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The Christian Index.
VOL. 55—NO. 41.
Table of Contents.
First Page. —Alabama Department: Record of
State Events: Spirit of the Religious Press
Baptist News and Notes; The Missionary Field;
Tribute of Respect; General Benominational
News.
Second Paoe. —Our Correspondents . A Sunday
in Philadelphia—John R. Kendrick; Letter
from Brunswick; Little Anna Chisholm —J. T.
McGuire ; Letter from South Carolina—Juve
nis: To the Central Association—S. Boykin ;
What has Been Done—Moreanoner ; Letter
from East Tennessee—J. L. Lloyd; Letter
from Forsyth—E. Dumas ; “Fjr Forty Years”
—T. H. Murphey.
Thied Paoe.— Our Pulpit: The Backslider and
the f 'eking Sinner—A Sermon, by Rev C.
H. Spurgeon. Seiect Miscellany: The Gush
er—Rev. T. T. Eaton; Parson’s or Parish
Wife—Poetry; etc.
Fourth Paoe.— Editorial : Denominational Al
tercations ; Tiuth and Error; Pastors and
Epidemics—Rev. J. S. Baker. Georgia Bap
tist News; Rev. Richard Fuller, D.D.; From
Charleston, 8. C.; Editorial Paragraphs—Rev.
D. E Butler. Rev. Dr. Hillyer at the Second
Baptist Church; etc.
Fifth Page.— Secular Department: Higher
Education; Literary Gossip; Gems Reset; "An
Age of Progress:” The Meadow-Book—Poetry;
A Smart Juvenile; Georgia News; Domestic
and Foreign Notes; Hon E. H. Lindley; etc. 3
Sixth Page. —The Sunday-school : Philip aud
the Ethiopian—Lesson ior Sunday, October
29, 1876. Children's Corner: The Boy that
Laughs—Poetry; “The Poorest Girls;” etc.
Sevhnth Page.— The Patrons of Husbandry:
Here and there among the Granges. What
the Patrons are Doing.
Eighth Page.— Publishers’ Department: To Our
Readers. Our Correspondents: Bowen Asso
ciation —Dr, J. 8. Lawton; Our Missionaries—
Hon. H. Mclntosh. Female Folly—Dr. Lovic
Pierce. Obituaries. Advertisements.
INDEX AND BAPTIST.
ALABAMA DEPARTMENT.
There were 84 deaths in Mobile in Septem
ber.
Eleven additions have been made to the
Harpersville Baptist church.
Twenty additions have recently been made
to the Talladega Baptist church.
A good many Randolph county people will
e migrate to Texas this fall.
Anew poßt-office has been established at
Tayloe’s Station, Perry county.
Liberty Baptist church, Shelby county, has
twenty-two new members.
The revival in the Decatur Methodist church
resulted in twenty admissions.
John A. Lawing has been appointed post
master at Athens.
Zion Baptist Association met at Bullock,
Crenshaw county, the 14th.
W. D. Battle, Sr , has been appointed post
master at Livingston.
The Methodists of Butler have been holding
a protracted meeting.
Troy Shipped 2,030 bales of cotton in Sep
tember, against 1,007 bales in September 1875.
During a religious revival at Trinity, Mor
gan county, there were sixty conversions.
Cattle and deer in Sumter county are dying
of black tongue and bloody murrain.
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By November Ist, all the cotton in middle
Alabama will he picked out. The crop will be
at least one-third less than that of last year.
Rev. T. W. Hooper, of Lynchburg, Va , has
been called to the pastorate of the Broad
street (Selma) Presbyterian church.
A little daughter of F. A. Sherwood, of
Tuseumbia, died from the effects of morphine
given for quinine.
Rev. Mr. Urepihart, of the Greensboro
Methodist church, lakes charge of a school in
Greenville.
Mrs. Elizabeth Sugg, of Franklin county, iB
ninety-one years old, and recently picked 300
pounds of cotton.
Thirty three persons have recently been
baptized into Spring Creek church, Cherokee
county.
A general retival work baa be n going on in
North Alabama, n only in the Baptist Zion,
Sui aiso among all other dene ruinations.
The next session of the Conecuh River
Primitive Baptist Association will be held in
October, 1877, with the church at Elim, near
Goshen Hill.
