Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-05-17
ssRRIEEs.--VOL. q, NO. so.
Religious Items.

ed in sixty converts.
The Irish Episcopal Church has
substituted the word ''presbyter" for
"priest."
"A lutheran Church at Madison
Court House, Va, has abolished in
FAINT baptism,
The Baptist Year Book claims
that the Baptists are the most nu-
merous sect of the United States.
"A "Christian Association of the
Women of Louisville is to DO organ
lied for the relief of INDECENT females.
Mr., Beocher's Life OF Christ"
is Fastening slowly Meanwhile,
there is very good life Of Christ in
the New Testament.
The proposed revision of tho
Bible and Of the Pray have
caused great distress among the
English publishing trade.
The Methodist Church South
has abandoned the plan of receiving
members on probation. Persons are
received into full membership with
out the six months trial.
Rev. Albert Barnes walked a
distance Of four miles to attend d.
vine service, the other day, as be
does not patronize Sunday cars.
His health is suddenly and unexpect-
eddy restored.
There are in this country nearly
two thousand Baptist churches
which practice open communion ;
and which sympathize in this respect
with the body of English Baptists.
OF the learned Mohammedan
doctors who took part in 1852 in the
great debate at Agra, India, with
DR.. Pfander, on the truth of Chris
tianity, three have SINCE protested
Christianity.
The. Queen Of Madagascar, the
leader in the wonderful religious
movement on the island, was led to
knowledge of Christ when a child,
by martyr, who was burned to
death by the late Queen.
-Materialism in Christianity is
exemplified by Rev. w. B. Wright,
who, in recent lecture in Boston,
said that "cotton mills are weaving
robes for the Lords Supper and
railroads are chariot wheels bringing
the Kingdom of Christ"
A letter from Constantinople
states that several thousand Jews
passed through that city under the
belief that their Messiah had at
length appeared in the Wilderness OF
Judea, The Rabbis Of Germany arc
organizing a pilgrimage on large
scale.
Tho EpiScopaIiQn thinks that
Episcopacy, Presbytcrianism and
Congregationalism are al found in
the New Testament--that they sill
have scripture warrant-that they
are not opposing principles Of church
government, but varieties Of the one
free, self government Christ left to
his people.
The Esta blished Kirk Of Scot
land has 1854 congregations, and
about 100000 members. The FREQ
Church has about 252, 900 members,
and the United Presby about
100 600 communicates. If united
they would number together 882 900
me bcre.
The Germans in Cincinnati have
eleven Roman Catholic Churches,
two large German Reformed congre-
cations, three Methodist, one Baptist,
two Presbyterian, two United breth-
ren, two Evangelical Associations,
two Independent, three Rationalistic,
and two lutheran Churches.
The late Pittsburgh Conference
of the Methodist Episcopal Church
resolved shat any man who will sell
his grain or fruit TO q distiller, sign
a petition for q license, or rent prop
erty to be used in making or vend-
ing intoxicating drinks, comprises his
Christian character, violates the
spirit OF the discipline, and should be
admonished by his pastor, and, if he
persists in it, be expelled from the
church.
There are three systems Of re-
ligion in China-Tauism, Confucian-
ism and Buddhism. Tauism, the
Oldest of the three, was first taught
by Lautsz, who was born B. G. 694,
fifty-four years before Confucius.
His doctrine recommended retire
ment and reflection as the best
means of purifying the spiritual parts
of our nature, etherealizing the pas
sions, and of finally being absorbed
nto the supreme reason.
The editor or of the Christian
InteLtlgencer having expressed sorrow
because the editor Of the Independent
spoke Of Christ as that "chief gen.
tleman," Mr.. Tilton quotes from old
Thomas Decker, who died in 1641,
the following passage, to show that
the phrase is ut least classical, if in
doubtful taste:
"The best Of men
That ere wore earth about him q su srer:
| soft meek, patient. humble, tranquil spirit
The hrst true gentleman that ever brssthsd."
The American Wesleyan censures
Mr.. Beecher for the levity of Lis dis
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