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» 8 ì», <--- ÖHBISTIAW HERALD. ~T--------- ‘ California Department. CONDUCTED BY PROF. J. DUÄRAM. All milter intended for thia department should be addreeeed to Prof. J. Durham, Col lege City, California. Current Religious News. ; the addresses delivered, was that they were carefully written, .such The Waldensian Congregation in preparation as insures the best Rome, after being driven from one thoughts gotten up in the most, hired room to another, have at telling manner. The addresses California State Sunday School The Church Neics. The discussions ____ that follo wed each address bi ought Convention out almost every conceivable fea Our State Sunday-school Con ture of the subject. The question vention convened this year’in June drawer opened many a teacher’s at Woodland. In previous years it difficulties which were promptly wet in -May; a chang e- -wa*»-made anAwered by_”driFtrenl meuifiers'of to accommodate the professors of the convention. our colleges. The Sunday-school Contention The convention was welcomed of California has met for eleven by a most excellent address by years, and has beepthe means oil Pres. A. M. Elston, in which he re doing a great good to the church viewed the objects of the Sunday- and the Sunday-ecbools of the Bchool work as a Bible work. The State. . This is evident to every one influence of the Bible on the world who has been acquainted with its was an important point presented history and its work. Those who in the address. Many examples have been through all its meetings being presented of the course of have grown in enthusiasm in the nations, led by its truths, the ad work from the first. ■—•———.---- missions of our learned statesman, There were fewer vacancies on and the last words of unbelievers. the programme this year than ever ‘ Everything tended to encourage the .. keft ctbryr. t og e the r .with, the better Bible teacher. The response to the preparation speaks for its interest welcome was presented by Pres. J.„ We would like it much better if a H. McCollough. Bro. Me. came out greater attendance could be se in his ready style. We, as Sun cured, but this difficulty arises day-school workers, tried to ap 'principally on account of our large preciate the magnitude of the work State it reproseuts, besides the ex mapped out, and could but calculate pense of traveling. The brethren what could be done by what had who are contiguous to the ¡»luce of been done, and the facilities we holding each convention, generally possess for doing. The Sunday- give it a good representation, while schools have done an incalculable a few from the more distant parts amount of good, and yet we are of the State are always present. just beginning to learn bow to Hon. William Johnson, who has work. been our presiding officer for years, “The Worth of the Sunday-|was at his place, His venerable school” was discussed from three locks graced the chair with the different standpoints : 1. “ To the greatest dignity, and his prompt scholar,” by J. Durham. 2. “ To ness in managing and dispatching the church,” by Phil. Bruton. 3. business showed him to be as mueh >> “To the State and Nation,” by E. at home as if he were in the State B. Ware. The different phases Senate. Bro. R. L. McHatton, our State from which the subject was Evangelist, was our scribe, and handled, besides the general dis cussion w’hich followed each di with neatness and dispatch did he vision, brought out many valuable handle the proceedings of the Con suggestions and hints that made vention. He held a children’s the workers feel like that in the meeting one afternoon, which was future they can do much better in very interesting. A semi-annual meeting was appointed for the their future work. “ What the Sunday-school has State meeting in September. Also done,” W. A. Meloan. “ The Sun I a plan inaugurated for putting a day-school and the church,” II Sunday-school Evangelist into the Shadle. “ The Child Idea,” Pres. J. field as soon as possible. Till then H. McCullough, “The Truth and the State Evangelist was instructed the Teacher,” Pres. J. C. Keith, to give especial attention to the were handled in a masterly man work. The next Convention will as ner. The practical thoughts were semble at Watsonville in May, 1884. valuable, and we hope to be per mitted to present a synopsis of The way to preserve the peace of these addresses at no distant day. the church is to preserve the purity One prominent feature in most all of it.—If. Henry. M mm Ì -• The corner-stone services of Grace Methodist Episcopal Church, of Jer sey1 City, were held on Monday eve ning, the 16th ult., in the West End Church. Among other featur- tufthi r ty pro- The Presbyterian Church has a bationers into full membership. and Sitka. The net results of the past year’s work in the French Methodist Church is an increase of 11 chapels, 7 lay preachers, 174 members, 7 Sunday-schools, and 260 scholars. The English Methodists Mission in the north of France, is bearing much good fruit. *The Misses Cadwell of Water town, N. Y., nieces of Hon. R. P. Flower of this city, have erected a beautiful memorial chapel in the cemetery at Watertown at a cost of $15,000, and donated it to the Cem- etery Association. —The National Baptist says that the iirst Sunday-school of Sweden A stained glass window has just was started thirty-two years ago, been plac3d in Elstow Church as a in Stockholm. Now there are in memorial of John Bunyan. that city forty-six schools, with 630 teacheis and 6,425 scholars, and in The Presbyterian Church at Ben the whole of Sweden 20,000 teach ton, Mo., was completely destroyed ers, and over 200,000 scholars. by the tornado which swept over that citv on the 13th ult. Among the most deserving of the benevolent institutions of this coun Rev. William Cuthbertson, of try is the Hnmv. for aged I leaf M nte*, London, will, it is confidently under the care of Rev. Dr. Gallaud- thought, accept the call extended to et, St. Ann’s Protestant Episcopal him by the Congregational Church Church of this city. An effort is of Chicago. TT6w being made by its friends to raise $30,000 with which to place it The work of rebuilding the church upon a farm aud start light indus edifice of the Baptist Church at St. trial pursuits for the inmates. The Albans, Vt, which was destroyed by patronage of the charitable could fire lastSpiing, will be /begun at hardly take a more worthy or bene once. ficent form. _ The “ English Religion,” is the name given Evangelical religion in France, as a term of repioach, by French Romanists, to prevent its success in their country. The General Assembly of the Cal- vinistic Methodists of Wales ha1* acknowledged itself a Presbyterian body by appointing a deputation to the General Council of the Presby terians at Belfast next year. ' ” • Inthe imposingpreparations mak ing in Germany to do honor to the memory of the great Reformer, Martin Luther, at the approaching 400th anniversary of his birth, the Empire really honors itself. The venerable Emperor has always been a devoted member of the Evangeli cal church, and naturally takes a warm interest in the furthcoming demonstration. In bis recent decree that the occasion be solemnly ob served by the holding of a church festival on November 10 and 11 in all the Evangelical churches, the Emperor closes with the prayer that “ the Celebration may be productive of lasting blessing to our beloved Evangelical church.” Rev. J. II. Dailington, rector of Christ Church, Brooklyn, announ ces that several thousand dollars have been raised toward a memor ial to the late pastor, Rev. A. 11 Partridge; the memorial will take the form of a Partridge memorial church, with a marble or bronze The committee appointed at tablet in memory of the diseased clergyman. Pittsburg, Pa., in 1880, to select and report a suitable place for holding There are said to be about sixty the next session of the General Con thousand Christian Indians in thé ference of the Methodist Protestant United States, and that one half of church, have officially announced these are Baptists. that they have chosen Fairmont, West Virginia. The location is cen Brooklyn has 285 Churches to a tral, and easily accessible, being sit population of 566,680, or one church uated on the main line of the Balti to 1,988 persons. more and Ohio Railroad. The Con-