Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-02-02

person to be imposed upon, but was
abroad for good time, and in one way
be had it, so did the rest of bis friends.
The Presbyterian Church of Belle
fonte, this State, has been sgitated
over the question Of "The Higher Life
Religion" as proclaimed BY certain
members Of the Congregation. "The
Higher Life" members have Withdrawn
from the Church proper, and worship
in another place in town. The Belle
| foote Wafchman tells of the trouble in
this way:
A Mr.. Washburne and wife aud a
Mr White, lRev. J. W. White, of Nil
roy,l who, in imitation of Moody and
Sankey, are trying to evangelize the
world, have been preaching "kigher
life" religion III the Presbyterian church
for the last week. It appears they
claim to have arrived at that state of
being wher ein the flesh no longer strives
with the spirit, and in which, If not al
together free from temptation, they are
always enabled to triumph over it
Their doctrine is not exactly that of
Sanctifcatiou, but approaches very near
to it.
We understand that these .sevaDgel.
lists" have been "going it" pretty
strong on their peculiar faith and de-
nouncing cur PIesbyterians friends in
Bellefonte, including some of the
church diguitaries, for living a worldly
and irreligious life, and failing to pro-
gress from day to day toward higher
plane Of existence. This kind of thing
it seems, didn't sui. some of the mem :
bers, and they did not hesitate to avow
their disbelief In the new doctrine. A
meeting of the session was called and
the matter discussed with great feeling
but no definite conclusion was reached,
we believe. But the embers OF oppo-
sition burnt steadily, and on Wednes-
day evening they burst out into great
blaze. While preaching their favorite
doctrine on that evening the .'evapgel-
lists we're interrupted and stopped by
members of the session, and informed
that their peculiar ideas did not suit
that locality Then the storm burst
in all its fury. The pastor, Rev. Mr..
Wiley, Edmund Blanchard, esq. and
one or two others took the side of the
s'evapgelists," and declared that it
should be preached there, and they
would preach it themselves in spite of
all opposition Mr. Humes, Mr. Furst.
Mr. Harris, Mr. lose and others took
the opposition side. And so it went.
The dispute waxed warmer and warm
er, until, We are informed, it grew bis
teriDg hot, and portion Of the con-
gregaiion left the church in disinay
aud anger. The whole congregation
are now talking about the prospect OF
big split in the walls Of Zion.
THE Carlisle Herald tells how the
Cumberland county treasury was sys-
tematically robbed by the Democratic
County Treasurer. It. had been ru-
,nored for several weeks that the audi
tors OF that county had detected irrea-
ularities, but no oIe knew TO what ex-
tent until full expose appeared in this
weeks Hera!d. And this is one of the
ways in which it was done:
s.How was it done BY the simplest
method in the world A package OF
stamped envelopes were bought at the
po.toifce. The charge made therefore
was eighty-6ve cents but the county
paid S2.S5. 1t was very easy to put a
figure two before the eighty five in the
original bill. A board was bought for a
bridge; it cost City cents. The bill
shows that repairing that bridge cost
S5050. Tin cups needed repairing /;
the timers bill for the job was sixty
FIVE cents; the county paid s. Co.
This peculiar way of cheating is the
mpiest known. 1t is the easiest de-
tected of any of the numerous appli-
ances used by those people who live BY
their wits. In common parlance it is
known as "raising." Many a man has
filled a criminals cell for :'raising a
check" from the tens to the hundreds.
How much beyond the hundreds this
"raising" has gone We fear will not be
known. unless the people command a
thorough Investigation"
The barn of VIM. Van Sweringen, OF
Bealetown, Tuscarora twp, was destroyed
by fire on Monday last, about IL O'Clock
A. NJ. The fire originated in the straw
stack in front of the barn, but how it came
there is not known Fortunately there was
no live stock in the barn at the time.-
There was an insurance Of SiO0 on the
barn.
TEACHERS ISsrrrurEs.-A Adjourned ln-
vile, Friday evening, Jan 2Sth, and Satur-
day, 20thi Thompsontown, Feb. llth and
18th; Port ROYAL, Feb. 25th and 26th; Nc
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