Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1852-08-24
Religions Items.

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- The Episcopal Convention of this State
will meet in Chillicothe on the 9Th of September
Forty-fo missionaries have been com
mssioned to labor in Wisconsin during the last six
months, the larger portion Of whom are Congre-
gatonalists
- There are thirteen religious papers pub
lished in the city of New York, with lists of SUBJ
Scribers amounting in the aggregate, to 100000
- There are so7 Churches in New Jersey
OF which the Methodists have 312; Presbyterians
146; Baptists 1903; Seventh-da day Baptsts a; Epis-
copalians 50 Christians 8; CongregationalistS s;
Dutch Reformed Sc; Free Z; Friends 50; Luther
ans I; Roman Catholics 20; Second Advent 1;
Dunkers o; Unions; UnitarianS q; Universalists
8; Africans 6; Independents / German Episco-
palians / J. German Catholics /; Bethel 1; Nor
mons /. 4}
- Rev. DR.. Bridgman, the Oldest American
missionary in China, has arrived in this country,
- 11o ministers of the Protestant Episcopal
Church are residing in New York City, Brooklyn,
and Williamsburg.
Episcopal ministers are said to be much wanted
in Virginia There are 81 vacant parishes in that
diocese some of which are said to ethe mostde
sirable in the State. There is also want Of min
sters, in the Presbyterian and other Churches
- The Roman Catholic Bishop Of Santa Fe
has applied for the requisite number of Jesuit
FatherO, and authority to establish College in
New Mexico. Six nuns Of the Loretto order have
arrived at ST. Louis, on their way tothat country,
to establish school there.
- Rev. Samuel Goman, late of Dayton, has
been sent out to New Mexico by the American
Baptist Home Mission Society, to establish mis-
sion among the Pueblo Indians.
-- The Church at oberlin, Lorain county,
numbers 1000 members, and the congregations
nearly 1000, filling one large house full
The Congregational Church in Norwich,
Conn, previous to 1884, had but three pastors
for 1874 years, two Of whom served III years.
- The Board OF Directors of the Wittenberg
College, at Springfield, have resolved to establish
a Church paper, to be called the Evangelical Lu-
theran.
Bishop Soule, of the Methodist Church South,
is about to visit California, promote the mission
ary objects Of tn at Church in that region.
- new translation of the Bible is prepar-
ing, in which Alexander Campbell, of Bethany,
Va, and President Shannon, Of Missouri, take an
active part.
- The Northern branch Of the Methodist
Episcopal Church has at present universities
and colleges; 46 academies, male and female; 22f
professors and teachers 81 ,555 volumes in libra
res. Average number Of students last four years
6,14s. OF these, LOIS, or more than one-ffth,
are members Of churches, and Of these, 74S, o.
more than one-eighth Of the whole number o.
students, became rehgiousin the institutions
The aggregate property and funds amount t
S994,7l2, annual aggregate income, $iiJS5b
and the annual aggregate expense $i12,7S7.
- The addresses of the Bshopsof the Meth
} odist Church are as lollows, Bishop Waugh
Baltimore, Nd; Bishop Morris, Cincinnat O.
4 Bishop james, New York City; Bishop Scott Viii
miugton, Del; Bishop Simpson, Pittsburg Pa.
Bishop Baker, Concord, N. HI Bishop Aires, In
dianapolis, la. Bishop Waugh, for the next fou
years, has the charge Of Missions, and Letters o.
|, that subject may be addressed to him Bisho
B Ames win answer inquiries about California an
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