Rumor has it that the Montgomery and Mo
bile railroad is soon to pass, by lease, into the
hands of the Louisville and Nashville Great
Southern Railroad.
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The recent session of the Bigbee Association
which met with the Clinton Baptist church,
Greene county, was very harmonious,
and gave practical evidence of the active mis
sionary spirit which characterizes the churches
composing the Association.
The Alabama Baptist says: “The an
nouncement will awaken general regret that,
our colleague, Rev. J. Shackelford, D. D., one
of the most accomplished and honored Baptist
ministers of the Slate, has decided to remove
from Tuseumbia, Alabama, to Forest City, Ar
kansas, next January. Our State needs the
services of such men, and surely is able to sus
tain them.
THEE SOUTH-WESTERIT BAPTIST,
of Alabama.
Spirit of the Religious Press,
—The Baptist Weekly remarks :
“Loyalty to Christ,” it may be said, demands
the planting of churches wherever we can find
baptized people. But when everything indi
cates the efiort can only produce one more sick
ly church, it is well to consider whether it is
wise and expedient. There is often a plea
made that the Baptists in these pre-occupied
villages want to have Baptist preaching, and do
not like their children to be trained in Pedo
baptist churches, but generally, it will be found
they went into such communities with their
eyes wide open. They knew there was no
church of their own order, and they chose to
pitch their tents there. Their willfulness is a
poor plea for charity.
The Lord Jestn had “compassion on the mul
titudes,” but while he talked with the woman
ol Samaria and other individual sinners, nei
ther He nor His Apostles organized a church
by Jacob’s well, or in any solitary place The
New Testament churches were all in cities, or
at least places of considerable population, and
in our missionary work, we shall do best to do
all v e can to evangelize in the centres of popu
lation.
—This, from the Presbyterian Journal , “on
Rainy Sundays,” is piquant, graphic, true and
applicable, dear reader, to how many of your
frieuds and acquaintances? Is it possible
that it can apply to you ?
Dont make them an occasion of sinning by
negleet of duty. Go to church at the time for
the appointed services. Your pastor will be
there, why not you ? His personal comfort in
reaching the place wi 1 be as much impaired as
yours ; he has no better overcoat .overshoes, or
umbrella than yourself. His health is as deli
cate as your own, and lie is as likely to take
cold from exposure to damp weather as you
are. It is, too, exceedingly depressing to him
to see a small audience. When the congrega
tion dwindles to small dimensions for a tri
fling reason, he is forced to believe that either
his ministration of the gospel is unacceptable,
or that the ordinances of the sanctuary theru
sel ves are unattractive. Either inference is
painful, and cripples his usefulness. Then
again, if jou stay away from church, your ab
sence will exert an unfavorable influence.
Those persons who are present will come to
the conclusion that they have as good s right
and as strong a reason to remain home as you
have. Your neighbors will call you or regard
you as a fair weather Christian/ Persons in
your employment will think that, after all
your talk about the importance of religion,
you are willing to make but little sacrifice for
the cultivation and diffusion of it. If you were
certain of finding a SIOO bill in your pew on
a rainy Sunday, would you not be found in
your place in it ? It is far better to please
God, and prepare for heaven, by obeying II : s
command, than it would be to come into pos
session weekly of any such amount. God is
said to make rain, nidi and snow to praise
Him. But what kind of praising is it, when
men make these agencies an excuse for not as
sembling at the appointed place and time for
his worship? Go to church on the rainy Sab
bath, and go with revere ci, faith and hope,
for it may be your last Lord’s day on earth.
—The Watchman is somewhat caustic in
quoting the ascetic Montaigne in connection
with the subject it touches upon, but its re
marks are, nevertheless, quite pertin nt:
Ministerial jealousy is a singular insanity.
Was it Montaigne who said that the best of
men find in the misfortune of their dearest
friends somethin' not wholly displeasing?
The sarcasm has too much color of truth. We
believe that there is far less of envy in the min
istry than in any other profession ; in medi
cine and in the law it is far more rile. Never
theless, there is enough of it among ministers to
prove that they are encompassed yet with hu
man infirmity. Should they refuse, in all ca
ses, to hear without question and rebuke, criti
cisms adverse to their brethren, should they al
ways heartily rej >ice in one another’s success,
shouid they heartily support one another, ex
cept in those rare instances where there is real
incompetence or moral turpitude, they should
double their influence for good. We should
hear but seldom of pastoral changes. For,
when one minister seeu-es the hearty love and
co-operation of his people and of the Chris
tian world, he reflects a certain lustre upon the
class to which he belongs ; and all its mem
bers share in the regard he has won ; for they
are members one of another. On the other
hand, every criticism of the individual minis
ter cannot but glance from him, like an arrow
not wholly spent, to wound the class to which
he belongs.
