The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-03-15
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.

The New York Conference (Metho
dist is considering the propriety o
procuring parsonages for its super
animated ministers, .-.p az
Bishop Medley. of Maine Episcopal,
states that all the churches in his do
cese but two or three follow the FREE
seat system.
In the Mississippi Valley the "Regu
lar Baptists" are the larger sect, mum
boring something over half million
communicates. ..s .,..-
The Boston Y. M. G. A. have en-
gagged Mr.. X. A. Burnell for q re-
ligious campaign of seventy five days
in which forty cities and towns Of
Massachusetts are to be visited
Mrs. Smith, widow of Rev. Daniel
Smith, died recently in Newark, leav.
in requests to the leading Congrega.
tional Boards and Tract and Bible So.
cieties amounting to $1,000.
Rev. DIR. Newell, a Roman Catolie
priest of Memphis, Tenn, now in his
seyenty-fifth year, has renowned his
faith and joined the Episcopal Church.
He has been admitted to orders by the
Bishop of the diocese. ... ..s3 .F
Rev. Henry Little, now of Indiana
was the first Presbyterian Missionary
to the Mississippi Valley, near forty
years ago. A halter in Yew York-an
entire stranger-paid his salary and
travelling expenses.
The late Congregational Council
voted that nothing less than the fol.
lowing amounts ought to be raised
the ensuing year: For church build.
ing, 100000; for work among the
freedmen, 100000; for home mis-
sions, $4,000
An eccentric individual in Rhode
Island us printing verses of Scripture
and the Lords Prayer on the back Of
new greenbacks. He thinks thereby
to secure the circulation of sort OF
tracts which will neither be burned
nor torn up.
The Christian Advocate has q
thoughtful article from d. w. opposing
the election of colored Bishop, be-
cause the cOlored brethren have not
asked for it, and because an unjust,
and yet living and powerful, predju-
dice rendered it inexpedient.
The Evangelist is in favor of the
old-fashioned donation parties; not
only for the benefits which they bring
the worthy minister, but they are the
occasion of bringing rich and poor
together on q common footing of good
will. ..-..
Advocates of i'm mersion claim that
the rite of baptism in that form may
be administered in all places and all
seasons without risk. 1t is to be in
ferred that they rely upon some
miraculous or other interposition to
protect them in what. under ordinary
might be rash ex-
posture. .-ft
Father Damen, an eloquent
of the Jesuit College in, Chi
cago has recently created quite sensa-
ton in Ottawa, Canada, by a;course of
lectures In which he maintained that
the Roman Catholic is the only true
and that out of that church Is
no divine faith, and consequently no
.,....,. ssa
Rev. E. v. Bligh, q prominent
Evangelist, writes to the Rock against
the "Black rag" as he calls the gown,
and thinks if the Church had only
stood fast to the Reformers' rubric of
1862 the surplice alone would have
been worn, and no question ever
-aised about vestments. AS to the
20 wn, he does not see why Evangelical
men should insist on being associated
n this respect with Unitarians and
A correspondent of the Observer
.alis upon Presbyterian congregations
O say "amen" at the close of each
,rayer of the minister. On which adj
ice the Pittsburg Christian Advocdte
"Gocd counsel this 1t |
, old-fashioned Methodism. I'm
it is falling too much into
isuse among us. Let all the people !
ay Amen" -......-
A movement ls on foot In England,
! the Established Church, favoring
ne licensing of laymen as lay readers,
18th authority to act in any parish to
hitch they may be invited by the
ergyman in charge. 1t Is believed
he ordination of churchmen as dea-
ms, without requiring them to
Dandon their worldly business, is q
easure urgently called for In the !
'esent condition of the church. II