The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1875-07-24
RELIGIOUS.

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Rev. DR.. Edison, for over so years rec,
tor of st. Anne's Church at Lowell, will
soon establish an orphans home in thai
city, which Is to be In charge Of Prot
estant sisterhood.
A proposition to permit congregations
to use unfermented wine at communions
was voted down by the Wesleyan Com
ference of Great Britain at its recent
annual session, by "a to II. 1t was de.
cided that the present mode of admins.
terlng the Lords supper ''does not need
son takes bis tipple "neat," and is un.
sound on the question of prohibition.
| During revival meeting held by
berwell Hall, London, Thursday night,
panic occurred, resulting In the death OF
injury OF number of persons. The hall
was densely packed, and several hum
dred people crowded the streets in front
OF the building, endeavoring to gain ad.
mission. The crush was so great and
| the crowd SO turbulent that the people
became panic-stricken, and an effort was
made to clear the building. The pres
sure from the outside, however, pre-
vented any egress, and during the ex.
citement many Of the audience were
knocked down and trampled upon. Sew
eral were killed and many seriously In.
jured.
One OF the missionary efforts which
has apparetly been hopeless is the work
among the Jews, which has been prose-
cuted for considerably more than half
century by the London Association for
Promoting Christianity Among the Jews.
| The society, however, holds persistently
and has q liberal backing. The contri-
buttons given 1t last year amounted
to over $4,000, and the missions sup
ported are chiefly at Amsterdam, Berlin,
Paris, C0nstantinople, and other places
on the European continent. The work
is also prosecuted in the principal Eng
lish cities. In Poland and Russia there
is an inviting field. In England last
| year there were eighteen recorded con-
versions of adult Jews, a result which is
regarded as being highly encouraging.
Christians of other denominations are
not willing to allow their brothers and
sisters of the Methodist Church to enjoy
monopoly of the pleasant and profit
able things to be found along the path
| way of Christian life. Many of the meth.
DDS that gave their name to the followers
of John Wesley have been adopted by
others, and now there is prospect that
camp meetings peculiar to them will be
so no longer. The Baptists are already
arranging for such meeting at Martha'a
Vineyard, and though they are conserv.
alive and SLOW to move, they do pretty
| thorough work when they set about
| thing, and the Methodists must bestiI
themselves or their brethren will have
| more interesting and profitable meeting
than themselves. Before many years we
| may see the Congregationalists, the Uni
yersalists, the Presbyterians, the Unita-
rians, who are second to none in their
| appreciation Of the advantage Of social
| gatherings, the Episcopallans, and even
the Catholics having their meetings in
"God's first temples"
The Protestant conversions at Come.
| mara have been investigated, and prove
| to be- either fictitious or fictitious in all
cases, it is said. Connemara is q wild
and barren country, on the Atlantic
shores OF Ireland, scantily populated.
and of those who dwell there the major.
ity are wretchedly destitute, living in
novels of the meanest description. Here
the Irish church mission society have
planted missions with small churches
and schools. John Yates, member of
the Liverpool town council and school
board, alter inspecting the "work," de-
clares in the Liverpool Post that"I have
failed to find one bona-fde convert from
| the Catholic faith to Professionalism, and
l firmly believe there is none. By a bo.
na-tde convert l, Of course, mean per.
son who from religious conviction alone,
and uninfuenced by worldly considera
| tions in the shape of pecunlary benefit,
employment, and gifts of meat, clothing,
and such like, has been induced to leays
his faith and adopt another" All the
ostensible converts, he declares, are sim
ply those who preferred to abandon theiI
religion rather than starve. This meth.
| cd OF conversion is called "Jumperism,n
it seems, and this Mr. Yates denounces
as zone Of the grossest religious impos
| lures of the day, a scandal to Christiati-
| ity, and money-extracting device wor.
| thy of the scorn and contempt of every
honest man."