, 1874-03-01
DR.. Thomas and His Lecture
on Immortality.
The Opinions Of the Religious
Pres; OH Matters a1,d
Things.
Services in Chicago Churches To-Day.
REVEALS.


Seven baptisGs ut atinonI, IL; at Charity
Church, Ill, niucty-eight personshave been oon~
vertei about forty persons ut Ssponsct, IL, have
expressed desire to become Christians; the
additions to tho BAPTIST Church at EHnghan,
Ill, have been forty; sixteen poreons hayo been
s.ded to the Baptist Church at Climax, Mich.
fcur were baptized ut Big Ra1!da, Mich; five
Es1so bsptized Feb. IN the church q. Rock
Falls, Mich nine were added by baptism to tho
Port Huron, Mich, Baptist Church Feb. - :
zen vcro baptized at Benton Harbor. Mich.
Feb. q, making tNeuty-six tince the 1st daJ OF
January; ,ineteen have been added By baptism
to the LitIo Flock, Ind, Church; eight haye
bcsu added il; letter to the South Bend, Ind,
Baptist Church. tTsn a 5aTe 9sen entSea
ClarcA Ind, seventy y-seyen additions have re-
ceut1y been made; in the Browns Valley, Ind,
Baptist Church, forty-fYo additions have been
made; hve hare been recently added to the Bap-
tist Church in Sorwalk, Ia: in the Baptist Church
in Muscatine, H., twenty-three have been
added By baptism; the German Baptist Church,
Mracatlne, Ia, baptizes eight converts today;
the Hopewol ia J Baptist Church recently bap-
Hzed seven conrertss Bi1ty-hye new conEerts
aa7e boen made in the last four weeks IN Mal-
Yern,- Ia; in tho Balcour (1a.) Baptist Church
iwenty~nina have recently been baptized; ten
hare been added to the Perciyal Ga.) Baptist
Church recently; the Ashland (Neb.) Baptist
Church added four BY baptism few days ago.
METHODIST
Conversions nre still reported in a large num-
bcr Of Methodist churches throughout the ccrn-
try, 1t Goshen, Ind, the church has increased
from 23D to 3G2 within year; ffty~iFa CONVEX
Eions have taken p1nce in tho church in Wash
ington, ID at Lyons, L., thirty have united on
Probation; fourteen additions haye been made
te the church at Gilman, ill; tlIty-H:x have been
thirty havo been converted in the A!atho-
dist Church at OsaSe, a.; about twen-
ty-tour haYo joined The church at Broad
he.d, Wis, as the result OF revival
twenty haye united with tue church at Epworth,
Ia. shirt5-ouc conversions hare taken place nt
Yonng's SchooI-House, near Geneva, Ia. at the
Sixteenth Street Church, Detroit, ntty-sl1 have
been added probation, US the result of series
Of meetings Terminating Feb. u at Hils Grorp.
[a., fort5-fou7 conversions have taken place
oycr fifty persons hare been converted IN the
::,:11ch 1t Marquette, Mich; in the Rusaville,
ILL.,, church, seyenty-1iyo new members have
been added q revival in the Norwood (Alich.)
church has resulted in the union Of twoaty-seven
pereoas with the church seyenty-three per-
sons hsye united with ths church in Norway,
liich. at Hancock, Mich, twenty conversions
bzon received on probation five have joined tho
Methodist Church in Magnolia, I'll. at Decorah,.
Ia, seventy persons hare been converted; in
Spencer L., twenty-five, nearly all heads OF
fara1cs, have been converted sixteen have
Joined the church at Early schoolUouse, Ind. /;
at Seelysbarg, Wis, twenty-five converts have
been counted, and several bscksliders rojuyen-
ated over sixty hsye asked prayers in
tho Kinderhook (Mieh.) Circuit at Bell Centre,
between thirty and forty have united in proba-
ton with tne Nashua Church, Iowa in Lin-
cola Centre, D. T., thirty-thrce have beeD
church in Belleplain, Ia, are the result OF
revival meeting in that place twenty-seven
names hare been added to the church-roll. as the
result Of rovsyal meeting IN Big Grove, To- F;
nineteen more recently joined the church in Fta-
ten, H.; ffty-fonr new converts hayo joined
the Madison Street Methodist Church in Pcoria,
as the result Of q revival meeting contlnu-
Ing eleven weeks.
