Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-04-12
Religious Miscelleny.

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The Baptists have lately Organized
their sixteenth church in Chicago
Texas is without q sin gle Unitarian
or Univerealist church a.f
An agitation ia favor Of free
churchyards is going on in England.
Ihe infallibiIity sehism may be
ans. -
| Inc London Baptist Union in
eiuaes los churches in and around
| London, with over %, 200 members.
| Four hundred and eighty-fve per-
sons joined tho several churches ii
Dayton, Ohio, one Sunday lately,
The largest Sunday school in tile
| world is at Stockport, England 1t
has 300 teachers and 5000 scholars.
Dr. Pussy has started O memorial
protesting against the disuse Of the
Athanasian creed in the Anglican lit
urgy.
Open communion has become,
through the success Of the Method
lists, an exciting question among the
Lutherians Of Wurtemberg.
There have been 3, 154 conversions
repoi ted by the pastors Of the church
es of the United States during the
month Of February.
The proclamation Of President
Grant ratifying the treaty of 1858
with the La Using Government of
China secures federation in religion
for the Americans, and right Of resi-
dence.
One reason that the world is not
reformed is, because everybody
would have others make beginning,
and thinks not of himself.
A correspondent says: "Spiritu-
alism is sweeping everything before
it in Illinois. It is growing faster
than any other form Of religious
opinion, in all tho little towns and
villoges.'
A writer in the Observer Gays.
aWe read lately Of case where
preacher, having lost child, called
in q neighboring minister to attend
the funeral, and heard, in his own
house, ono Of his own sermons, pub.
lished ten years before"
If Christian experience is to be-
come less superficial, and Christian
character is TO root itself like the
oak, or the deep-lying granite, mind
and heart must have better spiritual
food.
Josh Billings says: "Beforo
would preach the Gospel az some
ministers are obliged to, tor 400 dolls
q year, | would get living as Neb-
udkennezzer did, and let the congre-
gashen go tew grass too"
Christian pastors in Franco give
religious tea parties, where religious
subjects and religious experiences
are spoken of with a familiarity that
makes the evenings pleasant and re
treshing The retreshment is moth
ing more than a cup of tea and bis
cult
The revision Of tho Tamil Bihlo
has just been completed The
amount Of work expended on it gives
it q place beside tho Arabic or the
English versions. 1t is truer to the
original than our English version.
Rev. Henry w. Bellows makes this
statement of Unitarian belief: "Uni-
tarians believe in Jesus Christ as Son
Of God and Son Of Mana supernat-
ural messenger and Divinely appoint
ed Guide and Savior
lions HeraM mentions q recent
speech by Or. Warron, in which he
states that century ago John
Wesley devised tho very plan Of
union now in operation--a union Of
Christians as Christians--not Church
men.
The moro We sink into the infirmi-
ties of age, the nearer we are to i'm
mortal youth, All persons are
young in he other world. That
state is a. eternal spring, ever fresh
and 6ouri5hing, Now, to pass from
midnight into noon on tho sudden,
to DO docrepit one minute, and all
spirit and activity the next, must DO
an entertaining change. To call this
dying is an abuse of language.
Zion's Herald says that the old
Boston "Eaneuil Hall has seen q new
sight--a prayer meeting. Tho soul
OF the old Hugenot who gave the
hall fits name, and the city its hall
would rejoice that it has been conse-
Grated to this service. Another Of
the Hugenot origin, Prof. Tourjeo,
was the deviser of this novelty. He
is enthusiastic in all good things,
and the last is about his best. 1t
was well attended, and is to DO con
tinucd weekly. May the odd cradle
rock well newborn souls"