Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1874-01-24
There are thirty-one Unitarian
Churches in Boston.


Church, is to be a contributor OF the
New York .Chsychnsan.y
The heart that is : to be filed to the
hr;m with holy 10Y must be held still.
Whocouid fill,amoying yessels
The Methodist Episcopal Church pa
pers nearly all have kind words for
Bishop Cummins' Reformed Episcopal
Cnurcnisk X zszsis > 8 .ssa Il Is.
Bishop Cheney administered cOntir-
nation after the form of the Reformed
Eniscopal Church, to forty-five persons
in Christ Church Chicago,
A large congregation attended, Jan. 4,
the inaugural services of the Reformed
Episcopal Church, in Steinway Hall,
New York. Bishop Cummins 8 preached
from IL. Cor. iii. IL. He wore no vest
ments whatever.
The rector Of st. Paul's Church,
washington City, recently exchanged
with colored Episcopal clergyman Of
the same city. A few members of the
congregation left the church, but the
majority remained, and conducted
themselves as Christians ought to do.
Rev. J. w. Olmstead, editor of the
Watchman and Reflector, Boston, now
in Europe, united in communion, Nov.
~. in TottenhaDr Court Road Chapel,
over one hundred, and composed of
Metliodists, Presbyterians and Congre-
Rev. DR.. Cote, Baptist Missionary in
Rome, has baptized two hundred con-
verts, and has founded eight Churches
in Italy, now organized into an Associ-
alton. He does not conflne his labOrs to
the Catholics, but strives earnestly to
proselyte his Protestant brethren.
Out ofShedven to which the yiffuous
shall at last come, out of heaven, which
gives us the idea of a Father and Saw
Jour, comes the only explanation of hui
manity that can give man any morals
for his life, any lofty ideal for his edu-
cation, any consOloriOn in sorrow, any
flowers for his tomb.
Nothing more powerfully argues a
life beyond this than the failure of
ideals here. Each gives us only frag-
ments of humanity, fragments of heart,
fragments of mind, fragments OF chari-
ty, love and virtue, and, instead OF being
q world, Is only a hIntihif of seeds out
of Which a fufl-blown world might
grow, but has not yet grown.
If these times of bankruptcy shall wit
ness only bankruptcy of wealth, and
not of Christian character; If there
shall be no suspension of Christian in
tegrity. no failure of Christian upright
ness, then there will be something left.
1t will only be the dross that will be
purged away. The sterling gold will
remain, and, will come out of the fur
nace brighter than ever.
MISS Smiley rece..p., held service IN
Rev. DIR. Clylef's Church, in Brooklyn.
In order to avoid the offence given to the
Presbytery on a previous occasion, by
her occupying the pulpit, a little plat
fOrnI Was built In front of the same and
was carpeted and furnished with sepa-
rate stairs to avoid the hem of her gar
ments touching sauctified wood in the
desk. GTiiis was -eertaiihya a singular ef-
fort to avoid criticism, as it was novel
method of rebuking the narrow-minded
men of the Presbytery.
We are bound to obey God in suffering
His rod and erosPes. For God in our
baptism hath made this covenant with
us, that we must die and be buried with
Christ, and be grated into His passion
and death, if we will rise again and be
glorified with Him in the kingdom of
Heaven, whereunto lie is risen and as
cended. Wherefore, mark well these
lessons, that you may learn patience in
all aff1ictionsS aud ,adversities; whether
you suffer sickness, poverty, reproaches.
or persecution for the Gospel. And
whatsoever kind of adversely troubletf
you. persuade yourself. for surety
ihatit is God d'sfwilith you, should suf.
fer and be tried. Desire Him to sent
YOU the gift of patience, and say, "Thy
will be done, good Lord, not ours. -
Archbishop CrGnmer.
If we set ourselves to study the Bible
not as collection of enigmas to be puz
zlc.! out, not as a string OF falsehoods Il
ne corrected, but as Book which il
meant tor SIRED, saIftiS whiclr does shed
light and warmth apon Atlie$ patffof life
we shall find that the characters and thu
find that the characters and the histOr
les and the doctrines it contains are ma
ny sided.
For instance, the characters in the Oh
and New Testaments are not only link
in the great chain of human history, no
only examples of the way God deal
with men of different ranks and age
and temperaments, but they are light
and landmarks showing us who com
after, what rocks of temptation to avoid
into what currents of habit we may drif
unawares. y .l.z si., t.Ass-s =.
There is not one character draw
with any fulness in the Bible whic
does not sound note OF warning or en-
cuttragemcnt. There is no sex nor 'agt
no rank nor employment, in the broa
sense ofthe word, which does not fin
itself reflected there. 1t is this "many
sidedness' of the Bible which makes
n book to be studied, not merely rea
through: which ineluces it in Lord Bs
cons list of, works to be chewed and d
gested.
Let us walk down the gallery of poi
traits in the Bible, which are none th
less vivid and beautiful because the
are old, and have been copied over an
ov again in paintings and sculpture
in poetry and history. Each eharacte
that we read about seems to have il
type in the lying world wherein W
live, for human hearts and wills renal
the same, though teuts have seen e,
changed for houses, and wealth in floel
and herds for large rent-rolls, and il
vestments in the funds.
What, for. instance, may a nOblema
learn from Abraham who stands fort
not only as the founder of n wonderf
race, but in his social position and in II
own charac.er as one of the great nobl
men of the Old Testament? First, no
simple his life was compared with VIII
might have been, had he wished to NAL
show of splendor-lIow free, too, fro
that that grasping desire for power ar
place which is the curse of modern pc
itcaI9 life. Abraham conque
C ledoriaomer; and then. instead of Sc
tIng himself up as 4 rival to Melch:z
dek, meekly receives his blessing.
Let us passson9to job We think
him usually as model of patience al
resignation; hut he is Il great deal NOR
Job is model for all men of wealth
for merchants and bankers and farme,
He never forgot, as the rich men
our day do SO often, that all he posse
ed was a gift from God, and might
taken away by God without injusti
being done. He used his wealth, al
the power which it gave him, to he
those who were in need. When the e
heard him, then it blessed him; VIII
tie eye saw him, it gave witness to hi
because he delivered the poor that erie
and the tatherless, and him that h
none to help him; the blessing of h
that was ready to perish came up
him, and he caused the Widows heart
e<,-i,s f.,r Jnh rnn,o,,, ha,.oI