The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-05-04
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n DAY OUT OF SEVEN.

n DAY OUT OF SEVEN.
Birds cannot always sing;
Silence at times they ask, to nurse spent feeling Il
To see some new, bright thing,
Ere a fresh burst Of song, fresh joy revealing.
Flowers cannot always blow
Some Sabbath rest they need Of silent winter
Ere from It's sheath below
Shoots up a small, green blade, brown earth to
splinter.
Tongues cannot always speak
o In this cloud world Of noise and %clatter,
Save us this oncea week,
10 let the sovn seed grow, not always CHATTER.
AN invitation has been sent to Moody
and Sankey from missionaries in India, to
visit that country.
In a Methodist Conference just held
for Northern New Jersey, the report
shows nine thousand hopeful conver-
sions.
IT is reported that the Ohio Open Com
munion Baptist Association has
increased to 1874 churches and 1000
members.
The Roman Catholics of Spain num-
Der 15, S07, 753, and the Protestants co.
900. Portugal has 1000, 900 Catholics
and scarcely any Protestants.
BETHANY COLLEGE, in Western Vir-
ginia, founded by Alexander Campbell,
is likely to be lost to the Christian de-
nomination for want of mea to meet a
claim of fifty thousand dollars against
it now.
THE three leading clergymen of Bos-
ton are Revs. Phillips Brooks, w. ii. HI.
Murray, and DR.. Lorrimer. They are
unlike in physical stature, mental
characteristics, and theological views,
but each one attracts a large audience.
OF the 10000 families which the
agents of the Southwestern Bible Society
have visited in Louisiana and Mississippi,
AZ, 600 were without the Bible. There
were 2,575 families visited in New Or
leans, S,511 of which had no Bible.
THE Northern Indiana Methodist Con-
ference reports 6,676 probationers and
25, 241 members, being a small increase
over last year. They instructed their
delegates to vote for a change in the Dis
cipline, so as to make the presiding elder.
ship elective.
The National Camp Meeting Associa'
ton will hold one of its meetings at the
Loveland Grounds, neal Cincinnati
commencing July 26. Arrangements are
on foot to provide additional improve
ments, so as to accommodate the large
attendance that is anticipated.
THERE is 10 question but the delegates
from the Southern Presbyterian Church
will be cordially received at the World
Convention of Presbyterians to meet il
July, in the city of Edinburgh, and tbei
presence, it is believed, will go far t
make the meeting of the Council a grea
success.
New YORK Sun: Some of the wealth,
Methodists are exerting themselve
strenuously in behalf of the Drew an,
WesleyanS eminaries, and they evidentl
do not mean that Uncle Daniels failur
shall jeopardize the institutions. Their
is good reason to believe that now
sufficient sum will be raised for q hand
some endowment for both of them. On
wealthy banker has given $40,0 600
each of them.
AS for the present strength of th
Methodist Church, its Church Extensio
0OCiCiJ lCBOAbo budU ~ -nuuDclo 1O,o<
travelling preachers, 1880, $50 member
, Sunday-school scholars numbering /
4O6, 1853, and possesses 1893 churc
edifices worth $75, 283, 1874. This is tt
showing of the Methodist Episcop'
! Church alone. If we add the statistic
of other forms of American Methods
. we have the grand total of 20,453 trave
ing preachers, S,173,000 members, ar
%, 600 houses of worship.
In the six hundred and twenty ligh
houses and twenty-three lightships
T the United States no provision has bes
g made by the government to furnish Il
e keepers and their families with readin
The American Bible Society has accor
ingly appropriated two hundred Bibl
for these stations. An appeal is no
n made for contributions of good books
all departments of literature, with
e view to the foundation of lighthou
y libraries. The clerk of the Lighthou
Board, Mr.. A. B. johnson, will recei'
and apply all donations. sent for tt
n purpose.