Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1875-11-21
SUNDAY READING.

starting a mission of the Baptist denomi
nation to include Carson and Reno
He preached in the Opera House ii
Reno last Sunday evening. On that oe
casion it ''sprink1ed quite lively" Will
! q Fisher and Batemsn and the amour
of water We were blessed with last week
| the mission ought to be success.
Rev. d. Hammond, Presiding Elder
visited Gold Hill last Sunday anf
preached to large and attentive audi
encs. He spent Monday last in Carson
Rev. c. II. Marshall. OF Eureka
passed through Carson on Tuesday
evening last, and was the guest Of Pay
son Kelly. We learn tina! he went t6
Gold Hill TO pass his second and third
examinations which he did success
fully-snd will receive his second ordi-
nation Mt st. James Church, Eureka, on
the 5th of December.
Our telsgraphic reports as to the
Moody and SaDkey business. are not as
full rs at first. Attendance falling of.
Doesn't seem to take with the Brooklyn
peopls as the last church sensation did.
The following is from a New York reiig-
ions Journal:
1t is shown in our foreign nevs, that.
the mission Of -iessrs. Moody and
Sankey, while it WAS failure as 20 Great
ing PERMANENT religious interes. in
England, was notoriously failure in
reaching the masses. The attendants
we're of the middle and better classes,
aud generally church soin. people The
Same appears TO be the case In the re-
vivnl now holding in Brooklyn. Tho
ErGging Post Of Saturday says:
Mr.. Moody tells us that, thus fax al
least, the congregations which have
gathered at the Rink and Tabernacle
have been composed chiefly Of per.ons
who are already msmbsrs of churches,
ard it needed only glance at the audi
ence III thc RINK last night TO reveal the
fact that not many were there Who arc
unaccustomsd 10 attending religious ser
vices. There has been no general
awakening here, As there was in London,
among the debased and ignorant masses.
There is no great reformation working
among the vicious. the idle, the danger
Gus classes of Brooklyn's population.
We shall need no mission-cbspels or
visiting committees to gather and pre-
serve the harvest reaped by the Evan
geli.ts.
The Rev. DIR. Chambers, Of Philsdel-
phia, tine great temperance War Horse
died short time since in that city. The
Rev. John Bliss. of New Jersey, closes
q nine column sermon Of eulocy with
these words:
And now, dear friends. suffer two re-
marks in conclusion. First, AZ TO the
'u,urs Of this church. The pastor. SO
admired and 50 fondly loved, is
gone, but the church remains-the living
:hurch Of the living God. 1t will be
watched over by both Prssbytery and
-hrist, and will be dear to both.
This reminds US of the Arkarsas Re
,iv.list who said, 4 have, during the
past two weeks, converted over four
hundred souls-with little help from
Divine grace"
A native Hindoo church st Nagercoil,
lear Cape Comorin. supports its own
,astor, . catechist, Tires schoolmaStsrs,
ro Bible women, and hospital assist
mt. Besides all this, it aids hberally
'arious outsids charities. Here is AL |
: example of the believers
II We had but one church in Carson |
70 might "raise the native Hindoo a
title. But perhaps We have more ''pro-
.ssors than believers"
1t will be clear to-day and ST. the
hurches open. Go early and often. Be
n time. The pernicious practice Of
coming late" disturbs the minister and
aterle-ss with the devotions land oh
of the congregation.
GLEASIsGs.
Augustine preached only eight min
les, and ssaln two hours. the homi-
ss Of the early fathers, as a rule, are
hort. The Christian duties were dis
.tched quickly; bat when they came to
le Pelagians they drew the long bow.
uther was somstimcs long. then very
lort. Calvin rarely preached more
ian half an hour. often less. He took
areI to task for making his sermons
70 long Whitefeld declared that a
an eloquent as an angel ought not to
reach mre than forty minutes.
Faith addresses itself to mans whole
.ing: i. sounds every depth; it touches
rery spring; it Gala back the soul from
5 weary search within itself, full Of
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