The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1875-07-23

4 And pray ye Tor the agedi
! With tOttering steps they stand
Upon the very borders
| OF the Everlasting Land
i Ask for them strength in weakness.
| And Faiths supporting rod;
| And through Deaths cold, dark water
| The strong right arm OF God.
THE intimacy begotten over a wire
bottle has no heart. never knew a
good feeling to come from it, or any
honest friendship made by it, 1t only
entices men and ruins them.-ThaekeTGy
The General Association of tie Con-
gregational Church in Dakota has con
neeted with it twelve churches, eleven
ministers, and membership of two
hundred and sixty-five
THE Catholic population of Pennsyl-
vania has doubled since 1869 1t is now
estimated at 100000. They have 622
churches, ehapels, ETC., and 541 priests
THE Baptists of Great Britain report
a clear increase of 10, ,5S2 members, du-
ring the past year, and the largest gain
they have had in one year since 1864.
THE Reformed Presbyterian Church
has one hundred ordained ministers, of
whom seventy-six have pastoral charges,
three foreign missionaries, four home
missionaries, eleven lieentiates, $500
eommunicants-a increase for the year
of 1870.
BISHOP HOWE mourns the decline in
Episcopal candidates for holy orders in
the diocese of Central Pennsylvania. In
1871 the number was AS, in 1874 it was
22S. Small salaries and few parsonages
are suggested as causes of this decline.
A WISE man dOubteth; a fool rageth,
and is confident; the novice saith, am
sure that it is so; the better learned an
swers, peradventure it may be so. but
prithee inquire. Some men are drunk
with fancy, and mad with opinion. ID is
little learning, and but a little, that
makes men conclude hastily. Expert
enee and humility teach modesty and
fear.-Jeremy Taylor.
A MAN of piety may be lodged in the
rudest cottage, and his occupation may
be only to sweep the street. Yet let
him so sweep a street that, through the
honest and diligent doing Of his duty,
God is giorilied, and men are led to
speak and think better Of Religion, and
he forms a link between heaven and
earth.
FEELING make th lively man; thought
maketh strong man; action maketh n
useful man-and all these together make
perfect man. Now, abide these three:
Feeling, thought, action, and the great
est Of these is action; but neither can
abide without the others. Some men
think much, feel little, and acs less.
They are universally unsafe and unlove-
ly men.
THE Moravian Church in this country
numbers Q, ,7O5 communicates, an in
crease Of over 400 during tine year. In
Guiding children and ndnon-eommuniennts
the strength of the denomination is 15,-
200. The seventy-five churches are lo-
Gated mainly in Pennsylvania, Ohio,
Illinois, Wisconsin and Minnesota.
THE present statistics of the Reformed
Church in the United STATS are: Gen
eral synod, 1 district synods, 6; classes,
A; ministers, 637; candidates for the
ministry, 107; congregations, / ,355S
members, IA, 351; Sunday-sehool sehoI-
ars 1924; contributions to general and
local benevolence in three years, S497,-
21726.
The Cumberland Presbyterians, ne
eOrding to the report Of the fraternai
delegate to the General Assembly of the
Presbyterian Church, reports church
property to the value of 81, 200, 600;
Presbyteries, 1OG; ministers, Lib; con
gregations, 2,O16; additions during the
year, IL, 9l6; communicates, 90, S32.
THAT which especially distinguishes a
high order of man from a low order Of
man-that which constitutes human
goodness, human greatness, human no
bIeness-is surely not the degree Of en-
Iightenment with which men pursue
their own advantage. But it is self
forgetfulness; it is selfsaeriliee; it is dis
regard of personal pleasure, personal
indulgence, personal advantage, remote
or present, because some other line OF
conduct is more right
ALoFT on the throne Of God, and not
below, in the footprints Of n tramPliDg
multitude, are the sacred rules Of right,
which no majorities can di>PIaee or over
turn ChdTies Sumner.
LET every person 50 live that he can
go to bed in peace with himselfat night
No matter who else fights with him,
don't let that little grumbler called con
science have good grounds for putting
in his roar.
Arr IL NOT IOsT-When Jeremy