, 1876-01-30

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! Guiana.
Tho prcsbyterians have now ten churches In
| Egypt, With m average Of more than forty com'
municants in each.
| The adyent Of Messre Whittle and Bliss in
St, Louis, which took place Tuesday. is creating
quite al excitement in that sn-hardened city,
and the newspapers arc giving up several col.
| unnns day to tho services.
The London Iablet having stated that the first
American Cardinal vas an 1rishman by birth,
one of the American Roman Catholics corrects it
by stating that Cardinal McCloskey. although OF
Irish pa1entage, was born in this country.
Dr. Loriner:s Church, Boston Tremont Tenn
plo) reported nt meeting preliminary to the
annual meeting that the collections for 1876
amounted to S19,0sl.05, and tho expenditures
to $40 os2. The deficiency was immediately
made up.
The pnblic Worship act haa now been ei1
months in actual operation in England, and Oh
ly one case has been named for trial-a fac:
which seems to show that English churchmen
prefer keeping their Affairs within the cid limits
instead OF appealing to the new secular inter
yentlon.
IAN International Association for the Promo
tion Of Scriptural Holiness is announced in
posed Of "c}ergyn,cn. ministers, and members
in good standing in the following denominations:
Church Of England Congregational, Baptist,
Wesleyan, Primitive Methodist" etc.
The Daptists hare more churches organized
and more houses Of worship built in the City Of
Baltimore, within the last half decade, than in
the preceding twenty years. All OF these are
supplied with working pastors. in whom the con-
gregntions are cordially nnited. They now nurn-
ber fourteen churches within the city 1mlts-ten
for white and four for colored people.
In closet near the door of the church Of st.
Nicholas, at Leipsic. is the pulpit III which Mar
tin Luther, the reformer, preached. The pulpit
Of the celebrated Richard Baxter is still pre-
served in the yestry Of the Unitarian Church, at
kiddermiuster. It is small, aud Of tue octago-
nal FORM In the front Of it, near the top are
words, in yellow letters, ''pra!ae ye the Lord y:
and on the four front panels are the words
''Daw widow gave this
The Union religious meetings at Englewood
will be again continued all this week. Meetings
every afternoon and night. The interest in
them is increasing, and much satisfaction is ex-
preseed in what has been already accomplished.
It ia believed that quite . number of persons
hare been already truly converted The Baptist,
Methodist, Presbyterian. and Reformed EplHco-
pal Churches are united in these meetings, and
the whole community is moro or less interested
in them.
The protractcd meeting in the First Christian
Church corner Indiana nycnue nnd Twenty
fifth street. is still in progress and will continue
through the coming week. Deep feeling is man
ifesting itself among those in attendance aud
the meetings There will be preaching each
escnins this week by the pastor, tho Rev.
Knowles Shaw, who has thrown his whole heart
into this work. and Hho enters upon it with the
prestige OF glorious meeting just concluded IN
Buchauan, Mich, where oysr 200 confessed tho
All orn enr1a1fr iuvifaH n nf}npS fba
meetings. The ordinance Of baptism will be ad-
mlnistered at the close Of the sary1caa this eyen-
ing.
4. s. Barnes l. Go. will have the memoirs OF
Charles G. Finney" ready for issue in few
days. This autobiography was begun by Presi-
OF the Trustees Of Oberlin College, in 1SG7-'S,
when he Was IS years old. He had kept no
diary, or other written record. but hia tenacious
memory held the incidents Of his early life per-
tectly fresh. To those Of this generation who
knew President Finney at all, his}name is asso-
ciated chiefly with the anti-slare1y crusade, but
in his own mind his work As .ovivalist eeen11
to have been prominent to the end. s'It has
pleased God" opens his autobiography quantity,
Tin some measure to connect my name aud
labors NTH an extensive movement Of the
Church OF Christ, regarded by Some al new era
in its p1ogross especially in relation to reyyals
of religion; and, accordingly, LIE gives in detail
the history Of his oonEersion of his acceptance
OF the doctrine of justification by faith as the
basis OF his revival labors, and OF his onslaught
on Unlversalism- Tho vlgor, earnestness, aud
qu1intnesB OF the book seem likely TO attract
many readers who have known littls Of tho
man.-Neto York Tribune
DR.. Pusey announces his disouproyal of anv
eoz,eno for union with the Orthodox Church OF
the East, for various PERSONS, and, among others,
because the Abandonment OF tho s. 'F1lioque
wonld be virtual abandonment OF the ex-
preston of our belief in the modes OF existence
Of Almighty Cod. g., IN God as He is." And
the Doctor fears that the abandonment. Of the
expression OF belief would soon be followed am
the practical English mind by the abandonment
Of the belief Itself" II do not mean" says
Dr.. pusey, ''to throw any alur On the pacific
endeaVors OF the theologians assembled at
Bonu, although, in regard to this great doctrine.
I think tl,at the toeuits unhappy, and thst it
would have been much better simply to claim,
in case OF reunion. the possession OF our hered-
itary creed with which our faith is practically
bound up), while disclaiming any error which
the Greeks have erroneousy imputed to IT. or
any wish that they should adopt it. I think it
also . misstatement that 'the words a. and the
Son " have 30 long q time divided the East from
the Vest Writer'S on the Greek side have said
that the dispute Was not shout the creed. but
about the sees,-i g., the absolute authority
claimed BY the See OF Rome ever the Eastern
patriarchatea, SO different from tho reiations OF
earlier Imes."
One Of the closing reviyal-meetings at phila-
dcphia was for the benefit OF the clergy, who
propounded some rathor singular questions. For
instance. Mr.. Moody was asked what he would do
NTH q person Disposed to pray too long. why,
I'd pull his coat or tread on lis toes." said tho
evangelist. He was then asked: "Whan man
is convinced that be ia sinner but feels that tho
time for his conversion has not yet arrived,
rhat's to bo done ~ s.This doctrine Of feeling
is all false; he has nothing to do but believe on
the spot" SHOW is one in despair to be dealt
with?" '.Very gently; a bruised reed He will
not break.'" "How can one know that he il
converted unlezs he feels it ?" s'When Lincoln
emancipated millions Of slaves nobody need to
to have asked any Of these poor people il they eA
they we're free; they k,seui: it. 'tSuppoee that nc
canno: find enough workers?" 'Pray to God
for mora" *'Is there no danger OF talking too
long to inqnirers?" "Not II the talk is to tho
point" 'What do you do with inQnirers of
long standing?~ don't have any they ret |
tired Of coming" SHOW do you deal with |
skeptics7" "Can't tell till get hold Of them;
medicine to ona is poison to another" Sup |
pose An anxious one is sighted in the inquiry |
rooms?" II don't know but that's bit at mo |
why, then, ask the Master; He won't slight |
you." Scan livery-stablo man hire horses On |
Suuday2'' ''I couldn't; If their coDsciencos !
tell them not they'd better either give Heaven up
Or else give up the livery-stable." "What il |