The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-07-25


Albion College, Michigan, at its re
cent Commencement. conferred the de.
gree Of ID. ID. upon Revs. l.. X. Fisk, OF
Detroit Conference, and Thomas Carter,
now Of Mckee.
Syracuse University has conferred
the degree Of ID. ID. upon the Rev. NJ. j,
Cramer, United States Minister TO Den.
mark and a member of the Cincinnati
Conference.
The Bishop Of Treves, according to
the Garetfe de Ia Moselle, has refused 10
send into the Prussian authorities an &C.
count of the seminaries and other relig-
lous institutions of his diocese.
Statistical returns Of the British Wes-
leyan Conference show a total OF 34S. 75l
members, a net increase from last year
OF La. The number on trial Is 20 Sf4.
The number Of candidates for the minis
try is log.
The Welsh Calvinistic Methodists-a
branch of the Presbyterian family-have
> synois. IL presbyteries, $50 ministers,
200 churches and 1900 communicates.
Their General Assembly met recently In
Racine, Wis.
The latest statistics of the Southern
Presbyterian Church show that they have
eleven synods. fifty-seven ~presbyteries,
$50 ministers and licentiafes, 1855 church.
es, 1896 communicates and J,7l0 Sab
bath scholars.
Rev. George Sheldon, graduate of
Princeton College and Seminary, and for
six years Professor Of Hebrew. Union
Theological Seminary, New York, has
joined the Episcopal Church. He was
confirmed in Philadelphia on June Is.
and has made application for admission to
orders.
Rev. r. Merrick, ID. d.. has resigned
the Presidency of the Ohio Wesleyan
University and Rev. r. ii. Newhall, OF
Lynn. Mass, has been elected 10 the va
cant position and will be inaugurated in
the Fall.
Father Sarria, one Of the Jesuit
fathers who were expelled from Mexico a
few weeks since, died on saturday. June
p. at the College OF ST. Francis Xavier,
in Fifteenth street, New York. He was
preaching in his church when the rioters
entered and forced him 10 fly for his life.
Rev. DIR. Curry. in the last issue OF
the Christian Adc0cate. substantially re-
iterates his charge that Mr.. Beecher, from
his pulpit and through his paper. promul-
gates emasculated theology and is blame
able for many of its evil effects in the
Methodist Episcopal Church.
Professor w. G.. Williams. of the
Ohio Wesleyan University, and Rev. j. ).
loumans. of the Erie Conference, were
made ID. DIS by Baldwin University.
Rev. Arthur Edwards has been so hon
cred by the Northwestern University.
AT the recent Commencement Of Nc
Kendree College. Lebanon, H., Revs. w.
A. Jewetr. of the Rock River Conference.
and c. +. FELTON,. Of the st. Louis Con-
ference. received the honorary degree OF
Doctor Of Divinity.
The Disciples threaten TO have an
other split among them. The Progress
ives. as they call themselves. claim the
right. and practice Ii, of organizing and
sustaining missionary societies, of build
ing handsome churches, employing
choirs. using organs. &C., while the Con-
servatives hold that these features are de-
partures from the true faith.
The Episcopal Bishop of Alabama has
succeeded in all but two cases i'm bringing
up the minimum salary of every married
clergyman in the diocese 10 LOCO year.
There are a few strong churches in the
diocese OF the others about half are called
self-supporting, while the remainder need
help.
Rev. II. De Witt Talmage has ac-
cepted a call to take charge of the edito-
rial department of The Christian at Work,
a religious journal of New York. He will
enter upon his duties as editor about the
middle of August. on his return home
from his trip to Colorado, whittier he will
proceed next week.
Bishop Smith, of kentuky. has re-
oAswoy . 1~s.r f--n n.~LA- lVslhof~..
Of England, suggesting that the Ameri-
can Episcopal Church cooperate with the
English Church to raise fund for per-
petuating .'the sanity memory of the late
Right Rev. Bishop Gray" Of Cape Town.
The p~rerogatives of Methodist Epis-
copal bishops are under discussion i'm the
Adrocates. The dissatisfaction has arisen
from the fact that the location of the
Episcopal residences, as directed by the
General Conference. has been set aside or
tardily adopted by the recently-elected
bishops.
AT the last communion in the Prnsby-
terrain church at Watertown. New York.
eighty-nine persons were received into the
church. Among them a grandfather,
with his family of nine, were taken in.
As they approached, the pastor, Rev. DIR.
Porter. said 10 the old patriarch. "Come
thou and all thy house into the ark" the
appropriateness of which was accepted
by the congregation.
The Church Journal says Of Mr.. Spur
geon that he is an example of dissenting
preachers that are not gentlemen, not
men Of culture, though many of them
are men of certain streng, coarse-grained,
natural force. The editor considers Mr..
Spurgeon of this class-already, at forty.
fat and equity, from many steaks and much
porter.
Personal and Literary.
The most belligerent General-Kil-
patrick.
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