The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-03-23
AMONG rnE cHuRCuEs.

~ AMuNu lhE CHuhCHES.
The Jewish Passover this year will
fall on the Sth of April.
The First Presbyterian church of
Wilmington, N. c., is now of debt. 1t
had owed somewhat over s14.0O
Canon Ryle, of the Church of Eng
land, says that the Evangelical party
was never so full of life and vigor
as now.
Half a century ago the Fiji Islanders
were a nation of cannibals. Now most
of them have family prayers with great
regularity.
The Roman Catholic bishop of Louis
vile, KY, has prohibited religious
services over the dead in houses or
churches. They must hereafter beber-
formed at the cemeteries.
The Rev. John Jumper is the happy
recipient Of an ''album quilt, of the
ninety and nine pattern" made by the
ladies of the Mite society Of the Bar
fist church of Moorestown, N. j.
The Baptist church at Council Bluffs,
Iowa, has just received thirteen con-
verts, INT of whom is a native Of Africa
and another a native of Asia, while the
rest are of American birth.
The Wesleyan Missionary society
has made great preparations for its
forthcoming anniversary, which will be
in London on the 29th of April. The
Rev. Theodore Monod and others will
speak.
The Bedford Congregational church,
Brooklyn, swallows the church of the
covenant, pays its debts, and goes on its
way rejoicing. The Rev. Hugh Smith
Carpenter, who was formerly a Presby-
terrain, is its pastor.
The Rev. DIR. Wilson, a prominent
member of the English Missionary con
ference, says that only n of every
three persons persons on earth has ever
heard the name of Jesus. The question
is %pertinently asked, What becomes of
the other two who have never heard
His name?
The Rev. Joshus v. Hines, of Neb-
raska, formerly a ~well-known MILLER
lite" preacher New Hampshire, has join:
ed the Episcopal church and is now a
candidate for holy orders. He is 70
years old and has been in the ministry
SO years, but is in the enjoyment of
vigorous health.
After much delay the Rev. DIR. Dur
yea, of Brooklyn, u his decis-
ion to leave the Presbyterian field of
labor which he has been c~ultivating for
eleven years, and goes to Boston to be
a Congregationalist. This is the third
UNCONVENTIONAL change which the doc
tor has made.
Although good old Josiah Anwalt was
rs years of age and almost deaf, his
place in the Mount Pleasant Baptist
church was never vacant until the
other day, when he died. He read the
New Testament through once a month,
besides reading with great diligence his
religious papers.
Fifty Jewish families of New York,
lately from Hungary, intend emigrat-
ing west if suitable lands are given.
They boast of skilled artisans of all
trades, and desire rather to build homes
in the west than starve in New York
city. Western Israelites complain of
the scarcity of Jewish m 1t is
said that in n western town where
lives a single Jewish maiden the CON
test for her hand has become bitter
among the Jewish young men of the
vicinity.
The approaching centenary of Moses
Memberships death. has suggested to
New York Jews an academy like that
of Humboldt, in Berlin, to bear Men
delssohn's name. s.The German Soc
rates"was whatIMendelssohn was term
ed. He was a German-Jewish philoso-
pher, a hump-back man, bearing a re-
pulsive countenance, but had wonder
full conversational ability. The Jews
say: "Between Moses and Moses there
was one Moses,' meaning Moses Mem
delssohn. II Germany the philosophers
homestead has just been made an asy-
lum for the aged and infirm.
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