The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1879-05-25
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jail lie Is Methodist minister from Cas- City, Mich.
and ought not 10 have away with Sister Bell who
the wife Of mechanic in his church.
The Rev. Dr. Henry @. Riley is to DO
consecrated Protestant Episcopal Bishop to Mexico
the oath Of June in Pittsburgh Bishops Leo Of Delaware
and Coke Of western New YORK officiating.
Bishop Colenso considers tho Zulu war
outrage the part Of the British and has hesta-
ton in speaking his mind aboutt lie says that the God
who requires justice AMI mercy proyokedby the cow
ard delinquency in duty and the base hypocrisy which
arc the causes Of this war
Tho people TO whom Dr. Duryca former.
~ minstcred In Brooklyn have cone udcd 10 20 without
pastor for while, until they have opportunity Of
making thorough examination of the market The Rev.
DR. johnson, who professor in Auburn Seminary has
been engaged to preach Tor the summer. No provision
has been made for pastoral In the warm weather.
Tho Baltimore minister who ordered tho
pews Of certain dennquents to be nailed up oycrdd
the business The pewhollers months behind
In the payment Of their rents ami he Thu. tod to
make them settle. They went to church with their fam.
lies o. recent sunday mornur and were both aston.
ishcd and offended to tint what had been done Instead
of penking down tho amount Of their Indebtedness they
marched out OF the sanctuary ana sad that the pastor
was welcome to nail NJ every Jew in the church # u
pleased him to do
Brother Kimball. the great "deht
raiser made his appearance In the pulpit 4 St An
drew's Church, In ST. john New Brunswick. All went
well until his prcachg Ia end. for he Is
audience. But when he introduced the money stion
the people Indignant A. he called the
church officials take slips IT paper among the people
Tor subscriptions, most o. the congregation ami quit
the church. Not enough people remained to operate
with any hope Of success
A new case Of faith cure" by PRAYER
has to light in sweden It vouchcd for ty Lord
Radstock the eminent british Evangelist A woman in
Stockholm lame that tor two years she could not
walk without crutchcs Some praying people prayed in
Isl.a aIs aNL
out the crutches She sprane Of bed and caped
about like the man whom Peter and John healed at tho
OF the temple Since that she has discarded the
of crutces aud gets alone easily with the assistance
large stick. 1t In order the brethren pray
that she may be enabled to throw away the stick.
Eleven OF the Sunday schools in Brook
Ign have iOOO pupils each their rolls Tho argcst
Is Brother Egglcston's "Chrisiian Eudcavor" where
800 children taufht by 1871 teachers These large
Sunday schools crcliiabo monuments to the energy
and hard work Of the liberal gentlemen who have
cecdcd In establishing them. but general thing they
not profitable Us the smaller schools A school Of
1--WE six hundred is easier 10 manage, anu has better
chance for It's lite OF the death removal Of the
superntc ndent In these eleven Brooklyn schools The
superntcndents are men OF rare ability In management
and in several instances the schools been built
largely by their personal power and magnetism.
In Ireland there is n scarcity OF minis-
ters to such extent to prevent the dissraceul
crowdng candidates to vacant pupit which
The demand being somewhat greater than the supply.
the ministers dictate their terms sonctmcsit
happens that man has three or four church calls
The Hela Hih,s regards this state OF affairs onnous
for the future Of the Church. Not The thing
that happen to the Church Is TO have host Of
employed and restless ministers proving around for
place and competing with each other Tor calls We can
spare for Ireland ship load unempoyod or dissaus
fed ministers. and still have many lcu the
churches can care for.
The $4,000 church that Brother Adj
rondack Murray contemplated for Boston b. hcnccf'rh
10 be regarded only castle IN spain" With all
Murrays zeal for It, he found uobudy willing 10 back him
in money matters lie wisely concluded not 10 erect
such building as he had planned without having enough
solid cash to insure He Is Interested In novel
of wagon. with which. provided with the proper
style Of horse speed be made good ROAD.
Brother Murray is fond Of horses and he several
fine II is thought by those who know him best that
he will hereafter devote himself more 90 the horse than
| to the Gospel With the orthodox and particular
sort Of Boston deacons Brother Murray achieved
great popularity lie has however, enjoyed great
cess in drawing throngs 10 Music Hail
| -To-day's Sunday sch DOL lesson is In the
second chapter Of the prophecy Of joel from the oath
to the end The passage is the prediction Of the
descent OF the Holy Spirit The lnment OF this predic
ton is recorded in the second chapter Of Acts where the
story told Of the wonde rul things which happened
the day OF Pentccost Little is known ~ the prophet
joel lie Is supposed to have lived Ia the reign Of Joas
| hifH or judah, ABOUT M Is G. Tie book which hears
his contains three prophecies; frst n the plague
Of ocuss and the ravagng JudcG; second OF the de-
scent OF the Holy Spirit aud third the day judy
ment His denunciauons Of coming wrath accom-
panied with tender eNhortauons 90 the rchelous APP
Ply for PARDON and with the assurance that who.ocver
shall call uron the Of The Lord shall be delivered"
This Is clear Offer OF universal and free salvation to all
| who choose to ask FOR IT.
Tho Talmage trial has called forth much
pamphlet literature. First Crosbys speech which
was Immediately followed by Van Dykes both of these
are being sent broadcast throughout Prcstyte
ran Church. In order TO help the against ramago
when 1t shall come up In October at the synod meeting
In Jamaica on the other side were followed by Dr.
Spears speech In pamphlet form which is also icing
widely distributed To councraot the eject the
Dyke and Crosby pamphlets Tie latest contribution
an elaborate pamphlet from New Jersey journalist
| titled Common Fame Guilty Of falschood nul Deceit"
This is to see the light In few days The people who
| supply themselves with all thesn pamphlets will have
reading enough Of this kind TO keep pleasantly busy
throughout the dog days. Talmage. who sails for Europe
on Wednesday. will bother himself by taking any Of
these with him. as he says he has had enough OF the
whole thing to last him all summer
In recent Sunday school procession at
Lucknow, India four great elephants constituted lead.
ing feature. These animals gAyly caparisoncd and
were preceded by band OF music, which played the
| Sunday school hymns On the backs Of the elephants
rode number Of the prize boys of tie sunday schools
| In the rear marched the children Of nearly dozen
schools and their teachers For years ingenuity has
been eHertcd TO provide striking novelty IN the
great Brooklyn Sunday school march but there has not
| been much relief from the old programme II some Of
the wealthy supeunendents OF mammoth schools will
next year hire few elephants they might be- sure Of
outstpning all the other schools which do provide
such attractions To announce that several Brookyn
pastors would appear the backs OF these elephants
regardless Of the weather would draw larger crowd
than has In any past year assembled greet the 5000
happy children OF the city Of church fights
The American Bible Union, which has
gone into the hands Of receiver has Win
| the Bible Revision Committee which is revising the
Bible jointly with the English divines The American
Bible Union claims 10 have led in this work of Bible
translation II was organized IN 1850 alter separating
from the American Bible Society Its nrs President
| Dr. Spencer II. Cone. lie and Drs Conant Bhs, Ken
drck, Hackett Schaf Lillc, and many others no once
began the revision n the Scriptures They Finished The
New Testament twelve years ago. ami have rcrln lated
"encss, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, Psalms. Provrrh. iHb
and part Of Isaiah In the Old Testament The nuu 'o
eeied by git and by purchase animmcnso library which
hNalues at $4,000 The work ~ Bible revision goes "a
very slowly the Union being crippled Tor of money
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