The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-06-02
Bishop Whitehouse as soon as he can

Bishop Whitehouse as soon as he can
come here.
The enlargement of the church edi-
fee is begun, and many of the new
pews are spoken for The parish is
very prosperous. Dec sofa sat ytOr.s0
per Jesunl Christian nOSt1Wnl DOnelal-
I'm. Ameaa.
II THE PRAYER Book IN A CHINESE
DLALBCT-Two very curious volumes
have just been received by an En-
glish clergyman from Ningpo, in
China. The first contains the offices
of morning and evening prayer in the
Ningpo vernacular, and the second
contains the Litany and the Commun-
ion Offices in the same dialect. These
volumes have been revised and in part
translated by the Rev. George Moule,
who has now worked as a church
missionary about three years at Ming
pc, and, they are destined for presen-
tation to the Lord Bishop of Sails
bury. The paper used is of Chinese
make, but the printing was done at
the American Presbyterian Mission
press, the Roman character having
been used throughout. Bound in thin
blue colors, and having red edges to
the leaves, the books remind one of a
German edition of somea Greek or
Latin classiciabut the smoOthness of
the thin double folded paper, and the
beautifully clear typography, would
put many a German press to shame. d
CHINESE SMILES. Some of the or
binary expressions of the Chinese are
pointedly sarcastic enough. A blus-
tering, harmless fellow. they call a
" paper tiger" When man values
himself oyermuch, they compare him
to rat falling into a scale, and
weighing himself Over doing a
thing, they call " hunchback making
a bow" A spendthrift they compare
to. a rocket which goes off at once.
Those who expend their charity on
remote objects, but neglect their fam
lily, are said to hang a lantern on
pole, which is seen afar, but gives no
light below" ao.4s
A SIX MILLION CORPoRATIoN.-
The very valuable leases held by VIII
liam B. Astor, of Trinity Church,
New York, will terminate on the 3lst of
this month, (May) and put the Church
into full control of property worth at
least Sc, 100000 Mr. Astor held pos
session of 1856 lots, which were let, in
1867, at very low rate of interest, for
the term of thirty mine years. His
income out of the houses built on
them reached, in one year, the sum of
81 100000.
MISCELLANEOUS RELIGIOUS ITEMS.
The Missionary band of Christen-
dom is represented by s. different or
CARNATIONS; of these % hail from
Britain, "A from the United States, IL
from Germany, from little Holland,
z from the lands of the 6 Norseman,
from the British Colonies. The two
largest organizations are the IVES
leyan Society,", of England, and the
American Board of Foreign Mis-
sions F" At the call of the roll of the
American Board, 800 missionaries
answered to their names. They can
already point to 7S9 6 native helpers"
and $4,000 living heather converts.
The Waldanses have Is missionary
stations in Italy, in which 1900 per-
sons born and educated in the Catho-
lie Church, come regularly to hear the
gospel; 1,735 of them are communi-
cants. Religion has revived at Car
rara within a month. A larger num-
Der than usual attend the preaching
of the gospel, and hearers increase
every week.
The religious intelligence from Tur-
key is unusually cheering.
"A young preacher has arisen UP
among the Armenian Protestants.
There are three thousand Chris
tians among the four hundred millions
of China Probably over two hun
bred of them are regularly engaged in
preaching the gospel to their count
trymen.
PRFSRYFFRVAN