Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 March 1883 — Church Matters. [ARTICLE]

Church Matters.

The acknowledges a most welcome call from Th 6 Rev. J.«H. Cissel, D. D. We are informed that the Free Will Baptist people have already about $1,200.00 subscribed towards their new church building. They will commence the building as soon as the weather will permit. Dr. Cissel, the presiding elder pleached at the M, E. Church Saturday evening and Sunday morning and evening. The Doctor is thoroughly appreciated in his old home and never fails to draw a large congregation. * At the Presbyterian church the Rev. Gilbert Smalls will preach next Saturday evening, Sunday morning and Sunday evening. It is officially announced that Mr. Smalls will preach regu'arly in Rensselaer on the First and Third Sabbaths of each month, for at least a year. The New Church.— The movement vin regard to. a new M. E. church building has at last assumed such shape as to justify the statement that it will be erected during the present year. At the Conference meeting last Monday morning a committee having discretionary powers for choosing a site and superintending the erection of the building was appointed, and consists of the following persons: H. W. Wood, J. M. Wasson, C. R. Benjamin, M. B. Alter, James T. Randal, James T. Abbott.

Mrs. Susans Burns. —From a very ranch belated obituary notioeercently handed to the editor of this paper, in regard to Mrs. Susan Burns, who died at her residence in Barkley tp., on the*2sth ult.,. we learn that Mrs. Barn’s, maiden name was Barns. Thafc she was born in West Virginia in the year 1821 and was consequently G 2 years old at the time of her death. Came to White county with her father in 1828, and was in that county married to William Burns in L 839, and in the same year moved to Jasper county where she remained till death. She was the mother of ten children, six of whom still live. Mr. Henry Harris came down from Surrey on the train Tuesday morning and in paying the conductor his car fare he showed a large roll of greenbacks. These he carried loose in the breast pocket of kis qoat. At the* Rensselaer depot Mr. Harris reports that a maii with a large cap© to his coat which covered liis hands, stood in the car aisle and made several attempts to insert his hand into the pocket where die roll of money t was. The Drainage Association,.— The Drainage Association mot at the Court House last Saturday afternoon, in accordance with previous announcement. 4fter hearing the report of the soliciting agent, Mr. Alfred Thompson, the meeting adjourned for one week to, give time for more contributions and subscriptions. The total amount of voluntary contributions anti stock subscriptions now appioxhnates $2,70u, having only SoUO more to be raised before the success'of the enter* prise, is assured. S. P. Thompson* .Prest. Lv 8. Alter, Sec. pro term

The Ladies Literary Society commemorated Easter by a pleasant entertainment Friday evening last. Only members of the society, their relatives and special friends were present. In the North American Review for April, the scriptural and the legal aspects of Diyoree are presented respectively by the Rev. Dr. Theo ore D. Woolsey, well known for his insistance on the indissolubility of the marriage tie, and by judge John A. Jameson, a a jurist whose long experience with divorce cases in Chicago, both on the judicial bench and at the bar, lends to his observations a very special value. Dr. P. Bender, a Canadian who has studied to some purpose the political, social and economic conditions of his country, under the title, “A Canadian view of Annexation,” makes _ a forcible presentation of the .recsons which incline many citizens of the Dominion to regard with favor the idea of absorption by the United States.' Senator John A. Logan sets forth the need which exists for “National Aid to Public Schools” in the several States and territories. The Rev. Dr. Howard Crosby writes of “The Dangerous Clases” that menace the perpetuity of civil order and the peace of the community, meaning the manipulators of corporation stocks and the men who, having amassed enormous wealth, use it for nefari* ous purposes. James C. Welling* President of Columbian University, treats es “Race Education,” the problem that confronts the philosophic statesman, of the presence in our body politic of a strong Negro* contingent. “The Water Supply of Cities” is discussed by Charles F. Wingate, “Ethical Systems” by Prof. F. H. Hedge, “Street Begging” by Rev. Dr. Charles F. Deems, and “Criticism and Christianity” by O. B. Frothingham. Published at 30 Lafayette Place, New York, and for sale by booksellers generally.