The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-06-07
. RELIGIOUS ITEMS.

hELlUIOtS LWSs
Iii Boston where the sermons are long the
most popular preacher is the Rev. James
b. Dunn.
The Siamese twins were Baptists Out"
says the Presbyterian, suppose one had been
a disbeliever, how could the other have
been immersedN But another says they
were United Brethren.
The Protestant Episcopal Convention of
the Diocese of Maryland in session at Wash
ngton, has refused, after an earnest discus
sion, 119 against %, to permit the Church of
the Holy Communion to organize, on account
of it's ritualstic character
The colored Methodist Episcopal Church
il America, organized in 1870 by the
Methodist Episcopal Church South, has
IS members and 1880 Sunday school
teachers. 1t has a rule, intended to pre-
vent the church from being used for political
/ ends, providing that no house of worship
shall be let tor political speeches and as
sembles.
Mrs Shnfeldt is the first woman to be-
come IA minister in Chicago, and her first
sermon was preached there in a Methodist
Church last week. She is described as old,
ugly and loud-voiced, but her zeal is intense
and indomitable. Her audience numbered
forty, half of whom were sailors, and few
of them remained until the close of the
service.
Says the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher in the
| Christian UnioM 1T is not easy TO realize
that religion is losing its hold upon society,
| if one but observe the great space given to
reports of religious discourses by our daily
newspapers, and consider al o, that even
fashion has begun to pay tribute by invent
ing exquisite praying costumes for ladies,
wherein the fair devotees can pray to the
Lord and make an elegant appearance in
the sight of man at the same time"
The colored pastor of the Third Street
Methodist Church. in Richmond. took
practical view of the Civil Rights bill in
late address to his congregation. He said:
" The moment such an enactment appears
Oh the statute book, the public school sys-
ten in the South will receive blow that
will cause its death, and no power this side
of Heaven can infuse life into its dead ear
cass. Then who will be the losers, the
blacks or the whites? In Virginia
there are $4,000 colored children attending
the public schools. What will become Of
them ?"
The Southern Presbyterian Assembly de-
cided that the names of baptized children
shall be placed on the church registers, and
that certificates be given them when they
move from one church to ano h T. The sta
tistical tables of the Assembly were in
cons, evangelization and baptized children
The Committee on Education was removed
from Richmond to Memphis The collec-
tons for foreign MISSIONS subscription, pub
LEGATION and education last year aggregated |
1857 900.
An interesting quarrel is in progress at
Richmond England. between the vicar,
the Rev. c. T. Proctor, and his vestry and
parishioners. Richmond recently came into
possession of a new burying ground, por-
ton of which was set apart for the Estab-
lished Church and a portion for Dissenters.
The two plots were divided by path, as is
usual in other cemeteries. Mr.. Proctor
insisted that wall should separate the
resting places of the believer and the unbe-
lever in a State Church. This was opposed
by the vestry, but the vicar had it put up.
About two nights afterwards 2ot feet of
the wall were mysteriously toppled over.
The parishioners held an Indignation meet
ing, at which the conduc, of the vicar was
censured, and as influential noblemen in the
neighborhood have also declared against
the attempt to divide the dead. Mr. Proc
tor will probably allow the wall to remain
down.
There was an old regulation in Harvard
University requiring the students to attend
prayers at least one hundred times wear.
How the old band of Puritan managers
found out 1t took just one hundred attend
ances OF prayers in 365 days to save boy
is not known, but they did find it out, and
made the law. The boys themselves never
felt the need of this amount of devotion,
and thoroughly hated the regulation. They
begged and prayed for many years to have
the number of attendances decreased, and
at length got it reduced to sixty. This was
a great advance from old-fogyism, bnt the
regulation was still oppressive and savored
of the dark ages. The enlightenment of the
could not brook it any longer
One or two prominent reformers among the
students lately broke into the room where
the scores of attendances were kept and
stole the records, all but those of the junior
class, which were overlooked. If sixty ;
prayers year teach whole university to
steal, it looks as if they ought to be abol- 5
shed altogether for Heavens sake The
Junior class, whose record still stands, and J
who will have to comply with the regula- t
lion, are swearing good deal mere than S
heir praying will balance. The faculty
had better come down prayer or two more
% make things agreeable, and start a fresh |
account of piety. f
Advertise in Holly Springs Miss Reporter. /
Colonel Egerton Leigh recently called the S
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