The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1874-04-24
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.

ihe urst tOiorei baptist thurcn W
Richmond, Virginia, recently celebrated
It's centennial. II was Constituted tw,
years before the American Declaration Of
Independence.
Henderson county, Kentucky, ha.
nine Baptist Churches, having an aggrc.
gated membership Of about twelve
hundred, the largest being at Bethel,
which numbers 5000.
The Archbishop Of Canterbury approves
the course Of his Dean at the meeting Of
the Evangelic Alliance in new York last
autumn. and has confirmed his approval
by appointing him representative at the
next meeting Of Alliance.
The Batips's In Jacobstown, New Jer-
sey, have been ia the midst Of very
remarkable revival for the last three
months. Already one hundred and
thirty.thtee converts have been baptized
and gathered into the Church, and the
interest has not abated.
A statistical table has just been publish
ed, showing the influence of intemperancc
on the churches. According to the judg-
ment Of the author, at least seven-eivhts
Of all the ohenses requiring discipline, for
the past twenty or thirty years, have orr
ginated directly or indirectly from this
cause.
A correspondent says that there is
danger Of number Of Methodist preach
ers in India working themselves to death
before they can be reinforced. One mis-
'ionary, for example, breaches about ten
sermons per week, and travels ever,
fourth week ! 400 miles.
The Northern Christian Advocate
makes the statement that the Methodist
Episcopal Church loses seventy-fve per
,ent. of its practitioners. The Advocate |
kinks the prevailing methods Of the
Church are at fault, and that such spiritual
,rodigality in labor and souls should be
dated.
The idea Of uniting white and colored
cople in one congregation in tie South
roves failure. If the blacks predumi-
ate the whites absent themselves, and il
he whites predominant the colorca people
o not feel at home. Such, according to
)r. Curry, is the state Of the case in the
lethodist Churches.
DIR. Guthrie, the popular Presbyterian ,
'inister in New York, says his people
re all the better for The knowledge of
usiness he acquired in bank, and every y
mister would be immensely better fitted $
n his work by two terms in CONNER
al college or so much practical service e
the active duties of business life. 7
Dr.Augus,in his paper read before the a
vangelical Alliance on the "Duty of d
'urches in relation to Missions took Fl
c ground that the present generation of n
hristians ought to give the GoePel to IS
e entire world. He. affirmed that y
til fifty thousand missionaries, and Fl. fl
IN millionsa yssr for their support, the al
,rk could be done in ten years. CT
Beeecher has received a six months ~
Rough from his wealthy congregation, - =,
h-liberty to travel in Europe, Asia, u
rica, North or South America, at the g :.
Q expense of his wealthy flock. And :, /,
en-, too, his $4,000 salary goes on all 81
; same as if he Numbered from the ID
ymouth pulpit every Sunday. Who ~ :.
uld not be the shepherd of snch III
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A very interesting meeting has been m,
progress for some time in the first
btist Church in Covington, Kentucky. r.,
'eral have been babtized, and many al
re await the ordinance The pastor, in,
v. Mr.. Felix, says the congregation TT
more thoroughly revived than he h:s h.
= seen them. Rev. Green Clay smith, N,
Frankfort, has been assisting in con. Ia,
ting the services. -,
rev. T. Dewitt Talmage has anoun- no
to his congregation that he would Or
nerse such persons as preferred that ito
lie of babtism. Ia the Presbyterian sor
lrch, he said the ordinary mode was We.
.prinkling; but he did not feel il tiel
tn while to run into collision with In,
consciences of those who preferred it siol
and pabtistry haa there to
been plaeedin the tabernacle. to
correspondent of the Waterman ',e'
Reflector writes that he has lived in '"'
isina over tventy.one years, and has -
e witnessed tho degree ofreligous un
ern which exists in the State at this
/. 1t is not confined to any denomi- ""'
On or section of the State, but there Gun
alarming Indifference ON the subject "
aiding all sccts and all parts of the ',''
tory. A revival of religion, even of '"e'
proportions, would be almost an 'e''
naly. ,'o''
~. a. Culler, of the Christian con,
-ch in Virginia, suggested some time the,
be propriety of prayer-book for !. a
'se of such as have no ability to the
extemporaneously. The position torn
) with strenuous opposition from heal
quaters as departure from the rebu