—This, taken from the Christian Giver is
pat:
“Whose pocket-book is that which, you car
ry ?” said a friend to a business man, as lie
drew a well filled wallet from his pocket.
“Why my own, of course. Whose else
could it be ?” was the prompt reply.
“To whom the pocket book belongs depends
on another question. If you belong to the
Lord, I guess the purse is His also.”
“Well,” said the man, thoughtfully,‘T hope
Ido belong to the Lord, but your remark
throws anew light on this subject. It never
impressed me before, as it does just now, that I
am to carry and use this pocket-book, ‘My
pocket-book,’ as my Lord directs. I must
think this matter oul, lor I confess honestly I
never have looked at it in the light in which
you place it.”
—On “Love lor the Sanctuary,” the Chris
tian Secretary has this good word :
11 is a sad symptom in a professed servant of
God, when he loses his love for the house oi
prayer and worship; when he fails to cherish
it as a dear spiritual borne; when light or
trivial causes lead him away from it,or to neg
lect its services; for then he may well fear that
the evil one has more influence upon him than
Christ—that thin world has a stronger hold
upon his affections than heaven itself. “Lord,
I have loved the habitation of thy house.”
—On the Turkish question the Standaid
speaks out with no uncertain tone. (We are
glad to ree the sentiments of The Index on
this absorbing question so generally sustained
by the religious press of the country:)
No doubt it is true that the political rela
tions of all Europe ought not to be thrown into
disorder for the sake, even, of punishing such
an outlaw as the lustiul, murderous Turk. He
ought at least, however, to be prevented doing
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further mischief, while if there is any earthly
use to which he can be put, let him lie so used.
But it will be well-nigh the most outrageous
instance of political selfishness on record in aU
history, if after what has keen going on during
months past he is, for the sake of some quibble
of national policy, to be left still the unbri
dled master of thousands of inoffensive Chris -
tians, to persecute, plunder and kill at his owTT
cruel pleasure.
—Prof. T. J. Morgan, D.D., of Chicago, in
an answer to the question—What shall we do
with the Chinaman ? writes to the Standard as*
follows :
“Plainly, we must treat him as a man. Re
quire of him the same exact obedience to everjg.
law, municipal, state or national that we re
quire of others, and then extend to him the
same protection of the laws. We must educate
him. Americanize him, Christianize him.
—A squabble in a Presbytery, beyond a the
oljgical fquabble, is anew thing indeed. Bal
timore is entitled to the credit of having led
the way in this “new departure.” The moder
ator, the Rev. Hr. Morrison, was requested by
a few malcontents to call a special meeting to
consider matters that had already been acted
upon in the regular meeting. lie very prop
erly refused to do anything of the sort. The
clerk proved more compliant, and issued the
call. When the special meeting convened,
Dr. Morrison protested that it was illegal, as
it had been called without his approval. A
violent wrifnglff followed. One of the mem
bers threatened to call in the police, and have
the moderitoj arrested. Finally, it was voted
to adjourn, the regularity of the meeting and
the business being referred to the regular m et
ing.
—The Sunday Quest relates the following :
The rector ol a London, parish, one day
called on a sick boy. The boy was one of the
neglected outcasts of the great city. Accus
tomed to earn his living by sweeping one of
the muddy cross-walks, his face had become
familiar to many of the passers b* The cler
fyman asked him if any one hatfSllledon him
uring his sickness, “Oh yes,” tffifed the boy,
“Mr. Gladstone came to see me/l “Mr, Glad
stone,” exclaimed the rector, “wlffit Mr Glad
stone?" “why,” said the boy, the "only Mr.
Gladstone.”
So the grea' English Premier could find
time amid all the onerous duties of public life,
to seek the abode and minister to the wants of
a “dirty street-sweep.” A l l the attractions of
aristocracy and grandeur of royalty did not dis
pel from his heart the sense of duty to the lit
tle ou casts. Nothing in the long, eventlnl
lile of the great man seems to us so noble and
Chrlstly as this simple incident.
