The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1871-06-23
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.

the lst of January last, numbered
361 laborers, having charge of 5000
members and probationers.
Every Romanist, during the month
of May, is expected to pray to the
Virgin Mary for the restoration of
the temporal power of the Pope.
A Baptist congregation in Louis
vile, Kentucky, has determined to
support native missionary in China.
Ninety-three churches were organ
lied last year by the missionaries of
the Baptist Home Missionary Socie-
ty, fOrty-three Of them self-sustain-
ing.
Five buildings arc now occupied
every Sunday, in the city of Rome,
by the evangelical ministers, who
preach in the italian language. AL
ready there are American, English
and Scottish churches.
Rev. Drs. Tying, Dyer, Gotten,
Smith, and others have prepared q
letter Of sympathy for Rev. Mr.. Che
ney, of Chicago, fully vindicating his
course in the late troubles with Bish-
op Whitehouse.
The Maine Annual Conference of
the Methodist Church, at its recent
session in Portland, passed a resOlu-
ton that no one should be received
as travelling preacher who used to-
baccO in any form.
In August, if lie is spared, Mr..
Sturgeon viii reach the thousandth
sermon which he has printed. 1t is
proposed to commemorate the event
by raising $1,000 towards new
schools and class-rooms for his col
lege.
The Methodist Church is asking
from it's members a special collection
of over one hundred thousand dollars
to pay the debt Of its missionary So
ciety. This debt is the accumulation
of deficiencies for number of years.
A prominent Methodist of SYRIA
cuse, New York, has purchased St
Charles Hotel, in that city, with the
intention of presentingit to the Meth
Odist Book Concern, for the establish
ing q branch of their publishing
house. The purchase price was
$4,000.
st. Johns Presbyterian church of
San Francisco, of which the Rev. DR..
Scott is pastor, has raised S5S,600 to
apply to tho 100000 Memorial
Fund. This is double the entire ap-
pointment for California, and, the
church having only 162 members, it
is claimed as the "banter" church of
the Union. The contributions of
Philadelphia to the Memorial Fund
will be about 100000.
Baltimore, with a population of
three hundred thousand, has church
sittings for one hundred thousand
people. No other city in the United
States is provided with church &C
COmmOdations in that proportion.
Another popularity is that shops of
all sorts ave closed on Sunday, includ-
ing confectionery, cigar and liquor
stores.
1t is said there is to be 400 dele
gates present at the Baptist anniVer-
sary, which is to be held in Chicago
during this and next week.
The congregation Of the Seventh
Baptist Church, corner Saratoga and
Paca streets, Baltimore, have called
the Rev. DR.. Brantley, of Atlanta,
Georgia, to be their pastor. lie en-
tered upon his duties on Sunday last.
The Cumberland Presbyterian, pub
lished at Alton, Illinois, says that
within the circuit from which it
draws its religious intelligence, there
have been 2,07S professions and 2.l04
aCCessiODs to its denomination within
the mouths of January, February,
and March.
There are forty one Presbyterian
churches on the line of Pittsburg,
Fort Wayne, and Chicago Railroad.
The presbytery of Augusta, Ca,
has sent an overture to the General
Assembly Of the Southern Church,
asking that the rule making it imper-
ative on Presbyteries to examine
ministers coming from other Presby-
teries OF the same body, be rescinded.
The overture represents that the rule
is not constitutional, is contrary to
the idea of church unity, has never
been submitted to the Presbyteries,
and is unnecessary.
The Jewish Messenger, speaking
of the terms "JeWs" and 'Israelites,"
says that "Jews' is applied to us
us with peculiar suitableness will ap-
pear to all who reflect on our past
history, for the greatest bulk of our
people, especially styled Israel has
been lost. The Hebrews of the days
of Moses and the Judges, as a COM
pact nation, exist no longer. The
Jews alone, the descendants of the
JUdPans, who returned to Palestine
by the edict of Cyrus, perpetuated
our race and became the witnesses of
religious truth"
The true comforter in all distress is
only God, through his Son Jesus
Christ; and whoever hath him, hath
company enough, although he were
in wilderness all alone; and he that
hath twenty thousand in his company
if God be absent, is in a miserable
wilderness and desOlatiOn. In him is
all comfort, and without him is none
a Russian newspaper publishes a
statistical notice of the war, concluded
with an aTithmetical statment thus.
The military operations, properly So
called, only lasted one hundred and
seventy days. In that space of time
the German armies We're engaged in
one hundred and fifty~six combats,
fought SEVENTEEN pitched battles, took
twenty-siX fortresses, made prisoners
eleven thousand six hundred and fifty
officers, and thiTty-siX thousand SOL
ders. This makes, as a mean term,
for each day of the war, one combat;
for every nine days a battle; for every
six days the capture Of stronghold.
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