The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-04-29
RELIGIOUS ITEMS.


Rev. A. B. Earle is conducting fruitful
revival meetings among the Baptist
\ Churches OF Michigan.
! DR.. Hepburn. the author of the Japan
ese Dictionary, says that language 10
more difficult TO acquire even than the
Chinese.
There are only three Presbyterian
\ Churches in Vermont. The third has
justbeen formed at Ryegate, with ninety.
eight members.
The Massachusetts Conference of
| Second Adventists held recently at
LYNN was attended by delegates from
blty towns and cities.
Rev. DR.. j. ii. Rigg, fraternal delegate
from The Wesleyan Connection of Eng
| land to the Methodist General Con-
ference at Baltimore, has arrived in thls
country.
The preachers at Cornell University
this year will be Rev. Henry Ward
Beecher, President Porter, Rev. Dr..
Chaplin, and Rev. Dr.. .Peabody, of Har.
ward College.
The Missouri Annual Conference has
elected by acclamation coiored
preacher among the delegates to the
General Conference Of the Methodist
Episcopal Church.
The one hundred and fiftieth ranniver.
sary OF the Congregational Church at
Greenfield Hill, Conn.,, will be held Nav
IL. Prof. Dwight, of Yale College, will
deliver the address.
Rev. DIR. s. d. Phelps will retire from
the pastorate OF the Jefferson Street
Baptist Church, Providence, May /, and
take editorial charge OF the Christian
Secretary, OF Hartford.
The Board Of Delegates of American
lsraelites meets in Philadelphia May IL,
and Hebrew convention, called to CON
slider the project of a Hebrew college,
assemblies in New York May "a.
Twenty five years ago there were only
iour Congregational Churches ill Brook.
lyn out OF a hundred, and the increase
| since has not been rapid, the number
now being fourteen out OF two hundred
and fifty.
The American Baptist Missionary
Union closes Its fiscal year with an
excess Of receipts over last year OF
,O26. The toJal receipts for the year
nave been $24o,997; expenditures, $223,-
li6, leaving balance IN the treasury of
, VIZ, $40.
The past year has been O. prosperous
one for the New York Presbytery. The
admissions were 1889, against /, 453 in
1919; the Sabbath-scho0ls contain II, ,296
scholars, an increase of over 800, and
there were I'll baptisms, against 500 In
, 1915. The collections, however, are
smaller. In 1875 $35l,000 was raised
this year, $34S,OOO.
j Rev. DR.. Anderson says the Baptists
during the last century have raised over
$75,O00,O00 for the following objects /:
} Houses Of worship, $39,229, ,221; home
missions, $6,0OO,OOO; general and minis
teria1 education, 1l,OOO,00O; SUNDAY
SCHOOLS, $1O, 900, 900; Publication Sooiet;
$S66, ,057; foreign missions, $4,000. 700 !:
Bible Society, $2,000,0O0.
Il The Baptist Weekly says: ga some.
what unusual scene was witnessed last
week in the North Baptist Church OF
this city. One Of the ministers of
/, Trinity Church, in the presence OF the
rector, Rev. Dr.. Dix, and few friends.
administered the ordinance of baptism
TO lady, alter the ancient Greek mode
OF trlne immersion, the candidate kneel.
ing and bending forward as the aamin-
81 lslrator slowly pronounced each name
OF the Divine Trinity"
The Free Baptists of New England. I'm
CONVENTION tne othef day, passed reso-
lutlohs mailing Win pleasure the prog
. ress OIL Tree communion sentiment
/ among the Regular Baptist, and declar.
d ing "that by the surrender of the pro.
t hlbitory RUE among our brethren In the
= larger BaptIst body, respecting the
q aspect OF recognized saints OF God to The
Lords supper, they will remove lhe
S most serious obstacle to our union ami
Il cooperation with them fellowship and
christian work."
The Jewish Messenger finds much in
e Moody and Sankey's meetings to com.
mend. II says these gentlemen "have
done much good since their arrival in
this CITY III providing thoughtful
ana gratutous entertainment for two
mohths, open 10 all classes, IN leading
Y mems minds from the turmoil of business
q and turning them to holier objects. in
teaching them the sublime truths of the
4 Biple-the OId Testament, in which All
3 men believe who believe in God. the
fl New. which so large majority Of our
, citizens revere.
i The establishment of ffraternal relations
between the Northern and Southern
Presbyterian Churches does not seem
/. very near at hand. DR.. Robinson. of the
Southern Church, says: "My deliberate
Judgment is that 1t would not be safe ia
force upon multitudes of our people
and among them those as faithful TO our
D testimony as the Writer-the choice
= DebWe0u d pldGo III bue BOSOM oil the
, Radical Church, dominated by an IN
fdel abolitionism,' and place in con-
servative church, whose conservatism
: is dominated by The spirit OF this reck.
. less article. When it comes to a choice
, of evils, men are not apt to stand on
names and nice points,"
The Maryland Methodist Protestant
Conference has issued an address urging
the other Conferences to join in a call
? lor a General Convention to meet in
( Baltimore in 1877. The purpose of the
r convention is TO ''make such changes in
the second, tenth and fourteenth
articles of the Constitution of the Meth
3 odist Protestant Church as may be
deemed by said convention necessary.
. together with such alterations in all
! other articles OF the Constitution and
Book of Discipline as they may judge
Iproper, and tor the further purpose of
taking such action as said Convention
. may decide to be desirable upon the
basis of union agreed on by the joint
Commission OF Methodist Protestant
{ and Methodist Churches"
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