The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-03-23
RELIGIOUS ITEMS.

BISHOP HUNTINGTON hlts the nall on
the head when he says: "The grand diff
6culty with our popular piety is that it
is still trying to find a way, in this nine
teenth century of the gospel, and close
to the centennial of a nation founded in
the gospels name, of serving two gods
together"
THE Rev. Adirondack Murray said in
his sermon a week or two ago, Heaven
is not populated with singing thieves, or
palm-bearing bankrupts, who settle with
their creditors at twenty-five cents on
the dollar Wednesday, and ride to church
the next Sabbath in a thousand-dollar
coach, with a man in livery on the
box"
THE UPWARD WAY.
WELCOME, pure thoughts and peaceful hours
Enriched with sunshine and with showersi
Welcome, fair hopes and holy cares,
The not-to-be Iepented shares
OF time and business, the sure road
Unto my last and loved abodel
o, supreme Blissi
The circle, center and abyss
OF blessings, never let me miss
Nor leave the path which leads to Thee
Who art alone all things to me.
Henry Vaughan.
THE Boston Transcript reports a de-
cided growth in ecclesiastical taste and
feeling among Boston Christians, and says
there is scarcely a church of any denom-
nation hat does not recognize Christ
mas and Easter by peculiar service and
tokens, and that the influence of the
Lenten season is now strongly and edify-
ingly felt by the religiously inclined in
all communions."
THE Presbyterians are building a Cen
tennial Church neal Norristown, Penn
~sylyania, and not far from Valley Forge.
part of Gen. Washington's army, while
on the march to Valley Forge, stopped
there, taking refuge from the weather in
a house upon the grounds. Here several
| of the soldiers died. The church will
seat six hundred persons. Connected
with it is an in~geniously planned chapel.
The whole building when finished will
cost sixteen thousand dollars. 1t is to be
ready for public worship by the Fourth
of July. I
The Rev. Mr.. Meyrick, in a letter to
The Guardian, speaks of the near compile
ton of the handsome Protestant Episco-
pal Church of st. Paul in Rome, and in
vites English and Scottish churchmen to
contribute the amount requisite for a
Bishops throne, which will cost $725;
but with certain omissions only 1915 ;
and he thinks that such a gift would
serve the purpose of exhibiting in the
center of Latin Christianity the fact that
we have bishops; that the American
church has derived its Episcopate from
us" etc.
The Wesleyan Methodists in the Fiji
Islands have sustained heavy losses from
the epidemic of measles. The deaths
from this disease include nine native
ministers, nearly 200 c~atechists, 200 local
preachers, 700 class leaders, 5000 mem
bers of the church, and large number
of attendants on public worship-mak.
ing a total of $4,000. The church had
in September, of 1875, before the ap.
pearancea of the plague. 10 missionaries,
4S native ministers, 7S5 catechists, 1885,
class leaders, 1888 members, 1858 pro
bationers, and S4,4S5 attendants on pub
lie worship.
THE Woman's Auxiliary to the Board
of Missions of the Protestant Episcopa
Church has, since its formation in 1872
raised six thousand dollars for the domes
tic missions, ten thousand for the foreign
and fifty thousand for the missions
of the church among the Indians. II
addition to the money collected, boxel
CT clothing valued at one hundred anC
sixteen thousand dollars have been sem
by the Society to the families of the do
nestle and diocesan missionaries, ant
hospital stores, clothing, etc, to the valu'
of thirty thousand dollars have been fur
nished to the Indian missions.
DIR. LEIFeHlLD, of London, said to
theological student: CT will give yol
my rules for preaching /; they were com
posed by myself; they are very short
and l have put them into rhyme:
, begin low,
Go on slow;
| Rise higher,
? And take fire;
, When most impressed
Be self-possessed
At the end wax warm,
G And sit down in a storm.n
, In Thornley,, England, the church, tn,
theater and the tavern seem to hav
: Joined hands. We learn from the Dun
ham Advertiser that east Lynne wa
] played at the Thornley, Theater, for tn
! Thornley, Church. The licensed vic
, tualers" displayed placards in their win
, dcws and sold tickets, and the 1dcersise
ascribes " great credit to the proprieto
E of the Robin Hood Inn, and the Who'll
e of the licensed victualers for the effort
q they made in trying to make the affair
success" The performance was unde
the patronage of the Rev. VIM. Mayor
Vicarof Thornley,, and the church wa
r dens.
A MISSIONARY of the Presbyterian
Board, writing of the Nez Perez Indians
gives an account of one of their churchf
' on the Lapwai river. The pulpit of thi
Q church is supplied by five natives VIII
y are studying for the ministry. A fel
years labor has had a wonderful effec
on these Indians. When the m~issionarie
went among the Indians of the KAMA
Valley they were, with one or two exceI
NJ tions, living in lodges, or rowing froI
!" place to place. Now they are a commit
nifty of farmers, raising food for thei
families and for sale, while thirty @
forty comfortable little frame or 10
houses dot the valley, the greater nun
e Der built by the Indians themselvel
This change dates from a great awaken
o ing among the people less than fiveyeal
e ago. Then the Kamiahs were heather G
e goddess. One year ago last Christms
e we communed with over two hundre
0 and fifty native members of the ciiurc
here (Kamiah, while the church itse
e was densely packed with Indian wol
e shippers.