—Under the head of “A Peculiar Custom,’
a cot respondent ol the Evaminer and Chronicle ,
writing I'ronr Wbst firgruia s*ys r “There 13”
one peculiarity of the Baptists in West Vir
ginia that will be found in few if any other
States. Asa general thing they are “Thirty-
Day Baptists"—that is, have preaching in
their churches only once in thirty days, or
“once a month.” I think I speak within
bounds when I say, out of three hundred
churches not more than ten have preaching
every Sabbath ; and probably not over one
bundled have preaching ofiener than twice a
month. This, however, is a matter of neces
sity. Churches are small, and unable to give
a pastor a full support; so one man “serves”
two, four, and as 1 heard at an Association
last week, nine churches. Notwithstanding
they get so small .m amount of preaching, they
are sound in doctrine and, I believe, in prac
tice
BAPriSl’ NEWS AM) NOTES.
Rev D. G. Djwell, of Walthourville, Ga„
in the Religious Herald, propounds the following
query : “I notice in your issue of the 7th ult.
this question for discussion at the next meeting
of a .Ministerial Conference at Darlington, S.
C., viz.: “2. In what sense is the church of
Christ on earth one ?”
The question takes for granted that there is
such a thing as the church of Christ on earth
I would suggest the inquiry, first, as to wheth
er the New Testament teaches that there is such
a church (congregation) on earth. In other
words does the New Testament use the word
church, or church of Christ, to signify all the
believers living on the earth at any one time ? I
find the word church signifying all God’s elect
—“the general assembly and church of the first
born”—a local church, the church at Jerusa
lem—local churches, the churches at Judea,
Macedonia and Galatia ; but I have not as yet
satisfied myself that the New Testament knows
and recognizes the church of Christ on earth.
I do net propose to discuss the subject myself,
but would like very much to see it discussed by
my wiser brethren. I think the question of
some, perhaps, much importance.
—The Baptist Reflector says ; “Rev. J. L.
Lloyd, of Knoxville, Tenn,, has been called to
the pastoral care of the Baptist church in Bris
tol. We think the desire is that he live in
Bristol, and preach one Sabbath in Jonea
borough. We hope brother Lloyd will accept
as the field is an important one, and brother
L. is a worker.
—The Baptist Weekly (Sew York) says: We
have great satisfaction in announcing that ar
rangements have been made with Wm. K.
Williams, D.D., for the delivery of twelve
lectures on Baptist Church History. After
years of earnest research and profound thought,
I)r. Williams has brought into order tbp re
sults of his study in this department of our de
nominational literature, and early in Novem
ber, we are to be favored with the first lecture
of the course that will extend through the
coming winter. The place has not been defi
nitely fixed but will be duly announced. This
announcement will awaken the highest antici
pations among Baptists in this city and vicin
ity, and indeed, in all parts of the world. We
are now assured of getting what has for years
been most eagerly waited for, and from a
source universally acknowledged to be the
highest and fittest—a grand outlining of Baptist
church history.
—Dr. A. H. Burlingham, pastor of the
Second Baptist church, of St. Louis, has re
signed, to take effect within six months. He
has thus completed a pastorate of ten vears,
which is a long one for this region and these
4lmes. During this time the church has
doubled its membership, increasing from 300
to 600 ; has spent $90,000 for the ground and
building of the new house which has been be
gun, and at the same time contributed some
$60,000 (or general bpnevolence.
—The German Baptists of the United States
number in all about 8,000 members, equally
divided between the Eastern and Western
.Conferences. The foimer has been in session
in Baltimore, and reports 4-1 churches in Cana
da, Connecticut, New York,and adjacent States.
The two conferences unite in a genera! con
tention, held every three years.
—The Kentucky Associations have i.early
all held their annual meetings, and they
have generally received encouraging reports
|rim their churches, showing an increased
number of baptisms over last year’s
—Here is a suggestive paragraph from the
Baptist Union which we earnestly commend to
the readers of The Index: “A pastor reported
at a recent association meeting that a brother
gave $65 to good causes last year, who only
gave $lO be f ore he took a religious paper.
I astors.cari not develop their members better
than by introducing religious newspapers into
all the families of the church. Intelligence in
regard to denominational enterprises must
precede any sympathy or practical help. One
church member familiar with all the currents
of religious thought and purpose that move
in a denomination, iB worth a dozen who tread
their little mill of local affairs and never see
beyond their own church steeple.
