The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-09-17
CHURCH NOTES.


Henry Ward Beecher is to be the hero of a
novel which a member of his congregation is
writing.
-Four new churches are building at st. Paul,
Mimi, at the expense of $50, 900.
In Augusta, Ga, the churches have rules
which forbid gentlemen from sitting on the
right side OF the house, that part is occu-
pied by ladies.
y handsome brass tablet is 10 be erected in
the Episcopal chapel of St James, at Theron,
in the memory of President Grant 1t will
be similar in design To the one placed in the
same edifice III memory of President Garfield.
An exchange asserts that the Zion Hebrew
congregation of St Paul has adopted heroic
method fer testing the sermoniZing qualities
OF a candidate for its pulpit He Is not per-
mitted To fire his very best sermon at the con
gregation, but committee meets him on the
way to church, gives him a text, and he IS
expected to preach from it without further
notice.
Probably the youngest preacher in the
world is J. E. Bill, Baptist, only Il years OF
age, who preached a sermon on the 18th ult.
at st. Martins, y. B., 10 large congrega-
ton. lie was born to the profession, his
father being clergyman.
The Bcccher family Is a thrifty one. Mr..
Beecher is under salary TO his congregation.
Meanwhile he is lecturing abroad under the
Pond management. Meanwhile, also, he is
preaching ON Sunday, and his sermons are
being published III The Brooklyn Magazine,
and he receives a royalty for the publication.
Meanwhile, still further, Mrs Bcccher Is
writing letters about the trip for the same
magazine and she comes in for her share of
pin money What do you do with all the
money You make.r Mr. Beecher was once
asked "BleSs me!T he replied, that's just
what | have been asking myself all my life ="
Washington Hatchet.
Bishop Riley paid 81, 900 for the Protestant
Episcopal church property i'll the City of
Mexico, and now the same property has
value of SI,GOO,OO0, 50 great has been the in
crease. Bishop Riley Is visiting in New
York, where he chats with friends i'll Spanish,
Italian and English, according to the linguis-
tic string that happens To be pulled
y letter written 10y DIR. TalmaSe to one of
his congregation last week informed the re
cipient of the misSive that the doctor had
preached ut Ashcville. y. G, the new sum
mcr resort i'll the heart of the Carolina noun
tains, To the largest audience ever brought
together in that settlement, and probably the
largest audience ever assembled 10y religious
services i'll the state. The doctor is now
making the round of sundry camp meetings,
whereat lie has engaged To speak, aud the full
him until the Tabernacle, freshened and
beautified, is opened in about the middle of
September. He will speak in New jersey,
Ohio, Michigan, Canada and New York
Brooklyn Eagle.
\ church at Cornwall, Ills, says The Chi
cago News, has long been inhabited by
swarms of bees. They finally became 50 plen-
tiful that they drove the pastor and congre-
CATION out IF church. Last week n party of
men ripped open the side of the church and
found that the bees had piled up honey i'll the
wall tai the height of sixteen feet.
The large SUM of 500 was paid the other
day i'll England for a copy of the. sermon
preached 10y John Knox S2I years ago this
month, For the whichc hc was inhibite
preaching for "A season"
Mr.. Ruskin, as WAS recently related in the
papers, took occasion to advise churches not
to run into debt. 'Starve and go To heaven, !"
he said, but don't borrow. Try first beg
ging." Forthwith Methodist church in a
neighborinS village took him at his word and
begged of him. and in reply he sent them a
guinea and gracious letter.
\ copy of the first edition of the Bible in
the English language, translated 10y Miles
Coverdale, and issued in 1915, was, says an
exchange, sold in London the other day. 1t
is 81 excessively rare that no perfect copy Is
hiloNii anu one
the title and first few leaves supplied in fac
simile, as also was the map. With all these
disadvantages, to which was added the one of
being "grubby' copy, it fetched geo
Christian Union.
In Ireland the EpiScopalians number COO
GO; PreSbyterians, 49,, COOS Methodists and
Unitarians, 10000; and Congregationalists,
Baptists and other minor denominations,
about G0,OO0.
In Denver, Colo, out Of Chinese popula-
ton of 500, I15 are in schools and loo of them
under decided religious influence. In San
Francisco there are 2iS members connected
with the Chinese and japanese churches, IS
having been added during the past year.
There are go pupils in their schools. There
Chicago.
William W. Aston, who has 81 900 houses
to look after, Is taking time to write a play.