The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-01-26
RELIGIOUS ITEMS.


The Cumberland Presbyterians have
resolved to engage in the foreign mis-
sion work.
An elder in the Presbyterian Churcl
is of opinion that small salaries do not
unsettle as many ministers as the want
of prompt payment.
It is said that the Jews and non.
COnfOrmists of England were ahead OF
the National Church IN offering prayer
for the recovery of the Prince of Wales.
Rev. Alexander Clark, an eminent
minister IN the Methodist Protestant
Church, Is sick in San Francisco, SC
that his return to the East is delayed.
East St. Louis, Illinois, a city of
twelve thousand inhabitants, is desti-
| tute of Protestant religious organiza-
tlOns, except a single Presbyterian
church.
The average duration of the pastor
ate of Congregational ministers IN Eng
land is five years and nine months, and
of Baptist ministers three years and q
half
| Recent discussions have shown the
Disciples to be more in harmony with
the Baptist Church, and, indeed, with
other Orthodox Christians, than had
been supposed.
The Church of the Messiah (Fpisco-
/ pail at Louisville, KY, was almost de-
stroyed by fire on New Years day.
It was one Of the finest churches IN the
city.
st. Paul's Episcopal Church. New
| Albany, Indiana, has been purchased,
! and re1AAved to the east end Of the city,
to be used as a chapel for Methodist
mission.
Mr.. Pope, in q recent account of the
religious condition of Rome, says that
the city which was formerly the centre
! of Catholicism, is likely to become the
centre of heresy.
The Congregations Church has been
able of late to meet all the claims of
its missionaries, and proposes to en-
large its operations as fast as the
churches furnish the means.
The Lutherans will erect in the
spring church at Titusville, Penn.
the hourishing centre of the oil re-
gions. Ten thousand dollars are al
ready secured for the purpose.
Rev Dr. Taylor, of Liverpool, a na-
tive of Scotland, signifies his accept
ance Of the Broadway Tabernacle, New
York, of which DR. Thompson has been
pastor for twenty-five years.
A single Bishop in the Protestant
Episcopal Church reports that two
hundred and seven out of two hundred
| and eighty-fiv clergymen ordained by
him came from other religious bodies.
Rev. T. R. Crawford, D. D., of Not
tingham Presbyterian Church, Moor
! field, Ohio, has Just concluded twenty
five years of ministerial service. He
| began with sixty-seven members, and
during his pastOrate has received seven
| hundred and three members.
Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage, of Brook
| Iyn, and Rev. Edward Everett Hale, of
Boston, each read to his Sunday school
an original story at the church festi-
| walls, to the great delight of the little
! folks.
Mr. Nathan Matthews, OF Boston,
| has given ten thousand dollars to Bish-
op Randall, of the Episcopal Church,
for the erection of a Divinity Hall, in
/ connection with the new church in
Roxborough, Penn.
The action Of the late TrienniaI Con
I
! Church has quoted the agitation on
| the subjectof revising the prayer-book
so that all probabilities of a rupture
! have subsidized.
The Catholic Standard says that
! forty-five times the Popes of Rome
| have been driven from their seats, and
! twenty-seven times has the purple
! crown of AartyrdOm enwreathed the
! brOws of those who filed st. Peter $
chair.
! A writer, who avows himself Pres
/ byterian, characterizes the Baptists as
! hydraulic Presbyterians. He says the
! two denominations are so alike IN doc
/ trina - to be identical, up to the banks
Of Jordan. They draw a line at the
waters edge.
Rev. Myron EelIs, n Congregational
minister, has just commenced laborinG
in BOice City, the capital of Idaho
! Territory. The town is eighty years
old, contains l 900 inhabitants, and
has only a single church-EpiscOpa
AIr4GEells is the only Congregational
minister in the Territory.
Rev. Mr.. HepworGh, a Unitarian
minister of New York, in his sermon
on Christmas day, drew n comparison
between the teachings of Socrates,
Zoro9ster and many other learned men
Of Antiquity, with those of Jesus
| Christ, and claimed that Christianity
had not added anything to the teach
ings of the old sages of classic and anti
classic times.