New-York tribune., 1891-08-29
WHATA PASTOR SEES AND HEARS
ITEMS OF INTEREST TO CHURCH PEOPLE


ITEMS OF INTEREST TO CHURCH PEOPLE.
Dr. storrs OF Brooklyn, who celebrated his seventh.
eth birthday last week s the subject many pleasant
paragraphs in the religious press. The following Is
part Of the tribute from "The Examiner (Baptist:
sTo call hrn the first living citizen OF Brooklyn would
be no 1attery; 1t would hardly reach the truth He
is an orator Of the first rank, not only IN the pull
pit, but the PLATFORM and to no living American DO
his fellow citizens listen with greater respect pleas
ure he speaks In his grave and frank fashion
on the great religious and public questions Of the DAY.
May four years be MS, ard may their strength
be labor bnt not sorrow.'
in view Of the spirit Of higher criticism 80 prevs
lent at present sentence IKE this from DR.. storrs
viii be read with interest; "I look upon the Bible az
the book for the world and SEQ its divine aahorship
as plainly the authorship of God In the stars
which know no human mechanic could have built in
his workshop and flung out into space and when tho
critics pick away at the Bible say We II ia no great
matter; II IT grataes them, IT does not hurt me; and
a. long as all the universities In the world combined
are not able 10 make another Bible that shall be so
cosmicaI In Its range Of appeal and mighty In its
power over men and women, over mind and heart and
life and over the growing civilization Itself 10 which
IL ministers rest assured that this Is Gods book and
not msn's-as certain am that this is His globe
under my feet and not something which human car.
penters have buildcd."
The American Board, of which Dr. storrs Is preslk
dent reports that the receipts during the first eleven
months of the financial year were e630, 500; during
the corresponding period Of last year they were
S547 sol.
The health OF Dr. Pentecost who has been IN India
since last fall, has suffered somewhat by the great
strain OF preaching which he has continued con-
stantly during the months He is said by cor.
respondent to have gone into the interior ~over the
biowy hills to the great region Of perpetual
snow and although he did not decide upon taking rest
a moment too soon he has benefited considerably
already by the relaxation and the change of climate
After tomorrow several OF the New-York clergymen
who have been away this win be in their
pupits but two or three of the largest churches viii
not hear their own pastors for couple OF weeks.
GGreat Exploits' was DR.. Tamages theme at Ocean
Grove last Sunday As this is the first time that the
Ocean Grove people have been able to secure this sd
dltion TO their campmeetlng programme, they may
consider that the popular preacher had heir successful
efforts In mind wleu when selecting bis topic.
Dr. WayIand of Philadelphia, quotes a conversation
which he had with Mr. Lowell, who said 10 him: Per-
sons whom / do not know write to me, introducing
persons whom they do not know" The Congreg-
reputation as lntrcducers is very shady. New'iorS
CITY has two prominent clergymen OF whom Is SAID,
They would give letters Of recommendation ana H-
PRODUCTION to Beelzebub, so common are theT N1U's
and so frequently found in the possession OF nauds'
This is rather rough on the New-foFk clergy men
question, and yet they may feel as II IS sad sainJ
woman did that she wished some of her friends mad
as much activity and persistency as the deVil shows
Tho American Sunday School Union, it Is said.
oroanlzes from 1000 to 1000 new Bible schools every
year. and the question is sometimes aShea - un'
Norl, permanentl DO these schools accomplish macH
GOOD i'm the destitute places where they are estaoSh
In answer to those and similar questions, tne following
history of the Big Creek Union Sabbath school, AGAR
County Kentucky, has been made puone' mo
school was organized in 1855, by missionary Oh 'ns
American Sunday school Union, and has continued |"
meet every Sunday except eighteen months during u'
war In 1865 it was reOrganized BY our missionary,
lanes Buchanan This school is in country district
many miles from any railroad, is surrounded by small
farms and is still is union school from ns VI
tion until now there have been about 4@o members
enroIed so that its average attendance has not been
large bu this little lighthouse has been sendins Ou'
its light From this school In the backwoodS ueio
have gone three ministers of the Gospel one hAS-
sjonary of the American Sunday school Union, ONO
Iieutenant-G Governor of Kentucky one candldate ior
Vice-Presdent OF the United States, ffy-sx teachers
in the public schools, three members OF the hehuucS
Legislature, ten practising physicians, thirteen mer-
chants seven lawyers and one judge. j. J. Wlimore,
the bookdealer of New-York and the publisher anu
nroprietOr of HtchcOcks Analysis Of the Bloe, was
member of this school, one hundred and hfty SCHOLARS
from this school, in their youth, united with the Ch
only two persons connected with Big Creek Hauoa'h-
school have ever accused of any crime, and oon
of these were proven TO be Innocent But Two hhncs
in the neighborhood declined to attend the schoo'
and son from one of these, while on drunken SPREE
killed his companion, a member of the other family
small schools in the backwOOds make noble oohlrou-
tions to the Church, the world and the STATE nus
little school is fair representative OF thousands OF
others. sunday-school work among the destitute Is
permanent