The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1882-07-02
SUNBEhMS.

conversions IN huultlOn 10 many Thousands
ported converted and baptized in former years
Lord Shaftesbury Is more popular "a thu
presiding ocer at religious anniversary meetings than
any other man in England. This year there were 25o
May anniversaries. He presided at nifty OF these II.
presdes with grace and dignity and with asprghtness
which 10 very remarkable considering his advanced
years. He Ia now 81 years OF age.
The Rev. r. II. Meredith of Boston. who
formerly prominent Methodist said in a recent
speech "A mans place to work is in some church
Religious tramps are OF no account Every man must
do something for his denomination I am q Consreya
tionalist because think thus do more for God
Show me where can do more, and win go at once"
On the Sunday which Barnum's circus
spent In Boston some young men from the Clarendon
Street Church went to the grounds and distributed
tracts to the employees and to the hrongs that
about the place The Rev. Mr. Davis evangelist held
religious service inside the for the benefit
Of the employees, who number about 800. we'll
played cornet and an able choir furnished the music
The company Joined with great energy in the singing Of
some Of the hymns.
How the venerable George Muller man.
ages to carry his great work the Bristol Opera
House In England, and yet to take many and such
protracted journeys is mystery even to those who
know the old gentlemans great executive ability Some
months ago, after an extensive preaching tour in this
country, he took notion to so to Palestine He has
now returned thence to England and has been preach
ing and making speeches In various places connection
with anniversary and other meetings He intends to
sail for this country in August and to spend months
in visiting of the parts Of the United States which
he has not yet seem
The Second Presbyterian Fishing Club OF
Philadelphia might be supposed to be a sectaran con-
Germ, but IT 10 not 1t went to yesterday in sub
stantia yacht provided with every comfort and advan.
tage, both physical and spiritual for cruise of two
weeks Among its other possessions is o chaplain who
is to edfy his fellow mariners today with gospel in.
struction unless the roughness of the waves should
prove too much for him. The club is composed Of
wealthy gentlemen who have indicated by the name
they have chosen their unninching dsapproval OF all
that light and trivial It said that when these
brethren tell Ash stories Sunday they do It with
grave faces and an air OF unfathomsble solemnity
The case OF the Rev. DIR. Thomas Of
Chicago is still fresh in the public mind. lie tried
for heresy and, being found guilty was expelled
from the Methodist Episcopal Church, not only
lister but also man and church member During the
discussion which ragged In regard to Dr. Thomas sundry
other cergymen expressed themselves as Of the same
opinions with him, theologcaly. None Of them have
been brought forward to be made public examples OF
this side the line but in Canada the Rev Dr. Burns has
been tried by his Conference DR. Burns was at the
time Of the heartest with DR. Thomas,
and expressed himself with considerable earnestnesa
Notwithstanding this, his Conference has given him
entire acquttal. There is some lack of even. handed
justice here and there many in1uirng brethren who
want to know just where ii is These gentlemen
pressed themselves Of substantially the belief
neretc, Wnle the Other Is pronounced
orthodox and worthy to retain his ministerial standing
The unpleasantneSS over Brother Neil, or
o'Ne. Mofat, in the First Cwlliamsburgh) Presby.
terrain Church of Brooklyn has produced much feeling
between the adherents and opponents OF that gentleman
The particular OF this lies largely In the fact that
the Brother prepared long letter. embodying his state
ment, and that this was not allowed to be real at tho
meeting at whchit resolved to dispense with his
services The Conoregattondltst publishes statement
throwing light the ecclesiastical wanderngs OF
Brother Neil oNeil Monat in which it speaks Of
him black sheep. and remarks that It has
twice already called attention to his forgeres and other
acts OF dece pton 1t adds: I'VE cannot congratulate
Presbyterian friends the superior working Of
their strong government in this inrtance
think credtable to the intelligence OF this church that
of whom much i'll has been publicly declared and
who has been posted as tramp in the Home Mission:
any, before their very eyes within the year 1881 should
have occupied their pulpit for such length of time"
Mountain Evangelist Barnes considers
that his work is done in Kentucky and that he has
to complain OF lack OF success that he
has gathered into his gospel net among the great multi
tudes, such eminent converts as Gen Abe Buford and
Gov Blackburn He has pitched his tent in Dayton
Ohio in the hope of converting some Of the eminent
sinners Of that city An odd genius named Pitcher
with him. not In his company, but to opposition
meeting, and tell the Dayton people what humbug and
fraud he believes the Mountain Evangelist" TO be.
Pitcher goes at his charge and holds a citing
whenever Barnes holds lie warns the public that
Barnes's exhortatons have made many Kentucky
people crazy Barnes will probably stay several weeks
in Dayton. His meetings at nrst very large,
for the people disposed to look on him crank
He has after few days work been successful In gath
erng respectable crowds His daughter plays the organ,
and he holds the audience with medley OF doctrine
hortation, story telling, and lustato Whatever may
be his failngs as theologian OF good sense.
Barnes is a natural orator OF much magnetic power.
| -EX-Deacon William Richardson OF Brook.
Ign that the action brought gainst him in the Han
Place Baptist Church for sabbath breaking had its
origin in the desire OF discounted lawyer to get
with him. the lawyer having been counsel for the prop
ery who did not want the Deacons railroad laid
before their doors He this lawyer OF having
stirred up the Sunday school brethren pass resolutions
to the effect that the church should not harbor such
man the ex Deacon. The lawyer who happens to be
magnae among the Sunday school brethren fatty do
MES having had thing TO do with the passage OF the
resolutions, and says he did not even know that they
were be passed. The result Of the church meeting
which decided against Brother Richardson has been to
CONSERVATION into religious circles In tho
City of Churches The question is asked. Who next will
be disciplined and for what According any reason
able construction OF the Sabbatic law those
church in horse cars when they might well ak
guilty as the xDeacon is for furnishing them with
the vehicles Much concern Ia felt about church
brethren who will today have ice for dinner and
to whose houses that frgd luxury sent in noisy was
and during the hours OF church service II
thought that II even handed justice is dispensed, tho
membership OF many OF the churches will be reduced.
Entering to-day on the third quarter Of
the year the sunday schools will have "a Lesson
Home" The passage for study ~ Mark l-l6 Eleven
of the sixteen infelicitous n selection
committee Of intelligent gentlemen could have made for
the instruction of children However useful it may be
for adult Christians for the older girls and boys
to inform themselves concerning the law OF divorce
there is little advantage propriety in confusing tho
smaller children by teaching them about IT, Even tho
infant classes IN Of the Sunday schools study these
international Lessons - in concert with the ad
yanced departments, To-day there will bo thousands OF
little children learning about divorce and the Scrptura
reasons for which be granted The latter pnrt "
the lesson Is more TO cdihcaton II tells OF children
| and how God welcomes them The followers of Jesus
had repulsed the little whom their mothers hal
brought in hope of reccviu! blessing Jesus rcbuked
them for this and told them that OF such thee htUo
the kingdom of God. lie showed that tho
spirit Of the accepted followers Of God that Of child
like humility and simplicity OF character. directly OF.
posed to pride and haughtiness Jesus never baptized
children. although this passage is used by many an
! argument for infant baptism lie simply took them