Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1873-06-21
Thirty CONGREGATIONAL churches i


Boston and vicinity reported about two |
hundred and fifty aeeessions in the May |
The Ohio Congregational |
held its annual session in |
the Euclid Avenue Church, Cleveland,
June 10th. 1t numbered about two hum |
dred churches.
Archbishop Purcell, of Cincinnati,
has laid down rule especially aimed at
trade-unions, and no Roman Catholic
can unite with any association requiring
requering an oath as a condition of
membership; and the sacrament of
communion is refused throughout his
diocese to Crispins and all such.
There are parishes In Kansas whose
entire list of fcommunicants is composed
of ladies, but they are refused represen-
tation in the church councils. The mat
ter was brought up at the recent Dio-
cesar convention, where it stirred up
lively debate, ending, however, in the
defeat OF the champions of vestry-wo-
manship.
The annual meeting of the General
Eldership of the Church of God, (Win-
nebrennarians) was held in Smithville,
Wayne county, o., beginning May 21st.
This denomination was organized in
October, 1880, at Harrisburgh, Pa, and
now numbers about lO0, 900 members.
Its government is Presbyterian and the
doctrines particlist. OF the six teaching
Elders who organized the church, Jas.
Richards is the only survivor.
We find in an exchange that "the
usual method of admitting members to
church fellowship has been so modified
by the Congregational society at Sails
| bury, England, as to put up the candi-
dates themselves the responsibility of
deciding on the character of their re-
ligious feelings, after the pastor has ex-
pounded to them the true nature Of
personal Christianity.
| One of the speakers at a recent Spirit
ualist convention made the following
admission: If | stood OH the sill OF
| Spiritualism, and looked down into the
| vortex and saw things have seen, in
positions where | have been behind the
scenes. and wished to expose Spiritual
ism, could tell things which are worse
than any of Our sppenents have dared to
dream or"
A considerable part of recent lee
ture by Pere Hyacinthe, in Geneva, was
given to the practice of confession. Thi.
he defended as being right in principle
and having Scriptural authority, but Al
having been sadly abused. 1t should
be purely individual matter. Their.
were persons who needed, at certain
periods of life, monitors and guides
''They needed to have their conscienc
individual, but not solitary. They has
secrets which they could not say t
every one, but which they must tel
somebody. For such persons an olt
man, learned in the science of his lif
and of the future, was real friend ant
help. But confession did not mean TIN
: abdication of the conscience into tn
hands of another man." The speake
: also denounced compulsory celibacy O
the clergy. He spoke with his usua
felicity, and was greatly applauded
This lecture was the last of his series
There is no doubt thatIthey have beel
quite effective, and he will hardly b
long silent. The Old Catholics ma,
, have abler men, but no one that so di
, rectly touches the popular mind.
To tell falsehood is like cut of
sabre; for. though the wound may hea
the scar of it will remain.-Sddi.
Terre Haute has been invited to tn
, reWedding of a couple who were divOr
eatfiirteeH years ago.
Some one is unkind enough to say o
brother in attendance on some of tn
Boston prayer-meetings that if he live,
a little nearer the Lord he wouldn't hay
| to pray quite so loud.
The United Brethren Church, in Gen
, eral Conference, on motion to reyis
!, the dicipline in regard to secret societie
: so that it should refer alone to Masonry
,, refused to change the rule by vote Q
! eighty to twenty-eight.
= The Friends of Philadelphia held thei
| yearly meeting a few days since. The,
. uttered strong declarations against tn
5 use of strong drinks, attendance upol
theatres and horse racing. Complaint
were made OF too much conformity t
r the world in dress.
If thou hast wronged thy brother il
. thought, reconcile thee to him il
thought; if thou hast offended him il
/. words, let thy reconciliation be in word
a if thou hast trespassed against him il
; deeds, by deeds be recOnciled to him
. | tLnt niliatinJn is EinIlx t-hi. al
is most kind.
The Massachusetts, Congregations
Charitable, Societp distributed durin.
the year $1l 900 among about. fifty wild
ows and children of deceased Congrega
tional clergymen, and gave $500 to tn
convention of Congregational ministers
This latter body, which was charters
when Maine was apart of Massachusett
has fund of $1,000, and has been abl
to distribute about 81 900 the past yea
among the widows and children of de
ceased clergymen. The present numbe
OF its beneficiaries is twenty-five.
The Jeaoish Messenger cautions til
Israelites against an example set b
[Christian churches:
In many city churches worship is
full dress affair, woe to the unluck
maid who wishes to pray to God in las
years bonnet, or the youth who seek
: divine forgiveness in cloth gloves. Som
O of our synagogues are aping this styl
of thing, and it ought TO, be. checked i
its Inconsistency. As it is, there is to
e much rumpling of silks and too littl
4 rustling sancity.
The Unitarians have boasted then
selves par emiaence the friends an
champions of individual liberty. Br
II even they find by experience that thel
is some virtue in union, if they can onl
bring it about. In the annual report
= the Unitarian Association, we are tol
s that "independence is but cold, lionel
condition. Proud of its strength,
- lapses into weakness; seeking its ow
70 selfish life, it loses that divine III
n which is highest and best.'' Not ver
new. but very true. Thinking to kee
IN individuality, they would get rid of ii
;" diyidualism; and this is the problem
m be solved. We are cIlrious to see the g