The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-02-21
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.

ture, but piquant and interesting
Pere Hyacinthe contends that 6
union is possible between Catho
lies and Pretestants, if each sec
ton will repudiate the extreme
parties who compromise them.
| A reverend gentleman in Ten.
nessee, named Acton Young, has
lately returned to the pulpit after
an interregnum of thirty years
spent in keeping nearly fifty diff
| ferent hotels.
Sydney Smith once commenced
a charity sermon by saying: BE
nevolenee is a sentiment common
to human nature. A never sees
b in distress without asking c to
relieve him"
John A. Brown, a wealthy Phil
adelphia banker, just dead. gave
away $3.50, 900 to churches, semi
naries and other religious institu-
tions while he lived, and $4,000
by his will
A minister in an eastern State
gave out hymn Sunday and told
the audience they might stand and
sing it, Gas it would do them good
to stretch their legs" He draws
n full house, of course.
A lady in Putney, VT, who is
ninety-two years old, and lives
three and half miles from church,
is among the most constant in at
tendance upon public worship.
Last winter and summer she hard
" missed a Sabbath.
Meditating upon the delays OF
justice in dealing with murderers,
pupil of the Sunday school at.
tached to Mr.. Beecher's Church,
quietly informed his teacher on
Sunday, that "a thousand years
are but as day in the sight of the
law"
Religious equality has recently
been established in the Leeward
Islands, West Indies, by the Brit
ish authorities, the Government
aid having been withdrawn. All
the English colonies in these is
lands are practically free from the
Established Church System.
A timid resident of Ridgefeld,
Connecticut being unexpectedly
called upon to address a Sunday
school, rose to his feet in some con-
fusion, and after several desperate
but vain attempts to say something
appropriate, hoarsely muttered,
Dear children, meyer fool with
powder"
lit is a standing rule i'll my
church" said one clergyman to
another, ''for the sexton to wake
up any man that he may sec
asleep" 81 think" returned the
other, "that it would be much bet
ter for the sexton, whenever any
man goes to sleep under your
preaching, to wake yos upr'
The Mission Boards of the Re
formed (Dutch) church are great
ly embarrassed for the want of
money. They began their finan-
cial year with a debt of more
than $4,000, and the receipts
thus far are much less than ever
before. Unless relief is obtained
they will be forced to cut down
still further the missionary APP
preparations.
Responsive reading of the Script
ures, by pastor and congregation,
has been recommended as a part of
public worship in the Methodist
Churches of California, by one of
the District Conferences in that
State. This will be an innovation,
but is favorably regarded. The
change has already found its way
into Congregational and Presbyte-
rian churches.
1t is related that q New Hamp-
shire minister recently portrayed
the history of Jonah after the fol-
lowing style: f" L seem to see Jonah
passing along the road to Ninevah !;
! seem to see him enter the ticket
ct Office, buy his ticket and pay for
1t /; / seem TO see him walk upon the
vessel; / seem to see them lift their
anchor, and the stately ship move
grandly out upon the broad Allan
tic.''
The new method of promoting
the interests of foreign missions, in
augurated by the Presbyterians of
Michigan, is to hold State Conven-
tons for the cause, and the first one
assembled at Ypsilanti OH the 2lst
ult. 1t was grand occasion, from ac-
counts, equalling in spirit the meet
| ings of the American Board, and
promising great results in starting
similar movements in other States.
A friend, visiting in a minister's
family. where the parents were very
strict in regard to children's Sab
bath department, was confidentially
informed by one of the little girls
that she would like to be a minis.
ter" Why 2" inquired.the visitor,
rather puzzled to understand what
had given the child so sudden an
admiration for that calling. The
visitor was quickly enlightened by
the prompt reply: $50 that could
holler on Sunday"
The Rev. Van Dyke accepted q
''calP to preach at the First Presby-
terrain Church in Nashville, Tennes-
see. He preached eight sermons
and then went to Europe. He re.
tuted, and preached four times
more, and then left. For this ser.
vice the Rev. Van Dyke received
| 81, 200. 1t is rarely that we hear OF
a man undergoing such hardshipl
as these for such meagre compensa.
ton but of such is the kingdom OF
heaven.
"Way down in Maine" among
the mountains, lives n rough far.
mer who seldom goes to church
A new minister coming into the
place, called upon him, as it hap
Dened, just ct dinner time. He
was invited to Glitch up his chair
When he had done so, in that qui.
ct moment which precedes the bat
tie of knives and forks, Uncle
Luther" as he was called, nudged
him under the table, saying, ''NoH
touch her of, parson"-and the
parson comprehended.
Pints and quarts of filthy ca