The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-12-06
EAfPoRIA-NEWS.
xRIDAY, DECEMBER ), 1879.
RELIGIOUS ISTELLIGEscE.

lhuhlon bHpblSl' N
Less than one-third OF Wiscon- 4
sins Congregational Churches are
self-supporting. /
The Rev. Peter Cartwright left
n widow who was his. companion
for sixty-three years. S.
The Methodists of baltimore
are putting up the only corrugated
iron church in the city,
Bishop Coke has gone TO Hayti,
there to organize q diocese of the
Protestant Episcopal Church.
The "Christndelphians," a new
religious sect, believe that 1875
will be the end of the world.
The Week of Prayer recently
appointed by the Evangelical al
nance, is to begin Sunday, January
5th. ..s vsor ,r,,1,.,s
, A subscription is. said to have
been started in Bombay for the
erection of a temple to yishnu in
London. s.
s An Iowa clergyman has four
boys, and the younger is Halncd
Dnxology, because he was Tho last
ps the hims. Ss
s-;Spurgeon arows that he. dare
not be strict commandments,
though he confesscs to a. leaning
inssthat direction. ~
De Witt TalInnge cln5siiieS sex
J tons as fidgety, lazy, and good,
and believes that like poets they
are born, not made. StS
Abraham Jaeger, a Hebrew OF
Mobile, Alabama, has been con
yerted to the Christian faith. and
joined the Baptists. -
bismarck has decided that no
Ecclesiastical punishment shall be
inflicted without the knowledge
!. and consent of the State.
Z Tho Baptist ministers of 4Bos-
I. ION and vicinity recently passed
Z. resolutions disatowing any ton
dency to open communion.
aBrook Farm Mass, the scene
al q celebrated socialist expert
Inent, has been converted into n
Lutheran home for children.
. Only two churches, both, Epis-
srppal, were destroyed by tho Bos-
ton blaze. Tho Chicago eonfia.
grafton made away with forty, =
The Prussian Government is ut
tempting to prevent the publica-
ton of the Papal briefs in the
empire without its permission
Bishop Simpson thinks that at
no previous period has 80 much
been accomplished in so short a
time as during the last ten years.
The most extensive Catholic
publishing house in this. country,
that of the Boston Pilot, was
totally destroyed by the great fire.
The>old South church, Of Bos-
ton, with all it's historic reminis-
cenccs is 20 contain the Pcst-of-
lice Of that city for the next two
years. Us
The ultra montana priests have
been excluded from the control of
the universities of Italy, and ind
their influence much abridged
thereby.
The British anu Foreign Bible
Society has Distributed 10000
Bibles to the widows and families
Of German soldiers killed in the
late war. = s~laasi =
John Wesley preached 1900
sermons--fiftcen q week. lie new
er had clergyman's sore throat, or
"a years leave of absence with ex-
penses paid. aseisr
The New York City Mission
has. forty missionaries under its
auspices, four chapcls, and nine
Sabbath, schools, gathering; mp
ward Of $500 scholars wa
The UniversalistC Conferences has
,lecided to build @ denominationnl
church in Washington, at cost of
$4,000. to be open to every race
and color,
There are twenty-thrse Welsh
Congregational churches In the
State OF New York, having q
membership varying from TWEEN
ty-fyc;to Two hundred Aad fftyTa
The American Protestant
churches, OF Dubuque Iowa, are
preparing for, q union effort, in
connection with the laborsN OF
Rev. Mr.. Hammond, the Evange-
list.
Rev. j. W. h. Ware began his
ministry at the Arlington Street
Church, Boston, on the first Sun
day in November This Society
has had but two ministers since
1902.
The Churchmnn believes there is
happy medium between Puritan
and Parisian ideas of the Sabbath.
Both IRE equally unacceptable, the
one from its gloomy austerity, the
other nom its laxity and general
hilnritysi rons yggCs 81 as, 80
The reunion of the Prcsbyter-
ian church IN New York, ut least,
IS represented as being perfectand
complete. The question ia never
asked, nor does any one seem to
care who was once New, Schopl,or
Old SchooliS4 a ~. ~ W q q
Thos. X. Beeeher is strongly in
favor of Christian unity, Although
Il Cpngregat iphalist himself he
would, not establish a church of
that sect where it would impair
the efficiency of any other church,
holding Christianity to he super
Tor 10 sectarian success.
The Rev. Adm Ballony has de-.
cided upon closing his labors %
pastor OF the Hopedale { AIasan-
chusetts) parish next April, at
which, time he viii be seventy
years of age. Mr.. Ballou has
preached in that place for more
than thirty years.
Rev. Robert Coilyer made a
tender allusion to '.gin-mills,' = the
other day, saying he wished TINT
all whisky shops were down in
hell, chained up in the bottomless
pit for thousand years, and a
new chain ready Tor them at the
expiration of that time,
Rev. Mr. Pentecost's Church
Baptist of Brooklyn, n. Y, has
at last come out fairly in favor of
close communion. AS the pastor
is an open communicate, his