The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1871-10-31
CHURCH NOTES.

On Sunday night the anniversary Of tn,
City missionary Society Of tho Protestan
lEniscopal Church was celebrated Mt st
Paups church. The crowd was large
enough to fill the body of the church to 1t,
utmost capacity. while the galleries were
also comfortably filed. Within the chance
! D., Bishop of Virginia Right Rev. DIR
| Vail, Bishop OF Kansas; the Very Rev. DIR
Howson, Dean Of Chester. England the
Rev. Drs. Minnigcrode, Wall, Woodbridge
and Peterlin and the Rev. Messrs. Rep.
Ter, Maury, and Dashicll. The Evening
Prayer was read bv DR.. Peterkin after
which DR.. Minnigerode, rector Of St.
PauPs and President Of the Society. read
la most interesting report of its operations
during the past year. It seems from this
document that the Society is In most
flourishing condition. The plans OF the
managers were extensive, and they appear
| to have been carried out to greater de-
gree than could have been expected. Those
| for the next year are still more admirable,
and we regret that eur limited space this
| morning precludes their publication as a
model for all organizations Of the kind.
They include o mission school, the systc-
matte visitation Of the poor, hospital, and
an employment bureau.
After the report was read DR.. Minnfge-
rode, in some highly complimentary re-
marks, introduced Dr.. Howson. the Dean
Of Chester, alluding particularly to his par-
tlcipation. in conjunction with another dis
tiucuished scholar, in the authorship OF
| the standard and classic Life Of st. Paul.
DR.. Uowson then delivered an interesting
and highly appropriate address. his subject
being "The Ministry Of Women" lie
spoke with great earDestnesG, and was
heard with marked attention.
| Remarks were also made by Bishop Vail
and Bishop Johns after which collection
was taken up, and handsome amount
raised for the treasury Of the Society.
MONUMENTAL CHURCH.
| At this church the services were particn-
larly interesting both morning and after
noon. In the morning Rey. Mr. Wheat
occupied the pulpit, and preached an cX-
celcnt sermon from Romans H., 10. In
the afternoon the Bishop Of Kansas de-
livercd an interesting discourse, ana
charmed the large audience who were In
attendance. The music OH both occasions
was as sweet as Elr. Wheat and Mrs. Loock-
erman know SO well how to make 1t, and
compliments were showcrod upon them
from i'll quarters.
| VIRGINIA BIBLE SOCIETY.
Rev. Mr.. Staples, agent of the Virginia
Bible Society, in the absence OF DR.. Baird,
preached at the Third Presbyterian church
on Sunday. His sermon at night. descrlp-
tive, to some extent, Of the work Of the So
ciety and the field now open for the spread
Of the Bible in every part Of the world. was
exceedingly interesting. After saying that
the time for which the Christian world had
been praying and working for eighteen
ceuturieS-when man could literally obey
the Injunction to ago into oil the world
and preach the gospcl"-was at haud, he
rapidly ran over an enumeration oil
some of the great countries OF the
lworld recently opened to missionaries
Mexico, with her eight millions Of people,
hitherto unapproachable, has now in her
chief city seventeen Christiun churches.
Austria, where in 1870 every Bible
that could be found was burned, was pun
ishcd byR thirt.rate Power, In whose pub
tlic schools the Bible was required to bc
taught, and n copy OF it was placed In the
knapsack Of every soldier. At the Paris
IcXh,bition the Blb'e Society had for distri.
button one and half millions OF Bibles,
printed in almost every language spoken
iE the world amongst them. Il copy
printed in the Spanish language fell into
The hands of young man, who. on going
bone, was arrested and confined in prison
for seventeen months. Now the Soeiety
hus free access to that whole empire,
land are scattering the Bible all over 1t.
Fran.e was the only Power in The world
(which sustained the doctrine promulgated
by the kcllmeDical Council that the Pope
was infalible; and in SIX weeks after
the proclamation her Emperor was shorn
of his crown and made prisoner 10y the
same Power which had punished Austria.
In Rene. right under the shadow of st.
| f,hrSSfinO chIlrp hos
lwhere the true Word Of God is regularly
Idispcnsed to the people, who are eager to
lreceiyc 1t. Everywhere throughout the
tWorld the civil enactIuCnts which have
Heretofore barred the passage have all
been broken down, and the Bible IS being
Iscatterca TO The people. Ho closed with
an appeal for help In giving the Bible
to the destitute IN our own State, so many
of whose people are still without 1t.
| PRESBYTERIAN sUNDAy.sCHooL UNION.
On Sunday afternoon goodIy number o
Representatives from the Preshy terrain
schools of Richmond went over to hold the
juuarterly meeting Of their asSocintion with
1.-The Manchester school. The new and COM
PORTABLE little church was filled TO overflow
ing, many persons having TO stand. The
lcXercise. commencing at BIZ o'cock) were
conducted hy j. ID. X. Slciyht, Esq, Presl-
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good and spirited, was led BY the Manchcs
ter school.
Rev. j. Z. Smith, Of Fredericksburg,
land Major Robert Stiles, both made OK
iceIlent addresses to the children. Mr.
lSmith based his remarks upon the text,
"IIe gave himself for mc )" and In very
clear aud interesting manner explained it,
meaning. MIR. Stiles spoke in his usual
happy vein, by illustration and argument
lcloquently enforcing the truth that we cam
not serve two masters; either Satan OF
Jesus must be the choice Of all who are
born into this world. he held hs hearers
in close attention, while he begged them
this day to chose Jesus and his service.
The secretary's. shows the follow
fny average attendance for the past quarter;
Se.chers. ScholarG.
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| Nine conversions were reported IN the
Fh st school, four in the Second, ard three
in the Grace. Street school.
The meeting was closed by singing the
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