The Cairo bulletin., 1874-04-08
RELIGIOUS NOTES.

CoMING.-Wo know wo shall make
happy many = Christians heart in Cairo
by impsrting to our readers in the utmost
confidence, the important secret that our
old friend, Rev. ID. b. Turney, proposes
to soon return to this city and lecture.
Tho portion Of our community that wor.
ship vt the altar Of tho Liberal Associa.
tion, will read this announcement with
dismay. It fears Turney. He isa sledgs
hammer Of the gospel, and when no dis
csnds he smsshes iniidslity it
into very small pieces. Mr.. Turney has
frequently assured us this is q fact, and
II he does not know no other person
does. or this we are sure.
THE REvIvAL-The revival Of religion
in Cairo, not yet terminated, has been a
very remarkable ono. Sinners, old in in.
iquity and who had been given up as sin.
full nuts no gospel hammer could ever
crack, have yielded up their kernel and
become food for the table Of the Lord.
Young people. light as the gossamer and
frivilous IS vanity, to use phrase in nelog ant
but expressive, have "coms to Limerick" ;"
Old people, who had learned to love them.
selves passing well-who had become COW
cred with the moss Of selfshness have
"lesrned to love another" and have shook
off their selfsh habiliments. An odor of
holiness seems to porvAde the entire city
and those now pray who never prayed
before while those who always prayed
now pray the more. The Methodist Epis-
copal Church, under the psstorage of Rey.
Mr. Waller, has had about one hundred
and fifteen accessions, and is still pressing
forward upon the hosts of Satan. The
Presbyterian church, Rev. Mr.
Thayer, pastor, has had sighty-ssven &C.
cessions, and its banner still floats sdvanc-
ing upon the foe. On last Sunday fifty
persons arose when the pastor requested
those who desired to join the army Of the
saved to rise, and forty of them were receiv-
cd upon . profession of faith. The scene
was affecting. So We have been Informed.
Meetings each night are still going on at
Mr.. Thsyer's church under direction OF
the recent converts who seem 10 greatly
enjoy the sensation Of salvation. The
Christian church has also received a large
accession, and, we are informed, about
twenty arc to be received into the Epis-
copal fold when Bishop Whitehouse ar
rives. The colored churches hsyo also
been doing q land office business. Rev
Mr.. Shores has been kept busy bsptising
| converts for several months. His church
10 becomming very numerous. all in des-
pite of Logan sleeper and his other ene-
mics.
BRiGHAM's TALK.--We have in our
mind the faintest of impressions that DIR.
Brigham intended that his late lecture
should have some weight in the religious
controversy now in progress in this city
This impression has been created not 60
much by what the doctor said as by his
manner-or rather by the language he
saw proper TO use. We have for MANY
years applied this test TO the determine.
tion Of doubt in our mind IN relation 70
the character of any discourse upon relig-
ion made in our hearing II the discourse
Is rather weak-so ensy TO understand
that the listener wonders why tho preacher
said anything, we conclude il is thorough.
ly orthodox but If the discourse is sb.
struse-a bundle Of unmeaning and not
understandable expressions, We conclud @
that It s in the interest Of inhdelity. Wo
may be mistaken, but that is the way the
thing struck US.
We appeal to our readers to basr us out
in this conclusion, and in maintaining
1t dare to face frowniDg world.
"The universe said tho doctor, "without
intelligences so organized as 10 receive IN
prsssions from modulations inithe various
fluids surrounding us, would be rs silent
as the tomb and IS dark Is night" To
the learned this may be Is clear ss tho
light Of day, but to US it ssvors of 8 denial
Of the divinity Of Christ and bad literary
taste. II 1t is neither the one nor the
other we DO not hesitate to assert that
treason to the government turks In tho
words OF the unique sentence, and that
'ts suthor 10 nots friend OF compulsory
education or Of the colored man, This
msst, we think, DO patent to oven the CAS-
usl reader.
But II we are mistaken IN all our sur.
misss above stated, wo cannot bs success.
fully contrAdietsd when we assert that to
say "colors are merely wave longths in the
Etheric Sea" is to use one of the strongest
Of the arguments Of the disbslisvsrs. A
believer has no doubt colors are colors, and