The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-06-15
OfInterest to Clorgymen.

The question OF woman in the pulpit" IL
again agitating the Presby terians-one OF lheil
ministers having mado test case and inyoked
discipline on it. IL the law Of 'tho survival OF
the fittest" were permitted to prevail, doubt
less many men who use st. Paul's words as
flaming sword to keep women out OF their pull.
pits would soon find their occupation gone
Golden Rule.
1t is memorable and singular fact that the
first translation OF the Bible into tho Russian
vernacular, approved by the Car as head Of
tho Greek Church, and by that Church itself.
has been completed only within tho present
year. The Emperor Alexander, amid all his
| preparations for war, has issued a special
manifesto, III which he thanks the Holy Synod
for having completed the work after twenty
years OF incessant labor.
The Rev. G. i. Deems Commodore Wander
bits Clergyman explains how he keeps him
self able to work hard without any results of
WEAKNESS or ill-hoalth. lilo says:
keep n Sabbath. Few ministers do. Many
years did not. ON Friday night 60 to bed
and say, " Now lay me down to Sleep" and
no one must wake me until Sunday morning.
even ii the SUNDAY Magazine should suspend,
or the Church of the Strangers burn down.
never yet have slept that long, as generally
rise on Saturday afternoon TO boil for au hour
in tho Russian bath. Generally, on Saturday
night cannot recolect what the texts for
Sunday are, having put the preparation all
safely away Such a regimen enables me to
begin fresh on Sunday and work until Friday
night like house on fire and the wind blow
ing.
The Unitarian meeting, recently holi at Bos-
ton, wound up with banquet at which nearly
1000 persons sat down. DR.. Holmes presided.
Speeches were made by Robert ColIycr. DIR.
Bellows and others. Letters OF regret at not
being able to attend were received from long
list OF worthless among them President Eliot,
OF Harvard College, Ralph Waldo Emerson,
the Hon. George w. McCrary, Secretary of
War, Gov. Bagley, of Michigan, William Cul-
len Bryant, Senator IIoar, the Hon. Seth Pad
elford, of Rhode Island, aud the Hon. Judge
Taft. James T. Fields read an unpublished
poem by Longfellow, entitled " Holidays"
beginning:
g Tho hottest of all holidays are these
Kept by ourselves in silence
In Boston, Anniversary week, all the Uni
versallsts and congregatonalsts held festivals
the same evening" and the most noteworthy
incident of the occasion was the interchange
OF fraternal greeting. The Unitarians first sent
the following
RESOLVED, That in the namo of our common
master, Jesus CHRIST, we, portion OF the con-
gregational body assembled in Music hall, send
to our christian brethren assembled in Faneui
hall our kindly greeting and our wishes for
their continued happiness and usefulness.
The congregationallsts responded as follows
RESOLVED, That we, descendants of the pill
grims and the puritans, assembled in Fanouil
hall, joyfuly welcome the faterDal greeting OF
that portion OF the congregational body as
sembled in Music hall, and heartily send back
to them the expression Of our earnest good
will, and OF our devout hope that the day may
be fastened when we shall indeed be-as our
fathers were-one in Christ.