The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-02-11
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I'VE bltIi>t piCdCAiSfS
New York boastsef church sexton
worth a million Of dollars.
In Illinois the Disciples have seven
hundred and thirty churches.
The Pope is not exactly an impecu-
NOUS prisoner. His income for OctO-
Der was 81, 100000.
The Episcopal Convention at Chica-
go list week elected Rev DR. Jos. De
Koven Bishop of Illinois.
The Pope has thanked the Emperor
Francis Joseph for his considerate APP
plication of the Austrian ecclesiastical
laws.
The steeple of OldSt. Paurs, Lon
don, was finished in 1929, fired by light
ming in 14i4-the entire church was
burned 1866.
The Rev. Thomas T. Dudley, late
Rector of Christ Church, Baltimore,
was, Jan. q, eonsecrated Assistant
Bishop of Kentucky.
A circuit preacher in Missouri
prayed for rain one Iightat a farmers
house, and the farmer, who had a
horse race arranged for next day, was
30 mad that he turned the good man
out of doris.
The statistics of the Memphis Con-
ference, NJ. L. Church, South, show
that there are 80, 264 white members
Last year, 29,964; 7 colored mem
bers-none last year; 282 local preach
ers, as last year.
At the installation of a Uniyersalist
pastor, in San Francisco, the opening
prayer was delivered by Unitariln,
the Scriptures were read by Jewish
Rabbi, a Presbyterian offered the sec
ond prayer, the sermon was preached
by ii Congregationali-t, and the Oh lrge
to the pastor and address to the people
were given by Unitarians.
The B,ptist Union says that the
progress of open communion sentiment
in their denomination sis surprising
and most encouraging. At the rate
of growth which has developed for
three years past we shall soon reach
in America the happy position already
affirmed in Engllnd, where the ques-
ton has ceased to agitate or divide"
Rev. DR. Behrends, Of the First
Baptist Church, Cleveland, Ohio, in
his recent sermon on the communion
question, has created a tremendous
tempest among his brethren. One of
his hct-shot is this: II have felt for
wears that our doctrines of Restricted
Communion has been ordinarily so
formulated and defended as really to
shock the moral sense of Christendom.
Oar traditional reply, that We were no
more restricted than Others, has not
been satisfactory. Silence Tor time,
the protest has broken out afreSh, and
with increased vehemence. Searching
for the reason, | was soon convinced
that the vitality and emphasis If the
protest were due to the deep-seated
feeling that our attitude, as under
stood, involved the claim of Scriptur-
al monopoly of right to the sacred
feast. This constitutes the CALLING
implication Of what has been widely
accepted as the Only consistent Bap-
fist doctrine. Our practice involves
no such claims. Our readiness to en-
gage cordially in all Christian enter
prises with our evangelical neighbors,
is practical denial of such all assump-
ton; regarded, however, by our neigh
bors, as out of harmony with fearless
and consistent maintenance and en-
f0rcpmpptOf DIR common creed They
have felt that a merely formal forbsar-
ance was really shame and an i'm
pertinence, that it involved us in in
consistency and unmanliness, and that
it vas br1adside of insult in their
faces, submitting them to treatment
akin to that by which waste meat is
cast to passing dogs.