The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-09-11

sons mas recently Oeen maue 10 In
Presbyterian Church in Holder
Mo.
It is reported that an effort wi
be made to have DR.. De Koye
/, elected to succeed the late Bishq'
Whitehouse, of Illinois.
At the English Wesleyan Con
ference one hundred and eigh
candidates were recommended 70
admission, of whom ninety-foul
were accepted.
Seventy persons were rCceivei
into full membership in the SIKH
street Methodist Episcnpti Charci
in Portsmouth, Ohio, on the frs
Sunday in August.
The corner stone of the Memoir
isl Baptist church, of Phila !rlphia
was laid on August 5. The build
ling will be amphitheatricaliu form
land cost $4,000.
The Mariners Church in Boston.
for so many years the scene Of
Father Taylor's successful minis.
traions, is to be pulled down.
Business crowds it out.
The Minutes of the Congrega-
tional Church, in Illinois, shows
35,177 members, an increase in the
churches reporting of 1885, be-
ing 6I5 greater than the previous
year.
1t is stated that eighteen acres
of land and $40,000 in money have
been subscribed toward building
a theological seminary OF the
Swedish Lutheran Church, at
Rock Island, Illinois.
The Rev. VIM. H. Steele, DID,,
of Newark, N. j., was elected Pres
ident of the Board of Foreign
Missions of the Reformed
Church, in the place of DR.. Thomas
De Witt, deceased.
| At the Congregational grand
National Council at New Haven,
the last of September, the princi-
pal question will be the advisable
ity of consolidating under fewer
heads the benevolent societies of
the Church.
In the year 1851 the sittings pro-
vided in Wesleyan chapels in Bri-
tan in $685. places of worship,
numbered 1,160, 292; in the year
1873 the number of chapels and
preaching places had increased to
7,4s6, with 1,723,9S0 sittings.
The London Israelites have
rabbi, Hirsh damon, who rivals
Spurgeon in the earnestness and
fervor of hisj eloquence. Zetland
Hall, where he breaches, is crowd
ed every time he appears to preach,
and Gentiles as well as Jews flock
to his ministry.
The Missouri State Sunday
school Convention which met at
Springfield last week was not
largely attended. F. Halves, Esq,
of St Louis, was elected President,
and j. r. Parsons, Esq, Secretary.
Nothing was done of any import
ance. The tone and weight of the
Convention can be easily estimated
by the following resolution: IRE
solved, That all Sunday-schoOl
teachers should throw aside ques-
ton books, catechisms, and confine
themselves strictly to the study
Of the Bible, and to committing
verses to memory by the stu
dents"
Mr.. Sturgeon has recently ad-
misnistered very strong rebuke
to an oracular person who sent
him O letter containing the adj
vance information that God in
tended the attack of govt, which
was then affecting the great
preacher, as a judgment upon him
for his opposition to the Church
of England. eff q swollen Leg"
says Mr.. Sturgeon, "proves that a
man is under Gods displeasure,
what would a broken neck prove?
We ask the question with special
reference to the late Bishop of
Winchester. AS for the informa-
ton that, on account of our speech
at the Liberation Society's meet
ing, we shall soon have another at
tack, and, in all probability will be
carried off by it, we will wait and
see if it be true"