Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-08-28

The Annual Meeting of the American Mis-
sionary Association is appointed to be held in
this city. the 29th and 8Oth of September
The official reports will be presented by the
officers Wednesday afternoon, and the annual
sermon preached in the evening by Rev. Ste
phen Thurston of Searsport, Me.
Clergyman A5sent.-We learn from the Sa-
lem Register that great Inconvenience has
been experienced in Salem, for the past few
weeks, by the simultaneous absence of the
city pastors on their summer vacations
Scarcely enough have been left at times to
give the dead q Christian burial, and in seve.
raj instances it has happened that clergymen
of the neighboring towns have been called in
to perform the last Offices
A Methodist camp meeting will be held at
Killingly Pond, near Danielsonville, COM
mencing Monday, September 9Th, and con-
tillue through the week.
Rev. Mr. Frost, of Concord, Mass, who has
been at Fayal for his health, has returned.
His health is more feeble than when he left
home.
There are, in round numbers, one hundred
thousand members of the Methodist Church
in New England, and the increase of the past
year 10 dBOuI ten lLOusdilug AAiCAuulllS kllOsG
on probation.
A letter from Wisconsin says =" Revivals
have seemed to follow the circulation of
printed truth in three places within twelve
miles In one over hundred have been
hopefully converted, in another about fifty,
and in another, the scene and centre of which
was my schoolroom, about threescore. The
school numbers eighty four, of whom thirty
five are between the ages of thirteen and
twenty-nine.
At the commencement of the school, there
were but two pious scholars; their number
Is now increased so twenty one. About
thirty five of their companions, parents, and
friends, have protested conversion, and about
forty have within the school walls united as
an evangelical society"
Sabbath Schools Illegal at the South-IA
Richmond, Va, on Sunday last upwards of
ninety negroes were arrested by order of the
mayor, at the Leigh Street Baptist African
Church, where they had assembled to receive
instruction as Sabbath School scholars The
negroes, after being reprimanded by the May
or, were discharged
TIE Neo School Pres5gter1rn General As
Seably.--The minutes of the meeting of this
body, held at Chicago in May last, are pub
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one hundred and forty three thousand five
hundred and ten communicates, of whom
nine thousand one hundred and twenty eight
were admitted on profession of faith during
the past year, being little over six per cent.
of the whole. The net increase of numbers
is four thousand three hundred and ninety
five, gain of over three per cent. The ia
BILE comprises twenty-six synods, one hun
bred and twenty presbyteres, one thousand
six hundred and eighty-seve churches, and
one thousand six hundred and twelve minis
ters.
The old School Statistics. The Central
Presbyterian of Richmond compares the sta
tisdcs of the o. s. Presbyterian Church, as it
stood in 1889. the first Assembly after the
disruption, with the reports for the present
year.
Then there were. Now there are.
oynodS .--........ II nynodS. .ss......s. ~
Presbyteries"..... 96 Presbyteries. ...... 1865
Ministers ,243 Ministers. GAGS
Churches. 1898 Churches. ......... 1924
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