Omaha daily bee., 1881-07-02
RELIGIOUS.

The morals of Long Branch, n. j, are
to be improved by the building of a Bap'
fist church at that point.
Talmage and Beecher are going to take
a rest. Both preached their last sermons
on Sunday, before vacation.
Camp meetings are no longer monopo
what is known as gospel tents" in the
cities a torerable substitute for outdoor
country worship has been evolved.
Bishops Simpson and Peck have arrived
in England on their way to the Ecumeni'
cal conference. Bishop Peck will make q
trip through Ireland and Scotland before
beginning his labors on the continent.
The yearly meetings of the Friends OF
Endland reports IA, 9S1 members, a gain OF
LOG in the past year. The rapid decline OF
the last half century stopped a few years
ago, and now q small annual increase is re.
ported,
Prof. Francis L. Patten, who finished o
pastorate of six years in Jefferson Park
Presbyterian church, Chicago, last Sun.
day, started for the east the next day. He
will begin his duties in the Princeton profes,
sorship at the opening of the fall term.
Messrs, Moody and Sankey are said tc
ldNt NpTttu I'D w but tlNlSlDu VI Ult pro-
ceeds from the sales of Sankey's hymn
books, and q new partnership has been
formed, in which Il. p. Miller, formerly q
workman in the car shops at Denver, will
take the place of Sankey. The new firm
will be Moody & Miller.
The religious papers give accounts of 0
remarkable revival" in indianapolis. II
began in Roberts Park Methodist church
some months ago, and nearly 900 CONVEX
sions were made. Meetings are now car,
RED on in the Baptist and Presbyterian
churches, and the buildings are said tc
be too small to accommodate the great
crowds.
A revised New Testament in the Welsh
language is to be forthwith begun. A
committee, composed wholly of clergymen,
has been appointed by the four Welsh bish.
ops to report on the subject. The work
will be carried out on the principles and
method of the English revision; which
means, it is to be presumed, that some
nonconformist scholars will be associated
in the enterprise with Church of England
diyines.
The Rev. John Jasper, the negro
preacher made famous by his sermon ar.
guing that the sun and not the earth
moves, is dying at Richmond. He has had
the largest congregation in the south, and
one of the largest in the United States. 1t
has numbered about 1900. He has re-
peated his ermon on the rotation of the
sun a hundred times. He is modest and
quiet, and has great influence with the
members of his congregation.
Some curious questions were discussed
at the annual convention of the Dunkards
in Ashland, Ohio. In the course of the
meeting a paper wa read in which a re.
quest was made that a rule be adopted by
the church ~''denouncing the wearing Of
plain hats by the sisters" and even max,
ing such wearing of hats a forfeiture Of
church fellowship" This proposition pro,
voked a general discussion. Ono speaker
make the somewhat alarming prediction
that 'if a sister be allowed to wear a plain
hat, before we know it there will will be q
a feather in it," The prevailing sentimen,
among the members Of the convention, &C,
cording TO the correspondent of the Cleye,
land Leader, Was that the more feather.
a sister had in her hat in this world tn,