, 1881-03-27
GENERAL NOTES.


The Baptist anniversaries will be held in
Indianapolis in May.
During 1850, the Rev. Mr.. Clough, a
Baptist preacher, baptized nearly 5000 Te-
loogoos He wants five additional mission
aries to carry on the glorious work.
Northaw Church, five miles from Barnet,
England, was burned recently. It was a
very old church. having been built in 1850,
and restored i; few years ago, alta cost OF
$4,000.
A gentleman who has been student in
the Vatican library has lust secured per-
mission from the Pope to publish s,GoO lned-
Innocent w., and will define more clearly
the history Of his pontiticate.
There is trouble In the Presbyterian
Church at Portchester, n y, owing to the
fact that at the last annual meeting, held
quite recently, several Of the old Trustees
were defeated BY The votes Of the sisters.
who for the first time exercised the right OF
franchise.
: The ifty-seyenth anniversary Of the Ameri-
can Sunday-School Union will be, held in
A1usle-Hall, Chicago, Thursday evening, May
II. Addresses will be made by the Rev. John
Hall, D. D.. of New York; the Rev. F. 4.
Noble, D. D., Of Chicago; anil Daniel X.
Noyes. Esq. Of st. Paul, 1tinn.
The Presbytery of Chicago will hold its
annual meeting on Monday, April II, at 10 80
Church, corner OF Indiana and Thirtieth
streets. Records OF church sessions, statistl-
cal reports, annual assessments. and written
reports Of all standing committees are to be
presented at this meeting.
The Chicago Women's Baptist Home Mis-
sion Union will hold its next regular meet
day, Marches. Tea will be served US usual.
It IS the aim Of the President Of the Union,
Mrs. n. r. Gassette, to render these meet
ings enjoyable in Christian interchange Of
Thought ana social intercourse, concerning
hoped that a full response will be made to
the invitation from the University-P1ace
Church to meet with them.
The Eastern (foreign) section of the
Methodist Ecumenical Executive Committee
met i'll London Feb. 3. 1t consented, out Of,
Difference to the American section, to restore
%eFs Was detsrmaed o Mod hod
meetings III furtherance Of the objects Of the
Conference in Manchester, Hui, Birining-
ham, Bristol, Leeds. NeWcastle-on-Tyne,
Truro. Hanley,. Plymouth, Sheffield, and
at some time between Sept 20 and 26.
Rabbi sonnesc41ein, in the course of h.s
fourth lecture in St. Louis on Judaism and
Unitarianism, remarked: "The Unitarian
Church has for its mission the task Of rescll-
ing Christianity from the clutches of dogma
and leading it back to the true end-yiz.: to
do the will of the Father The Reformed
Jewish Church has to convince Jews Of this
aec to believe III the One and Eternal,-not
to believe simply because a thing can be
proved. Belief without acts is no belief at
all. Modern Christianity needs 4 revival,
and we need combination. That is the goal
to Which Reformed Judaism and the Dni-
tarians are now marching"
The Rev. DR.. Timothy Dwight writes to
the Christian, Union: "Dr Washburn
has died before the New Revision is given to
the public But lie was present at the last
meeting of the New Testament Company,
and thus lived to see the end Of their labors.
1t is worthy of record hcxe, and fact for
which not only the revisers have reason for
but one in which the churches
Ind Christian readers of the Revision may
ind some ground fora kindred feeling as they |
.eceiye the book, that the same persons who |
began the work together in our country have, |
With single exception, been permitted to !
larry it through to the end. The whole has |
thus been considered and reviewed and con- !
dered again, in successive examinations, |
y one unchanged and almost unbroken /