The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1883-04-15
sUNBRAMs
The Centrnl Methodiat Cburc,

The Central Methodist Church. in seven,h
avenue, owed sisooo which sum It raised By .n,r..
effort last Sunday. and the debt 10 now paid
The American Sunday School Union +,
doing good work in the Adirondack region in -, IN
fishing mission schools The people who live th.r p.
mostly too poor to support churches
Tho Baptist church at Pougbkecnsio
which almost rent a.under by long continued .,,,.
rejoices In having it's troubles adjusted and
In beginning to experience state Of revival
A horse thief In an Arkansas prison on.
jecs to having Presbyterian chaplain In the n.,u.
ton. lie says he has been brought up Methods, and
wishes to remain firm in the faith OF his fathers
Nearly all the clcrgymcn who preached
on Peter Cooper said his religion right MANY n,
them attempted to mike II the same their ow H. and
none of them had any theological quarres to pick with
the faith OF the dead philsnthropst,
In Spain there are 1s,OOOO0O Roman
Catholics and they have about %oVN churches soma n,
which nro magnificent specimens of architectural art
many OF them being several centuries old. Very few
churches now In course OF erection In Spain IN.
idea Of altering an old church to give 1t modern Ar
| pearance is considered the rankcst heresy
-Ex-Sexton Wilson, late of Grace Chapol
in Brooklyn. brought an action ut law against the Rev
Mr.. Tghe for Sis. which he said duo HIM NJ,
Tiahe had admitted credit to the sexton Of s2 tn.
sum in controversy then was only So The sexton had
his trouble and expense OF going to law all for nothing
for he WAS non suited Therefore he la to tax,
the sum Rector Tighe awarded him with regret ,hs, hs
took the trouble Of seeking redress In court.
While tho ex-Rcv. Mr.. Min begins bs
theatrical career by trying to Han,e the ,,,ps
struck Brother steck. pastor OF Messiah Rvnnvel,ch
Lutheran Church in Pittsburgh. thinks he is called Ia
play Romeo II does not good to these brethren 10
begin by taking some humber part Min has gone Ia
England In order to study his part under better tuition
than he thinks In to be had In this country Bro,e,
steckis satisfied with what he can get here viii do
| Romeo at once.
| AT Ocean Grove the annual Treo Planting
Day was observed last week Twelve trees were plant
| ed. each in honor OF a Methodist B!.hop Th...
trees are silver naples They labelled with tin tag,
bearing the OF the Bishops As each was planted
remarks were made about the character and work Of
the Bishop in whose honor 1t named Beside. these
special trees large number of others set out ia
adorn the various streets of the place Last wear six
hundred trees were planted twenty of which have died
The Rev. Rufus w. Clark, ID. d., who
few weeks resigned the pastoral charge the FRS,
Reformed Church of Albany preached his ser
mon Sunday last At the close of the service the ell
ders waited him and gracefully handed him s, 90
This WAS just evidence OF the kind of hi,
faithful services by friends among whom iabored
for Thirty DR.. Clark, who is distinguished writer
aswell as All eminent pulpit orator will de.
vote himself to literary work Although about yea
| old he 10 as vigorous as most men Of so.
| Since Sunday, the 2lst OF January, there
have been no religious services in any Of the churches
Of Clereand, Tenn which is town Of about 5000 in.
habants. The Mayor, Aldermen, and Board OF Health
were driven into state OF panic by the appearance Of
three cases Of smallpox They ordered the closing Of
all the churches and forbade the people under penalty
OF fine. to assemble for public worship Since that
there have been about fifteen OF small pox
but not more than three cases at any one time This
Rev. Mr. Rodefer rector Of St Lukes Episcopal church
in Cleveland writes to tho Chu,chmdn that hs
closing Of the churches by the authorities fantastic
| trick, and A. unnecessary as it is oppressive.
An elder In Maine went into the woods to
chop down trees and chopped his leg badly severns
muscles nerves. and arteries The doctors patched up
his wound but could not prevent the complete decline
Of his health which followed After suffering the hor.
rors Of neuralgia and other ailments Ave weeks he
concluded to let the doctors go away and to try tho
prayer cure 80 he called his neghbors in and they
prayed. The result was that he got out Of bed and
walked aboutthe house. expressing himself a. free from
pain and cured Of disease This happened during
the last week in March, and relapse has
far as heard from There are thousands OF other in.
valids who would like to know how far these pray er
cures are applicable to their maladies.
Bishop Riley, Protestant Episcopal
Bishop OF Mexico began his work in that very
country about ten years ago. lie had about si5ooo of
his own. most of which he has spent in trying to evan
gelze ungrateful Mexicans His methods Of have
not entirely met the approval OF his brethren and
who have sat in judgment on him have severely cen
| sured him. His position regarding most OF these
methods which have called forth criticism that as s
furnished the means for doing the work, he justified
in doing it in such ways seemed to him lie also
thinks that as he the field supervise this
he knows more about 1t than the brethren who were
many hundreds of milcs away from It and who ncve
had seen Mexico or live Mexican From which
it seems difficult to explain, there deal of
peasantness in Mexico between the Christian workers
Of the various denominations Each criticses the
Being unable to settle their differences Mexican soil
they write to the various religious papers published in
this city and esew their stories grey ances soms
OF which are confusing and conflicting The idea ch
impresscs itself the mind OF impartial outsider 10
that of the missions to the Nexicans he doing
much good.
THE Week Day Evening Services in Our
Churches and How to Conduct Them is the subject
he handled by the Presbyterian ministers Of pills
delpha to morrow in their regular Monday meeting It
Is not only in that city, hut almost where that the
week day evening services dun and scany tina,
the question OF whether not they worth keeping
up 10 IA serious one They are generally nominaly for
the purpose of prayer but they allowed in many of
the churches to run largely into eNhor'aton The ex
hortatiOns would he more attractive than they II
the people who make them were good speakers with
gift Of saying something fresh aud interesting Instead
OF this the business OF prayermeetnR specchmakn Ing
falls into the hands principally of the oldest and dries
members OF the church The juiceles remarks Of ihes<
good pervaied with the soleinnty of nonotony
and have the effect Of repcling ratherthan Of attracting
oil audience There n few ministers who have made
their evening meetings successful by the
udicious use of music and by carefully prepared lee
tures but these few The fact that there many
pious old people who think they have right to inhc
their unconsidered hhrangues their brethren and
tiers who sit in prayer meeting is in many Of the
churches greatly in the OF the ministers who wout
be glad to introduce something better.
-Presbyterianism on Long Island docs moi
seem 10 he enjoying high degree Of prosperity In The
Presbytery Of Nassau the church at Babylon is unhappy
over the alleged worIness of some of the trustees and