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Add to the above the receipts ofthe Baptist
Home Missionary society and of the deficient
four months of the American board of missions,
with some others not yet stated and the
total contributions of the past year would
exceed million and half of dollars.
The Missionary Journal Of the Southern
Baptists, which represents the claims of both
Home and Foreign Missions says applications
to the Domestic Mission Board, are constant
ly increasing. If the Board had at its dis
posal 800 900, it would be easy to expend
the whole amount to sustain the gospel on
the continent of America.
Within the last six years, 81 800, 900 have
been subscribed towards the endowment of
Baptist colleges and seminaries in this coun-
try. The whole number of instructors con-
nected with them is l54, students over 2500.
They have graduated over 1000 students in
all and their libraries contain more than
10000 volumes.
Rev. DR.. Cox preached his farewell sermon
on Sunday last TO his congregation in Brook
lyn with whom he has been connected for II
years. He retres from the field of his labors
borne off wounded" as he himself expressed
it, in place of dying in harness." as the plan
Of his life had been,-ln consequence of
seated affection of the throat. He retires to
Oswego, n. Y, where he has purchased a re-
sldence, naming it Vesper Cliff, with a refer
ence both to the character of the site, and to
the evening decline of life. The purchase
money OF this place, some SIX or seven thousand
dollars, which he had intended to obtain by the
sale of his residence in Brooklyn was raised by
his congregation, literally in few minutes. on
the facts being communicated at one Of their
meetings,
OF the one hundred churches in Boston, only
nine have clergymen at the present time whose
rastora,es extend over period of twenty years
and upwards OF these, but three are Trni-
tnrans, and only one is the pastor of an Ortho-
dox Church. They are: Rev. DR.. Lowell
(lS0G(, Rev. S. Streeter ls2l) Rev. Dr.. Gan
nett 1884, Rev. DR.. Barrett (lS25l Rev. Tho
mas Worcester l62s) Rev E. T. Taylor
klc<c) ttN. tlldIuleT bOUUllls 1000 J, hcN. Dr'
n. Adams ls34), Rev Dr. s. X. Lothrop -3l'
DR.. Cheever in his "Bble In our Common
Schools" copies the following order served up
on school teacher i'll New York by the trust
tees of the school,
''Sir By undnimos vote of the trustees Last
Meeting all .Secter,dn Books is RequSted to Bee
Removed from the School Is thought the
Bib one it is Requisted to BE- Removed"
PuBLic PRAYER.-The Roman Catholic
Archbishop of Paris has directed the Clergy
and faithful of his diocese to offer up prayers
for the success of the cause of almost all Eu-
rope united against the cunning duplcity'
'the long schemes Of domnatiun, and the mill
tary force of Russia.
DEATH OF CLERGYMAN FROM ANyItTY.-
The Rev. Mr. Ferguson, Episc opalan Minister
who attended William Cumming lately execu,
ted at Edinburgh, and to whose active benevo
lence the exertlons used to obtain a commute
ton of the sentence were mainly attributable
has died during the present week from an i'll
ness occnsloned by anxiety and distress of mlnc
on Cummings behalf, aggravated by exposur,
TO intense cold in the clock up" on the nigh
preceding the execution. The Rev. gentleman
was much beloved IN Edinburgh. has left
widow and infant family to mourn his loss.