Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-07-14
MISCELLANEOUS.


BAPTIsT@The seventh annual Conven.
ton of the Baptists in Kansas has Just
been held, representing twenty-five
churches. Only eight o fthese are suppl.
cd with pastors one-half the time, or twice
a month. Fifteen are without houses OF
worship. A large portion of the State is
~unoccupied.
EPIscoPAL-The reunion of the South
ern Dioceses with The General Conven-
ton is now complete, all the Southern
Bodies having voted to that effect and
the Bishops having officially announced
the result to the presiding Bishop.
COMMUNICATIONS are IeI Con-
gregationaA Churches in Vermont; &c are
without preaching Is are likely to be-
come extinct yet there are As ministers
without charge and ample homo missioh-
airy funds.
A correspondent Of the Boston G5ngre-
~gatioHalish writing from the South, says
there are strong obstacles to the establish.
ment Of Congregstionalism in the South.
Southern Christians are suspicious of it.
METHoDIsr@Rev. A. L. Long, Metho-
dist and missionary in Bulgaria, arrived
in Boston June p, having come home BY
permission, TO aid the American Bible So
ciety in electrotyping plates for publish
sns . Scriptures in the old Sclavenicand
Bulgarian languages He speaks hopeful
ly ofthe Bulgarian Mission.
The Canada Conference. attended by
over two hundred members, met at Mon
tresl. The question ofaUnion of all the
Methodist bodies in Canada was favora-
bly, considered.
The United Brethren, and Evangelical
Association, both of which are Methodist,
are considering the question OF ecclesias-
teal union.
UNTvERsALIsE-The Pennsylvsnfs
Convention Of Universalists Just closed
is thirty-afth anRual session at Girard. /
Pa The meetings were well attended.
MIscELLANEoUs-Rev. DR.. Bacon. of |
New Haven, says that during his forty |
years pastorate of the First Congregation /
al Church, be has expended for bis family |
S25, goo more than he directly or indirect
iy received from his parish.
Gen. o. s. Ferry, the new United States
Senator from Connscticnt is q popular
Sunday school teacher in the church al
Norwalk, where he is q member. He has
lately been giving familiar lectures to his
Bible class, whiea have attracted crowded.
houses.
FoREIGN-At the laying of the corner
Of the new Bible House in London,
BY the Prince of Wales, June 10, it was
that during the last two years the
had issued 8 larger number of
Scriptures than the whole world possessed
orior to the beginning Of its labors, and its
otal circulation has now reached fifty
two hundred and eighty thousand
opies. The expense has been nearly six
Millions of pounds. 1,
A new Jewish synagogue in Berlin,
Germany, is just completed at q cost oil
in geld. The huge dome is visi-
lie from every housetop in Berlin. 1t is
royided with 5000 chairs for the wor- :
hippers. These are of oak and richly
arved. To occupy one Of these chairs
about $500 year. |,
The Foreign Missionary Board of the /,
.piseopai Church in the United States :
As t~wenty-one stations in Africa, among
different tribes, embracing $50, 900 q
The number Of church members 1
SIX hundred. Their stations extend /,
NO hundred and fifty miles along the
past, and eighty miles into the interiors 8