, 1874-04-05

The College Chapel st Benzonia, Mich, whicl
was the house Of worship for the Congregations
! Church ut that place, was burned March o.
The Adcdnce says: ''Tho prosperity OF Whea
ton College will crafty the friends of Christian
education generally, as well as Congregational
| ists."
The new Congregational Church formed al
South Chicago last Sunday comprises eighteet
communicates. Tho Rev. c. 4. Towle is pastor
and is greatly encouraged with this auspicionI
beginning
Tho A6rance Bays it is time that churches ri6
themselves OF the charge OF delinquency Ii pay.
ing pastors' salaries, and mentions the c1se of
pastor who xas compelled to resign solely on the
ground of continued slnckness in the payment o1
his SALARY
Twenty persons hare united with the Congre-
gational Church in Cherokee, H.; the church a!
Rockford, in the came State. received twelve
members at the last Communion; Congrega-
tionai church OF eleyen members was formed at
Bear Grove, Ia, March e.
The Adc1nce says: ''The fellowBhip-meetinga
conducted by committee Of the Chicago Asso-
citation, OF which the Rev. E. F. Williams is
Chairman, and held chiefly among the outlying
churches near the city, have been Ut much utter
es. md urofit. The last one Tas held with the
ll,nttu Street Church"
Several Congregational churches in Wisconsin
report recent reyiye1s: One at Green Bay un-
twenty-five persons were received to member
ship BY the Bay View Church, the Rev. J. T.
B1eese, pastor similar number OF conversions
have taken place ut Lone Rock; an interesting
revival has taken place IN tho Congregational
Church at New Lisbon.
BAPTIST.
The scandinavian Daptists OF Manistee,
Mich, are inclosinS new house Of worship
In the Baptist churches OF Chicago, to-day is
to be set apart for the giving Of money to make
up in some degree tho deficit in the years For
eign Mission account.
Colony" consisting mainly OF Baptist 1nmi-
grants from New York, is establishing in Ar
kansas, under the leadership and Presidency OF
the Rev. T. ]. Siegfried.
PRESBYTERIAN.
Tho Committee on Home Missions for Chica-
go presLEtery have received m application for
the organization Of Presbyterian church ut
Palatiue, LII.
EPISCOPAL
John Jones, late Baptist minister, has just
been admitted by the Standing COMMITTEES Of the
Diocese Of Illinois as Z candidate for orders.
The recent agitations arc melting the clerical
mind Of the country to examine the claims OF tho
Church. The number OF acceBsicus il cre1ter
tnan al any previous pel1ou. "a M1ssoa11 thore
has been WITHIN anort time the unprecedented
number Ct thirteen ordinations.
na,n po H. Do,o..o, T. =; ~.
Ano hos. MI Ieeeteou "a ~ cuatke u Mls-
sion sTork among tue Nor"eElans OF minnesota,
numbering LIS, 600. He was born in Christians,
Norway. ordained Deacon in the Cathedral Of
Geneva, and Presbyter in this country, and re-
ceiyed from the Roman Catholic Church by
Bishop Whipple, in 1873.
1,;1o, u,r+;no+,, ,,t, oa,,. IT,, +,o t7h,,
touop ~ I:t5 soA3 W. eao '.' HM Nv oat4tS1l ~
from ttio outa11aus' II bef1uon ~ VA"eoo tne
otlefoay, showed the snpNclty OF DeNef, al
summed up in the Apostles Greed, The error
of many Christian bodies has been in adding
metaphysics to faith, aud requiring acceptance
OF them, thus causing many to reject taith 30
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= 80 er, o sa.-;sa. r. S,,,na ~
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EnellS. c1u1su "el9 P1epAteo ~ tue saIue ll1ae
are equally authentic. In these articles.