The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1871-12-30
RELIGIOUS.


you take away the lighthouse, be-
cause careless mariners, through
wrong observations, run their ships
high and dry upon the shore ?
Would you put out the lamp in
house, because moths and millers
burn their wings i'll it it?-Beec2tcr.
The Presbyterian Synod of Kan
sas embraces 1T churches and 1O1
ministers. Twenty-fvesliew church
es have been organized, and fifteen
new buildings fer church purposes,
erected during the past year.
1t is proposed that the next Gen
eral Conference of the NJ. +. Church
shall appoint committee of laymen
and ministers to visit the General
Conference of the Southern Metho-
dist Church with fraternal greet
ings, and a proposition for tie ap-
pointment of n similar committee
fully empowered to settle every
grievance between the two bodies,
with q view to organic union.
krummacher illu trates siInplici-
ty by the following beautiful fable
The angel who takes care of the
flowers, and sprinkles upon them
dew in the still night, slumbered on
a spring day in the shade of a rose
bush. When he awoke. he said !:
"Most beautiful Of my children, !
thank thee for thy refreshing odor
and cooling shade. Could you now
ask any favor, how willingly would
| grant it!'' "Adorn me, then, with
a new charm" said the spirit of the
rosebush in beseeching tone. So
the angel adorned the loveliest OF
flowers with simple moss. Sweetly
it stood there, in its modest attire,
the mossrose, most beautiful of its
kind. So the costliest ornaments
are often the simplest. There is no
gold, nor jewel, nor sparkling pearl
equal to the s'ornament of a meek
and quiet spirit, which is, in the
sight Of God, Of great price,
ACT WELL Your PART.-Mr.
Spurgeon, the well-known English
theologian, says:
There is not a spider hanging on
the kings wall but hath it's errand:
there is not a single nettle that
groweth in the corner of the church
yard but hath its purpose; there is
not single insect tluttering in the
breeze but accomplishes some divine
decree; aud [ never will have it
that God created any man, especial
ly any Christian man, to be blank
and to be nothing. He, made you
for an end. Find out what that
end is; find out your niche, and fill
it. If it be ever so little, if it is only
to be a newer of wood and drawer
of water, do something in this great
battle Of God and truth.
Catholics in Switzerland have
held general meeting to re-
nounce their connection with Pa
pacy. Papai Ihfallibility is rejected,
congregations choose their own
priest, and forced celibacy is abol-
ished.
The health of DR.. Breckenridge,
of kentucky, is steadily declining,
and there is scarcely hope that he
will live to the end Of the year.
The Rev. Mr.. Nevin is now in
the United States cndeavoring to
raise $4,000 toward building an
Episcopal church in Rome. lie ex-
poets to obtain seventy thousand
dollars more among the worshippers
in that city.
Many a hundred sermons have
heard in England, many a diserta-
ton on the mysteries of the faith, on
the divine mission of the clergy, on
apostolic succession, on bishops and
justification, and the theory ofgood
works, and verbal inspiration, and
the efficacy Of sacraments bat
never during these thirty wonderful
years, never, one that recollect on
common honesty, or those primitive
commandments, "Thou shalt not
lie'' and "Thou shalt not steal"
HTO1tQe.
The total number of members and
probationers in the Methodist Epis-
copal Church for 1871 are reported
to be 1,421, 1925.
The Baptists have twenty-four
organized churches and the same
number of native ordained preachers
in the Creek nation proper. -Four
of the ministers are employedby the
Domestic Indian Mission Board.
The rest need no help. =. :.
The Golden Age learns that James
Gordon Bennett, founder of the New
York Herald, has so greatly failed in
health and strength that he now takes
almost no interest in anything, and is
gliding gently into helplessnefs and
second childhood. For months past
there has been an unusual riticence
concerning him by the press at large.
He has ceased to be sneered at and
Oh,