Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1871-06-03
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.

Language was given us that we
might say pleasant things to and OF
each other.
Foundations are hidden. 1t is not
the apparent virtues which give sta
bility to character. II is not what a
man appears to be, but what he is in
the foundations.
The Roman Catholic Church is re-
| ported to own Sj0000,00O worth of
property in State of New York,
Said Albert Barnes, at is by the
daily, quiet acts of our lives that good
is done, and not by a few great spas
modic efforts"
Bishop McIlvaine, at his late visit
to Cleveland, Ohio, administered con-
firmation in the Episcopal Churches
to one hundred and thirty-eight per-
sons.
The churches in this country hay
ing Bishops are the Protestant Epis-
copal, Methodist, United Brethren,
the Evangelical Association, and two
African organizations.
The Archbishop of Munich wishes
DR.. Dollinger to understand that "his-
torical criticism can not be placed
above the authority of the Church" "
Certainly not. If the facts are against
the dogma, SO much the worse for the
facts.
The new Arch Street Methodist
Church in Philadelphia is built of
marble, at cost of $263Q00. The
pastor is Rev. II. W. Warren, among
the ablest of the younger ministers OF
the denomination.
The London Church Review is in
formed that there is great probability
that the suspended sittings of the Ec-
umcnical Council may be resumed at
| Antwerp in the course of the cnsu-
ing summer.
Sunday schools have now existed
in Germany for seven years.
A prayer:
God have mercy; all arc sinful;
Christ, confirm our lives to thine; I;
Keep us from all strife, ill-spealling
Envy and the curse divine.
The number OF communicates be-
longing to the Presbyterian Church
in the principal cities is as follows
Philadelphia, 1877; New York, l5,'
ZIG; Brooklyn, 7,468; Cincinnati, B.
1852; Chicago, 1928; Baltimore, 3
GS3; St. Louis, 2,ll2; Boston, 1874
The old Broome Street Bapti8t
church, New York, is erecting
church, 20 cost 100000, at Park ave
nuc and Thirty-ninth street. The
spire will be one hundred and Hinety
five feet high, and will be surmount
cd by a cross six feet long.
A more glorious victory cannot bt
: gained overanotherman. than this, tha
when the injury began on his part
the kindness should begin on ours.
The Congregationalists of Bostor
and vicinity have raised $4,000 tol
: the purchase of an estate on Deacol
street, to be converted to the uses o
that denomination and called thu
CONGREGATIONAL Home $4,000 addi
r tional to be raised for building pur
poses.
| The new Presbyterian Church Il
Wayne, Pa, has been endowed b!
one parishioncr with the equivalen
} of $4,000. In making the gift pro
vision was inserted that six middl
pews should be forever reserved TO
strangers.
, The reunited Presbyterian Churcl
expended through seven Boards las
J year more than million of dollars
and vet out of the four thousand fiv
=, hundred churches, three thousanC
, reported no contributions to five o
the seven Boards, and about eighteeI
! hundred gave no offering TO cithe
= home OF foreign missions.
Bishop Johns recently coniirmet
| in st. James church, Richmond, Va
e 20; Grace church, 10; St. Mark
/ church, 2S; St. PAurs church, 81
: Monumental church, y, Anon
those confirmed at st. James churc
: was great-grand-son AID great
9 granddaughter Of the first Bishop G
: the Diocese--Bishop Madison an
y also grcat-grand-son of the secon
g Bishop-Bishop Moore. AT Trinit
y church, Portsmouth, 20, and at 81
= Johns church, Z.
i A correspondent of the Southcr
Presbyterian writes that the neJ
a Presbyterian church at Shreveport
t La, is nearly comPletcd-a noble cd
. ifice. and will cost not less than $780,
; 600, perhaps more. They already rt
# port more than 100 members, and ii
: Sabbath school scholars. A nobl
). female school, too, is inaugurated, a
r ready numbering 9j pupils, and sti
q increasing, directly under Prcsbytt
+ rial auspices, through entirely a pr
: vatc enterprise. Rev. Z. S. bod, tha
veteran educator, is lis founder an
,, principal.
REFoRMED-A discussion has arise
i between two Of the organs of the Rt
" formed Church, as to the prophet
i. of "using altars in Churches, or cal
J. ing the place from which the Lord
,e Supper is administered, an altar
s. one party contending that the fail
l. ers of the Reformed Church, di
Is away with affairs, because they wisl
Is ed to get rid of the Catholic do
o trine of the Lords supper being
sacrifice, and because the use of ii
II word table instead Of altar is Scril
y tural. The defenders of the woo
y altar, aver that the fathers who SC
" tied in this country, brought wit
," " them from the lathcrlOnd their form
70 of worship, and invariably erectC
# affairs in churches they contend, to
l. that the use of the word is ScripturG
N There seems also to be q third par
Iy in the Churches, who make the alt
III more prominent than the pulpit, al
push the pulpit itsclfto one side,
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