—The lowa Free-Will Baptist Yearly
Meeting advised against ordaining any person
to -the gospel ministry who uses tobacco.
—Rev, Geo. W. Riggan was ordained to the
work of the gospel ministry, at Richmond, Va.
on the 28lh ult.
he General (open-communion) Baptists
°f' B country have a General Association,
win*- is. w assemble soon at Sebree City, Ky.,
t 6 rransact business for all parts of the country.
The Missionary Field,
—During the past quarter the missionaries
of the Virginia Slate Mission Board preacher!
1,008 sermons, baptized 409 converts, aided
pastors in meetings in which 780 others pro
fessed conversion, made 1,7(32 visits to families
for religious conversation and prayer, and
organized two churches and twelve Sunday
schools.
—The Corresponding Secretary of the
Southern Baptist Home Missionary Board
states that application has been made by the
Creeks and Shawnees in the Indian Territory
for more schools and missionaries. The
Southern Baptist missions in the Indian Ter
ritory are reported to be very successful.
—Christian America has given not a few of
her best sons to the work of regenerating the
Turkish Empire by means of the gospel. Loid
Shaftesbury once said that the American mis
sionaries had done more toward upholding the
truth and spreading the gospel of < Hixist in
the East than any other body of men in this or
in any other age.
—Miss Mary E. Thompson, of Franklin,
Ind., expects to depart for China, in company
with Dr. William Dean and others, about the
first of November, by way of San Francisco.
She joins the Baptist missions in China, and is
well qualified for the work.
—Mrs. Binney, wife of Dr. Binney, of the
Rangoon Theological Seminary, in Burmab,
has just completed an Anglo Karen Dictionary
which, it is thought, will be of great service to
missionaries and others.
—The State Mission Board of West Virgin
ia has j ist had a meeting. The Treasurer
was able to pay off the missionaries whose re
ports were received, and quite a handsome sum
on the old debt. The report of the Cories,
ponding Secretary was encouraging.
—The Presbyterian Board of Foreign Mis
sions closes the month of September with
$y,540 less receipts than were reported at the
same date last year. The debt of $36,188 re
ported at the last Assembly has increased to
$45,728.
—At a Baptist convention in Canada the
other day Bev. J. Denovan introduced the
Hecond topic, “The relation of church building
to Home Mission work.” He “strongly advo
cated the necessity of building houses lor wor
ship at the mission stations, as ourmissionaiies
could not succeed in getting people to leave
comfortable Methodist, Presbyterian or Epis
copal churches, and come to worship in an old
school-house or a dirty town-hall. The build
ing of a neat church was one of the best ways
to give stability to any mission.”
—The British and Foreign Bible Society
has made arrangements with the Rev. 11. Van
Eck, formerly of the Utrecht Missionary So
ciety, to translate the Gospel of St. Mark into
THE GHRISTIA IST HERALD
of Tennessee.
the language spoken by the natives of Bali,
an island of 800,000 inhabitants in the Indian
Archipelago. If hesucceeds, it will lead to the
translation of the whole New Testament. Pro
fessor Ahlquist, of Helsingfors, is also about
preparing a translation of one of the gospels
in the language of the Wogulians, a tribe in
estern Siberia who have hitherto been un
supplied wilh any portion of the Scriptures in
their own dialect,
—Rev. W. C. Walker, Baptist Sabbath
school missionary lor Connecticut, reports
much success during the year. About 800
conversions have occurred in connection wilh
Baptist Sabbath-schools.
—Rev. W. N. Williams and wife, of the
Southern Baptist Board are about to return
from China, for a season to recuit, if possible,
Mrs. W.’s health.
—liev. J. W. Henry, who, two years ago,
went on a mission to the Society Islands has
returned again to this country. “He was fo:-
bidden to preach or teach his special views un
der pain of imprisonment, or perhaps worse.”
—Rev. Young J. Allen, of the Southern
Methodist Mission in China, is about to pub
lish a work on China and her neighbors, en
titled “A Book for the Times.” One gentle
man has engaged to take fifteen hundred cop
ies.
—The first Baptist church in Sweden was
formed at Orebro in 1854. It consisted then
of five members, who held the Lord’s Supper
for the first time in an open field at midnight,
a large stone being their communion table.
They had to suffer some persecution, and their
teachers were imprisoned. The same church
to-day, under the care of pastor A. E. Back
man, numbers 308 members, with a Sunday
school containing 650 scholars. They have
erected anew chapel in one of the chief streets
of the town, which will seat 1,000. In the
whole ofSweden, there are now some 250 Bap
tist churches, and over 10,000 members.
From the Madison (Fla.) News.]
IK.BITE OF KKSPECT.
Court House, Madison, Fla., \
September 23d, 1876. /
At a meeting of the citizens of the town of
Madison, held for the purpose of adopting res
olutions commemorative of the decease of our
belovtd Mayor and fellow-townsman, Hunter
Pope, Esq., Judge E. J. Vann was elected
Chairman and D. S. Sessions, Secretary. Af
ter a lew remarks by the Chair, a committee of
five, to-wit: B. F. Wardlaw, John M. Beggs,
Alexander McDonald, J. N. Stripling and
Thomas McLeary were appointed to draft
suitable resolutions for the occasion. After a
brief absence said committee came in, and
through their chairman, Benjamin F. Ward
law, presented the following
PREAMBLE AND RESOLUTIONS.
We have met to offer a tribute of respect to
the memory of a beloved and honored citizen.
Under ordinary circumstances when we are
called upon to mourn the loss of those dear
to us in the private circles of life, our grief lor
the bereavement should be borne in silence,
but when the social ties formed in public and
professional life, cemented by uninterrupted
daily intercourse for the past "few years, and
strengthened by an unbroken chain of lriend
ship, high esteem and love, are suddenly rent
asunder by death—when the young, talented
and giltedof our midst are stricken down un
der the most afflicting circumstances—it be
comes our melancholy privilege to give vent to
our feelings by a public expression of sorrow.
The custom which has consecrated the privi
lege lias its origin in the best feelings and
purest affections of the human heart. Such is
tlie sorrow awakened by the heart-rending
catastrophe which has deprived us of the ever
welcome presence and growing usefulness ol
our fellow-citizen and townsman, Mr. Hunter
Pope, and assigned him to an early and un
timely grave He was our pride, and around
his brilliant genius and excellence of heart
clustered our fondest hopes of future honor to
himself and usefulness to his fellow-citizens.
Asa testimony of our sorrow for his death
and of our regard for his memory—
Resolved, That in the death of Hunter Pope,
'he citizens of Madison have lost one of her j
most talented, and the State of Florida one of
her most gifted, useful and promising sons.
Stricken and prostrated when but beginning to
ascend : a man, who, though in the prime of
life and the hey-dey of youth, seemed marked
and sealed for distinction in the near future.
2. Resolved, When one who is our friend
and fellow-citizen is cut down by our side in
the pride of his intellect and the vigor of his
uianhood, by Him whose purposes are inscru
table, and whose power is irresislable, remem
bering that we too are mortal, it becometh us
to receive the warning—to he silent in awe—
and with reverence concede the sovereignty of
God, and in the light of that Revelation which
lie has vouchsafed to us to prepare in life for
death.
3. Resolved, That in all hi public and pro
fessional duties he was prompt, just, and faith
ful, and in all his social and private relations,
he endeared himself to us by continually in
creasing ties ol true regard, high esteem, friend
ship and love.
4. Resolved, That in his death the town of
Madison has lost in him a faithful public of
ficer ; for as Mayor for several years he studi
ed and carefully guarded the peace of our
town, and used every eflbrt, undei the most
embarassingcircumstances, to advance the in
terest of the people and the welfare of the
town.
5. Resolved, Tint we tender our sincere
condolence to the widow, the father and family
of the deceased, in this their sad bereavement.
6. Resolved , That the citizens of the town
of Madison, in token of their sorrow wear the
usual badge of mourning for thirty days.
7 Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions
be transmitted by the Chairman and Secretary
of this meeting to the widow and amily of the
deceased, and also a copy be furnished the
Madison News and Madison Recorder for publi
cation.
These resolutions were unanimously adopt
ed.
The meeting then adjourned.
E. J. Vann, Chairman.
D. S. Sessions, Secretary.
WHOLE NO. 2241.
General Denominational Ness.
