Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-03-14

Drew theological seminary Rev. ]. C.
Hartzel D. D.. and Rev. James Morrow'
D. D.
PEW AND PULPl1.
Religious Notes, Chiefly Of Interest to Meth.
| od10g0.
Bishop Simpson is now presiding over
the Central PcnDsylvania conference IN
session in Chambersburg.
When the Rev. DR.. Buckley, of the
| Christian Aduoeate, is made . bishop, q
live editor will be lost in the episcopacy.
Rev. s. Fl. G. Smith, formerly Of the
Duke street church, was warmly vel
coined last evening by many of his former
congregation.
If Rev. James Neill would entertain the
Legislature with his "reminiscences Of
| experience on the circuit the Record would
be livelier publication.
Rev. w. D. Lefevre. Reformed clergy
man, son-in-law Of Maj. G. n. Howell.
has accepted a call to become pastor of
StOyestown charge, Somerset county, Pa.
Governor Pattison snd Private Secre-
tary Everett expect to attend the confer
ence at Chambersburg. And not at Lancas.
| tor This town gave them bigger
majority than John Stewards home.
Rev. J. NJ. Souder, of New Castle, Pa,
accepted call from the New Providence
| and QuaIryville Reformed charge, this
county. He expects to enter his new field
of labor on April LIST.
Rev. DR.. Geo. W. Miller, late Of Grace
| NJ. E. church, Wilmington, Del., and
about to be transferred to Spring Garden,
Philadelphia, stopped off in Lancaster last
evening and to day and took look at his
| new conference relatives.
The commissioners for foreign missions
of the Reformed church met in Harris.
burg yesterday and considered the Japa.
nese field. Rev. j. G. Moore and wife, of
MiilersvilIe, Lancaster county, are among
the applicants as missionaries for Japan.
Great surprise was manifested at Potts
Vile when it was announced that Rev. A.
s. Keyser, pastor of the Reformed church
had been convicted by the ecclesiastical
court before which he had been on trial at
Hamburg. 1t was the general belief that
his acquittal was assured.
The congregation of St. Peters NJ. E.
church, South Fifth street, Reading, re-
solved "that I'VE earnestly request the
| presiding bishop and lis councils at the
session of the Philadelphia annual confer
4IoAoooVOAs i
| week, to continue Rev. Dobbins in the
pastorate of our church." DR.. D. has bad
a great revival over there.
Rev. DR.. o. II. Tiffany lectured last
evening before large audience at the
Philadelphia Academy of Music on The
| Social Problem" for the benefit of the
First regiment armory fund, and it is sa'
| that he surpassed all the expectations n
| the eloquence and success of his lecture.
| or rather his Grafton, for such it was, on
| the relation of capital to labor.
A religious contemporary thinks the
Salvation army is not to be despised.
Captain Booth has absolute control of
| over 500 600 year the new archbishop
of Canterbury, it is said, offered terms to
it, and the whole Church of England
seems anxious not to let it get away with
tho people as Wesleyan Methodism did !;
yet thus far it declines all overtures and
seems to be a law unto itself.
Rev. Abner Kremer, one of""the editorial
contributors to the Reformed Church
Messenger, notes with satisfaction that at
tho Baltimore NJ. E. conference, in Win.
chester, Va. the two presiding elders
of the Baltimore districts insisted on car
ryiug out the directions of Wesley and the
discipline in regard to the catechisation of
the baptized children of the church.
The Philadelphia Chronicle Herald,
which seems to take an interest in the
subject, cannot understand why the Meth.
odists continue to put up with the timer
ancy system, which was established
''when the churches were poor and scat
tered, when it was essential that tie min
listers should be kept continually on the
90 in pioneer work, when to gain foot
hold as a distinctive sect it was important
that they should be bound together by a
stropg discipline.' Under this system
"new attachments are rudely broken,
much good work is interrupted, many
excellent plaus disconnected. Just about
the time when the parsOn has become
familiar with bis people and is becoming
most useful, he is suddenly shifted to some
other charge, where he must 60 over th'
same labor"
As Others SEQ 1t.
Reformed Church Messenger.
It appears that some prominent Metho
dist ministers are considerably out o
pocket by reason of investments in min
ing speculation which turned out disas'
trOusly. Had the enterprise proved
success their praise would have been ii
most mems mouths. As it is, however
they have not only sunk their money bu
must run the gauntlet OF criticism Tor nav
ing become mercenary and for involving
: others in losses. 1t is about the same OLD
, story-a hope of endowing an institution
and of doing good in other ways, but
miserable failure and much censure al
though there was no dishonest inten
about it. A lesson has been learned ii
this regard in other churches, our own no
excepted, namely, that it is we'll not t
put too much confidence in any pot of gol
at the end ofa rainbow, and especially no
. to use ministerial influence in gettln
. others to deal in that kind of futures.
. Old Soldiers Reunion.
The different committees OF arrange
, meut Of the 122d p. ". regiment reuior
, to be held in Lancaster on May 18th, ha
q meeting last evening to confer together
! but no business of Importance was trans
! acted. The object of the meeting was t
+ hear reports from the various committees
}. and particularly from the one on notifics
!. ton of members. The chief difficulty
a to learn the postofice address of those wh
! | b.d hoop ~, on, tora Of the rAOim0nG. an