The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1871-10-14
RELI<sIOlrS Hs'E.

to consist oi' forty->even counties ia
the Southern part Of tie State, n d
the other of twenty-five counties Ia
the northern part oi tie >tate.
A presiding Elder iii ti.e Irie
Conference travelled last year 4 ,626
miles, attended eighty-three quar-
terly meetings, preached ene hu,i-
dred aid forty sermons, attended
and addressed full fifty sabbath
schools. AID children $ meetings, alal
vet received OILY the rneager sum
Of s499 90 ior tile support Of him.
sell and family.
\ remarkable revival is in prog
rcss in the north OF Scotland, among
tie fishermen of the Daafisliirc
coast. y OF long since one OF tie
. rec Church ministers III that rc-
giou admitted to the communion
for the first time one hundred AID
sixteen persons OF, all ages, tie
whole OF when protessed to he
fruits OF the awakening in his par
ish.-Ie9ez,cn"e,a.
Over one hundred students ap-
piled for admission into the Drew
Theological Seminary at its open
ing, Sept. Dist. The prospects OF
the institution are OF the most el.-
couragl.g character.
The minutes Of the Cumberland
pre>byteralis report ministers,
1,116; liceiitiates, 1913; candidates,
2l4; congra cations, 1868; added
10y experience and letter the last
year, 1850; died, $50; total III
communion, 96, 1886.
The IiucJtc Christian -1dco-
cute, of October 7th, reports forty
eight conversions as tie result OF
tnc special services at the Taylor
street VI. +. Church in Portland.
Among these were three sailor boys
belonging to All English ship at
that port loading for England with
wheat referring to these, the
-4doo:a'e says: it is pleasant 10
think that these nobfe-looking young
men, as they go back with ship
load of Oregon wheat to the shores
Of Old England, will also go with
their own hearts richly treighted
with divine grace, prepared to tell
"the pleasing story" to parents and
friends that iii far distant Oregon
they s'ioulld him of whom Moses in
the law, and the prophets did write,
even Jesus OF Nazareth
Rev. w. NJ. Pu,lshon, M. A.,
was III London at last accounts, adj
dressing immense audiences.
After his battle with Bishop
Whitehouse, OF Chicago, Rev. Mr..
Cheney read from tile scriptures as
follows: 'sWhy boasteth thou thy
self? Thy tongue imagineth wick
cdness, AID with lies thou cuttest
like a sharp razor. As Tor me,
am like green olive tree in the
house of God my trust is in the
tender mercy OF God for ever and
ever"
Never was there more blessed
institution than the 's.nlday, the sa-
cred day OF rest from labor. For
the souls health of the human race.
on at least one day in seven, there
should be All ever-recillring inter-
mission OF. daily toll. Thus, let a
man attain to the period of three
score years and ten, he has gaileda
holiday OF ten years duration, even
if his lot has been labor for the re-
naming threescore years. Let
childhood be taught to use, and
manhood discreetiy use, this blessed
breathing time, as day on which
to raise the thoughts beyond the
world not less than for purpose of
innocent recreation.
Men often escape lightly from the
first imprudence, aud suffer terribly
from its repetition; for folly re-
peated becomes sin, and sin is al
ways punished. There is no varia-
bleness Ill the government Of God.
When you see man. with a good
deal OF religion displayed III his
shop window, you may depend upon
it he keeps very small stock of it
within.
A grand family reunion took
place at the residence of Rev. Peter
Cartwright, near Pleasant Plains,
sangamon county, Illinois, on the
1st inst, in honor OF the eighty
seventh birthday of that aged and
veteran sssoldier OF the cross" One
haudred 0a6 tsoe,,ty children,
oernnd ohildran and great crran nd