Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1876-11-22
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

IA prayer-meeting is held in CON
nection with the Vermont Legislature
every morning. and the members at
tend in large numbers and show great
devoutness. The Montpelier Journal
says: Among those attending and
deeply interested in the meeting are
some who have never attended prayer
meetings at their homes. The singing
is inspiring, the spirit of the meeting
Is excellent. the prayers are fervent
and the addresses are convincing and
sometimes truly touching"
49, The two small bodies in this coun-
try that observe the Jewish Sabbath
are, according to the Independent, de-
veloping an affiliation likely 10 result
in union; the Seventh Day Baptists
are about 200 years old; the Seventh
Day Adventists scarcely twenty. The
former, though only differing essen
italy from other Baptists on this ques-
ton, have had no formal fellowship
with them or any other Christian body.
The latter split from the regular Ad-
ventiSts in the general breakup fol-
lowing the repeated failure of the cal
culations of the end of the world, and
hold that the coming of Christ is to be
invisible, and his work spiritual
cleansing: the Seventh Day Baptists
have appointed committee to prepare
statement of the differences between
the two bodies.
In a Connecticut village church
member had grudge against his pas
tor. At the evening prayer-meetings
freedom was given to all who wanted
to speak, and the brother improved the
opportunity, not by making angry or
scurrilous harrangues, but by quoting
passage after passage from the Bible
descriptive of the peculiarities of the
pastor. At needing after meeting,
with voice and manner az meek as
those of Moses at his meekest, he
would recite these passages, with not
a word of comment, but throwing all
the comment into the meditation of
his voice and the expression Of his
countenapce. He finally got even with
the minister, who, worried out of all
patience, handed in his resignation.
The church is now vacant and will be
a promising field Of labor for any cler-
gyman, old or young, whose spiritual
hide is as repellant as alligator leather.
Chicago Tribune.
There was q double service in q
Methodist church at Nottingham, Man
itoba, on recent Sunday. A quarrel
had divided the congregation, and each
party claimed to be dominant. Each
had called new minister, and the two
clergymen were ON hand to begin their
labors. The first to arrive took pos
session of the pulpit, and the other sat
behind the chancel rail- The man in
the pulpit gave out a hymn, The other
man gave out another. and both were
sung confusedly by the rival sections
of the assembly. Then the man be-
hind the railing started off on bis ser
mon, and the other began 10 read a
chapter of Scripture. Wher the read
ing was over, and it was plain the
preaching was going to last much long
er, the partisans of the reader sang an
other hymn with q loud organ accom-
paniment. The musical noise drowned
the voice of the Clergyman in the pull
pit, but when il was over he was
found to be preaching right along, as
though nothing unusual had happened.
The clergyman in the chancel. less
cool, was unable to fix his thoughts
on a discourse, and so remained silent
and beaten. At the close Of this ex-
traordinary scene deacon explained
that it had been enacted "under legal
advice, and to further the cause of
Christ. "-Christian Heler