The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-05-07
RELIGIOUS.
Announcement for the various
services tomorrow.
Resign alton OF Rev. e. G.
Barnard of Moline.
Financial condition Of the Central
Presbyterian Church.
SUNDAY SERVICES.

SUNDAY SERVICES.
In the Central Presbyterian church, the
Rev. DR.. McGaw, pastor, will take for his
subject at 1O:45 a. m, How to Build up
a church" At 7:3O p. m. his subject will
be Death in the Pot discourse upon
corrupt literature, the first of a series on
Popular Evils" Sunday school at $50
a. IN. Young peoples meeting at $50 pm.
1.-TWO Contrasts, or Now and Then
C7p.m.) will be the themes preached upon
in the Broadway Presbyterian church by
the Rev. J. c. Holiday, pastor Sunday
school at 915 am Young peoples meet
ing at pm.
In the Christian chapel, at 10 40 a. m.
the Rev Irving A. Searles, pastor, will
preach upon Christian Strength" At $50
pm he will give the second of series on
Scenes in the Life of Fast Young Man >"
Sunday school at $50 pm.
The Prodigals Story, as Told by Him
self" QO-45 ann and The Prodigals
Brother" 0:30 PM will be the subjects of
the Rev J. A. Reynolds, pastor of the
United Presbyterian church.
Morning and evening services will be
held in the Trinity Episcopal church, ser
mon by the Rev. A. B. Allen.
Services will also be held in the Baptist
church both morning and evening,
RESIGNATION.
The Rev E. c. Barnard, for some time
pastor of the Congregational church. Mo
line. renews his letter of resignation 1t
appears that his original letter was sent in
last October, but that in Difference to the
expressed wishes of certain members of
the church, he consented to a postpone
ment of the consideration of the matter
for period of six months. His feeble
health is assigned as a reason for the pro
posed separation. In view of these facts,
Mr.. Barnard asks that his resignation be
accepted, to date from the end of the pres
ent month.
FINANCIAL CONDITION.
The report of the treasurer Mr.. John
Buford, of the Central Presbyterian church,
for the year ending April /, 1881, has been
completed, and shows the following fig
ures: During the year revenue to the
amount of S3.136.34 has been received,
divided as follows: Pew rent, 81. 292; cash
collections. S145.04; amount received for
use of the church, S24; amount received
from concert, 500; from Ladies' Aid soci-
ETY., 1922; money advanced, $162
The disbursements have exceeded the
amount of IS, 1856 81 by $3.50, leaving that
as the Indebtedness of the organization
DISTINGUISHED DEAD.
Rev. Alexander II. Vinton D. D.. the
distinguished divine who died in Phila-
delphia on Tuesday-he went there to
preach the sermon ut the conservation of
the Church of the Holy Trinitv-was one
OF the formOst clergymen IN the Protestant
Episcopal Church in the United States, not
only in the pulpit, but on the floor of
the General Convention and in the Board
of Missions. Possessing an intellect of
massive proportions, and of the widest
grasp of thought and master of a diction
remarkable for its combination of terseness.
purity, felicity, and strength, his sermons
were remarkable for the beauty and
power, and in debate he was without an
equal. Sincerely attached to those views
of doctrine and polity know as Evangelical
he was destitute of bitterness. and distin-
guished for catholicity of telling His
sympathies were broad and far reaching, as
his intellect preeminent for its magnitude
and grandeur. He was in his 10Th year
Born in Providence, r, l., and ordained to
the Ministry by Bishop Griswold. he was
successfully the rector of Grace Church,
Providence, r. L.; st. Pauls Boston; the
Church of the Holy Trinity, Philadelphia;
St. Mark sin the-Bowery, New York, and
Emanuel Church, Boston, which he resign
ed three years ago and retired to his resi-
dence at Pomfret, Conn. Since then he
has been the Professor of systematic
Divinity at Episcopal Theological School
Cambridge, Mass.
COLLECTIONS
Mr., Gladstone has had 92O0 contributed
from the royal bounty fund and has him
self given ESQ in aid of the sufferers at
Chic.
One of our religious exchanges knows
slam bang preacher who wants pulpit
and who can be warranted to pound
Bible to pieces in a year.
Twenty-six Protestant Episcopal church
es in Colorado and not one in debt is
very good showing.
Friday, August 5, has been designated
as a day of prayer by Methodists through
out the world for the blessing of God upon
their Ecumenical conference
Mr., Sturgeon win take trip up the Nile
accompanied BY one or two of the deacons
of the tabernacle. Mr.. Sturgeon has suf-
fered intensely of late from rheumatism,
but according to the latest accounts he is
described as having slightly improved
The new chapel of Princeton College is |
nearly completed. 1t is $50 feet long and
SO feet wide, with tower 104 feet high. |
and will seat 1000 persons. Professor
Murray has been invited by the Faculty of |
Brown University to deliver the memorial
Grafton on the life and character of Pro |
fessor Dimon.
Nine students of Yale Theological Sem |
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