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About Christian herald. (Portland ;) 1882-18?? | View Entire Issue (June 8, 1883)
.. CTTHTSTtA^ tttÖttALö 6 lines of travel to all persons attend ing the Association. The proprietors of the hotels and boarding houses in Salem will make a liberal reduction to teachers and others in attendance. E. B. M c E lroy , SATURDAY, 10 O’CLOCK A. M. Current Religious News. Meeting called to order, Bro. Cal The union of the Methodist lison in the chair, and, after sing Churches of England is being dis ing, Bro. I. N. Mulkey read a cussed. chapter arid lead in prayer. Bro. 8. The honor of being the oldest Baughman reopened the previous discussion, followed by Bros. English church in Americans claim .... ' Sup^of Putrfic imtrircHnrr sWilFsF, Roberts" Mulkey^ Bond, ed by the old 'Friend’s Church in Callison and Parks. The entire Benton, Ya. ’ discussion, though not an entire Report from Clear Lake. unit, was conducted in a friendly, The Pope declines the $650,(M)0 The County Cooperation of the manner, all, doubtless, desiring to income which he might receive Christian brotherhood met at Clear learn all the truth possible, and to from the Italian Government if he cho aft* H l .......... flW WW ■ Lake, Lane county,. Or., May 11, be profited thereby. .... - ■ 1883, and was called to order by The reports from the churches The Rev. Father Mooney, of Bro. R. G. Callison, Chairman, who being next in order. (Will omit read a chapter and, after singing, publication, unless called for here Newburg, N. Y., says that “ New York is numerically the greatest was led in prayer by Bro. Wiltse. after). “— -- The minutes of-previrnrs meeting" Ejection of officers under the new” lAttfrntrc was read and adopted. Report of constitution was next in order, and Newman Hall’s church in London the committee on order of business resulted as follows : President, R. was read and received. Roll of G. Callison; Secretary, J. W. has 1,071 members. Its thirteen Sunday-schools have 5,000 children delegates from the various congre Parks ; Treasurer, Caleb Davis. gations was called and responded as Moved and seconded that the and 400 teachers. follows : chair appoint an executive commit Christianity has 440,000,000 nom —Pleasant- Hill—Bros. S. Baugh tee of three. Motion, prevailed, man, Mulkey and Wiltse; Sisters whereupon the chair appointed inal adherents in the world, while less than 30,000,000 evangelical Baughman and Mulkey. Bros. J. A. Bushnell, of Junction Eugene City—Bros. Gill, Cal- City, Wm. Churchill, of Eugene Christians are enlisted in mission lison,- McGrady, Shrdley and -Utty, and-A .44? Pow e l l,- of H e b r on ary enterprises, and they contribute Churchill; Sisters Callison and (Upper Coast Fork), said com less than twenty-five cents apiece per annum for foreign missions. Shaw. mittee. Clear Lake—Bros. A. C. Jen „ Motion that the Secretary be re An Anti-Opium Prayer Union nings, J. E. Roberts, I. W. Bond quested io correspond with the has been formed in Great Britain, and A. M. Thurman. churches not here represented, ask ofwhichthe members residing in dif Trent—Bros. Caleb Davis, G. W. ing them to inform Bro. William ferent parts covenant to pray at Guiley and J. W. Parks. Churchill, of Eugene City, as to least once a week, on Thursdays, Junction City—Bro. J. A. Bush how much they will give toward for the overthrow of the appaMing nell. paying a county Evangelist. and accursed opium trade in China Mohawk—Bro. J. F. Mulkey. Motion prevailed. and elsewhere. Hebron (Upper Coast Fork)— The time and place of holding Bros. I). R. Harris and A. H. the next quarterly cooperation was The subject of reunion between Powell. now in order, and the point selected the North and South Presbyterian Oak Hill—Bro. W. H. Mulkey. being Hebron (Upper Coast Fork), Church has been a prominent topic Coast Fork, Liberty, Drain and commencing on Thursday evening of discussion in the recent meetings Springfield not represented. before the fourth Lord’s -day in of the Southern Presbyteries. They On motion, the officers of the July at 6 o’clock p . M. ' have been divided since the war. Clear Lake church were made a Subject for di§cussion at said The subject will