Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-07-21
.GHURUh NEWS


sOHUhVH NEWn
SOME GrEAy OF HELl0EOUS INTEREST.
Among All the Dsnomi.atiens-Person
and Parish Notss-Psw snd PuIpn
-ract and Comment.
Rev. William Cuthbertson, Of London,
Eng, has accepted tho call Of the Leavitt
Street Congregational church, Chicago,
and will begin his pastorats September 1,
at a $3. 900 salary.
Tho Presbyterian church OF Milton, Pa
by unanimous vote has recently added
$500 to tho salary of its pastor, Rev. J.
Henry Bell 105 members have been
added to tho membership Of the church
since tho present psstorate began, . year
ago last February.
Mr.. John Thorne, of New York, who
spent five years in tho service Of tho
American Bible society, Travelled 10000
miles in the Chinese provinces. He has
Just returned, after an absence of % years
from America.
Rev. Charles a. Leinbach, D. D., of
the. Reformed church, who died on Sun
day last, was buried yesterday at the Tul.
pehocken church, where he had been
pastor for 10 years. The funeral was very
large, nearly all the members of the Leb-
anon classis being present.
| Martin Luther's own Bible is in the
| Berlin Markish museum. The title.page
contains, "If thy word, o Lord, do not
comfort me, should perish in misery.
1542, Mart. Luther, D"
| The South Presbyterian church, of Phil.
| adelphia, has given q call Ito the Rev.
William l.. Ledwith, now pastor of the
| ohvfo ohrr in kha
Presbytery of Westminster. Mr.. Ledwith
is q young minister of fine repute as a
preacher and pastor, and has shown his
ability as writer by number of attrac-
tive articles in the Presbyterian.
The Syracuse Christian Aduocate says
the revised New Testament is worthy of
preference over the old, as q better
rendering, in the English of our day, of
the inspired thought expressed in the
original Greek. As criticism does its
work the version arises in estimation, and
many persons are using it in the pulpit.
It will gradually como into common use
Bishop Clarkson has been missionary
bishop of the Protestant Episcopal church
in Dakotah since 1855. He now resigns
owing to the pressure on his health, the
work being entirely too much for any one
man. The missionary jurisdiction of
DakOtah extends over field moro than
twice as large as Ohio. Enormous addi
tions to the population have recently been
made. A proposition is now under con.
sideration to divide the field and keep two
missionary bishops at work in it.
The Presbyterians have opened q new
mission, not without opposition, in the
largo commercial city of Vie Holm, China,
about 200 miles from Chefoo. One of their
temporary structures was fired, and post
ers were scattered throughout the city,
naming date when their houses would
bo burned and their families killed.
Though condfident that the people would
not dare to attempt violence, one of the
missionaries remarks, cit is not at all
pleasant to have the day set for your mas
sacre, even if you feel morally certain
that it will not take place."
Episcopal church will celebrate the 10Th
anniversary of its existence. 1t is not
rapidly growing, but it's churches are &C.
tive and vigorous, what there are of them.
Baptisms last year 964; combinations,
$40; received otherwise, 387; present
membership, II, 481 Sunday school schol-
ars, 10, 615 teachers, 956; contributions
for general missionary fund, 81, 500 con-
tributions for widows and orphans, $479
contributions for Sunday school offerings,
SO, 543 contributions for other offerings,
$49, 200 total, $1S4, ,582. The present
value of church buildings, as reported, is
1888, $780, which exceeds the amount last
reported by $s63, ,0s9.
| A Novel Enterprise.
A Young Mems Christian association of
England has sent an accredited agent to
this country on novel mission. His
object is to arrange with reputable far
mers in tho United States, especially in the
West, for the placing with them OF youths
from 1G to Is years of age, to be thorough
ly instructed in practical farming. The
young mon are to be selected by the
association from among those who are not
fitted for business, or have no chance to
enter business, and who have no other
opening in life. There are, in fast,
large numbers of youths in Eng.
land who, after serving an apprentice
ship TO q merchant, find that there
is no work for them to do. The associa
tion intends to send as many young men as
possible to this country, where their op.
portunities will he SO much larger than at
home. They will only be sent to farmers
who are we'll established, aud who will be
in a measure responsible for those entrust.
ed to their care. 1t is believed that there
are many such farmers who would be
glad to have the service of respectable
lads at nominal figure. 1t is also pro-
posed to provide homes in this country for
girls, as domestics, who are unwilling to
take such positions in their own country,
and many of whom rapidly go to ruin. 1t
is to be hoped that the plan will bs as
successful as it deserves to be.
| Th0 PulDln AND fho Pra,a
Episcopal Register.
Every now and then We have q charge
from one side or the other, as il perpetual
war were declared between the pulpit and
the press. 1t might be supposed that some
necessary antangOnism existed which made
the pulpit over anxious to condemn tho
newspapers, and that in turn the papers
were on the lookout for the peccadilloes of
the clerical profession. 1t is all wrong
when two great agents of social progress
are set in battle array against each other.
Society cannot afford to have the bettsr
class of pulpits arrayed against the better
class of papers. There is just as much
difference between newspapers as there
is between pulpits. Some papers are dull,
and so are some pulpits. Some papers are
sensational, and 80 are some preachers.
Some members of the press are careless OF
the moral effect of what they publish
from day to day, and this is the real point
of much that is said in the churches against
the lower grade of papers.
"There is another and better side to
this case We know of secular papers
where the church and the clergy are always
mentioned with respect, whether it be in