The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1880-05-09
CIEU RICH mATTERs---AT HOME
AND ABROAD.

100 redskins last year.
The Mt. Vernon Methodist Church,
Baltimore. paid its $50. 900 debt by an
Easter contribution.
A circus never runs too long for spec
tators, but let sermon run over forty
minutes. ard q congregation can't sit
still.
A penny edition of the New Tesla
ment has jnst been published in Lon
don. and there are people too mean to
rea ! it at that price.
The oldest church in Connecticut is
at Windsor, it having been organized
in England. March 90. 1880. Its 250tb
anniversary has been appropriately OBJ
served.
The next Protestant Episcopal Gem
eral Convention will be asked to erect
q new missionary diocese on the Pa.
cific Coast, to be called the Diocese Of
Boise ana Walls Wslla. and to include
contiguous parts of Oregon, Washing
ton and Idaho Territories.
At the recent session of the Oregon
Mission Conference. held in 6esttle.
Rev Daniel Bagley Was elected Minis,
terisl delegate 10 the General ConfeF.
ence of the Methodist Protestant
Church. to be hold ia Pittsburg. Penn,
corn mencing the 21st of May and DillIs
3 Ward was chosen lay delegate, The
former intends going to attend the
deliberations of said body.
The British Colnmbia EPSesbytcry
and the district meeting Of the Meth
odist Church Of that Province have
both vigorously protested against 8
recent regulation of the Superintendent
Of E5ucsii,n which strictly prohibits
exercises of . religious character in
open ny and closing schools. :
adopted by q unanimous sots. The
protestants state that they earnestly
desire that the highest morality should
be incnlcased in the common schools,
and submit that that object est be best
secured by impressing upon the minds
Of the pupils precspts and principlesef
the gospel ef Jesus Christ. lwh,ch sSs
IN themselves the highest standard OF
moral exercise.
The Western Methodist Episcopal
Conferepce has shut down on the young
brethren who smoke and schsw. The
recent rcsol ution unanimously adcpted
provides: First, that hereafter no
young man using tobacco in shy lofm
coming rs candidate for the fninistry
shall be received into this conferences;
second. that those members of this
conference already addicted TO the use
of tobacco are exhorted to desisf from
it in public and when in the com papy
of persons who do not use it; third,
that all circuits and missions are advised
not to send delegates to this conference
hereafter who are users of tobacco; ;
fourth. that no local preacher y no uses
tobacco will be ordained an elder
The order that no person shall exer.
else ecclesiastical functions in Germany
without the consent Of the Government,
has been stubbornly resisted by the
Catholic Bishops. but Leo XIII, on the
24th Of February last. wrote to the
Archbishop Of Cologne that hereafter
the church will subo,it the names OF
its priests to the Government, imply.
ing. of course. that those not approved
will not be employed BY the church.
The Pepe says the chiefs of the State,
looking at facts in q favorable and APP
preciativs light. will easily come TO see
that we do not interfere with the rights
OF others. and that between the eccle-
siastical and politicah powers lasting
understanding may exist, provided
only there 40 not fail on both sidesthe
will aad the inclination to maintain
peace. or. il need be restore Il. That
we are animated with this spirit and
this will must be the frm and uniiinch.
ing conviction Of you. reverend broth
or, aud If all the faithful ID Germany.
Yes. We cherish this will 30 decidedly
that in vlsw Of the advantages likely
to result therefrsm for public order, We
make no surupleT of declaring losyou
that we, In order to hasten tina Under.
derstsnding. will permit shs Games al
the prissts chosen BY the Hishops q
assist them in the exercise Of their he|y
ministry to. be- made knoWn to- tbs
Prnssiap Government before being can.
onical,y instituted
The 2Sth Of April was the 3o,h an
niyersary Of the organization Of Grace
Church in San Francisco. The firs
Protestant service held my er ha Bueua
US San Francisco was called ut tina,
time. WAS in the latter part of 1S47, OF
Ia the early part Of lS4S, and was con.
Quoted by Congregational minister
named Dwight Hunt. On the 10Th o.
May. 1850, the first Protestant religion
society met. There we're but six .apSm.
bers. and their msetings were 6Sl4 II
tent on Dupoat street. Later in "a,
year they procured q wooden meeting
house on Washington street near Stock.
ton. The true history Of the parish
began in New York. in January, 1919
At that time the Rev John L Yer Mehr
wac sent to Ca ifornia by the Mission.
airy BOARD Of the East. He ststtsd ID
February. l8l9. on the vSssel George
Washington, and arrived on a.
Eth OF September, ls49. He fond thu
Rev Flavel 3 Mines atwofksA aud ssoz
there we're two chspels one in the caas
Of Mr. Mines. called Trinity. and on<
twice as large. conducted by Mr. Vel
kehr. called Grace Chspel. They we're
finished on the sans Day, in Deosmbet
lS49. At this time The town consisted
OF few houses around the plaza. A,
the first communion on Epiphany Day
1850. there were from six to fifteen
commandments. A silver-plated cur
was used for a chalice. The original
contract for the construction Of the
building at present occupied was fcl
$40 900, but it Gust thru times thai