Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1874-02-21
RELIGIOUS NEWS.
CREATION AND SALVATION.
BY REV. CHARLES MORTON.

BY REV. CHARLES MORTON.
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When Natures first morning, in glory and
Arose Ger the empires of chaos and night,
And the newborn creation in beauty and
Was launched into vision on pillows of light;
Surprised into new and unknown adoratioh;
All heaven was instant in homage and praise
To Him who is high above all exaltation,
The Maker supreme. the dread Ancient OF
But when the blest morning of life and salvation
Arose DER the empire of death and the grave,
And shone with the glory of mans restoration
BY Him who i able and mighty to save;
Desired 70 look into the wonderfui plan
But angels and archanges could not compre-
So great was the mercy an.l love to lost
Aud when Natures temple, this shadow OF slo-
Whose lamps are the stars, and whose curtain
Shall pass and be gone as dream a story,
Then one on its ruins, eternal shall rise,
Whose Light is the Lamb and whose walls are
Whose gates are all praise and whose pillars
are truth. j
There the River Of Life from the throne ofJeho-
The Tree of Lite there all the nations to heal,
. Shall flow and shall flourish forever and ever.
And there the True Light all himself shall re
Toeat of that Tree and to drink ofthat River
Forever to shine in the beams OF that Light,
To behold aud enjoy him forever and ever,
There shall We with angels in glory unite.
The Unitarian Society in Denver,
COL, was organized less than three
wears ago by Rev. l.. e. Beckwith, and
in twelve months one hundred members
were enrolled.
Rev. DIR. Kingston Goddard, rector. of
one of the largest Episcopal Churches
on Staten Island has united with the Re-
formed Episcopal Church although SYM
pathizing with it.
On the day the Clarendon Street Bap-
tist Church, in Boston, was burned, the
homeless congregation had tenders of
three Congregational, four Unitarian,
two Baptists, one Universalists, and one
Free Religious houses of worship.
Two thousand dollars have been sub
scribed at Peoria, ILL.,. to support a Re-
formed Episcopal rector the fiji st year.
xThe7 position was rendered to an Eas-
tern clergyman who has not yet united
with the Church. but who will, it is be-
lieved. do so.
Between 1851 and 1871, the number of
Christians has more than doubled in
Bengal. fIn Central India, the native
church has multiplied by nearly four
hundred per cent; in Dude, by one hum
dred and seyenty-five per cent; in the
Northwestern provinces it has nearly
doubled; in the Punjaub and Bombay,
it has increased by sixty-four per cent !;
and the total increase of all India is six
ty-One per cent
1t appears that the Turkish Empire,
large as tile United States east of the
Mississippi River, had not the religion
of Christ within its borders until few
wears since. In 1916 the first Christian
church was established there. Now
there are rs churches, with member
ship of 800 persons, who represent 18
missionary fields, each station occupied
by two or three MISSIONARIES. Ihere
are over 200 Turks in the empire enjoy
ing Christian ministratiOns. In India
there are to-day 42O fields of labor, and
over 5000 towns occupied in part by
Christian families.
A new RELIGION has spruno mn i'm Per-
s;a and is 40 different from fhe old Mos
lam faith thafl Il is creating considera-
hla excitement. especially as the Grand
Vizier. who has great influence over the
shah is IN favor Of it. and several of the
sarans and noblemen have adopted it,
n ia known as ssZurflapi.n Its follow.
eIsdo not believe i'm any prophet. They
only worship the Almighty. Ihere are
no rellSlouS cereiilonies r sl.pl'!lt9u Ior
Lhe new religlon. Inc prihclpal uoc-
rrlnes are praise Oh tle supreme being,
truth, and virtue. IL IS regarded Win
great dlslayof py the loiio"ers o. the
Moslem faith.
Cbnrcb and State i'm Mexico have
been definitely divorced. So great and
so rapid have been the successive strides
takens bu Italy. Spair and Mexico to-
wards comnlete RELIGIOUS equality. that
we can scarcely realize that, only a few
vaars 400 these countries were the very
c;rodsis Of intoIerancess Protestantism
could mako no nroOress in anv of these
lands for the simple reason that ma
five dared NOT make profession of the
nnrer faith. or. II he dared, was Instant
iv ;mmnrpd within nrisofl-walIs. Now
scaroalu anvwhere else ia the RIGHT of
searce,S a,g~nele gS0s;on n1v ore amnIv @ sscnred ID
~ IeraI opactment Tn Mexico the Ia
,},',sS. - ~ s,,;n;tnol s1orarv wb;ch tho
S.o.o 49,, oipoo a.tohl;sha5 or tho dic-
s.;~ tha -Pon,;si, Cbnroh xyoe
stu,,oi, ~, +to o,th Of Sentamher 1879
~ tTat Ioy wos dared q decree az pros.
ident IerJo de Te;asla. snbscribed to by
the r,a~nhors of. Inc Nayiran Con~re:s
Lne ,, mempere e o, hnd ime MeArn wi,ioh seo
Sgn.r;c. =, .,,o rorafront of n;vil;,eI No.
.eAic" ~ sia ioi IuIy Va 'iiiAe" n''
-S"1 s@s'""' = = w.
A friend once told me, says Rev. I'll
Woodward, that, among other symptoms
OF high, nervous eXcitemeht, ne mas
sleep. To such degree had this pro
ceeded, that if in the course of the day
anv occasion led him to his bed-chamber
the sight, of his bed made him shuddel
atf the idea of. the wretched and restles
hours he had to pass upon it. In this case
IL was recommended to him to endeav
or, when he lay down at night, to fl,
his mind on something at the same tim,
vast and simple-such rs the wide ocean
or the cloudless vault of heaven; tina
the little hurried and disturbed images
that fitted, before. his mind might b,
charmed away, or huShed to rest, by
the calming influences of one absorbing
thought. Though not at all alreligioni
man ut the time, this advice suggested
to his mind, that if an object. at one
vast and simple, was to be selected 70
meditation, no one could serve his pur
n,,enl so-welf as the thon eht of God. FL,