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Tri Weekly Journal
Evansville, Vanderburgh County, Indiana
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Bishop Johns of Virginia reported at the General Episcopal Convention in New York on religious destitution in Virginia, including 16,000 families without Bibles, counties without churches or ministers, and cases of people unaware of Jesus Christ, the Bible, or God.
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"At a recent meeting of the Bible Society for Virginia, it was reported that there are 16,000 families without the word of God. He knew more than one county where there was no edifice to the worship of God, and no minister of any denomination whatever. The depth of their ignorance was amazing. A minister was summoned to attend the couch of a dying man, and on examining him as to his religious faith, found that he had never even heard of Jesus Christ, but as an oath. Nor was this a solitary case. Two females were called to testify in court on an important business.— On questioning them, previous to swearing them, it was ascertained to the astonishment of both judge and jury that they had never heard of either the Bible or of God!"
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Virginia
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16,000 families without bibles; multiple counties without churches or ministers; documented cases of individuals unaware of jesus christ, the bible, or god.
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Bishop Johns reported at the General Episcopal Convention in New York on religious destitution in Virginia, citing a recent Bible Society meeting that revealed 16,000 families without the word of God, counties lacking places of worship or ministers, and profound ignorance illustrated by a dying man who knew Jesus Christ only as an oath and two women in court who had never heard of the Bible or God.