Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-03-05
RELIGIOUS SUMMARY,

DR.. Pratt, in writing from Marash in North
ern Armenia, speaks of the great change which
five years has wrought there. He says: 'Last
Sabbath nineteen were received to church fell
lowship, making the whole number ninety-fve
all gathered in four years. | saw a sea of
600 faces before me; five years ago, the most
was 60. The community now numbers 900
Protestant souls; then it was less than 40.
What work to be engaged in"
AS the result of missionary labors in South
ern India and Ceylon, more than 100000 have
abandoned idolatry, more than $4,000 are COM
municants in the churches, more than 500 ma
tives are now employed as Christian teachers
of their countrymen, and more than II 900
girls have been rescued from that gross igno-
rance and deep degradation to which so many
millions of their sex in India seem to be so
hopelessly condemned.
Rev. DIR, Wentworth, a well-known mission
airy Of the Methodist Episcopal Church, now
laboring in Chiua, in letter to the News Of
the Churches, calls very earnestly for a dele
gated convention of all the missionary societies
in Europe and America, to meet aud map out
the eighteen provinces of China, and the ada
cent islands, for immediate occupancy.
The private secretary of the Sultan, and
his historian, has attacked the Koran and
defended the Gospel in large circle of men of
the highest standing He has been deposed
from his Office, but nothing farther has been
done to him. His brother, one Of the richest
men in the city among the Turks, speaks pub
licly against the Koran and for the Gospel, in
steamers and everywhere.
| The Mohammedan at Cesarea, who began
two years ago to visit the brethren there and
avow his belief in Christ, has recently named
an infant son Christian" This has excited
such storm of opposition that he thinks he
cannot remain at Cesarea, and he will probably
remove to Constantinople.
The man who delivered the family of Mr.
Williams, the converted Mahommedan, now a
preacher at Constantinope, from their confne-
ment at Smyrna, when they were fleeing to
Malta few years since, has himself come to a
knowledge of the truth.
The receipts of the American Board for
January were $40,5 90, 1890 of which was
collected in foreign lands. Massachusetts
contributed $1,000 u, &C. NJ" Springfield,
gives $500; $500 is also received from "suc-
cessful business man." 500 from the estate
of Hannah Sweetser, Athol, and $500 from
the estate of Asenath Goodrich, Holliston.
The receipts of the Home Missionary Socie-
ty for January were $20,374. George Merri-
am of Springfield. gives. $500, and an equal
sum is received from the legacy of A. w. But
Ter of Hartford $500 is from the legacy of
Miner Grout of Stafford, Conn; 80 800 from
the legacy Of Jabez Goodell of Buffalo and
$500 from the legacy of Miss c. b. Patton of
New York
The trustees of the Boston Mariners Church
ask the churches to send in their usual contri-
buttons to this church for the support of the
minister, Rev. Elijah Kellogg, without requir-
ing him to visit and preach, and collect the
They say cat present there is a revival at the
Sailors Home and Mariners Church; six sail
ors have joined the church since the first of
January and more than twenty five have ex-
pressed hope of pardon"
One of the most popular and successful law
yers at the New York bar, is about to give up
a large and lucrative profession and enter the
ministry and not only so, but he has chosen
as the field of his labor not some eligible field
| in or around New York. where his talents and
local position would, no doubt, command a fine
and welcome spot of labor, but he has resolved
to devote himself to the work of foreign mis-
sions. The new field of Japan has Just been
opened to hcrads of salvation and this gentle
man has concluded to enter that field.
Last week ON Thursday evening, the par
ishioners of Rev. VIM. I. Briggs of Prince
| ton assembled in large numbers at the parson-
age, and after glad greetings and singing by
the choir, purse with 1913 90 in gold, and the
additional sum of SO in bills was presented to
the Pastor as a testimonial of growing conf.
dence and affection. Other valuable gifts were
received.
Mr.. Edward II. Hall, son of Rev. +. b.
Hall, ID. D.. of Providence, was ordained as as
sociate pastor with the venerable DR.. Kendall
over the ancient "First parish in Plymouth -
Sermon by DIR. Hall of Providence. The pc
culiar interest of the occasion was the pres.
ence of DIR. Kendall, the aged pastor of the
parish, who was ordained there the first OF
January, 1900, and has thus, on the fifty-nnth
anniversary of his own settlement, welcomed a
young colleague.
The Presbyterian Board of Foreign Mission.
has appointed Messrs. James X. Amos, Thos
Ii. Amos, and Armistead Miller, us mssona-
ries to Africa. These are all colored men, and
graduates Of the Ashmun Institute. They are
to labor among the heather population within
the limits Of Liberia.
Prof Noah Porter has accepted the Dwight
Professorship Of Didactic Theology Mt New
Haven, which, from its founding, was occupied
by the late DIR. Taylor. Prof Porter was
Clark Professor of Moral Philosophy and Meta
physics in the Academical Department Of Yale
There arc not less than five Lutheran church
es among the Scandinayians in Chicago Rev
H. Shogreu, missionary there, has precious
revival in progress and, among Others, they
have taken some thirty-two or more Of the
seamen Of the lake on probation.
There are, at present, seventy-nine Protes
tant missionaries in China, distributed as fol
lows Hong Kong, 8 Canton, II; Annoy,
Fuhchan, o; Ningpo, is; Shanghai, 25. They
have been sent out by twenty different mis-
sonary societies,
in Oberlin.