Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1873-08-30

learly doubled IN NUMBERS III thlrty /,
years. l.
The Rev. Father Peterson, formerly !
Roman Catholic priest in the Diocese of !
st. Paul, Mimi, has been received into {
he Episcopal Church, in the Diocese of
Minnesota. The Rev. Jos. Curly. late a
Methodist minister, has also been re-
ceiyed into the Episcopal Church i'll the
same Diocese.
Rev. j. j. Fulton, D. D., in an article
in the Chicago Standard speaks of Bap-
lists in this country in favor of open
as ga few egotistical men
and women who glory in being wise1
above that which is written; who think
free love better than true love, and faw-
ming to the enemies of the truth wiser
than fidelity to the TRUTH Is this
charity or bitterness?
1t is now pretty generally settled, |
says the Presbyterian, that the Central
University-the new Southern Kentucky |
Presbyterian institution, for which they |
have raised in the last year 5000, ,OO0-l
Will UC lOCdlCO A1ohbAiAS, ciAS SAoO "a |
Centre College. This looks as if they |
had an eye to the probabilities of the fu-
ture. when Northern and Southern
Presbyterians will unite.
The Presbyterians of every name are
talking and thinking of uniting and
forming one grand sPan-Presbyterian
Church" Why not go step further
and open the doors to all Christians?
Many of the Protestants have to exam
inc their doctrines with microscope to
discover any difference between them;
and then, the difference is more in the
power of the microscopes than in the
| doctrine.
The Wdtchman gave, recently, an ac-
count of a very novel and interesting
service which was hold in the Baptist
church at Watertown, Mass. A party
| was given in the church parlors to the
old people. Forty-two persons over
sixty years of age, were the invited
guests of this remarkable pleasant oc-
casion. The aggregate ages reached
was oyer three thousand years, and the
average was seyenty-one. A photograph
of the aged communicates was taken rs
they stood in a group by the porch of
the church.
| A writer in the ~Eoangelist asks, care
we the Lords in the summer time ?' and
seems to think that the conduct of Chris
tians, during the summer vacation in the
country, throws some doubt upon the
subject, especially as to the matter of
church-going and keeping the Sabbath.
Now we suppose that men and women
are just as much Christians in the sum-
mer, while sitting in the shade or wan
dering in the fields, as they are in the
winter, while attending church. They
may, possibly, be in as exalted spirit
ual state, while breathing the fresh air
and looking upon the wonderful works
of the Lord, as they would be in fash
ionable church, listening to the plati-
tudes of fashionable preacher, which
they have heard thousand times, or
! examining the new bonnets and fash
ionable dresses of the worshippers who
sit before them. We are Christians just
in the degree we love the Lord and keep
His commandments, and we can exercise
this love and live according to this law
in summer woods and fields, as we'll as
in city churches.
To be amended by little cross
: afraid of little sin, and affected by a
little mercy, is good evidence of grace
) in the soul.-Leigh Richmond.
Men who neglect Christ and try te
win heaven through moralities, are like
sailors at sea in a storm, who pull, some
at the bowsprit, and same at the main
, mast, but never touch the helm.-Beech.
er.
The Rev. Charles II. Tucker, who was
, for a time assistant at Christ church
. Brooklyn, and went to Chicago more
e than year since to join Mr.. Cheney
r has been deposed by the Bishop of Long
Island. Some months since Mr.. Tucker
d, was suspended by Bishop Littlejohn
but he paid no attention to the sentence
o and continued his chismatic services
: The result of the contumacy has beer
his deposition. Mr.. Cheney and he will
retain possession of Christ church unit
!. the law evicts them. and then, it is al
L legged, they will jointly establish an in
: hood.-Churchnsan. ~
S The Disciples of Indianapolis, who's,
h membership in that city is about 200
;, recently made move by which they
will add $35O,OO0 to the endowment o
: North West Christian University. Ths
= owners of real estate at Irvington, three
: miles east of the city, offered 20 acres O
!, land and $150, 900 in money on condition
u of the removal of the Institution to tina
place. 1t was ascertained that the ole
campus in the city could be sold TO
$500, 900, thus enabling the Trustees t.
= remove to the new site with $3.50, 900 il
# the treasury, of which 100000 will b.
: sufficient for the erection of new build
g ings, leaving $500 to be added to tn
1t endowment. With the present endow
II ment of $4,000, the prospective en-
= dowment is $470,000. o. A. Burgess
late of Chicago, succeeds w. F. Black t,
y the presidency of the University.-N
Is Y. Observer.
10 We clip the following from the Nea
t. York Observer: ssThe Methodist Church
a es, South, have abandoned the probation
# system, and Rev. DIR. Edwards make
;, the following report of the success at
II tending the change THE transaction
'e was easy and without any friction. Pas
g tors became more careful in recaivin,
- were gathered in with caution and witt
10 solemn and impressive ceremonies, ant
II the result has been that comparativel
a small percentage of their additions t
# the church is lost. The experiment ha
!, proved perfectly satisfactory. 1 hay
- never heard, to my recollection, soil
l. tary preacher or layman express any re
gret that the probation system was abol
ished in our branch of the great Metho
dist family; but, on the contrary in in
u terchanging views with pastors an
- people, have everywhere heard unquali
- fed qualification expressed at til
change"
~ There has been feeling on the par
N of sshe religious community that tn
ir present attitude of the foremost eXpon
% ents of natural science is that of oppt
sition to truths which we hold to be Sc
:. cred. The position taken by Darwin
l. Huxley, TyndaIl and Spencer, that til
IS creation of all animals, including man