Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1857-11-29
RELIGIOUS

Bishop Spalding, Of Louisville, has recently
made a visitation to the Churches In the yieini.
ty Of Lebanon, Marion county, Kz. He con.
hrmed one hundred and twenty five persons.
and made arrangements for the building Of a
new Church at st. Vincent, which will be COM
meneed early next year. On Saturday. the
I4th, be visited the Trappists at Gethsenani.
They are generally well, IN spite OF their aus
~terities. Their new Church, a portion of their
vast monastery are covered IN, though not com
Lleted. When finished, the monastery NAV
contain hundreds Of hunks.
The Wheeling, Va, Times saws that Judge
Edmondson has at last decided the church suit
pending between the Northern and Southern
Methodists in that town. The suit was TO re-
cover the church and property owned by them
jointly previously to the division Of the church
government into Northern and Southern bodies.
and has been in court some ten OF twelve wears,
Judge EdmOHdson, we understand, decides that
the property belongs to the Northern portion of
the church. The Southern division of the
church have bad possession Of the property
since the division in 1874, and since then have
added a parsonage
There has been (says DR.. Baird, in the Oh
serpsT) an interesting movement in Bavaria.
recently. Some four or FIVE Roman Catholic
priests have had the audaeity 10 assert and
maintain that they could not believe that there
is no salvation for any hat are out of the pale
Of the Church Of Rome. For holding this great
heresy, they have al. been put out Of Church,
and some Of them banished from the country.
Mr.. Canning was once asked By an English
clergyman how be had liked the sermon he had
preached before him. Why, il was a short
sermon,' quoth Canning. "Oh, yes,' said the
preacher, I" you know I avoid being tedious y
" An, but" replied Canning, you UeTs tedi-
The Reformation in Sweden, under the labors
OF the Baptist eolportsurs, is wonderful. It
will not be two years until the It'll OF Novem-
Der, since the first cOlporteur commenced his
labors. Then there was one church and a few
now here if an association of twen-
churches, and fourteen hundred and
thirty members.
Eight missionaries sailed in the brig Ocean
Eagle, on Tuesday Of last week, for Liberia.
A part Of them are to Join the Protestant Epis-
cOpal Mission under Bishop Payne, and a part
90 the Presbyterian Mission. The brig took
out framework for buildings for the Episcopal
Mission, 70 supply the loss Of those at Cape
Palmas, which were destroyed during the re-
cent attack BY the natives.
At the Evangelical Church OF Mons, France,
fourteen Roman Catholics have been solemnly
received as PrOtestants By the pastor Of that
In the Vermont Congressional churches the
Of male and female members are
males, 1888, females, Il, O24-nearly four to
one. The proportion Of males to females in
the New Hampshire Congregational churches
is nearly the same with that In Vermont. Tn
whole number Of members reported last year
was 1860 Of whom 5,767 were males, and
1883 females. In Massachusetts, there is a
greater proportion Of male members in the
Congregational churches: the last minutes re-
port 2i,057 males, and % ,54s females. II men
are found in proportionebly small numbers at
our communion tables, they are found also in
proportionably larger numbers in our jails and
State prisons.