The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-05-31
RELIGIOUS ITEMS,

The happy time is near at hand when bu
one sermon per diem of Sunday will cal
forth the drowsy Christian.
1t isn't the National Society of Drunkard
as it looks at the first glance-but o
Dunkards, that met the other day in Car
linville, Ill.
A Chicago minister preached sermon
last Sunday eulogizing theatres and certain
actors, among others Maggie Mitchell, who
with her husband, listened to the sermon.
Brother of Knox comfy, thus
prayed during recent service: ooh Lord
have mercy on the old gray-headed fathers
and mothers with one foot in the grave and
the tother no business out of it,"
The Roman Catholic Bishops of Glasgow,
Scotland, and Hexham and Newcastle
England, have applied to the Prussian
Government for leave to visit the Archbishop
of Cologne in prison, but have been refused.
"a man under sentence of death at Gull
pepper, Va, has requested the privilege of
being publicly baptized in Mountain Rum
Possibly with the hope that by the assist
ance of some friend outside he may be able
to mount an run.
The Roman Catholic priest who has gone
among the lepers of Moloki, in the Sand
tiled many of those unhappy outcasts,
deserves to bear away the palm for true
Christian charity.
A Maine clergyman says that if the bones
of all the victims OF intemperance could he
gathered and made into pyramid, no plain
could be found large enough for its base to
rest upon, and the planets would have to be
swept aside to make room for its apex.
The Church of the Heavenly Rest" in
New York, has recently paid off debt
of $4,000. When the prospect of raising
the sun was dubious, it was unanimously
decided to change the name of the church if
the money was not collected, because there
could be no heavenly rest with such debt
to carry.
A dispensation has arisen among some sec
tiOns of theWesleyan Methodists in reference
to the use Of Wesley's abridged form OF the
liturgcal service of the English Com
munion. 1t has been most active in the
north of England, where it has resulted in
many members of the Wesleyan body jou-
ing the Anglican Church.
A Boston clergyman relates, as his early
experience, that he engaged to preach for a
society for $50 year. Upon settlement
at the end of the year, he found that the
committee had an item of $40 charged to
him for the use of the pulpit to practise in.
One of the deacons, however, by way of
sympathy for the pastor, presented him with
pair of boot tops.
The question whether brewer is eligible
to the office of elder in the Free Church of
Scotland has been raised by three gentle
men connected with that church at Inver-
ness, who believe that the businesa of
brewing is detrimental to the best interests
of society and the advancement of religion,
and wish the Free Church to raise It's testi-
mOny against the trade by declaring that
brewer, however unimpeachable may be
his character, or however sound the doc
trine he processes, is not fit to assist in the
oversight of congregation. Their views
are not sanctioned by session. Presbytery
or synod, and they have appealed to the |
assembly.
In the Roman Catholic Cathedral at Balti-
more there are said to be richer treasures
than i'll any other church in this country.
Jewelled ciboriums, gold and silver chalices
all sOlld-patenas and remOnstrances,
elaborate chausubles, mitres, copes, dalma
tiques, rockets, stoles, maniples, benedic-
ton wells, and other ecclesiastical vestments
are all carefully preserved in its tabernacles
and sacristies. Some of the ornaments are
relics of the past. Among others, the gilded |
,rozer episcopal crook used by Archbishop
Carroll eighty-five years ago occupies CON
'picuOus place, as also the rich mitres worn
~ himself--and departed successors on the
lays of their enthronement. Even the ca
,hedral vaults are shrlnes of treasures, as
besides the solid silver ornaments of the
burial baskets, in which repose the remains
It archbishops, there are archepiscopal
ings worn by each during his government
# the diocese.
The following table will give view of the
Methodist Churches of the world: