The herald., 1897-12-19
CHURCHLY NOTES

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The itinerary of the Rev. Dr. F. B.
Meyer the famous evangelist of London,
is nearly completed. The cities which he
|expects to visit are Rochester, Albany,
Kansas City, Baltimore, Cleveland.
washington and Philadelphia. In each
of these cities Christian Endeavorers,
pastors of Presbyterian, Baptist, Con-
gregational and Disciple of Christ
churches are to join in making these
missions successful. Advance meetings
are to be held and every effort is to be
made to get people to attend them who
do not regularly attend church services
"Churches are located now without
any common consideration" says the
New York Outlook. 1.-THE denominations
do not confer with one another. There is
one city in New England in which two
prominent churches of the same de-
nomination, one of which cost about
5000 900 and the other over 100000, are
placed wit)1n hundred feet Of each
other. The second came there against
| the protest Of the first. The example is
| O scandal to the community. But this Is
| not an isolated instance. In small
town in another part Of the country,
within hardly more than a thousand
feet of one another stand eight churches.
In not more than one instance could the
location have been selected because OF
the need Of the district; what Influenced
the others was the desire to be in GER
tain aristocratic neighborhood. Still
more pernicious is the influence in small
villages, where six or eight denomina-
tjons crowd in and only one or two at
the most are needed. The result is an
appalling waste, both of men and OF
means"
Referring to the "ordination" of Mrs.
Ballington Booth in Carnegie hall the
other evening, the New York Christian
Advocate (MethodisD says: Mrs.
Booth cannot be qualified by any such
ordination as this to take part in the
administration of the holy communion
| in any church which restricts the con-
secration of the elements and their ad-
ministration to the ministry, and the
ministry to men. Perhaps the Volunteers
will develop into q regularly defined
Christian sect, as may the regular Sal
walton Army. In this case, like others,
they will be compelled to derive their
resources chiefly from their own men,
bers. One sect more or less makes little
or no difference, as the census of 1890
shows 143 religious Recommendations in
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Christian in name, and since that GEN.
sus was compiled several new sects have
| been started"
Some of the progressive Jews in New
York city are moving quietly in the
direction Of the organization of a Jew
ish Sabbath School union, similar in
scope and aim to the American Sabbath
School union. At present there is no
source of supply for Jewish Sabbath
school literature. There is a marked
activity, not alone in New York, but
Throughout the country, especially
among Reformed Jews, in the direction
of increased Sabbath schools for He
brew children and the improvement of
existing schools. This activity shows
itself in Boston and in Philadelphia, two
strong Jewish centers, in the form of
popular lectures. In New York city the
Jewish Religious School union has a.
more comprehensive scheme of lectures
conferences, and model lessons than
ever Before.
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The Rev. DR.. Robert S. Macarthur
of New York recently preached on 1.-THE
Flood" in his sermons on "Old Testa-
ment Difficulties" The doctor said that
he did not believe that the deluge COW
cred the entire surface of the earth. The
Biblical account, he said, need not be in
terpreted to mean a universal deluge.
The flood, he thought, was a local one.
involving the world that Noah was ac-
quainted with. The dimensions of the
ark were not such as to accommodate
two of all the beasts of the whole world
The very getting together Of the beasts
would have involved a succession of
miracles.
A subsidence of the earth involving
the southern portion of Asia and the
parts of Asia, Europe and Africa about
the Mediterranean sea, with an inflow
of the waters of the neighboring seas,
would have been enough to carry out the
Biblical account. The sweeping state
ment that the whole world was SUBJ
merged he compared with like state
ment in the Bible, the taxing Of the