The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1880-06-19
PITTSBURG AND WESTWARD
CHURCH NEWS.
city News Country News LOoISing
Towards Home.

IOWOrus Home.
/ have spoken in a former letter
g the Methodist Protestant church, an
its General Conference. 1t may inter
est your readers to know few thing
about it. Organized in 1928, as a re
suit of expulsion from the M.
Church for the agitation of lay rights
it now has membership of 125, ,OOC
with 1,40O itinerant ministers AM
preachers. Divided in 1858, by TIN
antl-slavery agitation, it reunited il
1877, at Baltimore, the present session
at Pittsburg being the first regula
General Conference of the whole
Church held within a quarter of cen
tury. There are over forty Annua
Conferences, two of which are in Mis-
sissippi. Two publishing houses be-
long to the denomination, one al
Pittsburg, the other at Baltimore
Two papers, "The Methodist Record.
er," at Pittsburg, and "The Methodist
Protestant" at Baltimore, are the ac-
credited organs of the whole church,
while "The Central Protestant" at
Greensboro, North Carolina, and the
Protestant Recorder" at Magnolia,
Ark, are the organs of local Confer
ences and Churches. Its Church Col
leges are at Adrian, Michigan, and
Westminster, Maryland, while local
institutions exist at Gadkin, North
Carolina, and at La Harpe, Illinois.
The essential features of its polity as a
church, may be expressed in two gen
eral principles: lst. Mutual rights
Of ministers and members. End.
Equality of the ministry, and but one
order-that of Elders; no Episcopacy-
no Presiding Eldership. The General
Conference as well as the Annual-is
composed of an equal number of min
listers and laymen. The Pittsburg
body had membership of above 100
in attendance, from New York on the
east, to Texas on the South, and
Washington Territory on the west.
Pittsburg was originally built to
conform to the shape of the point of
land lying between the Allegheny and
Monongahela rivers, but has spread
back, over and around the hills, until
it has become Il mighty city. West of
river is Allegheny City,
south of the Mononghela river is Bir-
now known at Pitt5burg,
(south side). Piltsburg has very cx-
tensive manufactures of iron, steel
and glass. It's streets cross each other
at every conceivable angle. The CEN
ter Of business is on Wood and Smith
field streets, and Fifth Avenue. The
Post office is OH the corner of Smith
ield, and Fifth Avenue. The citizens
If Pittsburg, especially those whom it
vas my good fortune to come in con-
act with, are social, hospitable and in
The public shools are justly
he pride Of the people, while the
hurches are numerous, elegant, and
veil supported. Were it not for the ;
cloud of smoke, one could '
i've in this city with as great comfort
s anywhere in the world.
The two weeks of our stay were
losely packed with the routine of
Conference business, and to this was G
dded, at the beginning, an attack of l
cute bronchitis, due to the change Of !
Innate, which rendered the stay in =
he city something less than perfectly /
greeable. On the morning Of Friday, |
une 4th, after a visit to the glass q
'orks to secure some souvenir of our q
jay, we turned our face westward. h
Two hundred and one miles, and we v
ep from the train at Bucyrus, the =
lpital of Crawford county, Ohio. s.
-ere, in the society of beloved friends, d
e are spending ten days, resting, u
ght-seeing, and enjoying ones self T
enerally. Bucyrus has 1000, or 5000 n
and has a new railroad, fC
'ossing the Pittsburg, Fort Wane and n n
hicago Railroad. 1t has numerous h
two of sash, dsor and a
inds, one of hubs, spokes and bent h
ork, one Of knitting machines %
I'd connected with this is a manu- if
ctory of knit work; three of brass h
I'd copper kettles one of machinery tc
+ cleaning wheat; several large II, IL
,uring mills, and | know not how nj
any breweries. A large portion Of as
e population is German, and beer M
ems to be Necessary to German cX co co
Lence. "Dcr DcUtschen GescUs-
df," a German society, had their b,
lnual picnic at the Fair Grounds to- lie
". My friend and l strollcd out this w w
ternoOn, and looked upon their fes- ci
rities for an hour or so. 1t was in Sc
cry respect German. Beer flowed, 3'
ngues wagged incessantly, songs of tI tt
Der Vaterland" were sung, and men, of
lmen and children, seemed to be i'm
rfectly obliviOus of care. Small boys W
are climbing a smooth pole thirty or II, II,
'ty feet in height for prize which
Is suspended at the top. \ pho
yrapher was on the ground, and the
ppy group was "taken in" L pre-
me that to the average German it NJ
Is a day of unmixed enjoyment. 10
! Tuesday night we listened 10 a ~. Il.
ry instructive lecture by Rev. Ram br
under Bose, converted Bcngalese. to
: was a delegate from the South si
dia Conference of the Methodist In Il
,iscOpal Church, to the late General In
inference at Cincinnati. Mr.. Bose pl,
IS Brahmin, and his lecture depict tlg
i'm its true character that 81 81
to civilization and Christianity, in
E caste system. In person Mr.. tn
sc is tall and slender; his NJ
.tures are Caucasian, but very dark; 81 81