—The Moody and Sankey meeting- at Chi
cago have opened very successfully, and will
continue for three months. The meetings are
held in a building erected for that purpose on
Monroe street, between Market and Franklin
Its dimensions are 190 feet front by 160 feet in
depth. The floor is seated with 4,500 chairs,
and a gallery 40 feet deep, around three side*
of the hall, contains 2,900 chairs. To this
gallery there are six entrances by flights of
steps twelve feet wide, entirely separate from
the entrances to the main bidding, thns ena
bling the great hall to be filled or empt'ed in
about five minutes. The hall will comforta
bly seat some eight thousand people. The
platform extends across the west end of
'he building ; on this will be Mr. Moody’s pul
pit and .Mr. Sankey’s organ, a choir of three
hundred singers, and seals for three hundred
city pastors, ministers, and others. The build
ing cost about $21,000.
The last Episcopal Diocese of Ohio passed
a number of resolutions of a permanent nature,
condemning horse-racing as inconsistent with
the humane precepts of Christianity, and the
atrical amusements and dancing as destructive
of religious life. It is assumed that communi
cants who indulge in such amusements are
rarely worth anything to Christianity aud the
Church.
—The Episcopal church seems determined
to regain its hold upon the masses in England,
and is making attempts here and there in tnia'
country to make an impression on the same
c-iass. An exchange says: “In England it
has for tlie past iilteen years fairly outstripped
the Methodists and Roman Catholics in this
regard; and here parochial missions, gospel
tents, and the free-seat system have wrought
great changes.
—A letter from Barcelona, published in the
London Times, says that during the past three
months the clergy and aristocracy have made
a severe attack upon thier employes and ser
vants who dare to worship in, or send their
children to, protectant schools or churehes.
Hundreds of poor men and women have thus
suffered for their faith.
—The Evangelical Union, in Scotland, is
composed of eighty-three churcheß that do not
admit liquor dealers to membership.
Rev. D". Marsena Stone has accepted the
presidency of Lelaud University, at New Or
leans. This is on institution for the educition
of colored preachers.
—Of the 4,744 ordained ministers of the
Presbyterian church, 3,326 are regularly em
ployed in the work to which they were conse
crated. Nearly one-third of the whole—l,4lß
are otherwise employed or unemployed.
—The Methodist conferences, which met in
September, report an increase in the number
of church members, but a decrease in the
amount of benevolent contributions.
—The Lutherans are talking about celebra
ting “Reformation Day,” October 31st, on the
Centennial grounds.
Ihe Spanish clergy still are anxious to
obtain a suppression of tlie Protestant schools
in their country, and argue that the people
until they are of full age, have no right to be
instructed in any religion save the Catholic.
The I rotestants of Bavaria have petitioned
the King to cease transacting public business
on the Sabbath, and to discontinue Sabbath
work on public buildings.
—The religious interests of the Scandinavians
who have settled in Dakota are cared for by
the Baptists, who have established four
churches especially for them. There are over
15,000 Scandinavians in Dakota, most of whom
are both thrifty and intelligent.
—The German minister of Public Worship
has issued an order directing that all or
phanages, at present under control of Roman
Catholic communities, are to be placed under
lay direction.
—Lord Radstock, the English peer, who has
held religious meetings in many parts of Eu
rope, is now preaching in England.
—There was a double service in a Methodist
church at Nottingham, Manitoba, on a recent
Sunday. A quarrel had divided the congrega
tion, and each party claimed to be dominant.
Each had called anew minister, and the two
clergymen were on hand to begin their labors.
The first to arrive took possession of the pul
pit, and the other sat behind the ehaucel rail.
The man in the pulpit gave out a hymn, the
other man gave out another, and both were
sung confusedly by the rival sections of the as
sembly. Then the man behind the railing
started oft on his sermon, and the other began
to read a chapter of Scripture. When the
reading was over, and it was plain the preach
ing was going to last much longer, the parti
sans of the reader sang another hymn with a
loud organ accompaniment. The musical
noise drowned the voice of the clergyman in
the pulpit, but when it was over, he was found
to be preaching right along, as though nothing
unusual had happened. The clergyman in
the chancel, less cool, was unable to fix his
thoughts on a discourse, and so remained silent
and beaten. At the close of this extraordinary
scene a deacon explained that it had been en
acted “under legal advice, and to further the
cause of Christ.”
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A Hebrew congregation has been organized
in Huntsville.