The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1874-06-19
RELIGIOUS INTELLrGENCE.


st. Louis reported aggregate accessions
to their membership, at the last COM
munion, Of 1876.
A series Of religious meetings in the
Christian Church in the city Of Column
bus, Indiana, has resulted in the addition
Of 100 members.
The First Congregational Church in
Lexington, Massachusetts,, still uses a
Bible presented to the parish by John ,
Hancock, in 1898.
The late General Assembly at 81. Lou.
is, agreed on an appropriation OF $780,
900 for the maintenance of Home Mis-
sions for the present year, and the fur
ther sum Of sioO,00 as sustenation
fund.
A new Presbyterian Church has been
commenced in Jersey City, by the Rev.
DIR. Eddy. The plan is that of "Peo-
pies Church, THE rents to be assigned at
low prices. ranging from six to twenty
four dollars for each pew.
The Catholic Telegraph announces
with great distinctness that members of
the church may not connect themselves
with the Changers, nor oath bound
Trade Unions, without subjecting them
selves to the severe penalty of church
discipline.
The Presbyterians Of the Southwest
have been planning a great Southwest
ern University to the place of the vari-
Gus colleges which they have founded.
Clarksville, Tenn, is selected assthe
place, the city having pledged slss.oOO
to secure the location.
The Episcopal Convention Of the Di-
ocese of Kentucky has adjourned until
after some future time after the next ses-
sion of the General Convention, when
it will meet to supply the vacancy occa-
stoned by the separation of Bishop Cum
minis, the senior Bishop, to give thirty
days notice OF his intention to convene
the convention.
A late writer in deploring the degen-
eracy Of the times, says that even the
churches to draw crowds, rent pews and
raise revenues will resort not only to
sensationalsm in pulpit and choir, but
make the earth blush and heaven weep
over tricks which are degrading and de-
moralizing, and insulting to all manli-
ness and religion"
At late session Of the Reformed
Presbyterian Synod in Philadelphia, res
olutions we're tabled recommending the
use Of unfermented wine in celebrating
the Lords Supper. and that total absti-
hence should be required of persons ap-
dying for membership. A resolution
was adopted urging cooperation in the
temperance movement.
Some Nor i missionaries are said
to have produced wonderful commo-
ton in the region of Long Valley, Cali
fornia. Meetings for a number Of weeks
have been held in a school-house, and IN.
many of the dwellings. They have con-
verted, with but few exceptions, all the
families in that section of the country,
and so great is the excitement that many
have become almost insane.
The month of May will be memora-
Bile Tor the movements all along the line
in the direction fraternally among the
churches. The two Presbyterian assem-
blies at St. Louis and Columbus ex-
changed fraternal greetings. The Dutch
Reformed Church has taken hold OF
Northern Presbyterianism with one hand
and Southern Presbyterianism with the
other, and is happy in the fellowship of
both. The Northern Methodist dele
gates to the Southern General Confer
ence were received with the greatest en-
thusiasm the Methodist and Methodist
Protestant Churches are about to con-
solidate, and the Southern Baptists took
part most heartily with their Northern
brethren in the late anniversaries at
Washington city.
The National Council OF Dunkards,
which lately met in Glrard, Illinois, was
attended by no less than ten thousand
people. Three Of the leading topics
giving rise to earnest debate were these
|. Shall it be made obligatory to sa-
Lutte the colored brethren with a holy
kiss? This was left to the local church
es to decide according to their pleasure.
9. Whether the members of their
churches should join the farmers clubs,
which was declared inadmissible.
3, The use OF piano or othef musica
instruments, which was pronounced sin-
full.
The conference also declared against
partial sharing of the beard, against al
lowing members to engage in banking,
A. a religious sect, they hold the doc
trine of general redemption, Use great
plainness of speech and dress, like the
Quakers take no part in political affairs,
will not 60 to law, and seldom take in
terest for money loaned their poorer
brethren. They are opposed to war
from religious principles, and never be-
, come soldiers, They make good, law
= abiding citizens, do not contract debts