New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-02-12

con gregation in the original building in the
! summer of 1924, in an audieuce-room when
| held between 200 and 300 persons On tho
| 18th of January. 1925, be was formally
| ordained To the pastOrate, and, and on the cor
responding Sunday OF 1s75-January lO-he
| preached his fftieth anniversary sermon. DIR.
| Furness resigned his charge on January 10
following, and soon afterward he was succeeded
by the Rev. Joseph May, who still occupies the
pulpit"
Referring to the fact that at the recent ami
versary of their wedding Mr.. and Mrs. Spur
geon were presented with $4,000 by soihe OK
their friends, and that they devoted this sum 10
establishing an Orphanaee for Siris, having
formerly established one for boys 10y similar
appropriation OF gifts, The Christian Adroeafe
is led 10 say La this country there are minis
ters who have received great incomes, amOunt-
| ing to small fortunes annually, Some OF them
have accumulated large sums, besides living III
luxury and if they have given away any
thing worth mentioning for benevolence, they
have pursued a policy the exact opposite OF
that lnculcated upon their congregational tney
have most carefully concealed the fact. We
wish we could think of d minister now before
the public noted tor very large receipts from
his people and noted for prOpOrtlonate benetac-
tOns. # We cOnld, We would inentlop Ts
name Perhaps our readers can suggest ae
or twO for our motto is. Honor to whom
honor is due If the names of ministers or
moderate income who give largely were called
for, we could fill the page with the list and
that from any denomination"
The Proceedings of the New-Jersey Baptist
State Convention, Education Society and sun
ay-schOOl Union for ISL, Il an interesting
pamphlet. The Convention aids twenty seven
churches and mission fields, expending on them
S4,O16 81. The entire expenditures OF the
year were S4,419 80. During the year these
fields reported 80 baptisms 20 Sunday schools
with 80 teachers and 2O6S scholars. There
are in the State lS3 churches 100 pastors;
A ministers not pastors; 32,S69 members.
! The baptisms of the year were 1,264 benevo-
! lent contributions and ehirch expenses amount
to about 100000. The Education Society
| has had nine, and at the close of the year re-
! tanned six beDetciarles, and expended
81, 16l 50. The Sunday school Union records
as existing in the state 244 Baptist Sunday
schools of which. however, Isl only reported
! to the Union Officers and teachers, 3,s31:
| scholars, 27.799; average attendance, l9,S0S;
church members 5,4s9; baptized, 5O2i vol
umes in libraries, 6o,629; expenses,
$12.210 OF; benevolent contributions,
| S4,o59 o..
Tie recent conversion of that wei-knOwn
turfman. General Abe BufOrd, is said to be
| largely due to the result of a shock which he
received by the act of his brother Colonel
Tom" Buford, who IN March. 1879, shot and
! killed Judge Elliott, one OF the Jndges OF the
! State Court of Appeals, because he had gwen
! decision against the BufOrd family IN a ease
which had been before tue courts for eight
years.
A noteworthy religious movement Is at pres
ent taking place among the Methodlst bpis-
cOpa churches of Ohio. ~. Pauls Church IN
| Cincinnati gained by two weeks special ser
vices 300 converts, and the gains by other
churches of the city brought the number OF con-
versions in the fortnight up to 400. Similar
successes are reported from smaller towns IN
the State.
The interest in San Francisco in the Howard
| Presbyterian Church revival meetings Il grow
! z q M s.FtHA
Granahan is said to be rs marked feature or
the services as was that of Mr.. Sankey IN Mr.
MOody's meetings.
IL have BEEN" writes the Bishop of Victoria
UIOng Kong. "again and again stopped while
preaching, with the question, Are You an Eng
llshman Is not that the country that opium
comes from? Go back and stop it, and then
we will talk about Christianity.
The Hartford Theological Seminary has sent
out "a per cent of its graduates as missionaries,
standing in this respect at the head OF the list
| of theological schools Ill the country. Oberlin
| comes next with 10 per cent and no other ex-
! ceeds 10 per cent.
| The Rev. Thomas HARRISON, though active
and demOnstrative on the platform, Is said To be,
! when not engaged in actual work, Il perfect
| marvel of duietness, and one OF the most captI-
waiting of listeners. To his ability To listen and
| learn he owes it is said, much of the phenome-
nal success that attends his labors as an evan
gelist.
The population OF Toronto, Canada, numbers
SG,445. The churches can accommodate
40 500 persons, and the attendance on recent
Sunday showed 3S, 1856 or Il percentage OF
worshippers Of 44.92.
The Rev. W. r. Cowl, of the Methodist Epis-
c0pa Church, and pastor OF Grace VI. r.
Church. of Pittsburg Penn, has decided TO
accept the call of the Third Unitarian Church,
Chicago.
The seventy-third birthday anniversary of
Abraham Lincoln, which occurs to-day, VIII be
commemorated by the Christian Union OF
Boston, as in former years, IN special service.
The Paris Municipality has voted 800 francs
to the Society for Promoting Civil Marriage or
rather for discouragins religious marriage
The Bow Evangelist the Rev. Mr.. lIarriL-
son. entered on Tuesday last upon the fourth
week of his revival labOrs in Cincinnati
The Fathers of the Holy Sacrament at
Anglers, France, whose monastery was closed .
year ago, are about to start for Canada.
CURRENT RELIGIOUS OPINION
II is difficult to say which has suffered the
greatest loss in the death OF Dr. bellows ot New
York the social, the literary. or the religious
circle in which he moved, and ~ all OF which no
was recognized a leader. Ills laIge-hearten
lenevoleuce carried to practical results by quick
am, clear insight into the relation OF means 10 the
ends proposed made him efficient IN execution
as be was wise IN planning. lis eminent services
To the nation in the sanitary Commission, entitie
him 70 grateful remembrance bv all the people: Tie
was perhaps prominent and as useful. an Things
considered any of the many eminent MINISTERS IN
New York City, and with MN we beiieNc 'haS
lbeIality was not merely another name Tor loose
ness He cOuld hold, express aud defend his own
views Of doctrine and Of duty, without Yuitylng or
neadIrs.lv of, nding others from whom be differed.
He was a man whose theology was 20 thoroughly
immersed IN his Christianity mat lew any ia