The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-10-08
sun BEAMS.

Now Sister Smiley rests from ber -
bors on the New Testament and 4. vr,t,po co,nm..l
tsry the Book OF joshua
More sensational preaching; this ti,,y
in Roch ester clergyman named Mann announces
discourse L" Hocus Focus" What next?
There are ia Protestant missionariel
in Japan one Of whom Chaplain OF the Kooe jail, ~
large store has been opened In Toxic for the salc
Boles. t
The Strong Place Baptist Churc
Brooklyn. having long cast longing eyes on the r.,
wayand Hoyt. now gives that eminent minister . ID
to be pastor.
"A wealthy Chicago Christian offers vi
take Moody and sankey tabernacle OF Of the hantS
Of the committee when the meetings over and Pan
$4,000 for IT.
In 177G there was but one clergyman ID
every 24oo Of the population. Now there 10 one u
every ZOO And vet there great many people oun
side Of regular religious privileges.
A minister's son, in Brooklyn, got into,
scrape not altogether unconnected with the alleged
larceny Of barrel, ana his father rushes 70 his
defence in a column OF newspaper print. y
In Italy the Jews are marching onwsrd
aud upward d, zen years ago jew had no political
or social rights there. Now. two of them have tst
been elected to scats In the Italian Senate.
An over-stuffed Sunday School child ia
North Carolina has committed to memory In MONTY
1915 Of the Bible. The Society for the Prevent
ZION OF cruelty 10 ChlldrCn should have an agency
that State. A
A downtown church. in advertising
it, prayer meeting, thus puts the invitation 81 Gomez
and bring that spends their time serving thf
devil" The grammar is poor, but the invitation ID
praiseworny. IA
-"whom shall we trust ?" is not an ordfy
nary conundrum but the title Of lecture Announced
by Brother Boancrges Fulton, ID. d.. oil BrooklyD{
Brother Futons brethren shake their heads and wnisS
per, as they give II up, &c. o. D. A
The First Reformed Church OF Newark
N j. parte with It's pastor, DR. 1ethune with great rot
greet The Doctor has had long and successful pastof
rate and leaves only because the condition Of his wfe
health renders proracted rlyel In Europsa neceseity
The Christian Brotherhood of New
bureh making vigorous assaults the business Of
liquor selling But the sale goes bri ky evef
ia those two groggerea the premises owned by the
Fulton street Church. Fulton and Ann streets, n{
this city When viii this thing stop 4
The Roman Voce della Veritd proposex
the celebration next January Of the Of
Henry the Fourth's submission to Pope Gregory q
Canossa II discaims any Idea OF Insulting the noble
German nation but says the event at Canossa showed
the greatness OF Chriss Vicar the Just humiliation
Of an enemy Of the Church. \;
The Old Catholic Congress has just been
held al Bresau with Prof Schultz Of Bonn Presdent
telegram in the Cologne Gdsette reports that IL ro{
solved to elicit an explanation to whether any o
saces exist the Of the State to the abolition Of
clerical cc ibacy and to take Of priests COM
erega,lOns on the proprety Of such abolition. A
Brother Henry Morehouse. distiny
eushed evangelist from England and Canada, nov
work IN Philadelphia He is Of medium stature. rahsx
stout, with pleasing expression, and a clear, uelo{
diOus voice. He turns his attention principally TO RiN
ing Bible readings The attendance his services II
Philadelphia is not very large, but those who go Tyf
close attention. n
The Howard Mission no longer carried
on the day school which II used to maintain, but ed
pends s benencent energies providing food raimend
ana homes for povertystcken children, and minister
ing 10 their religious needs on Sunday. The supdsx
school numbers about 600 children and is model Of
good order. Mr.. ii. f. Tompkins superintends IT. and
Chorister Perkins manages the music.
Tho extensive and expensive alters{
tons in the Tompkins Avenue Church. Brooklyn, ard
now completed, and the reconstructed buidiag will a
commodate about 400 people. all OF whom will noN
be able TO see and hear. Mr. Helmers ministry had
thus TAR been quite successful though crippled BY thd
Inconvenience and alterations OF the buidng. Thing3
viii now move on prosperously.
Lively times are expected at the church,
OF the colored brethren in Fleet street, Brooklyn ed
pecaly at the critical moment when collection win
be taken up by the two conflicting sets of trustee4
These brethren seem TO have . time OF gettin1
their difficulties harmonixed. Strangers who attend
the church for the purpose Of seeing the fun ard
earnestly erored to subscribe literally to both
FIX Missionary Evangelist Little, who
used to manage the Appleton mission In Brooklyn and
who ran away with the daughter " his chief benefac
tor now tur up IN the Tombs. not missionary
but as aculprt, pleading guilty 10 the OF emben
King the tum Of nifty dollars which somebody gave hiu
TO invest IN hymn books. The sentence which viii
probably be inflicted on hun In day two viii place
hun out Of the missionary aud hymnbook business fof
some little time to come.
An aged minister of Virginia, the RevI
Mr.. Ellison who has tho care of niue small churehss
that ever since he entered the ministry his salarx
has averaged $50 aycar This shows great sefdenist
and industry his part but the part the snner
TO whom he has administered. graceless niggards
penurousness. Heather islanders do better thef4
missionary teachers than tnis paying, when they have
no each, in pigs. fowls, and other merchandisot
Although the country people in some parts u Virginia
are poor they mis have contributed enough turkeysi
geese, and pumpkins to enable Brother Ellison to v&
IN Astate OF comparative comfort.
Here is "a case in church not faf
from New York. II RI times embarrassed tie congre-
CATION ana the pastor voluntarily nodated hims
self TO their sracncd circumstances by giving up half
his SALARY II was but iDe to suppose that GRATED
tude their part would stimulate them the prompG
psyment OF the reduced amount. Bat It had a con-
trary eject They seemed TO thnk, from the faciityi
with which the pastor lived on half Of what he hadl
previously becn getting. hst could just easily live
without any of So they stopped pAying him. Now
he resigns his charge aud some OF the people who were
opposed 10 him boast that they starved hun out 4
Tho new Congregational church in ST
Louis has stowcr forty I'VE feet higher than any othek
10 the city. comp etc and costly set OF chimes haa
Just been presented by wealthy physician. Four timea
day the bells are to he chmed from this tower. FoR
the prescn aud until the pubic become so weary as o
desire change, "Old Hundred" viii rous, the sleepS
crs at Fix IN the mornings at noon America viii stf
them 10 thoughts Of patriotism; and at siI In thG
evening Home sweet Home" will remind them tha4
II Is time to rui.h the days and go TO tea Th{
tune for niue o'clock In the evening not yet ana
nounced but Pat me In my little bee" Ia suggested
I" de iGhtfully appropriate.
There was a Ministerial Bureau " m
Boston, which found place. IN when unemployed
ministers might preach aud which furnished presch<
ers ir c"ugirgl tons temporarily needing theft
services II Uas sort of religious intelligence olce(
II has gone cut ~ business, owing to the depression Of
trade In its particular branch OF industry The chief
difficulty was ta al the du fellows who could get nd
resu ar chuches we're the ones who most often applied
for temporary PREACHING pisces anu the people got
tired OF h.tcnlng 10 them. Another trouble that
II was poor preach, poor pay" and the cOmmsslon(
which these brethren were able TO pay to the bureau
Tor m services were lou I'll all to enable It 10 maintAiK
an existence.
In fhp poptbprn fOnntipc of Miohiuar