasion Of the dedication Of a new
church.
a JOURNAL Of the Presbyterian
Church deprecates the unclerica
dress Of many ministers-striped gar
ments and skirts abridged to thu
jockey pattern. The writer says: "a
careless. undignifed. slangy dress viii
surely be followed BY more or less o
the.slangy and careless style of preach
ing"
THE Interior regards the union o
the two Presbyterian bodies as tn
great ecclesiastical event of the year
if not of the century. The fruits o
the union are seen in the fresh stimu
lus impaired everywhere, and an in
creased self-denying liberality in tn,
cause Of Christ and his kingdom.
THE New York Independent call
the Young Contributors Depart
ments," which have recently been In
troduced into so many papers an,
magazines, "seething kids in thei
mothers milk" It says they are on
~ calculated to stimulate the Stiles
sort of vaEity in the silly sort of pa
rents.
THE Roman Catholic papers pub
fish. at full length, the Pope's Ency
clioal of November LIST, on thu
"Usurpation of Rome" It aboundi
in the bitterest language toward thu
"Piedmontese Government" and ends
by pronouncing the Major Excom
nunication upon all who have beer
guilty of this sacrilege, or have aided
or allotted it.
AT recent meeting of the pastor.
in the Bloomington District of the
Indiana Conference. it was resolved
that isnily religion ought to be in
telligent, that every member thereof
may understand its meaning and de.
sign; that it ought to be spiritual
constant and uniform. Good resolu-
tions. A resolution was also adopt.
ed to hold a district camp meeting
some time during the month of Au.
gust, 1871, at.some place to be hereaf-
ter designated.
THE Michigan State Methodist
Convention resolved that such amuse.
ments as theatre going, card. playing
horse-racing, dancing, and host Of
others, are generally more or less
demoralizing; that the members Of
the church cannot engage in them
without harm to spiritual life, and
that when encouraged or allowed in
connection with our families, the
probability is lessened Of their con-
version to God.