Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1870-01-13

luo organ eoCiety Will meet lnlS alter
noon at the residence of A. J.. Elliott.
Next Sunday will be the second Sun
day after the Epiphany. There will be
three Sundays more after next Sunday
before Septuagesima Sunday, and six
Sundays before Lent. The resignation
of the rectership of ST. Thomas Parish,
by the writer of these items will take eff
feet on Easter next. The services during
the change of rectOrs will not be inter-
rupted, but continue as usual. .A convo-
cation of the clergy of this portion of the
Diocese of Indiana will assemble at
Misbawaka on the day of the conversion
of st. Paul. the 25th inst. Many of the
private residences of church families in
Michigan are most beautifully decorated
with evergreens and church symbols and
notices.. Mrs. Molloy, of the South
Bend Union, Will deliver lecture in
Huntsman's hall, Laporte, next Monday
evening. She will lecture on "Woman,"
and has been engaged TO lecture by the
Sunday school of St. Paul's church.
Recently rector OF Parish in Toledo,
Ohio, in catechiZing the children of his
Sunday school, asked: "Where did the
wise men come FROM? Without a mos
ments hesitation the answer came from a
little five-year old +: From Boston 49,.
The Pope and the Council :" BY
janus. This is the book creating such a
sensation in the religious world. :. Mis-
sions among the poor in New York City,
like the missions of the Church in Lon
don, have been commenced with great
success The well known Samuel Os-
good, d. d., for many years the Unitarian
minister of the sC-called Church of the
Messiah in New York City, has with
drawn from the Unitarian denomination
and has received confirmation in the
Episcopal Church. His conformity TO
the church has created quite sensation
in the country. He is now preparing to
receive Holy Orders. -. A great conven-
ton OF all " the denominations through
out the world, Is to be held at New York
city next fall. In order TO admit the Bap-
lists the committee of arrangements have
agreed that there shall be no "Communi-
on service p" at any of the meetings. That
is union" with vengeance. Many OF
the dioceses in this country are raising
more money for Church purposes
this season, than at any previous lime.
The diocese of Albany, N. Y, has almost
doubled Its offerings. The British Min
lister in China is opposed to Christian mis-
sions, and consequently the Chinese are
making havoc of some of the English
Church stations. All quiet at the Papal
Council. More sociability than usual
prevails among many Church families in
this place. Long may it wave. The
last part of the last "Church Items last
week was left out by mistake. The extent
to which so-called Church suppers, fairs,
shows lotteries, comical entertainments,
ETC., are now carried, by some people, may
be illustrated by the follow ing printed in
vitation circulated at a supper given by a
respectable Evangelical, "Orthodox" re-
ligious society in Chicago
"Walk down TO supper,
Our ladies wait yon there
With visnds rich and rare;
Walk down to supper,
Do not stay, hut haste. haste away;
Then the Lord win LESS yon;
Then. then the Christ-child will confess you,
His, his forever,
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