The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1871-10-17
RELIGIOUS.
SERVICES AT tue CHURCH OF THE RE.
DEEMRR ON SUNDAY

At the Church 81 the X a,cmcr. tie
Rector followed the annual G. .s,om f
re'u'hg the convention address ol tue
BISHOP Of Illinois. AS the address was too
lengthy for one reading, he only gave
portion oft, reserving the remainder for
another Sunday.
Bishop Whitehouse is well known to
many of our readers as one of tho most
prominent as well as scholarly bishops in
the church. and not only known in this
country, for his wisdom and learning. but
abroad. For thi benefit o. those who did
not hear the address, we give a few ex-
tracts.
In regard to the events of
THE PAST YEAR,
he says:
There may be at this time special appre.
hension among W., from an angry and
meddling popular tone that has been jar
ring around, and from timidity that
shrinks from the appearance of strife, tina,
the year has been one of hindrance and
depression 10 the Diocesan Church. / feel
assured that it has been the verv reverse
and that we can cheerily join the song Of
praise for prospered effort, which SO
many Of my brethren have uttered.
If the diocese has been stopped
on her way, / have not felt the shock.
1t she has abated her lawful energies or
soiled her spirit my eye has not been sim
gle enough 10 see it. If the discipline in
evitable through which she has quickly
vndicated principle, and laid hand on
lawlessness, and patiently endured the
"madness Of the people has damaged
brotherly kindness or made us sulky or
supine among our family cares, no witness
of it has faced me in the parishes or
clouded my going in and out among them.
More than ever before do concord. unity
Of purpose and heartincss of labor prevail
among US, Deeper is the realizing of the
principle, and honor Of the historic
churches more quiet is the trust in her or
dered strength; more Jealous is the sensi-
bility to primitive truths, and the ancient
casket Of words in which they have been
kept. There j. confidence in the leader
ship trust in brotherhood, and u sense Of
reserved force which will help us on ag-
gressively for years 10 come. In the
churchs emblem Of the Nsvis, there may
be more cautious steps on the slippery
deck and grasp for support and a wary
eye aloft when the winds freshcn and sails
strain, and the ships heels down to her
scuppers, but faces are glad and hands
stronger because she cuts her way more
swiftly to 1.-THE haven where she would
be- In regard to the
! USsETILING OF MINISTERIAL RELATIONS
he says young ard weak places demand
the best hundling. There is keen ability
enough to appreciate talent, and perhaps
so little of trained Church element as to
make far more Of that feature relatively,
than ought TO be made. But the ideal OF
deal than God loving duty and reveren-
tial hallowing of IT'S hours by common wor-
ship and thus the demand is vaguely
mystified more is expected than can pos
sbly be rendered. The actual clerical sup
ply is necessarily graduated by profession
al average, Thu, in,idiou.ly there seems
TO creep a falsty into the whole
contract, which disappoint: expec-
tation makes little failures obtrusive
conflicts with a speculative trust for out
side help, and breaks up at an early period,
with some disgust, the arrangement sends
the wandering clergyman on his wearying
; change, and exhausts in long vacancy the
impulses and unorganized good feeling
with which the effort was started. Ex-
cept as infant life is normally delicate, it
would sound very strange to hear the
lament for long months or years after
wards how the parish, additionally, had
suffered through some popularity Of the
minister or his family; some slight col
lson in the area Of ordinary intercourse;
bitches in the collection of promised sub
| scriptions: debts in the minister, caused,
often, by irregularity in payment Of prom
| 'o'N rhIhl i'''hS " Ncbi~
municant on which sides are taken; a
squabble in the choir; social Sights at n
picnic; insidisus partisanship, with "A scent
of Romanism in gloria chanted, or an
inadvertent posture, or the teaching Of
some less familiar truth in dsci-
pline and sacraments. Such and
a hundred small, buzzing grew
ances, with no articulate voice, do strongly
disturb our young parishes, and uusettle
them much faster than my scant resources
can supply the quick routine, Or my in
nucnce soothe the asperity and dnpres-
sion. The following is of
LOCAL INTEREST.
AT Cairo, town and church seemed to be
growing, with some obstacles for both, per-
haps, which will gradually pass away.
There is Cor the churchly interests there q
strong social and business influence, with
"men of mark to guide the affairs and
certainly they have pastor over them
whom they can well trust and uphold.
My text Of homily there, as elsewhere,
must be to beware "of the little foxes that