| Show Chure churches bet the civil war in the bouthern states resulted in a northern and a southern brazil organization ilo of each one of several r re larlou us notably the thel baptista and nd the presbyterians oy BY righta rights the Method let division dir lelon ought to be accounted for la to the same way though it long anted antedates atea tho war for it grew out of the ame same old difference of opinion on the slavery question while the southern presbyterian organization was wa the result of a protest again against in an alleged ill dispost ties of C IL tl nw ali I 1 ceriani to KU go luto war politic politics as a denomination nom forty yean years have elapsed since tk 1 war broke out and a at t last the northern and southern presbyterians ti ai beginning only be to get together they irbey are consolidating their denominational rol rolle legen iee and theological lemi narle a in kentucky which wag was one of the border states abat of the recession ece eoa sniggle e religious disse based on difference tere n c e of f opinion about abstract doctrine sio s or about CUM cute practical queston alch which have ceased to be practical and ao so become purely and speculative are la fa a fair way t to 0 be healed when those who bare have been so divided begin to con e together and stand iti boulder to boulder shoulder in some work that continue continues to be practical education is to always a practical question by rights and the tb of northern and South southern imn presbyterian presbyterians in the management of educational interest interests Is likely to be permanent enough to yield that better acquaintance and mutual liking and respect which are certain in time to bring about a more complete and varied form oc CC co opera tion although the famous father hyan sang gang many confederate war lyrics t there here was no northern and southern division of the roman catholic church in america indeed there could hardly have been any such thing in any country since the council of trent when the national church ideal nj va der the leadership of the french bishops wax overshadowed by under spanish and italian leadership in the episcopal church the bishop of Loul slana became a confederate le lieutenant general ge general vil lee le e a thief chief of artillery wa was general william N pendleton a prominent virginia rector and bishops N ilmer and N ingfield a offered eJ various things at the hands of stalwart union generals for refusing to pray for the breaf president d ent of the united stal states tes but bat the southern church never had nad any real and effective separate organization and the confederate bishops were welcomed to the house of bishops la in the first general invention that met after the close of the war the oldest I 1 erson in lehigh county I 1 a and the oldest practicing phyll clan in the state and probably in the united states Is dr henry helfrich who celebrated his nicety ninety eighth birthday recently he ile prescribed for several patient patients on that day who ho called at his hl office lie no longer makes prole protes alonsi calls but has consid considerable emble tice |
