The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1875-12-02
RELIGIOUS ITEMS
The lie in which We believe is Prefera-
, tho truth which We discuss

The lie in which We believe is prefera-
to the truth which we discuss.
-"Horse doct'rin'" is what a profane
California jester calls the preaching of the
Rev. Adirondack Murray.
Rev. II. J. Crist has to labor along at
his post in Brainard, MINI, on $500 year
for self and family.
Miss Z. Z. Angel has become the an
gel of the Universalist church in Kitterv,
Md, by assuming the duties of pastor.
Twenty-Five Catholic Sisters, expelled
from Germany by Bismarck, will spend the
winter in Washington, Iowa.
Six Catholic churches are in process OF
erecti.n in the vicinity of Brooklyn, and
Bishop Laughlin intends 10 make the total
number fifty.
The Rev. DR.. Henry ". Storrs, Secre-
tary of the American Home Missionary So
ciety and relative of the Brooklyn DIR.
Storrs, has been called TO the pastorate of
the Broadway Church IN Norwich, Con-
necticut.
81 am happy to be able TO contribute
to the elevations among the Princes of the
Church OF prelate who has shown so much
virtue."- Marshal MacMahon, comforting
the barreita on tie Cardinal Archbishop of
Rennes.
A revival is raging at Amandaville,
Ky, under the management of local Tai
mage, who says: Il know I am fool,
and glory in it; Just such as am God
sent out TO knock the socks from under the
sinners heels"
The Universalists have abandoned
their efforts 10 establish memorial church
at Washington. Six thousand dollars
only were subscribed, and the trustees were
convinced that further prosecution of the
work would be futile.
w. III. johnson, Postmaster at Colum-
bus, Ga, has applied for license TO preach
the Gospel in the Methodist Church. 1t ia
not stated whether he will resign l.'s Office
or not.
When Bishop George E. Pearce, of the
Methodist Church south, was young man,
Rev. John Collingsworth opposed his be-
ing licensed to preach because the cut and
trimming Oh his coat were not OF the regu-
lar style.
There are 2i7 churches, 256 Sunday
schools and H. 900 scholars in the bounds
of the Conference of the NJ. Z. Church,
South, of Missouri, while $4,000 has been
paid TO preachers during the year, $1,000 to
persiding elders and S2l 900 for Conference
fund.
Proceedings under the Church Discip-
line Act are, at the request of the Bishop
of Bangor, TO be instituted against the Rev
William A. Roberts, the rector of Landry
fran, in the diocese of Bangor, Wales, on
the charge Of being drunk on forty coca
sions.
A New York rabbi says that he has
recently performed the rite of circumcision
on thirty eight Christian adults, who have
desired to be admitted TO membership in
the Jewish Church. But add that a rich
bride was the cause of each of these CONVEX
sions
The membership of the Methodist
Church in the bounds of California numbers
0505 including 2,aO9 probationers. The
total increase for the past year is 1,IO2.
The Nevada Conference of the same church
numbers sol members, including 60 proba-
tioners and Is local preachers.
Over the pulpit of Michigan church,
according to The Odd Felor, published in
that State, is this inscription mo man
shall preach in this Church who does not
kneel when he prays no man shall preach
in this Church who uses manuscript no
man shall preach in this Church who be-
longs to any secret society,""
Over 400 persons asked to be prayed
for at the Moody and Sankey meeting in
Brooklyn Thursday, and it is said seven
men were carried out fainting. The oc-
casion was q memorable one to many souls.
1t seems that Mr.. Moody expounds sort
OF muscular Christianity, and the getting of
II is in part a muscular process.