The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-03-18
ECCLESIASTICAL.

An effort is being made to nrs-..i-o
the NJ. f. Church, south III Indianapolis
In 1776 then. were only 1921 Meth
odists in the United etates-in 1878, 81
173,2I9
REV. II. :. Campbell, of Columbia,
Mo, has accepted call to the First
Presbyterian church at st. Joseph, Mo.
P"v. ID. Il. Wing, d. d.. of Angus
ta county, Va, has henn requested -
take charge of q female semip,fy in Aus
tin, Texas.
Rev. DR. G.. X. Marshall, OF Nlcks- |
burg, Miss, has been instrumental III
furnishing six hundred artificial legs to
malmeu sUu,I>-n soldiers.
The Baptists of North Carolina have
1000 members, white and UUlored, $50
Churches, and $50 ministers; Sc students
Tor the ministry are in their seminaries.
The Witherspoon monument, in
which all Presbyterans are interested,
is finished, and will he uncovered some
time during the sessions of the general
assembly, in May next. 1t is of bronze,
twelve feet high, and is said by those
who have seen it to be very satisfactory
work of art. 1t is to be placed in the
park, near the Memorial hall.
Rev. Henry Boehm, whose death in
his one hundred and first year occurred
a few weeks ago, loved his Bible to the
end. 1t was his habit to read it through
at least once every year. 1t is said that
he read the Bible through over seventy
times, and that when he died the "book-
mark was found at the first page, show
ing that he had just finished the years
reading and was preparing to begin
anew. At the funeral that Bible was
significantly placed upon the coffin,
touching remembrance of his great love
for the book of books.
The Universalist church from the
beginning has had a definite faith-a
crecd-a positive statement of religious
opinions. 1t has always stood upon the
| Bible, fairly interpreted, and has accepted
the Christ therein revealed as the divinely
| authorized and pre-eminent teacher and
| Saviour of the world. In all controver-
| sizes with rationalism, skepticism, spirit
ualism, free thinking of every shade, it
has stood on this ground, and stands
there to-day. 1t signifies God the Father,
man the brother, the grand possibilities
of our nature, here and everywhere, now
and ever more; it signifies the reign of
IL l.
Immortality. " He that hath an ear, let
him hear. "-Stdr of the Vest.
| The Church of England, if it has
hitherto shown mostly conservatism, is
certainly now putting on more and more
| the spirit of progress, and in this respect
she is eminently fitted to be a leader in
Christendom. For she is so cultured, so
sober, so well-balanced, and in so manv
ways held back from extremes, that the
Christian world may feel quite sure that
| the measures she sanctions will be So
berly and wisely considered, and may
with safety be adopted. When she IA
vors eight-day meetings, inquiry meet
ings and lay female exhorters and teach
ers, we may be well sure it is from no
ill-considered heat of enthusiasm, but
because, having proved all things, she
holds fast to that which is good.-Chris-
tan Union.
| -" Pax" Chicago correspondent of the
Boston Waterman, says this of a we'll
known Kentucky clergyman owe have
had with us recently, from Kentucky,
the Rev. l.. b. Voolfolk, who, no less as
scholarly and eloquent Baptist than as
bold scientist, should be better known
| to the north. You should invite him to
the hub, and hear him lecture on mete-
orology week days and preach Il Centen-
NAL discourse on Sunday. There is no
question but that the greater denomina-
tional pride of the south has developed
more of what might be termed distinct
lively Baptist eloquence. But it is rather
as lecturer you should hear him, and
| though you may laugh, as we did at first,
at his theories, you would no doubt
finally be inclined to believe, with us,
that it is possible for man, who dispatches
lightning on his errands and puts steam
| into traces, to govern wind and storm
and weather"
We certainly know no more dis
graceful feature in connection with our
churches and church music than the in
decent scramble to get good quartette
chior, 4. e., those who caa sing well,
having little or no regard to their moral
| character. We know of some instances
where habitual drinkers and avowed inf
dels are employed to conduct the sacred
service of song, by churches who wol.ld
be scandalized at the slightest reflection
upon the orthodoxy of their ministers or
the social standing of the church gen.
orally. 1t is this trifing with one of the
most solemn services of the church which
has brought quartette and other choirs
as well into disrepute. When the purity
of a minister's character is so much as
doubted, a prompt investigation follows.
But our churches of all denominations
employ in their choirs those who not
only have no religious character but who
are known to lead immoral and offensive
lives. 1t is about time churches took
hold of this question and settled it in the
interests of true religion and common
decency as well-Ghristian at Work.
CIRCTMSTINTIIL Evidence.
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