Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1872-08-31

RELIGIOUS ITEMS.

Il NV YoHN City contains 34l
Buches, valued at SSS,S00,00O.
#Im Cathedral at Chester, in Eng
brd, was founded in the year 200;
sllwas used as place OF safety
bgainst the Danes in 500
Il NOVEMBER 20 is to be celebrated as
d three hundredth anniversary Of
i formation of the first Presbytery
England.
TIM Baptists of Baltimore have
bscribled $4,000 to build II Bap-
church Tor the negroes in the
How is it po sible that mankind
take advice when they will not
much as take warning.
puthcrn part Of that city,
THERE are within the boundaries of
Ae Southern Baptist Convention
" associations, 1l,lG churches,
PIX ministers, and S93,O37 men,
n
THERE never was as great an in
pest taken in the Sunday schools as
t now displayed in Pennsylvania.
8 zEaslgu of great improvement and
Eb social progress.
ASrANIsH church is to be erected
i San Francisco.
THERE are 81, 900 ministers in this
Rmuy, with an average salary of
w per aunum. Somebody advises
strike for higher wages.
IuGGEaro several ministers of the
zloicStant Episcopal Church in New
Ork who hold confessional service
ld have mass every morning.
lrLT where but few years ago
sou of Abraham was safe from
Fsecution; now admits Jews as
acheTs to the highest institutions
learning,
LIZ number of Trustees of Metho
achurches. 1850; Of stewards of
cleles, 6O,GiO; of class leaders,
'o16; Of Sunday school Superin-
fAdonts, 1855; of Sunday school
achers, aud officers other than Su-
'IIntendents, 176,42
LIE IN Central Presbyterian Church
San Francisco will commence the
Instruction of q new church next
IteR' capable of seating 1000 per
'%. and to cost $4,000, They have
NO engaged the services of Philip
llIIF', the Singing Pilgrim" at a
'ary Of 5000 per year.
oSE OF the resolutions passed by
Methodist General Conference
I 10 The effect that they would re.
~ all means which may be employ.
10 exclude from our common
aooIS the Bible, (which is the
aE'ef OF our liberties and the in,
ua'lon of our civilization"
!, lli LATE Marinus Lord, of Hart
~, ltit an estate valued at $500
5'u the death of his wife, he pro.
''S IN his will that the whole shall
IVlded between the American
%' ny society," the Suuday-School
.l'I' the American Bible Society,
Iu'lo NJ Home Missionary Society.
,I inE New York Examiner has an
y, "yIe :, which, in view of the fact
% /" -. while people find it perfectly
r1;s ana prudent to go about theil
s,,Iy "dary busidess in all sorts Of
,v ,"uer' u!,, rain or shine,' a rainy Sun,
\ ., Slll keep them as closely shut
h, | nome" inquiries, "Why is il
Ta,I sa sunday rain storm is so much
Secular cne ?" ~ 'l'
P,m n"E IS q sufficient quantity o.
iS'",ea iSa re and distilled liquor used
NY United States in one year tC
et "a us9al four feet deep, fourteen
nsD,'' "'ue, and one hundred and
iNs N.Y. =. miles in length. II the vic
W. VI Lne rum traffic were there al
ia "e should SEQ a suicide at ever,
tba una a thousand funerals day
Mlo o urnnkards OF America couit
bre,st tOu ~ ma grand procession, five
LINN >. Ilat an army of victims!
ono ~, ~ beware that our rest be-
olOnn no' the rest of stones, which
aifISa as they are torrent-tosset
lae',. e'a,u"a,er'stricken, , maintain theil
nj t'',y, ~, but when the stream is 81
Ae 'rnu rrn.. tho storm passed, sulcI
b 70 tS'eSS r TO cover them and the Itch
ddo~,v"e ,vea !. on them, and are plough