The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-01-26
RELIGIOUS ITEMS.

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is of opinion that small salaries do not
uns~ttle as many ministers as the want
of prompt payment.
It is said that the Jews and nom
Conformists of England were ahead of
the National Church in Offering prayer /
for the recovery of the Prince of Wales. |
Rev. Alexander Clark, an eminent
minister in the Methodist Protestant |
Church. is sick In San Francisco, so
that his return TO the East Is delayed.
East st. Louis, Illinois, a city of
twelve thousand inhabitants, is desti-
tute of Protestant religious organiza
tons, except a single Presbyterian
church.
The average duration of the pastor
ate of Congregational ministers in Eng
land is five years and nine months, and
of Baptist ministers three years and a
half.
Recent discussions have shown the
Disciples to be mole in harmony with
the BAPTIST Church, and, indeed, with
other Orthodox Christians, than had
been supposed.
The Church Of the Messiah Episco-
PAD - L0u.ayiile, KY, was almost de-
-sEpvsE by fire on New Years day.
Ii was one u The iiHe5t churches IN the
city.
ST. Pauls Episcopal Church. New
Albany, Indiana, has been purchased,
and removed to the east end Of the city,
to be used as a chapel for Methodist
mission.
Mr. Pope, in recent account of the
religious condition of Rome, says that
the city which was formerly the centre
of Catholicism, is likely to become the
centre of heresy.
The Congregational Churchha. been
abs of late to meet all the claims OF
its missionaries, and proposes to en-
large its operations as fast as the
churches furnish the means.
The Lutherans will erect in the
spring church at Titusville, Penn,
the furnishing centre of the oil re
gions Ten thousand dollars are al
ready secured for the purpose.
Rev. DIR. Taylor, of Liverpool, ma
ance of the Broadway Tabernacle, New
York, of which DR.. Thompson has beel
pastor for twenty-five years.
Rev. L. Dewitt Talmage, of Brook
lyn, and Rev. Edward Everett Hale, o
Boston, each readto hisSunday schoo
an original story at the church festi
walls, 20 the great delight of the ittl
folks.
Mr.. Nathan Matthews, of Boston
has given ten thousand dollars to Bish
op Randall, of the Episcopal Church
for the erection of a Divinity Hall, IL
connection with the new church il
Razborough, Penn.
The action of the late Triennial Con
vantion of the Protestant Episcopa
Church has quoted the agitation Oh
the subiectof revising the prayer-book
50 that all probabilities of a ruptur
have subsidized.
The Catholic Standard says tina
forty-five times the Popes of Rom
have been driven from their seats, an,
wenty-seven times has the purpl
crown of Martyrdom enwreathed tn
brows of those who filed st. Peter
chair.
A writer, who avows himself Pres
hyterian, characterizes the Baptists a
hydraulic Presbyterians. He says tn
two denominations are SO alike in doc
trine as to be identical, up to the bank
of Jordan. They draw a line at tn
waters edge.
Rev. I. Il. Crawford, ID. D., of Not
tingham Presbyterian Church, Moor
field, Ohio, has Just concluded twenty
five years of ministerial service. II
began with sIKty-seven members, an,
during his pastOrate has received sevel
hundred and three members.
Rev. Mr. Hepworth, a Unitarian
minister of New York, in his sermon
on Christmas day, drew a comparisoi
between the teachings of Socrates
Zoroaster and many other learned mel
of Antiquity, with those of Jesu
Christ, and claimed that Christianit,
had not added anything to the teach
classic times.
The Methodist Churches in Colum
bus, Ohio, have purchased an elegan
communion set for the church in Sal
Lake City, and will forward it in {
j-autiful case, to Rev. J. NJ. Jameson
.ao minister appointed to that mis-
sion Wv the last Ohio Conference. TIL,
.t i. 'najefH'lv engraved" Presented
.. .h- Methodist Churches of Column
i One. fa fine First Methods
N.m.l .H l.e..'
-,-.. F.. tire Nashville Christian
idrDeata say, clat there is great indif
ference IN many OF the Southern Meth
odist Churches in the sacrament of the
Lords Supper. He mentions one con.
gregation with a regular pastor where
the sacrament had not been admins.
tered for ten years, and that twere are
churches in the country, with moss on
the roof, that have never had the
Lords Supper celrbrated in them.
FROM BRAZIL-A very interest