Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-01-14
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SAE FRAN. Tsco, January IL, 1882.
There has beer great rejoicing in tive
churches recently Calvary Church is GU
of debt and the Firsi Congregational has
embraced its new pastor, Rev. Mr.. Bar
rows. The latter gentle man is fGally with
US, after many anxieties on our part and on
his. After receiving his cali he pondered,
he studied he hesisated, then he came out
ON visit; and to greet him before bis
journeys end, a chosen few met him at
at Sacramento and accompanied him
the rest of the way. He came,
he saw, and still he was uncertain
as to the Lords wish. He returned to the
East, and sent letter saying he did not
see how he could but the more he declined
toe more he was pressed. So be accepted.
Then his family fell i'll, now one, now an
other, but the longer we were delayed the
more we were determined to have Mr.. Bar
rows. By and by he started, but the CON
gregation held its breath, realizing that
some special accident might befall him, yet
in the meantime took a comfortably fur
nished house in good locality in his
name, paying 5000 rent in advance. And
at last he is here.
YoUNG-LooKING MAN
He was, as he sat side by side in the pulpit
last Sunday with DR.. Stone, whose face
seemed enfeebled and shaded with age by
contrast. The welcome which the new
pastor received was one which ought to
have reconciled him to the scene of his
coming labors. The church was beautifully
decorated, the pews were filled, the music
was magniheentiy rendered, and the Sab
bath-school by aud by rose en- masse with
song of welcome. He was visibly af-
fected, and spoke of his fear lest he should
not be worthy to tread in the footsteps of
the pastor who had preceded him, ac-
kuowledging in few words the kindness
the church had already shown hun, alto
gether creating very favorable impression.
Mrs. Sarah B. Cooper, who came out ac
ceptably in a recent trial for heresy, has
just been received into membership with
this church. She had her choice of many
churches for, as one of her friends said,
:. They were all after her." She is a wo-
man of good, clear wits, and has an unusual
influence with young people, so that she is
power in any church. For the rest of it
she is not CalviRistic, nay, not orthodox,
nor does she teach the Blue Laws but any
church will be the gamer by her, if it viii
accept her with all her beliefs and in spite
of her unbeliefs such as Jonah and the
whale. taken literally, and may count on
her teaching pure lite, and heaven at the
end. In the meantime her accuser, Mr..
Roberts, who is also good man in his own
way, has found haven and been received
into the Howard Presbyterian Church.
Fire serves its purpose, and water has It's
use, but put them together ard see what a
connection there will be. Separate them,
then, and let each DO its appointed work.
Two Sabbaths before New Year a request
was read from the pulpits that wine should
not be presented upon the tables of the con-
gregations for the temptation of New Years
callers have heard dozen people say
they met no wine on that day, but that
may have happened go. On the other
hand two gentlemen whose acquaintance il
largely among people who take wine So
cially, said that last year they were offered
it twenty times and this year but six, which
is great falling off, A number of young
ladies in San Jose, with much zeal for the
cause, some time since formed young Ia
dies temperance club, and ON January LIST
received calls as club at their rooms. One
hundred and fifty gentlemen gave the m
New Year greetings and but one solitary
man had a Glove.