The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-01-16
6UNBEAMS.


long and bitter. Both sides refuse to oe pacined
An English paper says that IL is thought
In quarters that the jews going to purchase
the Holy Land Of Turkey. with view 10 going there in
a body.
The new Chaplain OF the House OF
Representatives his gown and bands hnees on
cushion and reads from tie service Of the Episcopal
Church
There are in New York city, south Of
the Harlem rver Jour hundred and nifty EIGHT church
buildings thirty three Of which are not yet quite
finished.
The Bishop Of Gloucester opposes the
suggested union between the Church Of Eng aud and
the Greek Church. and has preached In hls Cath,dr
sermon the subject.
"A new monthly paper has been started
at Bellcfonte Pa the speciality Of which lie &c teach
Christian people now to their money In All orderly
and systematic manner.
The colored folks Of Charleston ara
going to have Episcopal church which Will h,d
a thousand OF them. Bishop Howe OF Pennsyl,anls
laid the corner stone a few days ago.
The Journal dc Gcn6Uo contradicts q
rumor that Father Hyacinthe contemplated visit to
America. He has been pressed to deliver religious
addresses there, but 10 not able to comply this wn,R
| and will give = series OF lectures At Lausanne.
Tho Rev. Mr.. Livesey was pastor Of
Methodist Church at Drsntree Mass. lie died Al HI,
wife continues business At the old stand" by upplr
| ing the pulpit which his death made vacant. lthto
ported thst q lady lie giving great satisfaction
There - great revival at the Grace
street Baptist Church IN Richmond Va. They Keep ID,
baptstry ready all the time for the baptism Of
converts Since the LIST OF January over one hundred
have been baptized. and asmany more are nearly RAD
The Moody and Sankey meetings in
Philadelphia close to-day. During the past us
have been greater than before. The
| OF the evangcsts In nne condition aud ready ioI
work at the Hippodromc. mammoth choir IN traio.
| ing for the Hippodrome services.
| The (Scotch) Fourth Presbyterian
Church Thirty fourth street running dorn. ttd
In almost hopeless condition. But its people ier
| weeks ago called the Rev. Mr. Kerr OF PhAstiIt5s
who Is nng up the empty benches, and the fOtsre a
| the church ooks exceedingly promising.
The Rev. DIR. Duryea has begun 4
course Of normal lectures on Sunday echooi work 10
the sunday school teachers OF Brooklyn The opcl1s
lecture last Thursd3y evening crowded the Hanson
| Place baptist Church. Its sunJcct "AttentIuu"
and the teachers were attentive all the way through
"A congress of Sunday school editors,
publishers writer's and workers IL called for the a
March, TO meet at Panncd, n. j. and to inuc fos
Ave days for the discussion Of some Of the mpor
tsnt questions Of the day bearing on Sunday school
WORK. Addresses are 10 BIO delivered by eminent men.
The missionaries in Canton, China, have
offered four prizes for tracts the importance OF ns
Christian religion, as a means OF eevaUng the morals
OF the Chinese nation. Naive Cinnamon have entered
into sharp competition and fortytwo manuscripts are
| subultt,u, AL In characters Ike those we tho
tea chests and nrc-crl ckcr boxes.
The bell i'm the stecple OF the Colleg ate
Dutch Reformed Church at the Of f'in arstgs
| a d Forty.eighth street Is the that u
Amsterdam IN 1891 ana pres ntcd to the Mid liosa
Church, the bui ding ately occupied by the Poet ui
II Is said to be the only yet existing IN h. cf a
all the bells which In 1910 rang cut the chiroes a
patriotism and liberty. Its tone good AZ ever
| No more long and costly procession IL ~
funeral carriages in Springfield, Mass Tue correct
thing in funerals Is to dismiss the company the
Of the services at house or church. ana only TIE
family and few near relations In carriages to us
cemetery. 1t Is hard on tie livery staoie men ald
undertakers but the wealthy and fashionable a.,
that the reform must be carried out, ana 1t done.
"A paper called the apostolic Time,
Furnishes Mr.. Moody TO the extent of three
saying; III thought that baptism was God'- %
saving men. ia give up preaching, borrow pail aud
60 round the streets bapuzing every met and II
they wouldn't let me DO 1t. would catch them aeeu
and baptiEe any way. but that 10 not Goo'e way. lie
says Ys must be born again.'" II saws that "satan
will emile with the proioundest conplacency al tbl
statement
| There are ministers who have an in.
felicitous wsy OF conducting religious services one
OF these was recently managing revival" service
The Interest had deepcned to such degree that In
yitAton given to ali who wanted TO be prayea foS
to rise 10 their feet. Then he said awhile this Is going
on, the officers Of the church will please take up ths
collection" The mixture OF the rising Of thu anxious
with the circu OF the money had the eject
OF quenching 10th the religious Ardor and the su "a
benevolonce.
The frst communion service Of thu
church OF the Rev. W. II. II. Murray, Of Bott6h
held last Sunday In the hall In which the cong
ton 10 worshipping The ryice character zed y
greater simplicity than Is usual among the churCheA
The bread and wine were passed by number OF gen
temen, invited, without previous notice, by Mr. hun
from those nearest hm-former. and come Of them
| ~ praaR
and Methodist churches. The invitation TO the table
TO "All who feel themselves spiritually csbacb
tAed to interpret appropriate the Of
fament."
The Third Presbyterian Church Of
Elizabeth, n. j. having recently lost It's pastor has
been favored for few weeks with the eyangelisud
services OF Mr.. Barnes, revivalist He now reresto
give place TO the candidates OF whom there 10
be over nfy. Nowadays every church whose pulpit 10
vacant, anu Is at ali worth occupying 10 beseged ~
from nifty to hundred candidates, each Of whom u
recommended as the best man Congregations me
bewidered, and after being weared out Of all pstenca
bindly blunder into the choice OF somebody who may
in his turn leave vacancy to DO scrambled after "
other aspirants.
The international course" OF Sunday
School lessons has into such general favor that
the Sunday schools which do not adopt II are the
ceptions IL consists simply of selections Of pAsAses
Of Scripture. chosen by committee from various do
nominations. All the religious journals publish com.
ments each week. on the esson, The lesson tor oday
is from the seventeenth chapter Of the First Book %
Samuel, and its subject the victory OF David oVeI
Goliath. Many hundreds OF Thousands OF SUNDAY
school children In all psrts Of the country VIII to-day Be
studying about how the brave shepherd lad sent the
smooth stone spinning into the skuh Of the Phnhuns
| champion.
j If the uptown movement in Protes-
tant churches continues the lower part OF New ioTs
: will soon be very destitute OF Protestant places %
meeting. The Dutch Reformed Church on lHfaI'ils
place Is to be abandoned as place Of religious ror
ship and the property 10 be sold. The same 'Irus
y DR.. Hutton's old church Washington square IL
there were no people within easy distance 81 ihsEs
churches the WISDOM OF such movements would be sp-
h, parent. Butthere dense population. The dm'uV
is that the people are not fashionable. Therefore Up
Is goea the gospel, away up town, where mAsllno'h'
steeples and heavily mortRaged churches are -tNuS
far TOO close crowded together.
u DR.. Pusey announces his disapproval
IL OF scheme for union with the orthodox church 81
the East, for various reasons, and among others Do
u cause the abandonment Of the Flioque would pe
virtual Abandonment OF the expression OF our D'f