Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-06-21
Religious Items.

~ Oho ih5I mccIlDS OF inc Now |
ark, N. j., Presbytery, colored |
clergyman examined the candidates
for orders in Hebrew.
The Welsh Baptists have their
annual meeting in Utica, N. Y, on
the 9Th of Juno. Miss Paynter will |
preach some time during the session.
Hon. Allen Wright, the present
Governor Of the Choctaw Nation, is
minister of the Presbyterian |
Church, and breaches regularly.
Religious liberty is making pro-
gress In Portugal. The baptism Of
Protestant child has recently been |
permitted there for the first time.
AT least five hundred new men,
bers were added to the German and |
English Lutheran churches in Phila-
delphia, during the month of April.
"A home for invalid clergymen
OF the Protestant Episcopal Church
is to be established at Aiken, South
Carolina.
The word "heart" is named 800
times in the Bible, the word "soul"
14O times, and the word "head" only
SO times.
The churches Of Now England
seem to be undergoing an unques-
tionable and constant decline-ac-
cording to tho Christian Union.
The first Sunday school organ
lied in the United States, as far as is
now known, was in tho State of
Pennsylvania, in the year l747.
of the two hundred and forty
nine Congregational Churches in
Massachusetts, one hundred and forty
receive charitable aid.
The American Baptist Publishing
Society assures their Southern breth-
ron that they need DOT fear that
books sold by them will contain any
offensive political illusions.
The Episcopal Church at Hamil-
ton, Ohio, is thoroughly a free
church, abandoning even annual sub.
scriptions, and relying for all its
income upon weekly offerings.
There exist two hundred forms |
of religious faith under the Govern
ment of Great Britain. When the |
inhabitants Of India are considered, |
more than half the subjects of Queen |
Victoria arc polygamists,
The Sacrament is administered
every Sunday in the Mormon Temple
in Salt Lake City, using water in
stead of wine. They intend to SUBJ
stitute wine as soon as they can
manufacture it from their own grapes.
"A writer suggests that bulletin
boards would add to the convenience
Of city churches, thus saving the
minister the necessity of advertising
from the pulpit church socials, sew
ing societies, fairs, pic-nics, and other
kindred matters.
1t is expected that the General |
Conference of the Worlds Evangeli-
cal Alliance, which is to be held in
New York in September next, will
assemble more men of distinction |
than have ever been called together
on this continent.
The Irish Churchmdn informs its
readers that five Irish Roman Cath
olic priests have, during the last
month, renounced Romanism and
been received into the Irish Church
in Dublin.
The Methodist Church, South, de-
clines the overture from the Metho-
dist Church, North, on the subject
Of reunion, resolving through its
General Conference that the interests
Of the church, South, demand the
maintenance OF their separate organ
izations.
"A Presbyterian Church was or
ganized in the City OF Madrid, the
capital Of Spain, ia the early part Of
April. Forty-five Spaniards, after
examination, were constituted into q
church, and received the sacrament
Of tho Lords Supper. This is the |
first organization Of q Protestant |
church in Spain.
Tho Methodist Episcopal Church,
South, has an Indian Mission Confer
ence which includes four tribes
Cherokeee, Choctaws, Chickasaws |
and Greeks. They employ twenty
seven preachers, supplying twenty |
two preaching places, having mem
bership of 1899. The increase Of
the yoar Just closed was S71.
An old act of Parliament declares
that "evory preacher in his sermon
shall cXhort, move, SUR, and provoke
people TO he liberal, and bonntifulIy
to extend their good and charitable
| dispositions from time to time toward
the comfort Of the impotent, and the
setting and keeping TO continual
work of sturdy vagabonds and val
liant beggars"
The Convocation of York refuses
to join with that of Canterbury in
bringing about q revision of the
English Bible, and the Convocation
Of Canterbury has resolved to under
take the work, and to ask the aid of
all religious denominations through
out the English-speaking world. 1t
is said that an adequate revision will
on an average change one word in |
every verse OF the New Testament
and many whole verses, and some
that are considered very important
ones, will be left out altogether.
How TO DRIVE A YOUNG HoRsE.-
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