Huntington advertiser. [volume] (Huntington, W. Va.) 1874-1921, 1874-05-21
Religious Items.

in Richmond, Va, is a Baptist.
Rev. O. Eastman, Secretary of the
American Tract Society, died April
oath, aged rs.
The number of conversions in Knox
vile during the past winter is estima-
ted at five hundred.
Rev. s. c. Miller, ID. D., of North
Carolina, Minister OF the Presbyteri-
an Church, died on the 18th of April.
Jackson and Clarkson, Tennessee,
and Huntsville, Alabama, are bidding
for the location of the Southern Pres
byterian University.
Rev j. G. Long, Pastor of the
Baptist Church In Charlottesville,
Va. preached AZ the LIST Presby terrain
Church last Sunday evening.
Twenty four young men in Boston
are studying the Spanish language,
with a view TO mission work in Mex
leo, and other Spanish speaking peo-
pie ON this continent.
Rev. DR.. Thomas Carleton, for
MANY years the efficient manager of
the Methodist Book Concern, died at
Elizabeth, y. j. nthe lCth of April,
in the Goth year Of his age.
Rev. ;. b Page. of Cleveland,
Ohio, District Secretary Of the Baptist
Home Mission Society, was in the city
Monday last, on his way to attend
the anniversary of the Society at
Washington.
Commodore Vanderbilt has added
100000 to his gift to the Southern
Methodist University at Nashville,
I Tenn. He directs that this be used
/ in the erection of buildings. The
100000 previously given is an en-.
dowment fund.
The General Conference of the W.
+. Church, South, now in session at
Louisville, Ky, received the dele
gates appointed to convey the fra
ternal greetings of the Church North,
AMI appointed committee to respond
to their address.
Rev. Nathan L. Rice, ID. d., has
declined the chair of Theology in the
. Theological Seminary at Danville,
Ky, and has consented to take the
pastoral care of the church at Full
ton, Missouri, for one year Fulton
I is the seat of Westminster College,
( Of which DR.. Rice is now President.
Rev. DIR. McKaig. now preaching
to the Ninth Presbyterian Church,
Chicago, denies the Inspiration of por-
tions of the received Scriptures. The
PreSbytery advised the church to
dismiss him when the present en-
gagement closed. but the church. by
an almost unanimous vote, refused to
take the advice of the Presbytery,
and will, it is said, separate from the
Prcsby terian body.
The Central University, founded
by the synod of Kentucky, has been
located at Richmond, Madison coun-
'ty. The buildings have been com
meuced, and part of the Faculty cho-
sen. Among the professors elected
are Prof. lie Coutc, formerly Of South
Carolina. now of California, and Rev.
VI. VI. Fisher, formerly Professor OF
Languages IN Westminster College,
Missouri The Rev. Il. l.. Breck is
the Chancellor.
The pastors Of the Presbyterian
Church AZ Rochester, New York,
have resolved 10 introduce, if posi-
HE, a religious paper into every fam
liz in their respective charges. They
viii make special visits and appeals
TO each family. 1t is Il sensible move,
ment Our people must be brought
into vital sympathy with the great
movements of the church. "Mv peo-
pie are destroyed for lack of knOwl-
edge Is a lamentation as applicable
u multitudes now As it was when ut
tered by the tongue of the ancient
prophet.