The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-11-03

Corresponding DcCICbaiy p NS~P
sented the following statistics: -
Number of "a
| Number Of Oficers and Teachefs''''-'7'"'SS44a0
Ag gpbsr Of sehoars enrolled 81 81
Averages attendance IA yfs Of age "a
Number OF o1ars h in fant 7l
~ Advocates taken. .......4 sz5z
Number Of s. g. Bells taken . 11
| NnnsbaT ~ Volumes la Llbfary.,w,...s.I 10 ~
| san,'s,f ~ Missionary collections.,$2,O 900 AZ
Anio,ii,f Of other COLLECTIONS. 4,0yz 5q
Expenses Of sehools''"'''''''''''''"'''' $50 20
TIE number Of conversions Ii some
20 less than last year. Regularity of
attendance on the part of teachers
was greater in the country than in
Cincinnati.
Revivals are in progress in the
Boonville District Kentucky Confer
enee. Upwards of hundred access
sions are reported, and the work con
tinues to increase and spread. Other
Circuits are also being favored with
the revival spirit.
st. Pauls Church, in Delaware,
Ohio, have purchased parsonage at
cost of $500. aoRy4 gtet 8di
Isaac R,ch, a wealthy Methodist Of
Boston, has given to the Church this
year over $75, 900, to aid in carrying
out its educational and benevolent
enterprises o n4i.
IA. b.. Demarest of New York, has
published handsome medallion head
of John Wesley. He offers to furn-
ish ii for Sunday Schools at reduced
price. e s
Rev. Bishop Kingsley reached New
York, from California, Sunday morn
ing, October 2lst, in excellent health.
He preached ia the evening at the
Green Street Church, and left early in
the week for his home, Cleveland, O..
Rev. w. p. Strickland, ID. d., of
the New York Conference, has sew
cred bis connection with the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church. and united
with the Presbytery--Old School---cf
Long Island. The Doctor was FORM
erly a member of the Cincinnati Con-
ference. WufH58a af
DIR. West, recently stated in a meet
ing at Asbury Chapel, Cincinnati, that
the celebration Of the Centenary of
German Methodism in America, would
take place in 1895.
The Miami Conference Of Congre-
gational Churches held their annual
session in Cincinnati, Tuesday and
Wednesday of last week, in DR.. Storr's
Church, Seventh Street. DIR. St0rrs
presided, and ministers and laymen of
other Churches were cordially invited
to participate in the discussions, an
invitation accepted on the part of the
Methodist ministry, by Mesers. Reid,
Cramer, and House. c.g. 06
The Methodist centenary collec.
tiens we're taken in some of tho
churches of the denomination In and
around Boston, last Sunday. The
fremont Street Church, Boston, con-
tributed $1,000 in aid of Methodist
educational institutions, The sum,
says the Traveller, win probably be in
creased to $4,000. The Warren Street
Church, in Roxbury, raised $1,000,
the ladies $780, and with the contri-
button of the Sabbath School, the sum
total amounted to over 20, 100, In the
Mount Bellingham Church, Chelsea,
the contributions amounted to 8,203,
so. sH1
A Boston correspondent of the
Advocate says that Rev. DIR. w. F.
Warren, late of Germany, is receiving
fresh laurels by his pulpit ability.
They are contributing much to in
crease the contributions for Biblical
Institute. n u a nj
REBEL METHopIsTs IN TENNESSEE.
"A writer in the Nashville (Tenn.)
Press and Times says; ~
A Northern man came down here
to sell an engraving of Christ. He
thought he could sell one TO the Me
thodist Publishing House, where
there we're so many preachers, but
they treated him with contempt, He
saw they had good many pictures in
gilt frames hanging around the room.
He looked and saw General Lee,
General Johnston, President JEFF.
Davis, Stonewall Jackson and compa-
NY. He made some remarks about
their pictures, They told him they
hung pictures in their houses to suit
themselves; they had no use for his