PRESBYTERIAN.
Moro than forty have united With Tho Pre8by-
tcrian Church in Mal:c:a, IT,. thiEty-one
hnse jo1ued the Presbyterian Church in Brook
!yn, l.. at Monmouth, ILL.,, thirty have asked
for rrayera; ut Nashville Ill, about 100 have
ed into membership With the Ef6ngham,
ILL.,, Presbyterian Church ct it's last
communion tlfty-four havo united with
the church during tue yea7; nineteen united
with tbs church at philo, H., recently; twenty
two have been received into the church at Frank
fort, Ind: flty-two received into the Pres
brterian Church nt Paoli, niich., short time
ego; in the Tair1nount Presbyterian Church, St.
Louis, sercn united with tho church on profess
in the Alton Prckbytcry, received tlfty new con-
verts Feb. 10 tie grent revival at mattoon, ILL.,,
has resulted in the union OF ifty-three persons
with the Presbyterian Church Of that city; in
Ing1ewood, Cook County, H.: twenty persons
we're received on profession, Feb. ~.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The Christian I'.tciii9e'leer says that it Gnds |
the record OF single week to be total of over |
{, 900 admissions to the churches IN some four |
or fve deuo:uinatiops* |
4 religious journal saws: At Michigan
University Is q students Christian association,
which, ever since the week Of prayer, has held !
largely attended, both BY students and tho Pro- !!
feasorB. and the deepest interest is manifested,
and some have for the first timo accepted Jesus |
as their Savior, and Gro nov rejoicing in sins
forgiven" ....
t;onai Church has been held in Rockford, ILL.,, |
Tor some time. Tho b. E. Church hns been
crowded each evening; aboat twcnty-four have
asked for prayers, ard several have been con-
tCrted. /
There is an interesting revival at Seward, H.,
Le Ney. c. c. Adams, pastor. Between
'orty ans! fifty conversions have occurred.
Sumner Iill Church, Illinois, hns received
seventeen as fruits Of recent meetings. and uino-
cen others expect to unite at tho next COM |
nuuion.
The New Lisbon, VIE, Church aro re-
oicine in deep work OF grace, which began with
he week Of prayer and the session Of the Lem
,uwoir District Convention.
MRS. VAN coTT's PREACHING.
Probably the most famonD and successful !
yomnn preacher in tho United States nt the
,tesent tine is M1s. Maggie Van Colt, at pres
mt hcldiug series Of revival meetings in Balti-
more, Nd. The Rev. Mr.. Hammond does not
succeed in drawing 30 large audiences as does
his lady. The editor Of the Baltimore Anasr> |
c0n, dfter trying in vain to hear her in Mary
and Institute, being swept away from the hall
With solno 5000 others, who tried In vain to get
n. ct last got IN early, nnd took front seat, to
aaze a record Of his Impressions Of her manner.
The 4nes'9cdn eayB: +
Perhaps our expectations we1e unreasonable for !
hey certainly disappointed. Ye neither eaw nor
eard anything tast, in onr OPINION justified the cx-
caCsrue@s Of the rcsoIute hundreds who
.Ehed past tie doorkeepers and policemen and IN
pite Of catreaty md expos:ulation, secured | .
Or themselves sta1ding- places in tho Adslea I
nd galleries. Sho took text, but It eeeuaed | j
merely for the purpose Of giving her IN oppor-
unity Of ringing the changes Nathaos terrible ar-
;gntuent Of David, Thou art the man." There wns
o connection between tho text and the argument I
nd, in fact, there NO argument. For tew min
.es the speaker dilstel upon the disposition shown
y protesting Christians to find fault with small =
agF in others to tie neglect Of we1gher msttars ot
ldgtncnt and mercy" but the instant that the atock
standard quotations And phrases which are 20 | c
1ge1y drawn upon by speakers Of limited attzin- +
tents filled her, she douudered Ebont in the hope