Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1880-04-10

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ment has been tried at Cincinnati which
is worthy of imitation elsewhere in
these days when it is the fashion to
complain that for one class of our city
churches there are no worshsppers aud
t;lat for one class of our city population
there are no churches. The Enquirer
suggested editorially that of the nom
clshTch-going people of Cincinnati many
would gladly attend a free non-sectar-
ian, non-sensational church where they
could feel entirely welcome, and sug-
gested further that in Music Hall such
a popular church might be organized.
The suggestions commended themselves
to the people and were promptly acted
upon; a fund was raised and minister
secured, ani. Music Hall was opened for
free Sunday afternoon religious serv-
ices, with the Rev. DIR. j. w. Pratt as
pastor. On the first Sunday fully 3d.
900 people were in attendance, and the
number has steadily increased until
now DIR. Pratt breaches to an audience
full 5000 strong. and hundreds are
turned away being unable to find seats.
The sermons are plain, practical and
short and the services simple, so that
there is no attraction of rhetorical clap
trap or fashionable music for the curl
Gus and idle, and our esteemed contem-
porary that has set this good work afoot
says that ''the regularity with which
these immense congregations have gath
cred Sunday after Sunday, the air of re-
verence which prevades every part of
the service, and the sincerity and hearth
ness with which they participate in the
singing of the hymns, render them
events of more than local or ordinary
interest" The congregation assembled
is composed of just the class that the
church desires to reach, but which un-
der ordinary circumstances it finds
very difficult to reach The experiment,
as simple as successful, is worth trying
elsewhere.
We Are inexpressibly panied to OBJ
serve in the Washington correspon-
.lence of our esteemed contemporary, the
Herald. statement that Mr.. Ignatins
Donnelly, who is contesting one of the
Minnesota seats, has gone about promis-
Hcuonsly accusing Mr.. Washbnrn of
wholesale and retail bribery, and he
has apparently succeeded in injecting
what Mr.. Manning, of Mississippi, is
pleased to call his mind, with the same
wild and crude notions. And yet it is
barely ten days since we read in the
Washington correspondence of our es-
teemed cotemporary, "Mr. Donnelly
has presented a very strong case, and
Mr.. Washburn has failed in the material
parts to meet it. Mr.. Donnelly has
proved BRIBERY of voters to such ex-
tent that the real question is not as to
unseating Washburn, which even Re-
publicans admit must be done, but
whether Donnelly shall have the seat,
and Washburn has failed to meet or
overturn those proofs of bribery" We
are at loss precisely how to reconcile
these two interesting but SEEMINGLY di-
vergent statements.
BY the death of Chauncey Newton
the Enquirer loses one of its most YER
satile and useful members OF its staff.
He was a hard working, conscientious
Journalist. Whether in the field as cor
respondent, OF at the desk of the man.
aging editor, he always made his influ-
Ience felt. He will be missed by wide
circle of friends in and QUE of his profes.
sion. sFAp
Mr. MILToN GEORGE, editor and pub.
fisher of the Western Rural, of Chicago
has recently sold the Young Folks
Monthly to Mr.. j. d. Tallmadge, editor
and publisher of the Young Folks Ru-
raj. into which the Monthlg is merged
This places the Rardl in the front rank
of Journalism.
AN Esteemed Republican Cotempo.
rary reports the conversion of one ol
the delegates from North Carolina. He
was appointed as Sherman man. bul
now comes out for Grant. Saws the
Times, stHe has been seen since he was
appointed" Evidently he has been
BLAINE and Washburn are both grad
mates of the Kennebec (Maine) Journal
This is creditable to the profession, bu
| the sanguine editor should not forge
that the author of "Grandfather'
Clock" began his Infamous career as
typo.
The Young Scientist, for March, is a
hand. 1t is bright and lnterestin,
enough to keep any boy out of mischief
New York, ID Dey Street.