Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1873-08-09


The Episcopalian is the largest de-
in New York City, having
a church for every thirteen thousand in
habitants. 5s-f -
A Bible in the Persian language was
presented the Shah. of Persia by Sir |
Henry Rawlinson in behalf of the Brit |
ish and Foreign Bible Society.
The Baptist Association of Northern |
England, at its last session at Newcas- |
tie, discussed a proposition to exclude
from their fellowship all but close COM
munion Churches. The resolution failed
by decided vote. = 40
Miss Clara NJ. Babcock, daughter Of
the pastor of the Warren Street Church,
who has just completed her studies in
Harvard Divinity School, preached in
her fathers pulpiE recently. She goes
to Germany for one year, and then will
return and enter the regular ministry. /
An American church was organized
the last of June in Geneva, Switzerland,
of which Rev. Henry Waite, of the
Chapel in Rome, has temporary charge.
Dr. Heacock, of Buffalo, and DR.. Shaw,
of Rochester, aided in the organiza-
| ton.
The process of being made free, is
slow and difficult. We cannot be made
free faster than we suffer ourselves to.
be brought out of all untruth. There is
not only untruth in our thoughts ano
ways, but alse in our subsistence and
mode of our being. Hence, between
every man in the flesh and freedom there
is very straight gate. Freedom is the
end crucifixion is the means. .
A curious case of Bible burning, says
the Halifax Presbyterian Witness, oc-
Cured in New Brunswick some weeks
ago. MIR. Brouillettej one of our Ca
madam missionaries. lett French Bible
with lady at Grand Falls. who had be
come Protestant. The priest, Father
Dupe ,lcalled to see the lady, and finding
the Bible, thrust it into the fire. The
missionary promptly informed him that
what he had done was illegal and that
he would be punished unless he made
amends. The priest was accordingly
summoned to trial before magistrate,
but on the day before the trial he agreed
to pay expenses, pay the price of a Bible
and offer an apology.
| The Rev. Mr.. Mulford, an Episcopal
ian clergyman of Troy, has undertaken
novel mission, being engaged to inter
view the keepers of liquor saloons and
bars in the city with the object of in
ducing them to close their places volun-
tarilv on the Sabbath. In a letter to the
Troy Times he says lie has thus faI
found but one voice among them on the
subject, and we imagine people will bt
: generally surprised on being Informed
!, that nearly all. of them are willing te
, close up on Sunday, provided the move.
/ ment is made general. Mr. Mulfort
therefore, appeals to the people of Troy
to aid him in this new moral mission
movement, instead of attempting to stoI
| theSunday liquor traffic by force Sas i
, contemplated.
) The venerable Bishop Rush, of tht
, African Methodist Episcopal Church
! who was buried from the Zion Church
in New York, last week, was born
: slave, in Cravens county, North Carroll
ma, in 1777. He came to New York il
1796 and joined the African Methods
: Episcopal Church in 1908. He wa
: licensed to preach in 1915, and was or
dained superintendent in 1928. HI
f occupied every position in the church
t from the beaconate to the Bishoprice
: which latter office he has occupied sine
! I1S49. He was one of those who infiuen
! ced the separation of the colored brancl
) of the Methodist Episcopal Church. am
: it was his address before Bishop Georg
which finally brought about that result
At that time there were only about 10
4 members. Now the church number
] about 100000 members. The Bishol
I never married and he died peaceably o
+ old age. He was one of the remarkabl
4 men of the present century, in many re
+ spects, and his counsels in the Africal
Church were always regarded with par
. ticular veneration.
d When a man maketh his complain
j and openeth his need and grief into hi
Ispecial friend, lie feeleth certain eas
g afterward; so that his pain and grief
9 by the rehearsing thereof, is somewha
i relieved, remedied, and taken away
: Much more comfort and ease shall w
: receive by telling and opening our grie
d and complaint unto God. For man
; soon weary, and irk of our complaining
Il but if we should spend the whole day il
II praying, crying and complaining unit
II God, He would love, comfort an
|, strengthen us the more. IL
4 Can anything in this world be NOR
4 foolish than to think that all the rar
:, fabric of heayen and earth can come b.
;. chance, when all the skill of art is nc
r. able to make an oyster? To see rare ef
a fects and no cause; motion without al
: immovable; circle without centre
IA time without eternity; a second with
g out a first-these things are so agains
:. philosophy and natural reason, that h
:, must need be beast in his understand
Is ing that does not assent to them. -
+ FAITH AND WoRKs.-Two gentleme
were one day crossing the river IN a fer
= nv boat. A dispute about faith an
II works arose; one saying that goo
| WOfkS were Vi SIldlI iii pOI CduCC, dil
that faith was everything; the other az
p. serting the contrary. Not being able t
convince each other the, ferryman, a
II enlightened Christian, asked pernissio
E. to give his opinion. Consent bein
r given, he said:
70 ssI hold in my hand two oars. That i
my right hand [ call faith. the Other, I'M
&c left, work. Now, gentlemen, please
Of observe pull the oar of faith and pu
,r that alone. See! the boat goes roun
10 and round, and the boatSmakes no pros
ress. l do the same with the oar
70 works, and with a precisely similar rt
of sults-no advance. Marki I pull bot
te together; we go.on apace, and in FEY
minutes we shall be at our landing
:. place. So, in my humble opinion, fait
Is without work, or work without faitl
will not suffice. Let there be 10th, an
se the haven of eternal rest is sure to
o; reached.''
q AS the flower is before the fruit, so
faith before good works.
Faith is the parent of works, and Il
children will bear resemblance to Il
parent.
: 1t is not enough that the inward woi