The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-07-02
RELIGIOUS RITES.
Sunday Services at the City
Churches.
Ofher notes Of a. Sacred
Character.
SUNDAY SERVICES.

EVenlnS, LESSONS connected WIN the DlrLD
and education of great deliverer."
United Presbyterian-Rev. ]. A. Rey-
nolds pastor. Preaching morning and
evening.
pastor. Morning, "The Mind of Christ"
Communion, THE works of Christ as
ground for faith"
Christian chapel-Rev J. A. Searles,
pastor Morning GA symbol of Peace;
evening, "Our National Holiday"
First NJ E. church-Rev w. A, Spenc-
er, of Rockford, will preach morning and
evening.
Trinity Episcopal A. B. Allen,
pastor. Preaching myrning and evening
''Our Murdered President" will be the
subject of the discourse of Rev. Irwin A.
Searle, at Christian Chapel tomorrow.
Rev. Searle attended Hiram college with
the late President and was intimately ac-
quainted with him and therefore his dis
course will doubtless be very interesting
All are invited to attend
THE CAMP MEETING.
The Rock Island district camp meeting
viii be held on the beautiful district
grounds. four miles south of Milan, begin
ming on Thursday, Aug. II, with preach
ing at 2 p. M, by the Rev G. w. Morey,
of Millersburg.
Good board, at So so per week, good
water in abundance, and verything to Sc
cure comfort will be furnished. For lod-
gings enquire of the Rev w. NJ. Collins,
Geneseo, Ill. Every man to his tents, o
Israel" +. WAsMUTH, p. E.
BRIBERY.
Last Sunday Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage
preached a striking sermon at the Brook
lyn Tabernacle on the Curse of Bribery"
In closing; he said: Revolution is just
ahead of us, and l pray God it may be a
peaceful revolution. We must have the
of American labor from the
curse of monopoly You and | are pay
ing the board and washing and cigar and
whisky bills of the legislators of the State
of New York, while they are lowering over
the spoils of office. No one supposes that
the Is or 20 candidates over whom they
are contending are the only men fit for
the senate. Why not give us two great
Christian philanthropists, who would adorn
the senate of the United States more than
the Office would adorn them / nominate
VIM. f.. Dodge of New York, and Geo. j.
Sevey, of Brooklyn | do not know wheth-
er they are Conkling or -Conkling men
| only know they are anti fraud, anti-rum,
anti ignorance. But no such nomination
will be ratified. But the time will come
for the elevation of such men. God did
not make the Atlantic ocean for a few
great whales to swallow up all the small
fish, nor did he make this continent to
furnish few fat magnates with blubber
The greatest blessing of this country is
the railroads made for us to ride over but
we must not lie and let the railroads ride
over us.
TEARING UP THE BIBLE.
The Rev Dr. Swing has the following in
the Chicago AUtaRce:
1t so happens that all modern difficulties
of any moment, in the direction of the
holy Scriptures, are not difficulties with
but with the subject matter.
however interpreted There should be an
tie netc UerstOns examinations Of achote chap
tcrs and aohole books, on the ground that
they make the sacred volume too large to
be printed in good type and still be porta
Bile; A small Bible always means that the
type is almost microscopic. A popular BIZ
bic should be at once portable and of fair,
clear type, and to make this possible a
large part Of the Old testament shoald be
osssttef from the editions of the future.
Not only are the laws of the Mosaic
state repealed and dead and therefore I'M |
worthy of place in this guide of the pub
lie, but they are the laws of a semi barbar-
BUS age. and cast no little of their imper
lection over upon the fair pages of the |
New Testament The New Testament has
!, in
bad company Those treatises are valua
bic as being part of the history of the
Jewish state, but not as being part much |
less valuable part, of Christianity. |
MANY of the Hebrew laws were so unjust
that their presence in the popular Bible
makes it essential that each clergyman and
each Sunday school teacher shall spend
much time in explaining the relation of
Mosaic things to Christian affairs-an ex
Dlanation to be made easier by a with
travail of the cause. The laws about
women and slaves are particularly UNJUST,
md their presence in the good book will
always complicate the inquiry: What Is
nspiration?" If, as almost all Christian
admit, these laws were the tempo
AIRY statutes of a nation, temporary COM
promises between horrid epoch and
kinder comparison, that legal literature
,DOuIO nave GapSeu lHtO QufcthcsS ahoAS |
with the Hebrew, the Amoritc, and Jebu-
site, and not be spread out to-day before
our youth. as forming some part OF the
livine truths to be believed. Besides the
savage injustice in some of these laws
here is much that offends against the re-
inement of our more civilized times. No
no family, dares read aloud all OF
,he Old Testament. 1t came from far
off time, and jars like discord upon the
modern heart The Bible has already
,een so deeply injured by the timidity OF
is friends that now, since the rage Tor
new version has come, it is high time de-
nand were made that the best of all books
De set free from some of the weights which
10 impede its progress.
Other leaders will come along after a
line to make changes of more radical
nature. and from their hands the Bible will
,ome ready to be the hand book OF the
Christians of the next century. The Bible
will ALWAYS live and always lead man.
PEW OPENERS.
Bishop Potter, of New York, ordained
eighteen young clergymen on Sunday in
hat city.
There are forty-two Baptist churches in
he District of Columbia. Of these, ten
ire white and thirty -two colored.
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