The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-10-28
RELIGIOUS INrELBIGENCE.


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RELIGIOUS NfELBIGENCE.
The first Methodist church in New
Mexico was dedicated at Elizabeth
town, month or so since.
The organization of the Disciples o
Christ numbers in Iowa about 25, ,00
members, 250 churches, and l5'
preachers, ry y[TT
Bishop kecner is 10 form Coloret
Arkansas Conference the Methods
Episcopal Church South, at Camden
Ark, November 25th. t.-t
The first number of the Ne,c Month
iy Mdgd=iac. a Southern Mcthodis
publication, will be issued in Dccem
Der. .. .r-f.-l- -l-Ftg
The largest Sunday School in The
world is at Stockport, England. Il
has 300 teachers, and 5000 scholars
So says the Hearth and Home.
DIR. Hopson, of the Campbelite
Church, declines TO discuss the pecu.
liar dogmas of that denomination
with any any Methodist minister in
Kentucky.
The increase of colored Baptist
churches i'm Louisiana for the year has
been 200, with at least 20 churches
formed. The total membership, white
and colored, of the Baptist denomina-
uon in Louisiana is said TO be 10000
The church property of the Univer-
salists is estimated at S5,0O0, 300; col
lcgiate and academic property 81 ,GS2,
900 centenary gifts to Murray Edu-
cational Fund, Sl02,DO0; over fifty
thousand less than million of dollars.
The, Jucksonvillo Nla.) Southern
Presbyterian Church has been seized
Y by a minority of onc-fourth of its
members and given over to the North
crn Presby tcrians, and the courts sus-
IVA Young lady who las for 3 years
bccn novice in the st. Mary's Sister
2 hood, Protestant Episcopal, ain this
city, will soon take The veil, with the
pledge of perpetual celibacy. The
wife Of Dr.. Patterson, of Philadelphia,
will act rs her godmothcr OH the occa-
sion. DIR. Patterson took q. leading
part i'm the copsecrating> services at
Saint Sacrament MissiOn,-Iadepen-
dent. rG ~
. Alta recent Methodist conference
at Cedar Falls, Iowa, arcsolution was
introduced declaring that it is true
Meth0dism to oppose woman suffrage.
Two hundred ministers voted on the
question, and the resolution was laid
on the table by small majority.
Alta recentscommunion, three Chi
Lamen were admitted to the Congre-
gational Church, in Oakland, Cal.
This is said to betbc first case i'm which
Chinese converts brought to Christ in
California, have been received into
full fellowship with any American
church. They had first been taught
in the Sabbath school.
The Methodist wishes that Christian
men would remember God in their
business affairs. Too many, it says, if
they were honest, would declare as
tho old man did who said: When l
start on work of mercy and stop to
deal i'm horses, neverhavc good luck.
The fact is, 1 don't want the Lord
around when I'm trading horses!"
The Episcopalian Spirit Of Missions
says that +" during the past five years
elementary education has been given
by various Christian and philanthropy
ic associations amang us, to one mil-
lion of our Southern freedmen. This
number docs not include the tens of
thousands of parents and other adults,
who have learned TO read through the
children and youths of the schools"
The largest Bible in the world, that
of Mr.. J. G. Bell, q Manchester col
lector, has been sold at a London auc-
tion for El65. 1t was fine copy OF
Macklins beautiful folio, with eleven
thousand cngravings and cuts illus
trative of the text, and gathered from
every possible source, tie whole hand
somely bound in s;Xty-thrcc thick
volumes.
A poor and supplemented African
once came TO Mr.. Moflat, the mission
airy, and told him, with lugubrious
face, that his dog had torn his copy OF
the New Testament, and swallowed
some leaves of il, and that he was
grieved about il, for the dog was very
valuable. But" said the missionary,
why do you gricve so? You can
get another Testament, and the leaves
will not hurt tue dog "Ah,' said
the savage, chats what fear. lie
is good hunter and good watch
dog, and the New Testamentis so full
nf yanfloposo opI lovo tbot a m, n fro !, 4
Inc will never be ofany service again y
The Ancient Order of the Six Prin-
ciplcs of tho Doctrines of Christ and
His Apostles, or the "SiX Principle
Baptists," as they are popularity called,
celebrated its two hundredth annivcr-
sary at Scituate, Rhode Island, on the
9Th, Sth and 9th days of October.
The meetings were of great religious
fcrvOr, and were very fully attended.
The Rev. Charles Howard Malcolm,
of Newport, preached the historical
sermon, reviewing the origin, charac-
ter and work of the denomination.
This is the oldest of the dozen or more
Baptists denominations in America,
and represents the ecclesiastical sue
cessors of Roger Williams and his lit.
tie Church in Providence. This sect
numbers about five thousand commu'
nicants. IL is Arminian IN doctrine
practiscs the rite of confirmation; calls
its ministers, elders; rejects written
creeds; and puts great emphasis upon
the old-fashioned Baptist theories ol
soul-libe-ty.-Southern Churchman
The census will show Tennessee tC
he the healthiest State i'm the Union
There were so few deaths, compare.
lively, during the year ending June
l, that note of explanation will have
TO be forwarded, to the Department
at Washington to convince it that all
due diligence has been used TO obtain
the proper mortuary returns. Ten.
nessee being at once one of the most