The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-07-26
RELIGIOUS ITEMS.

Boston clergyman expresses the belief that
every member of the last Congress "ls destitute
of experimental religion"
An EnShsi! Baptist proposes to purchase q
property in Rome costing $4,000, for the reli-
giOus use of English BaptiSts there.
! The Jews of Nashville are about to invest
SAG, 900 III synagogue.
camp meeting Is being talked OF by the
Epscopalians of Chicago
monument to Martin Luther to be set up in
Paramount Park. Philadelphia, during the CEN
tennial year, is talked Of by the Lutherans.
1t is announced that the American pilgrimage
will be repeated next year, when over 500 CathO-
hes of the United States will participate.
| Guilford On. II. minister recently thanked
God i'll public address that the Democrats i'll
the Legislature had ''cut off the heads of the
thieves and burglars of the State"-meaning the
radical office-holders.
The Duchess of Magenta fell going into church
recently. but regained her feet instantly, and
said to an eX-Minister who had rushed to her
sistance. You see, NJ. lie Due, can get up quicker
| than Minister when fall
| There at present about forty women preach
ers III this country. apropos Of which Punch has
| the following 'Patertamliias (whO believes in the
enjoyment OF women) writes to ask why young
women should be kept out of the pulpit while
there are many old ones in it 2"
Rev. D. X. Mcfarland has accepted the call to
the pastorate of the First Presbyterian Church,
Savannah Ga.
Rev. VIM. NJ. Taylor, D. D., pastor of the
Broadway Tabernacle, New York, has been in
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time he has not been prevented by illness from
preaching for single Sabbath.
| For seventeen Years DR.. Samuel Adler has led
and instructed the Jewish congregation Temple
! Emanuel, of New York city, and now the cOngre-
CATION has retired him on competency and pre-
| scented him with handsome set of silver.
A Review is proposed, to be especially devoted
to the advocacy OF Calvinistic TheOlogr, under
| the supervision of the Southern Presbyterian and
Reformed churches. Rev. Dr. b. NJ. Smith, of
| the Union Theological Seminary, Of Virginia, lis
| chief engineer
| The tatholic World claims that there are at
| least three hundred and fifty thousand girls in
schools presided over by nuns of the Roman
Catholic Church in the United States and that
at least sixty thousand of these poor children,
| educated free of expense
| Deacon Nathaniel Ladd, of Groveand, Mass,
has been for fifty years clerk of the Congrega-
| tional Orthodox church, and though eightv-seven
years old, has just finished copying, in clear
and readable handwriting the parish records
| SINCE 1736-a labor Of love
| There are five Protestant Episcopal parishes in
New York in which the confessional is used, and
penance taught as one of the sacraments. The
| marriage OF DIR. Dix obliged him to had over the
confessional at st. Mary to the rector of the
Church Of the Advent Boston, the Rev. C.
Grafton.
The Episcopal church in Texas now has 80
clergymen, IS parishes and "a missions, having
grown since the election of Bishop Gregg from
ID parishes and 10 cergymen to ITS present size.
A proposition submitted by the Bishop to
the late Convention to divide the diocese SO as to
make g. each of them having ample territory
and population ranging from 200 900 to 400 OOO
little fellow tumbled into the fountain and
managed to crawl out before any one reached
HIM Pale and dripping he was put to bed, and
when his mother requested the young man to
thank God for saving him Young America
swered, Il spose God did me- but then
he'd on to the gwass, too"
The editor of the Ypsanti (Mich.) Sentinel
breaches thus to the ministers 'And especially
a COW fbn tvf Oh, 1xrrvnr ctr 4o1,
tying history, stop striving for sensation at the
expense OF truth, stop scolding and yelling at
U.s. Ii there be gospel that is regenerating,
elevating, ennobing and purifying, let us have
The Bishop Of Derry has been Dogberrying
himself at st. James's Church. After sensa-
uonai sermon on sensationalism, he made an
appeal IN favor Of poor people 'sof higher class
the Bible so as to read, 'sThe poor We have
always with you, especially those of a higher
class than ordlnary."-Lo,.dOn Hornet.
Methodist parson, called to preach at an out
oof-the-way town in California, was informed be-
fore entering the pulpit that he must be careful,
as many Of the assembled congregation were
'.roughs," and would not hesitate TO disturb him
II his remarks didn't suit The holy man made
no reply, but having reached the desk he took
from his pockets two revolvers, and placing one
on each side Of the Bible, gave sharp glance
around the house, and said Let us pray" A
more orderly service never conducted.
The central AdrOcdte, of st. Louis, records the
death OF DR.. l.. s. Jacoby, the father of German
Methodism in America and Europe He spent
twenty-five years III Germany missionary,
Switzerland He returned to America about
three years ago. He was Of Jewish parentage
was born in 1903, and joined the Methodist Fps
copal Church III Cincinnati, i'll 1889. He was a ripe
scholar and an eloquent preacher.
In the Diocesan Convention of the Protestant
Episcopal Church of Ohio resolution was
offered making women over eighteen years of
age eligible to Office i'll the vestry of any church
i'll the diocese OF Ohio. Bishop Bedell spoke not
directly III favor Of this resolution but in favor of
the idea contained in it, that of making the SER
vice Of woman available in church affairs Great
dlifculty is felt IN initiating Episcopal services in
new places on account Of the scarcity of material
for church officers, and hence We suppose, this
which may possibly come before the
October General Convention for some action.
In st. Lonls there are fifteen Baptist. three
Christian four Congregationallst twelve Episco-
pal one English Evangelical Lutheran nine Ger
man Evangelical Lutheran, twelve German Lu-
theran, four Hebrew, twelve Northern Methodist,
ten Southern Methodist, one New Jerusalem
twenty-five Presbyterian, thirty-siX Roman Cath
Ole. two Unitarian, and eleven miscellaneous or
independent OF any of the above scots. Total
l32 churches. The total number of ministers en-
gagged as pastors or assistant pastors of these
churches Is POS inclusive OF one Catholic Arch
bishop and one Bishop, one Episcopal Bishop and
two Methodist Bishops.
1t Is stated that memorial, headed by the
htF. IL. Ninton, OF Boston, Is circulating among
the clergy of the Propostant Episcopal Church
asking reasonable concessions to such ministers
as DO not believe in the Baptismal regeneration
OF infants lt.prop9ses no change in the prayer
DOCK, but to give liberty to omit single SEN
tence after the act of infant baptism by inserting
the word may in place of shoN and the same
liberty to substitute the collect for Easter Eve in
place OF the clC sing collect of the ba ptismal ser
wee The friends of this movement maintain
that this action will leav the act of baptism itself
untouched, and will only affect certain terms in
the mode OF interpreting that act 80 far as to
give expression to corrections that are now OPEN
y declared and acknowledged by leading clergy
men.
JULES JANIN Edmond About concludes a
severe criticism on Jules Janin by saying
that ''this critic without capacity. this writer
without style, was man of letters to the tips
Of his fingers, and that in the most noble
sense of the word. He loved reading, he
idored books, he had a passion tor les chooses
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