The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-08-30
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New YoRK City contains 344
churches, valued at $S8, 100000.
The Cathedral at Chester, IN Eng
land, was founded in the year 200;
and was used as a place of safety
against the Danes in 800
NOVEMBER 20 is to be celebrated as
the three hundredth anniversary of
the formation of the first Presbytery
in England.
The Baptists of Baltimore have
subscribed $4,000 to build Bap-
tist church for the negroes in the
How is it possible that mankind
will take advice when they will not
80 much as take warning.
southern part of that city.
THERE are within the boundaries of
the Southern Baptist Convention
455 associations, 1I,168 churches,
6,493 ministers, and 693,037 MEM
bers.
THERE never was as great an in
terest taken in the Sunday schools as
that now displayed in Pennsylvania.
1t is a sign of great improvement and
high social progress.
A SPANISH church is to be erected
at San Francisco.
THERE are 81, 900 ministers in this
country, with an average salary of
500 per aunum. Somebody advises
II strike for higher wages.
THERE are several ministers of the
Protestant Episcopal Church in New
York who hold confessional service
and have mass every morning.
ITALY, where but few years ago
no son of Abraham was safe from
persecution; now admits Jews as
teachers to the highest institutions
of learning.
The number of Trustees of Metho
dist churches. 94,0S0 of stewards of
societies, S0,640; of class leaders.
47,556; of Sunday school Superin-
tendents, 1855; of Sunday school
teachers, and officers other than Su-
perintendents, lie, ,426.
THE Central Presbyterian Church
of San Francisco will commence the
construction of a new church next
week, capable of seating 1000 per-
sons. and to cost $40, 900. They have
also engaged the services of Philip
Phillips, the ''Singing Pilgrim" " at a
salary of 5000 per year.
ONE OF the resolutions passed by
the Methodist General Conference
was to the effect that they would re-
sist all means which may be employ
ed to exclude from our common
schools tho Bible, (which is the
charter of our liberties and the in
spiration OF our civilization"
THE LATE Marinus Lord, of Hart
ford, left an estate valued at $50, 900.
Upon the death of his wife, he pro-
vlies in his will that the whole shall
be divided between the American
Tract Society, the Sunday-School
Union, the American Bible Society,
and the Home Missionary Society.
The New York Examiner has an
article which, in view of the fact
that ''while people find it perfectly
safe and prudent to go about their
ordinary busidess in all sorts of
weather, rain or shine,' q rainy Sun
day will keep them as closely shut
mp at home" inquiries, "Why is it
that Sunday rain storm is 50 much
more dreadful to encounter than a
secular one ?
THERE Is a sufficient quantity of
fermented and distilled liquor used
In the United States In one year to
fill canal four feet deep, fourteen
feet wide, and one hundred and
twenty miles in length. If the VIC
Tins OF the rum traffic were there al
so, we should see a suicide at every
mile, and a thousand funerals a day.
If the drunkards of America could
be placed in a grand procession, five
abreast, what an army of victims
LET Us beware that our rest be-
2 comespOt the rest of stones, which.
so long as they are torrent-tossed
and thunder-stricken, maintain their
majesty, but when the stream is 81
lent, and the storm passed, suffer
the grass to cover them and the Itch
en- to feed on them, and are plough
cd down into dust.