The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-12-14
RELIGIOUS NEWS

WHERE AND At WHAT TIME TO ATTEND
SERVICES,
Services, conducted by Rev. Knappe,
will be held in the German Lutheran
church this forenoon. Sunday school com
mencng at 0 o'clock am, and preaching
at II am. English services will be held
in the evening,
In the Methodist church Rev. Whitta.
ker will officiate as usual in the morning
There will he no services IL the evening.
The usual services will be held in
the Church Of the Redeemer (Episcopa-
liam, on Fourteenth street, to-day.
The new hymn books received for the
Methodist Sunday School will be used in
that church to-day.
1t is perhaps not generally known
that prayer meetings are now being regu-
larry held in the Episcopal church, every
Friday night, and to those who were
not aware of that fact We now impart the
information
In ST. Patrick's Roman Catholic
church the usual services will be held
Father Masterson conducting the name.
We have been told that the PROPOSE
ton submitted to the A. NJ. T.. congregation,
which desires purchasing the Episcopal
church, was, that they pay three thousand
dollars for building paying'tw thousand
cash and securing by notes the other thous
and.
Rev. George will conduct services at
II a. m. to-das and Sunday School at
p m. The Alexander County Bible Society
meets in the church in the evening, and
hence there will be no preaching
We are pleased 10 learn that Rev
Whitaker who has been i'll for the past
several days, has sufficiently recovered to
be able to conduct services this morning.
Services will he held this morning in
st. Josephs church (Roman Catholic at
1890 II. IN. Sunday School at 9 y. IN. and
vcspers 3 p. m, Father Hogan officiating
MISCELLANEOUS CHURCH NEWS.
The entire church membership Of the
Swccdenborgians in America does not ey.
coed 5000 persons in all. The Boston
society, which is the largest. numbers $40
members; the New York society l6S; Gin.
clnnati 1872 Brooklyn l39; Pittsburg and
Allegheny 1871, etc, while few Of the other
societies in the denomination number more
than twenty-five members.
Bishop Claughton has been Protecting
to u regiment Of English volunteers u SCI
mon, in the course Of which. abiding to
the declaration Of clergyman that the
late wars in which England had been en-.
gagged were sinful, and were got NJ to
satisfy the vanity Of one man, he said the
government OF the day was made respon
siblc by the will Of the nation, and one
Of the articles Of the Church Of England
declared necessary war to be lawful and
therefore to be approved Of.
While reading hymn in the First
Presbyterian church at Binghamton last
Sunday, the Rev. DR.. Gordon Hall, North.
ampton, Mass, was attacked with hemorr-
hage, and has been in very feeble condi.
ton ever since, Owing to the attack the
sermon Of the day was preached by the
Rev. Peter Lockwood, a former pastor OF
the church, who is now cighty.two
Some Of the denominations have found
a fruitful subject Of discussion in the use.
less extravaganza often seen at funerals, one
OF the results Of war times which people
have been very slow to shake off, The
Christian Union. IN discussing the subject
remarks that the evil Is whispered and real,
and often becomes an unhappy satire on the
mourncrs themselves and adds that "a
Chinaman VIII die happy if he has the as.
surance of costly funeral, but to mos,
Christians it is very unsatisfactory reward
for the trials OF like