The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-11-09
PIETY'S PROGRESS.

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WRITTEN IN A RELIGIOUS MOOD, FOR GEN.
ERAL pERCsM BY OUR RELIGIOUS AND IR-
RELIGIOUS READERS.
Thousands, Lord Of Hosts. this day
Around thine hltars meet
| And tens of thousands throng o pay
Their homage at Thy feet"
The Episcopal Sunday School meets
at the Church Of the Redeemcr at $50 this
morning,
Rev, Albert Z. Wells will oficiate at
the Episcopal church to-day, at half,past
ten o'clock.
-"Charity covereth amuititudc of sins, e
but it would take a larger blanket than
charity to cover Walt.
Rev. Whitaker, pastor of the Mctho,
dist church, is occupying the pulpit of that
church for the second term.
Father Hogan, of the uptown Catholic
church. has determined to preach one
German sermon every month.
For the benefit of everybody that
wants to know and everybody that don't
want to know, we will say that all the seat,
in all the churches in Cairo are free.
Rev Knappe, of the German
Lutheran church, contemplates delivering a
series of free lectures sometime IN the near
future in the English language.
There will beneithcr services nor Sunday
school in the German Lutheran church to-
day, owing to the absence of the Rev. Mr..
Knappe, at Jonesboro.
One member of Baptist society in
Chicago has given in the past year 100000,
by which three. churches have been relieved
of debt.
The Illinois Methodist conference re.
ports 81, ,Oo members and 2,19j probation
ers, $50 local preachers, 474 chuchcs and
SOB Sunday schools, with 4O,30G scholars.
Baptist Sunday school will be held in
Turner hall at 9:3O this morning. We
could learn no further particulars. The
Baptists have long struggled to obtain a
firm foothold in Cairo and their efforts de.
serve better success than that with which
they have met,
We did not obtain the texts which our
various ministers have taken for their to.
days discourses, but We shall hereafter en-.
deavor to give them to our readers, so that
they may be able to choose between them.
and know what they will hear about when
attending church.
In the Methodist church, of which the
Rev. Mr.. Whitaker is pastor, services will
be held in the forenoon at 1890 O'Clock
and IN the evening at :; Sunday School at
ga, IN, Mr.. Whitaker, although young
man, is man of much experience; of pro-
found learning and, being cmphatically
practical man, his sermons are the same.
We met the Rev. I. j. Shores, pastor
Of the colored Babtist church, yesterday,
and learned from him that he delivers three
lengthy sermons every Sunday besides
conducting Sunday school. He never
chooses text for his sermons, but speaks
without it-tindng text is only draw.
back to his eloqucnce.
Services will be held in ST. Panicks
church as usual, commencing with mass
at s a. M, and high mass at 10 a. m. Sun.
day school commences at 3 o'clock in the
afternoon Vesper services at 3 o'clock. In
the absence of Father Zabell, a stranger,
whose name we did not obtain, will conduct
the services. The church is an attractive
and inviting one, and those who attend
are always welcome. Seats free
Services will be conductedin the Pres.
bytenan church, on Eighth street, between
Walnut and Washington, as usual There
will be preaching at II 100 II, IN. and 1870
p. M; Sunday school at 300 p. m, The
Rev. Mr.. George, who is the pastor of the
church, is man of fine culture and high
attainments His sermons are invariably
scholarly and instructive and his aelivery
pleasing. Seats are free, and everybody are
invited.