probably be dis committee to arrange for the meeting : Resolved that all officers, cussed at the General Assembly, preaching during the meeting. to-wit: Evangelists, Elders and which opens this week. It was then moved and seconded Deacons should be ordained by to adjourn till 4 o’clock p . M. fasting, prayer and the laying on of Some care has been taken in re Motion prevailed. hands. cent years to get at accuracy in AFTERNOON SESSION. Bro. D. R. Harris, of Hebron, was general statistics. Ecclesiastical selected to open the discussion. It statistics of late have been gotten The meeting was opened by was then moved that the minutes up with very exceptional care prayer by Bro. S. Baughman. - Next in order was the discussion of this meeting be sent * to the I hevery natural desi re ■ to shew I on the duties and work of an C hristian H erald for publication. prosperity has been held in reason able check. After very patient ex Evangelist, and, according to Carried. Motion and seconded to adjourn. amination of the returns the Bap previous notice, Bro. I. N. Mulkey Motion prevailed, and, after sing tists have arrivod at what they opened said discussion, followed by ing, was dismissed by Bro. Philip think a truthful estimate of their Broi. Bond, Thurman,- Roberts, Mulkey. numerical strength. Of Baptist Wiltse, Baughman and Callison. R. G. C allison , Pres. churches the total is in Europe, Motion to adjourn until 10 J. W. P arks , Sec. o’clock to morrow, and that the dis I 3,079 ; in Asia, 514 ; in Africa, 32 ; To tell a lie, and then defend it in America, 24,753, and in Austra cussion of the same subject be con tinued. Motion carried, and the with other lies, is like digging a lia, 127. The membership is—in meeting was dismissed by Bro.' R. cellar and making it large enough Europe, 316,514; in Asi'à; 34,006; to hold all the dirt that is displaced. , in Africa, 1,147 ; in America, 2,113,- Q. Callison. ------------------ t------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- 721, and in Australia, 7,700. Th<i total number of Baptist churches throughout the world is 28,505. 01 pastors or. ministers attached tc thebe churches there are 17,683, and the entire membership is estimated at 2,473,087. It is a goodly exhibil ity. The Baptists constitute oneo the smallest of the great denomina] tions, but they are active and ener] getic and do a fair share of thi missionary work attempted by thi ock Protestant churches. , ome A missionary from the Island o Peru, in the Samoan group, wri that there is not a heathen lef MLsm^ry labors were--mmmene there only eleven years ago. Du ing this time the whole island h been evangelized, churches; chapeh© ' mission-houses have been built a T ’ll their own expense, and they a-iov now supporting their own pastorgai T and contributing.to the society thaJ- c /C sent them pastors and teachers, ity 11 -I A Roman Catholic paper of Needed York City says that “ five-eighthypp of the army of the United State-»/bi are Catholics. .. fcd icli The Congregational churches oj pa New England have had an accession la of 1,500 members since Jan. 1? * -f tee 9 11 An agnostic is defined by Prd George F. Wright, of Oberlin, j “ one who confesses such a degrffi^ of ignorance concerning any prop<CWp sition that he is unable to form afl opinion as to its truth or falsity.| h His conclusion is that agnosticisoj is a help or hindrance to Christian iC ity according to the point to whic^j it it is directed. If it relates to th|l fundamental ideas of religion, fl te paralyzes all effort to learn and ifl cept the truth; but if it onfl covers minor objections, subsidiarfl doctrines, and apparent discrepafl cies, it clears the field for action, fl Boston has an object of great in terest to all visitors in the 01 North Church on Salem street, oj posite the Copp*» HtH bury id ground. This is the historic^ church in whose belfry John New] man hung the signal lantern f<j Paul Reveres midnight ride. H] church is well preserved, and cofl tains many objects of interest; communion service which was pn sented by George II. in 1758, andl prayer book from which His Majel lino ty’s name was erased after the Rei ith olution, a copy of the Scriptun ts known as the “ Vinegar Bible