The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-03-21
RELIGIOUS ISrELLIGENCE.

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Annie E. Smith is a Methodist
preacher in New York.
Chicago clergynen have taken
to preaching short sermons in the
cattlesyards OF that city on Sun
days.
i A congregation in Columbus,
Georgia, have suspended worship
until the sexton finds the key to
the church.
!, Rev, j. ". Ellis, a prominent
Episcopal clergyman Of Nashville,
has Withdrawn from that church
and set up one of his own.
A,snumber of piousiy minded
Jerseymen recently got up a ''tur-
key shoot" followed by s rattle,
for the benefit of their clergy
man.
That was thoughtful individ-
| ual who went to church on Sun
day and took his flute along to
amuse himself in case the sermon
proved to be dull.
/ a Vermont town is deeply ex-
erc5sed as to whether their excel
lent clergyman committed "sin'
or only an E'indiscretion" in play
ing biind-man's buff!
! There is religious sect at Bat
| tie Greek, Michigan, called the
Seventh Day Adyentists," all the
members of which are under the
tabsolute authority Of one woman,
Mrs. White.
| The Spiritualist controversy has
broken out afresh in the London
Journals, and runs like cholera or
the measles. The Times and Pub
| lie Opinion open their columns to
writer's at great length on both
sides of the vexed questions.
Rev. Abraham Borodine, a cler-
gyman of high standing, and for
many years a prominent London
preacher. committed suicide the
tother day by leaping into the sea
from RaLIsgate Pier, on which he
was walking in company with two
OF MS daughters.
Bishop Gilbert Haven finds
three large Protestant congrega
tions in the city of Mexico and
wants a dozen ministers there
right of. He is much delighted
to find "a company of singers
gathered up in the same corner
going as loud as they could in real
Methodist airs"
A rector in Louisville sees no
reason why congregations of col
ored Episcopal people should not
be gathered in all the large South
ern towns. He says that those
who think the church worship is
of too refined stamp to be en-
| joyed by these poor persons, would
have to modify their impressions
after attending the colored chap
els in that city.
The Presbyterian at Work
quotes as "sharp yet sound the
statement of a Philadelphia sup
erintendent: "If our teachers do
not attend regularly, or are absent
from their classes tor three consec-
/ utive Sundays, they are suspend
| ed, and the class is given to anoth-
err" Why should Sunday school
teachers be shiftless and rank in
good standing?
A gentleman, favorably known
in high circles in Philadelphia,
named Jacob Stone, was relating
to a Sabbath school his travels in
the Holy Land, and among other
things told the scholars of the as
cent of Mount Pisgah. On the
following Sunday teacher asked
in the course of the lesson, who
descended Mount Pisgah? A little
urchin promptly cried out, "Moses,
Elias and Jacob Stone"
The revisers of the New Tesla
ment have got as far in their work
az the fifteenth and sixteenth
chapters of St. John. It is in the
: fifteenth chapter where it is said
that the servant knoweth not what
his lord doeth; and another evan
gelist than John has spoken of no
jot or title of the law being chang
ed Nevertheless the revisers are
said to have made and to be about
to make many noteworthy changes.
, y man whom DR.. Chalmers en-.
gagged to manage disorderly Sun.
, day school kept his eyes wide open
/ during prayer, and, when one boy
: thrust a pin into another, he
} marched up the aisle, still praying
and cufed that boys ears, and
went back again, praying, all the
! way. After that he was master oil
the situation, for the boys thought
/. that a man who could watch anG
/. pray like that was not to be put
: down.
:. The propriety of raising church
!. funds by means of fairs, exhibi
!. lions, bazaars, etc, has often beer
2 questioned, but what will be sale
: of holding a ball and appropriat
: ing the proceeds for the purchase
of a communion service? Tn,
young people of new church il
the West carried out such a pro
posal recently; but the trustee
. wisely declined their money as tn
n shire of folly not to be associat
# ed with the emblems of a sacred
5 service.
' In connection with Mr.. Spur
: geon's church in London is Pas
l. tors College, where men are train
If ed for the ministry without tn
e requirements, we infer, of gene
L raj collegiate education. 1t ha
furnished 169 preachers within
Il few years, who are doing faithful
!. Land successful service in the town
is and villages throughout England
IS Arrangements have just been mad
is for the purchase of piece {
i ground on which to erect an ed
d d flee for the college.
They got a new preacher 8
C. Westville, near Urbana, Ohi'
r Westville has about two hundre
- inhabitants, and there is a gres
a. deal of whisky sold in the tow
for the number of people. In h
first sermon he arraigned whisk
sw in general, and the distillers, an
to retailers, and tipplers of it.
he happened that the families an
IT friends and descendants of dist
n lers were in that congregatio
pr and were much interested in VIII
Ia their new preacher had sal
it Some of the boys of the fami
til had slipped out of the church, 81
ed came back well loaded with egg
IS, They were not particular in pic
u.s. ing them, and there may have be
w a fair r1roTaorfi0r, Of bod opf