Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1873-08-02

RELIGIOUS NEWS.

Irish Presbyterian Church, only eight
allow instrumental music in worship.
The Superintendent of the Board of
Missions of the New Jerusalem Church.
calls for S., 900 to carry on the work for
the present year.
Rev. Il. Dewitt Talmage will become,
August l, the editor of the Christian at
Work, and his sermons and articles will |
appear in it exclusively hereafter.
The first Presbyterian sermon in New
York was delivered in private house
to about twenty people. The first church
was built OH Wall street in 1719.
The Catholics OF Springfield, Mass,
have withdrawn their children from the
public schools and will erect buildings
for themselves.
Some changes in form of worship is
recommended for Metho list Churches;
l. A return to congregational singing.
2. Reading of the scripture lessons alter
nately by pastor ami people. 3. Unit
ing audibly in representing the Lords
Prayer.
The General Synod of the Evangelical
Lutheran Church at late session in
| Canton, resolved to- raise 100000 for
foreign and home missions during the
next two years. This church has 100
ministers, 200 churches and over l00,-
| 600 members.
| Mr.. Murray eulogizing the Adiron-
dacks in the CongregGtionalist, says that
there is charm in those solitudes which
is good for all. ssIn this instructive
Stiffness he adds, ''the preacher real
ICES the foolishness of preaching and
learns how much more impressive is
Gods silence than mans talk"
| An unfortunate circumstance for
Professionalism in France just now is the
election of Mcmahon to the Presidency
of the Republic, as the priest party have
firm friend in him, and they are stop
ping, by prosecutions, the circulation of
books in every quarter which are am
tagonistic to the Catholic faith. ~ .
The International Convention of the
Young Mems Christian Association met
in Poughkeepsie, N. Y, July 9. There
were about $50 delegates in attendance.
There are 926 Associations in the United
States and provinces, thirty-eight of
which have buildings valued at $1,754, :
$50; and thirty-four others have build
ing funds amounting to $i32, ,977. The
next meeting is to be at Dayton, o.
Bishop Morris, for several years super
numerated, has had his salary reduced
from So 800 to 81 800, and expresses HIM
, self on the subject thus: 81 am not
now able to preach any, or to attend to
my official duties, because ofmy age and
afiliction; but / have yet to learn that
age and infirmatives are sins for which
man is to be starved to DEATH" The
Bishop married some time ago lady
much younger than himself, which fact
, displeased some of his brethren very
: much.
: At Lytton, British Columbia, is st.
Paul's mission to the Indians, who, on
! Whitsuntide Festival, assembled six
: hundred strong, and listened to the
1 services and addresses from their Bishop
7 missionary and native speakers. But
the sight which gladdened their hearts
most was the baptism of 40 OF their
number, most of whom had been fol
: five wears or more under instruction aid
) probation, and among them were %
: chiefs.
4 The Jeeoish Messenger thinks that Ju-
daism in America has a brilliant future
1t saws: "Here, where thousand diff.
: ferent sects abide in peace, Judaism will
have time and space to develop its real
/. character as it has never before been
d permitted to develop. Here, where cir
!; cumstances are propitious, supposing, OF
= course, that our people emulate the vir-
! tues and not the backslidings of thelr
fathers, Junaism will attain a breadth
:. and beauty unrecognizable in its whole
9 previous history"
+ The Baptist mission work in Burmal
I for 1872 is thus reported: Churches
. 365; members, 1890; baptized in 1872
S77; ordained, preachers, 80; unordain
ed. $50; schools, So; pupils, 5,933.Thert
are 4l3 Baptists in France, of whom 81
are in Paris. There are 221 Baptis
t Churches IN Sweden, and 9,412 mem
s bers. The total numbers under the care
: of the Baptist Missionary Union is 81,
= 512, of whom l 200 are in Africa. DIR
O Noah X. Davis, President of Bethe
J, College, KY, has been elected to fill th'
u Chair of Moral Philosophy, made va
: cant by the death of Rev. DR.. w H. Nc
it Guffey. DR.. Davis is the only Baptis
s in the faculty.
q The Rev. c. II. Payson in lette
v from the eastto an illustrated religion
y journal, gives the record of an impor
II tant- discovery made by a missionary
+, the English society, who has been labor
II ing in Palestine for five years 1t con
n sists of a Samaritan copy of the fiv
books of Moses, which is acknowledge,
to be one of the Oldest manuscripts il
= the world, and which the Samaritans O
s. NobIous assert was made by grandson
re of Aaron, $500 years ago. Antiquarian
l. generally concede that the copy is NOR
Is than 2000 years old; and the record @
III synagogue i'll which it was found ha
d. been regularly kept by priests Asinc
he many hundred years B. c..
= The Springfield, Mass, Union says
: s'The projected building of separat
: schools for Catholic children i'm this cit
" of which the details are published in an
other column, brings the communit
face to face with the question of sectar
ian school education. If the Catholic
educate their children in private school
u they will be heard demanding a sliar
= = of the school money for why, they vii
n say, should we pay for public schools @
N which we do not avail ourselves? Tn
u withdrawal of the Catholic children
- from ollr public schools and their SC
ii? gregation in sectarlan Institutions is tl
t. entering wedge, of which the disruption
i and destruction of our public school sys
10 TEN will be the speedy and inevitabl
ly result" t,-f .tt , s.y44k