West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1881-03-30
Among Our Religious Exchanges
The Spring Term, Allegheny Col
lege will open April 9th.

A'SS WIZ okOi "A Pih oeii.
In one month the Calvary church,
New York City, has given 100000
for missions, city, home, and foreign.
John Jasper of Richmond, Va, is
again filing the churches Of that
city with his lecture on the doe
trine that "the sun do move"
In Catholic Italy there are to-day
a hundred and thirty-eight Protes-
tant churches and about two hun
dred and fifty pastors and evangel-
lists.
The Central Methodist came to us
last week for the last time as ans
page When it comes again it will
have rs pages, and we suspect il
will be SO fine we shall hardly know
it.
The Rev. Rowland Hill, being
very much aggrioved, at the CON
duct of his congregation, who were
frequently unpunctual, offered the
following prayer; 80, Lord, bless
those who are in their places, have
mercy on those who are on the road,
and save those who are getting
ready to come
Rev. J. c. Jackson, Pastor St.
Pauls Church, Delaware, O., in the
columns of the Pittsburg Adpocats,
cautions the Christian public
against "Max l.. Rossvally, CON
verted jew" giving accounts of his
pranks and misdoings, which if
half true, show him to be an "un-
converted" scamp.
Rev. n, in the Central Methodist,
of the Goth, says:
1--WE are catching the first glimpses
Of Spring, &C." We thought strange
the Sunny Maiden didn't como
along with her smiles at her usual
time. IT'S too bad that you should
catch her glimpses and detain her
down there in Kentucky.
BY decree of the Khedive,
Egyptian dervishes are henceforth
forbidden to cut and slash them.
selves with swords and knives, to.
beat themselves with great balls of
iron and, finally, to howl themselves
into epileptic fits on fete days. He
commands them not to eat snakes,
swallow burning Goals or crunch
glass. The Khedive's order is re-
garded in conservative clerical cir
clesi in Egypt as deadly blow at re-
ligious liberty.
A New England pastor called
upon one of his deacons with whom
he was at variance, and with real
feeling and great solemnity said;
Brother, it is a shame that this
quarrel Of ours should bring scan
dial upon the church. have pray
ed earnestly for guidance in the
matter, and have come to the con-
clusion that one or the other of us
must give in, and | cannot"
The name of James E. Brown, of
Kittanning, Pennsylvania, is en-
titled to place on the roll Of
princely givers, his requests to
foreign and home missions, educa-
ton, and other charities, aggrega-
ting the extraordinary sumof$1 $780,
600. But while the world celebrates
such stately benefcence, God counts
with no less honor those, who out
of their smaller meana and abound
ing love give proportionately even
more.
The following is clipping from
the letter of Chicago correspon-
dent, published in the Pittsburg
Christian Aduocate, of March 10. 1t
is evident to casual reader that
the fool-killer has not been doing
thorough work in the city of Chica-
go:
It's worse curse is some of its
churches, harsh as this sounds.
DIR. Ryder, of st. Pauls Univer-
salist Church, has just flung these
rags of vicious sentiment from his
pulpit: 'Keep the saloons and
gardens that sell only beer open on
Sundayp approval of the license
system !" down with prohibitory
law" What debauch are some
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