The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1872-01-25
NO. 40.
RELIGIOUS ITEMS,

| A Methodist minister in Minnesota
having obtained contributions in lum-
Der, is erecting n commodious par,on.
ago with his own hands.
The First Presbyterian Church N
Elizabeth, New Jersey, was organized
in 1864, and has not intermitted ssr-
vice for two hundred and seven years
The first Seventh day Baptist Church
in America, at Newport, Rhode Island,
celebrated its two hundredth annives-
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 A.
rica.
Tho statistics OF Methodism, in the
State of New York, show meinbey-
ship Of 1887, including the ministers.
and | ,69S church edificee, valued Al
so, ,496, G25.
In Labrador there are forty-five No
rayau missionaries, eight OF whom arc
lay workers. In Greenland tLis
Church has twenty four missionaries.
male and female.
Rev. DIR. Newman, who went on 4
visit to Greenland Inst summer, writes
that nearly one half of the entire popu-
lation are recognized members OF the
Lutheran Church.
The Pottawatomies, the Kansas, the
Osages, the Kontenares, the Menomo-
noes, the PHpagos, OF Arizona, and tho
Puebloz tribes of Indians, are said 10
be members Of the Catholic Church.
The Southern Baptist newspapers,
excepting the Religious Herald, at
Richmond, are all opposed to the move
ment contemplating the union OF the
Disciples, or Campbellites, with the
Baptist Church.
The Union Prayer-book, designed
forall those in the Episcopal Church
who desire Liturgical service, but are
dissatisfied with tho old Prayer-book,
does not appear to receive much eon-
sidcration.
y Disciple, or Campbellite, writes to
the New York Observer that while as n
church they differ on some point. of
Theology from other Christians, they
arc 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 aro
not allowed to speak in those meet
lngs.
The Catholic Standard urges devout
Catholics to pray for Henry Ward
Beecher and others like him, who are
teaching error i'll 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. Out of one oongreaa-
ton OF over eight hundred, all except
five families were burned out OF their
homes.
Ono of the religious papers thinks
that tho dedication Of churches should
not he degraded into mere begging fes-
tlvals, rs the collection OF money dis
turbs the solomnity OF the occasion
aud robs The dedication service OF al
its spiritual blessings.
The churches in Californis are sub
lcct to taxation like other property.
In San Francisco tho tax averages from
one hundred to three hundred dollars.
Tins IL tho only State in tho Union IN
which purely beneyolent Institutions
are subjected to thi, exac,ion.
A branch of the Catholic Union has
been organized in the oity OF Nov
York. Tho society has been started
for tho purpose Of expressing sympo-
thy and aflordin8 aid to his Holiness
the Pope, and advancing the general
interests Of the Catholic Church.
Tho Episcopal Almanac for 1879, Just
published, gives list OF fifty-fo
Bishops and 2,S9S clergymcn in the
denomination. The number of eorn-
mnnicanLs is 242, 995, and contribu-
tiona last year, S5,544,574. There
were thirty deaths in the clergy.
The London Quarterly Review has
all article ON modern spiritualism, m
which tho author contends that ths
phenomena inscribed to their science
are the result of deception or delu-
sion, and accounts for them by natural
causes, without the intervention OF
spiritual agencies.
There is Young Mems Christian
| Association in the Ohio Penitentinry.
I'll" members OF which constitute the
prison church. Its members nj pres
cnt lumber some three hundred, all OF
whom have professed faith in Christ.
Rev DR. Leacock, rector of tho Eps-
copot Church of tho Epiphany, in the
city of New York, has resigned his
charge, rs he thinks the prayer.book
docs teach baptismal regeneration and
various other sacerdotal doctrines.
He can not sympathiZe with thcso
views, ana Ietircs from the active min
istry.
\ correspondent from Alabama des-
cribes the Baptist Church in thst
State az in langrlishinS condition.
But few of the pastors are supported,
and valuable ministers have left, and
nrc still leaving. Hc thinks tke money
spent by brethren for tobacco would
place their benevolent and missionary
operations on permanent basis.
The General Conference of the
Seventh Day AIventists, for 1879, will
be held early in January. An impox-
tant feature of the meeting will be the
celebration of the bicentential ofthe dc.
nomination. 1t proposed to folio W the
example of other churches to mako
centenary contributions for the cause
of education and church extension.
Henry Ward Beecher says he is IN
clined to leave the Baptists, Episeo-
palians, Unitarians, Catholics aud
Jews to get to heaven in their own
way, and without his Guidance, and 10
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 mono OF these do
nominations, any law. .s.e .-s
The annual report of Henry Ward
Beecher's Church, Brooklyn, New
York, shows that there have been, dur
ing the year, 206 admissions TO mem. "a
l,,.Sbin on1 10 rpmnyala. total mann.