The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-01-12
RELIGIOUS ITEMS.

HdNAiS Opsdlncu CONTRIBUTORS IN luIQ-
Der, is erecting commodious par@on.
age with his own hands.
The First Presbyterian Church of
Elizabeth, New jersey, was organized
In 1864, and has not intermitted SER
vice for two hundred and seven years.
The first Seventh-day Baptist Church
In America, at Newport, Rhode Island,
celebrated its two hundredth anniver-
sary on the 23d of December.
The American Missionary Society
has received ffers of the services of
two hundred colored men for mission
airy work among their kindred in At
r.ca
The statistics of Methodism, in the
State of New York. show member
ship of 1887, including the ministers,
and / ,69S church edifces, valued at
so, 496, 625.
In Labrador there are forty-fve Mo
ravian missionaries, eight of whom ar
lay workers. In Greenland this
Church has twenty-four missionaries,
male and female.
Rev. DR.. Newman, who went on a
visit to Greenland last summer, writes
that nearly one half of the entire popu-
lation are recognized aaembers of the
Lutheran Church.
The Pottawatomies, the Kansas, the
Osages, the Kontenares, the Menomo-
nees, the Papagos, of Arizona, and the
Puebloz tribes of Indians, are said to
be members of the Catholic Church.
The Southern Baptist newspapers,
excepting the Religious Herald, at
Richmond, are all opposed to themove-
ment contemplating the union of the
Disciples, or Complexities, with the
Baptist Church.
The Uuion Prayer-book, designed
for all those in the Episcopal Church
who desire Liturgical service, but are
dissatisfied with the old Prayer-book,
does not appear to receive much con-
sideration.
A Disciple, or Campbellite, writes to
the New York Observer that while as a
church they differ on some points of
theology from other Christians, they
are with them in all the moral reforms
of the age.
A Quakeress preacher rose to bear
her testimony for the Savior, in the
Fulton street prayer-meeting, but was
suddenly called to order, as women are
not allowed to speak In those meet
ings.
The Catholic Standard urges devout
Catholics to pray for Henry Ward
Beecher and others like him, who are
teaching error in regard to the Savior
and his Church, and are spreading
heathenism throughout our country.
1t is stated that the homes of fifteen
hundred members of Presbyterian
Churches, in Chicago, were destroyed
in the late fire. Ont of one congrega-
ton of over eight hundred, all except
five families were burned out of their
homes.
One of the religious papers thinks
that the dedication of churches should
not be degraded into mere begging fes-
rivals, as the collection of money dis
turbs the solemnity of the occasion,
and robs the dedication service CT all
its spiritual blessings.
The churches in California are sub
lect to taxation like other property.
In San Francisco the tax averages from
one hundred to three hundred dollars.
This is the only State IN the Union in
which purely benevolent institutions
are subjected to this exaction.
A branch of the Catholic Union has
been organized in the city of New
York. The society has been started
for the purpose of expressing sympa-
thy and affording aid to his Holiness
the Pope, and advancing the general
interests of the Catholic Church.
The Episcopal Almanac for 1872, ;nst
published. gives a list of tifty-foul
Bishops and 2,89S clergymen in The
denomination. The number of com
municants is 242,995. and contrihu
tions last year, s., 54,574. TIL.
were thirty deaths in the clergy.
The London Quarterly Review b.
an article on modern spiritualism. ,
which the author contends that IL
phenomena inscribed to their scieu.
are the result Of deception or de-
sion. and accounts for them by natura
causes, without the intervention q.
spiritual agencies.
There is a Young Mems Chris-ia
Association in the Ohio Pcnitentiary.
the members of which constitute the
prison church. Its members at pres
ent number some three hundred, all of
whom have professed faith in Christ.
Rev. DIR. Leacock, rector of the Epis-
copol Church of the Epiphany, in the
CITY Of New York, has resigned his
charge. as he thinks the prayer-book
does teach baptismal regeneration and
various other sacerdotal doctrines.
He can not sympathize with these
views, and retires from the active min
istry.
A correspondent from Alabama des-
cribes the Baptist Church in that
State as in languishing condition.
But few of the pastors are supported,
and valuable ministers have left, and
are still leaving. He thinks tie money
spent 10y brethren for tobacco would
place their benevolent and missionary
operations on permanent basis.
The General Conference of the
Seventh Day Adventists, for 1872, viii
be held early in January. An impor-
tant feature of the meeting will be the
celebration of the bicentential fthe de-
nomination. 1t proposed to followthe
example of other churches to make
centenary contributions for the cause
of education and church extension.
Henry Ward Beecher says he is in
clined to leave the Baptists, Episco-
palians, Unitarians, Catholics and
Jews to get to heaven in their own
way, and without his guidance, and to
open the year 1872 in promoting the
fruits of the Spirit, ''love, joy, peace,
long-suffering, gentleness, goodness,
faith, meekness, temperance, against
which there is, in none of these de-
nominations, any law.
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