Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1871-10-26

the financial report of the past year.
Report.
DISTRICTS RECEIPTS
Columbus .-..--....-.-. --.....-..--.$ 315 n
GAINESVILLE .-. observation-disclosures sII IS IS
LANCASTER -.----------- 203 90
Chilicothe ....-.... -.-.-.....-.-.. 40 80
Portsmouth 2I7 rs
Marietta ..----.-.--------- l6d 3 S3
Gallipolis so %
Total........... ..........-....$ .$I218 O5
The Marietta district was the only
one that came near having a report
from all its chars es. Two charges
only had nc report.
Report adopted
Dr. Trimble introduced Dr. Mer
rick The Doctor spoke briefly on
the Great Question, The world
is agitated by the question of
the origin of species, the teachings OF
Geology; but when 1 question Nature
concerning tie great question, the an
swer is, mot in me is it found" So
of literature and art; yet the greatest
question is not here. So of the prac-
tical rts Of life, and commerce and
finance, great questions, yet the great
question is not there. There are high
er interests than pertain to material
prosperity. You may question all those
fields, yet you have not found the over
shadowing question that should occu-
Ply our profoundest thought
What is that great question?
Ho,0 shall the heart be purified? ?
Because Of its corruption have we
all the miseries of the earth. How
shall man be turned from sin to holi
ness g? Let men have every abundance
give them culture-the highest culture
put them under the wisest government
would you have them purified? No
Prepared only to sink still deeper
Man, the image of God, would still be
marred. The history Of the world de
mCnstrates the truth ofthis.
While this is an open question will
the world at large, we know the RENE
dy. We understand THAT the blood o
Christ cleanseth from all sim" A rem
edy that can never fail that shall worl
on till the whole earth shall be puri
fed.
, How shall this remedy be presented
to the people? The Master has giver
= the answer: ''Go ye unto all the worlC
and preach the Gospel to every crea
ture." One great pulpit is the Churcl
Extension Society, the subject for ou
consideration tonight.
DR.. Walden, introduced by DR.
Trimble, presented some facts -abou
the Chicago fire, by special request:
I 1t grew in 81 years fIom 1000 t
, $4,000 inhabitants. Business house
equal to any in the country. The riv
er divides the city in three divisions
The burnt district is nine squares i
-. width. and from Southern to Norther
! limit, five miles. The whole of til
business part of the city burned, an
one-third Of the houses. Loss t
, Meth odist Church, two Germa
! Churches, and all members are house
= less in the other NJ. E. Churches Th
Wigwam. given to the interest of Gal
rett Biblical Institute, is burned. Clar
Street Church that had a fund c
= $50. 90, used for Church Extensio
yearly, is destroyed. The Book Coz
cern, whose land was worth $500 pe
Z foot-property worth, (including I'll
building and the incidentals within,
$TIU, ,U00, is burned. Insured in Hon
Companies. Loss 100000. Graz
Church, valaed at S115, 900, is gone
Parsonage DESTROYED. and every fam
:, ly (250) without home.
After singing, led by Prof. T.
O'Kane, DR.. Kynett was introduce
=! and said:
The design of the Church Exte
sion Society is to meet an emergen
#. like theAone just referred to by t
f preceding speaker 1t has done goo
work whe' e help was needed in N
vada and elsewhere. The war clos
and left the South in poverty, and o
q of doors, as far as churches. were CO
y cerned The Society helped them in
- houses of worship,-tifty chnFches
in North Carolina,-and an INNER
on amount of good results. This year t
Society will build thirty churches
~ Georgia. The Society has been II
ing to plant churches in the heart
Mormonism. One has been 60
and menred. We are only standing at
viii vii threshold of the great work TO whi
and the planting of Christianity all on
6b@l1 ba1 the land invites US. Sympathy bir
the rich and poor, heart to heart-bir
- North and South. The Church ]
tension Society is full of sympathy
Let general reques; be made.
At the close of the address, Rev.
Crook presented the following resc
(. ton, which was adopted
ResolUcd, That in view of the
our Church Extension Society is Il
Bile to respond, for want of funds, to
pressing wants of our brethren in {
cago, and the North w est, now bu
out, as well as other pressing wa
ps we will, before the interest in the pt
ing event dies, make an appeal
Church Extentions. A voluntary
spOnse was given.
Fifty million feet of lumber v
,tb destroyed in the yards at Chicago
gies the fire. Twenty four million still
etop. rfnr hands.
A new school building cost
100000 was dedicated at PittsI