The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-06-11
SERIOUS SUBJECTS.
Sunday Services in the City
Churches.
Other matters pertaining
to Religion.
Sunday SERVICES

Children's services at $50 p. M
Central Presbyterian Morning sermon
The love of Gods law brings peace No
evening service.
Christian Chapel Morning sermon THE
Welcome. Evening union services preach
ing by DIR. McGaw.
Broadway Morning ser
mon Lessons from vanishing world No
evening service.
United Presbyterian-M Morning sermon
1 by pastor. No evening sareice.
Trinity church-no services.
Milan Presbyterian Misunderstanding
at 7:30 p. m. by Rev. j. G. Halliday.
A NEW PASTOR.
The Davenport Gazette says: REV
Robert Edgar, Of Aledo, H., has accepted
the call to the pastorate of the College
Avenue Presbyterian church, unanimously
voted by the members of that body The
reverend gentleman has been preaching for
that church for several Sabbaths with great
acceptance and will regularly supply the
pulpit henceforth. AS soon as practicable
he will remove his family to this city. Mr.
Edgar is a preacher of fine ability and has
earned an enviable reputation in his
charges other than as pastor The Col
lege Avenue church has, therefore, with its
excellent field for development and growth,
now a very encouraging future opening to
its reach.
"BoB's" BELIEF
The Chicago Neaes is authority for the
statement that Bob Ingersoll, in his lecture
KEN -I..z1 l., i
livered here several months ago said that
the words He that believeth and is bap-
tised shall be saved; but he that believeth
not shall be damned, MARK xvi, 16) could
not have been written by Mark, because
| they are contradictory to the spirit and
letter of the whole of the gospel And
now, strange to say, the revised version of
the New Testament, just issued, decides
that not only these words, but the last
twelve verses of the same chapter, includ-
ing these words, must have been written
by some one else than Mark Col. Inger-
soil is not such bad theologian after all.
REJECTS THE REVISION
DR.. Talmage, of Brooklyn, says of the
revised version of the New Testament,
that it viii multiply infidelity, and pro
nounces the revision literary botch, 1t
viii never be adopted in this country if the
fearless criticisms of the people speak out
their mind. Il reject this revision, be-
cause of its mechanical failures; because
the verses and heading have been aban-
doned. Here is paragraph a column and
a half long, in the middle of which arc
buried the words, Jesus wept,. instead
of standing out with all their grandeur,
pathos, tenderness and omnipotent mean
ing. | reject the new version because OF
oyin frixri oil nl1aT
Christ's sermon, where he speaks of put
ting new wine into old bottles. The new
version substitutes the word skins" as il
they could not explain bottles as
well as skins Laughter. Show
me penny" said the
Christ The revisers say: 'sShow me 6
denarius." Laughter. The old style
was too much for the delicacy of oul
American party of the New Testament
Company, where it says, For he is max
ed The new American committee chose
that it should read, had on his under
garment only" Laughter. The new
version shook the faith of great multi
tude in the Bible and gave color to TIT
attacks of infdelity. He deplored the cir
culation of the statements that there ar,
forty errors in the King James version o
the Sermon on the Mount and $780, 0l
errors in the New Testament. He believed
the version would make more infidels thai
the thirty-eight revisors could reclaim il
the 900 years of Methuselah and half
dozen other Biblical patriarchs Of great ag
combined Since it was claimed that tn
mistakes corrected were not important, h
could not see the necessity for correcting
them Hands off the Word of God
remember the fate of UZziah.
In Trinity church, Pawtucket, Rhod
Island, at the Easter election, three womel
were elected members of the vestry.
Somebody has written to the ChrastiaI
Union, asking Henry Ward Beecher to LOAF
him lecture to deliver just once.
The bishop of western Michigan has de
posed the Rev. W. w Fellows, late recto
of st. Pauls church, Muskegon, on accoun
of his excessive liberalism.
Rev c. E. Miller has just become paste
of the First church, Green Point, Long Isl
and, but SO speedily did he begin his worl
of visiting that he was able to call nine
tenths of his members by name on the sec
ond Sabbath evening after conference.
The Rev. Slas Spaulding, the oldes
Baptist minister in the state of New York
died in Lenox, that state, few days since
at the advanced age of SO years.
At LeneartsviIle, Pa last Sunday, tn
AA0bHC1d all VIII
Jointly owned a church, had a pitched bal
tie in the church yard as to who should oc
cupy.
The Baptist papers generally take a ia
vorable review of the revised New Tesla
ment, but in that denomination each churc
will act for itself on the question of adoI
ton and use.
The Presbyterian Home Missionar
Board is sending great many young men
students of theological seminaries, int
Dakota to do mission work during vacs
ton.
Professor Robertson Smith, whose al
ticles ON Biblical topics IN the s'Encylope
Ola Britannica" got him into trouble tw
years ago, has been beaten before the ger
eral assembly of the Free Church of Scot
land and he has been rquested to suspen
teaching in the Aberdeen University
The placid Quaker who said to the In
versalist preacher, If thy doctrine is falls
we do not want thee, and if it is true W
do not need thee" has been matched by
shrewd insurance agent out West, who d.
clined to make subscription to Unive
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