Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-03-19

emigration Al converts to Utah. ThGo
are now 90 missionaries as work in tho
Soath, and he says the animal number Of
converts II 100. One hundred and flfty
will llemigrate nsxt weak.
Bishop Lyman, Of North Carolina, has
expressed his modification at tho reports
that he gave his daughter CSC, 600 for
wedding present, and that great deal OF
finery was shown at tho nuptials. He
says that the wedding was simple in all
respects, and that no presents Of much
value were received by the bride. He does
not understand why such exaggerations
were made.
Rev. Albert Mann, jr., A. NJ, . MEM
Der of the conference now in session at
Lancaster, preached very able and elo-
quenl sermon yesterday morning at Grace
NJ. E. church, in Harrisburg. He WAS
assisted in the service by the Rev. DR..
Stevenson, tho pastor. Mr.. Mann's text
was the 4th verse of the 18th Psalm !:
''How shall wo sing the Lords song in a
strange land"
st. Patrick's Gay was observed by street
pa.ades in New York, Washington, Mon
trea!, St. LOUIS and Boston. In Washing
ton the president reviewed the parade in
Boston, Gov. Butler, and in New York,
Mayor Edison. In st. Louis, ex President
Diaz. of Mexico. attended the banquet Of
the Knights of St. Patrick.
In the Baltimore Methodist Episcopal
Conference, on Saturday, Bishop Keener
said that the NJ. E. church South and
been far beyond others in the work of
educating the African race. For sixteen
years he had preached to the colored
people, but through some marvellous
providence thoy had scarcely any of that
people now in the church, through the
conference used to have them by tens Of
thousands"
Bishop-elect Nicholson, of Philadelphia,
has written letter to tho standing COM
mittee of the Protestant Episcopal diocese
of Indiana. He says tho strange unex-
pectedness Of the call leads him to say yes,
but he is staggered by his utter lack of
experience, his unknown name in the
church and bis age. He says it will be
very hard thing to give up the people of
his present parish, but if God calls him to
the work he shall come.
Notwithstanding tho expressed desire of
the conference the Cumberland Valley
railroad ran trains yesterday to Chambers
burg from Carlisle and Mercersburg in
order to give all who desired an opportuni-
ty Of hearing Bishop Simpson preach. Long
before the hour the church was crowded
and hundreds of persons were turned away
to attend other churches. nearly all Of
which were filed. Bishop Simpsons SER
mon was based upon the text, ''This is the
victory that Overcometh tho world even
our faith"
The Kennett Aduanee apropos of the ap-
pointments to be made by the conference
says 1t is pretty clear, however, that
the mediocre men will be found filling the
pulpits of tho weak churches, while the
brighter intellect, will gravitate to the
popular churches as surely as water finds
its level. Quo might suppose that in the
dealing out by the unprejudiced hands of
able man might sometimes DO sent to o
weak charge, bat the men who make the
selections are bus human aud they never
make mistakes of this kind, and the
preacher who is able to draw we'll and
command good salary is never thrust into
a poor place"
VIVA. Is Not wIse."
Reading Herald.
Unwisdom is cot peculiar to Mr. Cleve-
land, apd, to make things even, the con-
ference should vote that they had all been
uuwise, and should earnestly inculcate
upon each other the getting of more
wisdom. 1t would be good thing for
future preachers, too, il the conference
would make out full list of what is wise
and what is unwise, so that there would
be less danger of transgression. For in
stance, Mr. Cleveland knew that it was
not unwise to preach in a Universalist
pulpit, or to sit at a Universallst table and
eat Universalist chicken, but he had no
means of knowing that it was "unwise
to sit in the same Universalist pulpit and
listen to others preach, and to express
publicly the hope that that preaching
might do good. Had lie known this he
might now be counted as wise as the best
of them. Wisdom and unwisdom need to
be a little more definitely defined.