The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-04-05
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.

A woman supplies the pulpit of q
New Hampshire church three Sun
days out of five, by reading Mr..
Beecher's sermons.
Ten thousand inhabitants of the
city of Richmond, Va, Oue-fifth of the
population, are members of the Baptist
churches.
The First Presbyterian Church of
of Elizabeth, n. j., has not missed
service for two hundred and seven
consecutive years.
The Metbodists appropriated last
year, for home missionary work,
$685., 040, which is nearly thirty-two
cents for each member.
Bishop Asbury is said to have es-
tablished the first Sunday school t.
the United States. 1t was organized
somewhere between 1855 and 1870, in
Hanover County, Virginia.
An American resident in Pekin
says: 1.-THE MethOdists in Pekin have
not been able to retain the temple they
bought To be used for Christian
worship. The officials insisting that
it was Government property, they
were obliged TO give it up"
The Creek Nation are ready to give
$4,000 for the erection of a Baptist
seminary, just as soon as the teachers
can be provided. Already they have
their national public school system
well organized, where all their children
are learning the rudiments of the
English language.
The Southern Baptist Convention
received last year S31, 223. 16 for do
mestic missions, SO, 1000 for foreign
missions, and S19,19S.7l for Sunday
Schools. The aggregate was $40, III,
an increase of S24 ,S57 over the pre-
ceding years receipts. The figures
indicate returning strength and cheer.
The st. Cloud Press has been in
formed by what it states as reliable
authority that a movement is in pro-
gress With view to creating new
Diocese out of the present Diocese
the entire State of Minnesota, with
the Bishops residence, to be perma-
nently established at st. Cloud.
The Uurchmda, discussing the
chaplaincy at West Point, makes the
suggestion that the members Of the
Academy be allowed to choose their
own chaplain, which is manifestly
wiser than the recommendation of the
Board of Examiners that the office of
of chaplain he filled by representa-
tives of the religious denominations
in rotation.
An important movement for The adj
of fnr
started among the Roman Catholics of
this country. The convention of the
Roman Catholic Temperance Union,
which rece fly met in Baltimore, was
large and enthusiastic meeting. re-
ceived reports from one hundred and
seventy-seven societies, numbering
26, 4S1 members. AT recent temper
ance meeting i'm Catholic church in
Paterson, n. J nearly one thousand
people took the total abstinence
pledge, reciting it aloud after their
priest, and receiving his beDediction.
Rev. Robert w. Patterson, ID. D., of
Chicago, has delivered, and the Pulpit
publishes, a sermon showing the utter
unscripturalness OF woman-preaching.
The position which Dr. Patterson he d
reunion, and has held since, gives
peculiar force to his utterances on this
question, because of the attempt to
make this a question between Old and
New School men. DR.. Patterson was
a great leader in the New School, and
he thinks when the Holy Spirit COM
manded womea to keep silence in the
churches, there Is no installing what
was meant.
In Boston q ministerial agency is |
doing a lively business. Clergymen |
of good standing and of every evan
gelicaI denomination can, by the pay |
ment of one dollar, enter their names |
either as candidates for permanent |
settlement or temporary supply. On
the other hand, any society can, by the |
payment of the like sum of one dollar,
telegraph to this place their want of a
minister, and the amount of pay.
The Episcopdlidn, in speaking of
the Church, says: "Laymen have |
something more than mere incidental |
or accidental interest in the practical |
works of Christ's Church. Mission |
work is their work. The merchant, |
the banker, the capitalist, and other |
men of business must endeavor to re- |
alize that, with reference to the ever |
pressing necessities of mission work, |
they carry 'ihe Church, in their
pockets"
The West Church, in Boston, has
been noted for the length of its pasto- |
rates. During the one hundred and |
thirty-nine years of its existence it has |
had but five ministers. Since 1896, |
when DR.. Lowell was settled, only |
one ordination or installation service |
has been held within its walls. That |
was on the 1st of March, 1927, and the |
thirty-fifth anniversary of this event |
was duly observed by Rev. Dr.. Bartol |
on Sunday of last week.
Ministers in Canada are as poorly |
provided for as in the States. The |
Toronto Presbyterian says "of 296 |
ministers in charge, 713 or more than
one-third, receive less than 5000 per
annum. That is less than 81 a day,
less than many 2 mechanic earns, /
less than clerk ia a store or a Junior |
in bank. Yet on that stipend the |
minister is expected TO live, and sup
port and educate his family in q way
corresponding to the position in life
which he holds"
The acquisition Of A!sace by Germa-
ny occasions a nominal loss to Pro-
testantism in France The Protestants |
of that province number $4,000
people, so pastors, 26 consistories, and
one faculty Of theology of Stras-
burg. The churches have, however,
petiticned the German authorities not
TO interfere with them and the pc
titiOn will probably he granted, leav-
ing the Protestants of Alsace to work
in connection with their friends in
France.
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