New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-09-12
RELIGIOUS JOTTINGS.
SKETCHES HERE AND THERE-WHAT THE
CHURCHES ARE DOING.

CHURCHES ARE DOING.
1Towlc in The Boston Traveller" gives IN in
teresting pcn-ald-ink picture Of colored Methodist
camp meeting that has Just been held near Washing
tom The recent earthquake shocks, OF course added
to the solcnnity and interest of the OCCASION and
gave the preachers chance to drive some lessons
home to their hearers And here is the way they did
it: man what goes ont at night and steals his
neighbor's chickens and propriates his ripest and
biggest water-milions Of Saturday night and then
comes into church of Sunday and hollers londer
than everybody else and lodges de contribution nat
amt got religion. He's got chickens ana water
millions but be amt got no religion lou can 100,
| God He knows everything lie tells us that 10 VIII
separate de goats from de lambs, but you can tel
chicken thief less you cotch him IN de act DIS earth
onnke hu.ne-s isn't stopped yet We have got 10 get
Gods ear an pray OATS de only way we can keep de
earth from quvermg Now some OF you THINK that
| God has forgotten Washington, but ITS de biggest
mistake of your lives He Just gave MS Mite SHOCK
Last week so fOrev us OF what be II going 10
| To- He means to give sinners one more ch'ics anu
they don't come 70 him and be saved they must taHe
! dc consequences. When de time comes no VIII oe
| able TO help his own. De man wild feathers on his
person lust picked from his uelghbor chicKehs Won
l.. able to deceive him by vcllin hacluiah an all
de othe words by which we glority de saviour 30
sir he'll he set apart wild de goats. neber more be
saved De hat ill now be passed an hope hat as
time de usual rush for de freshment stands viii DC post
poned until after everybody has given something 70
This il somewhat homev to be sure. but the coored
brother WHO uttered It made fully as good ana a.
legitimate a use of the earthquake as many oil us
| better educated white brethren
An American clergyman describes N The Northern
Christian Advocate some street preaching scenes in
London. lie went to Hyde Park one Sunday after
noon and first came across Henry variey and Charles
Cook. the singer Mr. varlcy's sermon was GOOD, and
the people who heard it were well dressed and
evidently religious The next group visited was being
red to by the Church Army, an organization
formed within the English Church TO counterfeit tic
I L. hn
speaker was Young and evidently sincere. anu MS
telling discourse plainly made an iihpresslon on tno
noDdescript crowd who listened to HIM. Near oy was
the Salvation Army, but the crowds sceleu 70 an
little interest in it, little further on venerable Oh
man was telling another crowd that the second al
OF Chris. near at hand. 10 the next crown P.'"
commou-sause man was telling the needs OF the mis-
sionary field Altogether II would appear mar outdoor
preaching is much nore common III London than II -
! in New Ork.
The Rev.A f. Dunning tells in The Congrega-
tionast what are the real benefits OF such summer
RELIGIOUS assemblies a. Chautauqua. These assemblies
have become an important factor in the social and
RELIGIONS life of the nation. and the indications are
that they will increase in Importance every season
! Mr. Dunnng sums up their advantages as follows
People from all parts Of the country come IN personal
contact with eminent authors, orators. preachers aud
teachers Representatives, OF AL sections OF ue
country become cIuanted with each other. and the
members of the different churches have an opportunity
10 see each other common ground In TINS way the
assemblies are helping solve the social and religious
problem They also promote wider and better
culture among the common people. Stndes ana INES
of thought are here opened out TO them which would
otberUize he entirely inaccessible And lastly, lAe
assemblies are an active Chrstianzng agency, which
should not be ignored by the churches
Lake Bluff is popular resort near Chicago under
the control of the Methodist Church. Nor long ago
some OF the young people in the hotels began 70
iuluigo in dancing. The Church very consistently
.tooncd in and stopped the dancing and now great
I'll. 1 fbarc ara NH
There are many difficulties in such cases of discipline
a. The Roy DIR Jntluns well shows in The North
,o.,.rn Christian Advocate These dancers, be
o. are church members and dance at home 1t Il
claimed that objection IL made oy inc minister 10
attempts az discipline. nor even commentator oy '
mint With what consistency, II l. urged. are we
cacI upon 10 establish higher standard here than IL
maintained in the churches ana MONIES ms -
| Christian summer resort We seek 10 do what
Christians do. nothing moro 1t there are othei
| Cl,t,stans who prefer something else, prayer
meeting for example, We d. not interfere with then
p Why sLonld they interfere with US The prayer
meeting and the dance live side by side All winter Ia
TN. CHURCHES with no conflict why not hereF II any
h,,iv IA prepared to show that this ndictme%S ],
- untrue will he greatly relieved Us evident
that here Is conflict by no mean confined to Lake
Bluff II il everywhere, Inc dance Is insisting OF
e. being bar;,zru +7d taken into the church. fc"
recrcant ministers have yielded to the demand IL
matter Of thanksgiving that Lake pun PAS n
into a frht which the negligence OF the ministry uA'
D thrust upon her,
A little semi-monthly paper called Missionary
News from Bulgaria" is now printed at samoAoV'
Bulgaria on new rotary power press Just received
from Boston the gift of frieais OF Miss h. NJ stone IN
Cbelsea The Rev william w. SLEEPER and Mis-
q Stone who are conducting the evangelical school al
th,t noint intend to add TO the printing ONCE car
nenter sbOp "A shoe shop and perhaps DOCK -olhie'y
40 As TO rive the Bulgarian boys an INDUSTRIAL training
DR. LYMAN Abbot has been visiting Salt Lake CITY
; and pives bis impressions of Mormonism in Ih'
Christian Union" " may be mistaken ne Say
in thinking that Mormonism is An immoral rehgion
mt cannot be mistaken 10 thinking 1t wholly I'm
;;.i ;;con OF all the various religions whic
c Chin arinity to Christianity, Mormonism seems Z
ma tho least spritual | do not except the hhhou
rtan One of the elders heard IN the Iabernacl
0 inveirhed against the doctrine that i'od coulu y
viti,ont arts aud passions could be incomprehens
p HE The dOctrina CORFU tions OF the Mormon
Cb,rch ara all sustained by If not dependent upon
u liberalism in interpreting the prophecies and the tSp
of TIE Bible From this lite ralism springs. AT least "
Z are Summarized the doctrines OF priestly hierarchy
earthly second Advent, and plural marriages; I, ,
ON the whole then. gathering up the results Oh tnl
b.f lit the impressions produced are OF a rehgiO
e moro nernicious than had supposed MornOnist
70 he impressions OF hierarchy which, by methoa
. ! wholly IN American, has gained pollucai Po"epl :
Z ono If onr Territories which never ought TO nav
aioved il TO AGA ure, and which We ought not 10 ho
n to retain of theology which Is Whouy
: and aIuozr wholly immoral, which while " does no
nne,l IN supersttious fears appeals not 10 cOusoehv,
j Tatb M love but almost wholly to fanaticai sen
conoet of social life which, IN poy ganis' anu 'y ~
noIvqauist alike impairs, II II does not destroy IN
80 sanctitv of mar Tiage and the home, by who
sensuous and unspiritus conception OF the cnaso'e
u and object OF ooth
3 The Independent tells Of q prominent trustee
~ tina larges, churches In New England who nc
long ago very strongly opposed the starting OF reVV
70 meetings in the church, on the ground that the
- | wopld destroy the new church carpets. Besides
= he asked what do We want with revival w
| Il uutH onlv diatxl