The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-01-07
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+ Mr. -CPURGEON, the great. l@OhuoA
4 preacher, has come out strongly agains
the expulsion of the Bible from public
elementary schools. .oi.l2 2 .sei .1oil 3.
T. Rev. GHkTNcEY WILLIAM MS, the as
sistant rector of st. Phillips parish, AT
lanta, has accepted cali to the Episcopal
parishof Macon, Georgia ~ (; ~ ,''. Pa ~, Z
q CoNTRfBUTTeNs of members of the
Methodist church for all purposes, during
the. yeaFhn0w closing, are estimated at
Sic, g49,509s &c., y 49, 3, si42es ss1ai 90. :
DR. SeHEREscHEwsKYe has again de-
cided not to accept the bishopric of China,
towhieh helwa elected by the Protestant
Episcopal House of Bishops % :, 1880
EasTHE Rev, John S. Young takes charge
of the Second Presby teriah church, Nash
.yilleS as. a. regular supplysF The Rev. Mr..
/ Young is the son of, DR.. Young, formerly
secretary Of State of Tennessee, 90 b.ra Z
THE PresByterian Board of Foreign
Missions announces that its receipts for
/ the past six months amount to only $97, :
SSS, leaving S453, ,0SS to be raised during
the coming six MONTHS 80 rdi .7-si I !
~ The attendance upon the Bethel Sun
day,school, Cincinnati, has been as, fol,
lows ON the dates given October 81,
3, 2,0S4; November Z, 2, ,I4s; November IA,
2,3l4; November q, 2,6S7; November
2S, 1903. -r = Ha 1Ha taa, q ~ ~
Z THE First Presbyterian church of
Selma, made vacant by the removal of
| the Rev. DR.. w. J. Lowry, has invited
the Rev. Alfred J. Morrison, the evan
gelist of Mecklenburg Presbytery, North
Carolina, to supply its pulpit fer year.
ID II I Of
Hebrew Orphan Asylum of New York,
and recently teacherof the Hebrew school
of Montreal, G. E., has received a call
| from Charleston, $. O., to which place
he will shortly remove as minister of the
Jewish congregation of that city.
The statistics of the fifty, second Rap-
tist convention of Connecticut show that
the convention embraces 129 churches,
1868 communicates, 137 Sunday-schools
and 1852 Sunday-school pupils. The
sum of SD, I42 was raised during the
year for the aid of weak churches in the.
State; 81 churches received aid.
THE report of the Wisconsin Baptist
convention showed that the church had
-h1ado a-pet gain of $50 members. Five
Enew,ho6ses Of worship had been dedi-
Gated and eight new churches formed.
There had also been net addition of
twenty three new ministers, though four
teen churches are now without ministers.
The. Protestant Episcopal almanac for
1876 reports the following statistics of
the church for the past year: Bishops, 81,
bishops elect, 3; other clergy, 8, 122; mum
ber of clergy deceased, A; baptisms, 49,,
053; confrmations, %, ,095; Communicates,
261 ,003; marriages. $500; burials, 49,
969; candidates for orders 29S. Ordina-
tions-DeacOns, 110; priests, %; Sunday
school teachers, %, AS; scholars, 235, ,943;
contributions. Sc, 500, ,305 81.
The principal body of Protestant
Christians in Spain is "The Spanish
Christian Church" constituted in 1871
by union of the Spanish EvaRgelization
Society and the Evangelical church of
Spain. This church, divided into four
presbyteries, claims 5000 hearers; but its
statistics are very imperfect. CarrascO,
the delegate to the Evangelical Alliance,
lost on the Vile du Havre," was for
merly its foremost minister, as Cabrera
now.
NIGHT it not he sacrifice acceptable
to God for some of our wealthy families,
in our Iarge cities and elsewhere, to take
their letters from the prominent and
prosperous churches and enter the strug-
Cling mission churches as humble mem
bers? If the element of "good society"
in the humble clapboaTd mission were
weighed against that of the grand church,
it might, after all, appear that the pre-
ponderance is in favor of the clapbOard
mission Not in French; not in the cor
rect color of kids; not in graceful self
possession and charming polish, but in
the presence of the Master. The masses
will never listen to a gospel preached
down at them.-hteriOr. .
THERE are two ways of doing thing,
and the Rev. DIR. Grittiths, vicar of Liam
lido, Wales, has shown how true courtesy
can win III the most delicate situation.
Mr.. John Roberts, deacon of the Calvin
istic Methodist church, has just been
buried in the parish churchyard. The
vicar, instead of Extensively planting him
self upon his legal rights, followed the
hearse, accompanied by brother vicar
from Llanfynydd, and read the Church
of England burial service. He then in
vited the Rev. DR. Charles, of Aberdovey,
Calvinistic Methodist minister, to de
liver an address. DIR. Charles said the
noble burial service of the Church of
England was peculiarly adapted TO the
case of their Methodist brother. The
who affair gave great satisfaction
Chri'tidR ut Work.
Two incidents significant Of the grow
ing comitv of North and South have re
Gently occurred in the Episcopal church.
st. James church. Chicago, which was
notable in the northwest for the intensity
of L Mon sentiment among its parishoners,
and in whose vestibule stands a mOnu-
ment to the young men of the parish who
fell fighting for the Union, has just taken
as its rector Rev. DIR. Harris, of New Or
leans, during the war ar officer in the
Confederate service, who afterward took
orders; and Trinity church, New Orleans,
formerly Bishop Polk's parish, has just
invited to its rectorship Rev. DIR. ThOmp-,
son, Of Chicago, who during the war was
one of the most outspoken Union men
among the Episcopal clergy in the north
west. arH f.s-g
4 WRITER in the UDiversalist calls at
tention TO the change IN the method of
revivalists- change which enables Uni
versalists to sympathize with the revival
work of other denominations. He says:
Love is acknowledged as the stronger
and diviner motive. DOgmatism is kept
measurably III the background. The grace
OF OOu ana splTlbudl HtcuS vi tlic SOul
are the principal elements relied upon.
It is less sectarian, less erroneous and
selfish than any hitherto known among
our evangelical brethren. On their
present ground we can cooperate, and
wish them God-speed; and if they are
still so exclusive as to fail to reciprocate,
we can 90, as did Paul, when his disci-
pleship was called into question by the
elders at Jerusalem, and prove by the
soul-fruits OF our labor that the Holy
Ghost is with US, blessing our prayers
and preaching"
BISHOP MCQUAID, of Rochester, has
been invited by the Free Religious As
sociation to present the Catholic view of
the school questionin Boston, on Sunday
afternoon in February, and has con-
sented to do 50. On the following Sun
day, Mr., Francis Z. Abbott editor of the
Index, viii present an argument for the
'Liberals.' in favor of the complete see
ularization of the public schools. This
question, like every other in this country,
can be permanently settled only after q
fair hearing of all the parties interested.
If the association would next invite a