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ÖHBISTIAW HERALD.
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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
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“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.
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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.
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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.
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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-