The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-10-15
IHE RELIGIOUS NOZZLE.

lies who contract civil marriages.
The Lu;herans are to hol | a nation
al acknowledgements at Johns
town, Pa, commencing on the 9th of
this month.
\ lady at Port Huron, Mich, has
Left fund Of 200 to purchase
pastors library for the Congregational
church in that place.
The Presbytery of Nashville dissolv-
Ell the pastoral relation of the Rev. j.
". Sherrod with the GallAtin Presby-
TITAN church at his request.
The congregation of Disciples, in
Memphis, has increased its mem Ier-
snip from 176 to 2S7, under the five
wears ministry of Rev. David Walk.
Rev. DIR 7. NJ. Eddy, one Of the
most prominent ministers in the Meth
odist Episcopal Church in the United
States, died in New York Lust We'd
neSday.
Mr. COrcoran, of Washington, has
lust presented 70 the Theological! Semi
nary Of Virginia $4,000, in bonds
and lands, towards its permanent en-
dowments.
The Archbishop of Cologne has
been released after an Imprisonment
of six months and nine days. The re-
Ioainder of the time FOR which he was
sentenced is treated as cancelled.
Rev. Robert Collyer, of Chicago,
who received call from the Church
VI the Messiah, New York City, at
salary of 100000 year, may possibly
accept, but will not take $4,000, as
he thinks the congregation can not af-
ford to pay so much.
Mr. Sturgeon has had a whit. Il
for his Orphanage and Students Col
lege. A gentleman who had only It
tended the Surrey Tabernacle 70. Il
few months has died, and left a legt-
cv Of $4,000 t. be divided equally
between these institutions.
The first WON n admitted to the
Methodist Theological School in Bos-
ton Is Miss Anna Oliver, who has
been studying at Oberlin, hut whrr /,
it /; stated, she was courteously given
t understand that it was not propose
t. graduate a female minister.
The Central Baptist Church, at
Jamestown. Il. L., has become open
communion, and asked to he dismissed
from the Providence Associ 'tlon.
The request was cheerfully granted,
and the church warmly COMMEND
ed for its. very honorable course liz
leaving the association upon become
ing liberal.
Rev. Henry Day, d. d., h1s just
closed his thirtecnth year its pastor OF
the First Baptist church Of lndilnapo-
liz. Daring the time members suffi-
ciant to form three fouri~hing Bapti-t
ciiayches have gone out, yet the mother
church Is at present lurger i'll num-
hers, and more harmonious i'll action,
than when he began his minister Il
duties with it.
While Boston is sending miSsinHa-
lies tn preach the Gospe in Chan,
says the Congrcg:tioaalist. there
comes Chinaman TO preach the re
Iii II Of CoufuciLs to Boston. Wong
Thin Foo i, the name OF this slnsuiHe
oriental, who thus seeks to turn The
t;Llss on the irrcprcsSi"le American.
Ne presented the cilims OF Z nfu
ism IL the Parker Memoir | I'll en-
q recent Sunday.
; The New York Evangelist s2ys that
WIN. TAYLOR, known i'll this country
is ''the California street preacher.
has been labo.lng in India with some
rem ,rk liile results. lie h s been
preaching in BON ay, Calcutta and
MADRAS, and such h IS been the success
Of his mini>tration th't opposition has
been silcnced. With min re associated
lime missionaries, who constitute Will
is called "Tayloi's Flying Artillery.
Formerly the m1:tmeLt WIS confined
to the EhrasianS, the offspring Of Eu,
ropeans born in India, hut now the
work HIS been extended to the natives
proper, who hear the Gospel as gl'dly
as the EuraSi,,ns."
The Free BIpiists are coming into
prominence. Their leading views
are thus expressed by the BlPtl~t
Union: Doctrinal!y, Free Bap;ist>
are neither Calyinistic nor ADMIN,
i'm. They are generally cl.issed
with the ArmiaiIns, but those whu
know them best, and thoroughly
understand the Aimini,n system, new,
ERIN, Ike that mistake. They are more
Inclined to accept the facts Of the Cos
| pei, and reverentiy believe that they
M y be saved, tiisn to attcmlt tt
f.tiIom the deep counSels Of God, and
solve the mysteries of lis ways. Iney
most thor ,ughly teach impartial and
sovereign grace, atunements Tor tht
sin # the world, human ability anC
responsibility to repent, and ahSolut,
III b!lity to merit OK secure salvation
by Work. in y re Lap Is. II kt.he
upon IL converted church III +lnocrshlp
elievers' hapti- M, iMmelsiun the on,y
llwful baptism, the Vii, II Of al s..int.
in Cnri t; th.;t the Dlood Of Christ, no
not water, qualities Io. the .-oida t"
III and on the power tie Holy
Unost III believers us !. guest, sulde
ins, ration, and lite. For the SAX u
peace and efficient work, they do moi
relieve persons into their church wn'
l-..Ahare-to the doctrine Of iaflnt b!p
tsln, sr splinkling for baptism, an'
yet they uuchurch 10 Christian, sinc'
they ipli thit every church of Ch:i;
tiifs Is a Ch,istiln church, and fellow
ship them all us such.