The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-05-04
BLLIGIoUs INrELlIaENCE.

Christopher Parkerson, for more than
twenty-five years an itineratinE minis
ter OF the Baltimore Conferences, Meth
odist Episcopal Church, died on the
SOth ult. in the 10th year of his age, at
his residence in Reisterstown, Balti-
more county. The deceased was most
estimable man and an industrious
preacher wherever stationed by the
presiding Bishop. afa
TIE Boston AdvertiseI- says: "Rev.
o. 7. Walker, of this city, has received
an invitation to preach as a candidate
in one of the Baptist Churches In Chi
cago, with d view to being settled as
pastor. The claims of his present
charge, however, will doubtless keep
him in Boston,"
TAXABLE CLERGYMRN IN HARTFORD,
Three Hartford ministers pay tax
upon $174,709. Rev. DIR. George H.
Clark, (EpiscopaIl S97,9T5; Rev. DR..
Jonathan Brace, S4S,SI5; and Rev, DR.,
Horace Bushnell, S2S,359. 1t is lame
logic to draw from these figures the
conclusion that preaching allows the
Connecticut ministers generally, any,
thing whatever beyond a comfortable
support for themselves and families.
The taxables are derived from other
sources than parish liberality.
THE PREsBYTERIANs IN ENGLAHD.-
The question of union among the Pres
byterians of England has been taken
up in earnest in the London Presbytery
of the English Presbyterian Church.
At late meeting of that body, two
Overtures to the synod were adopted,
one to make ministers and probationers
in the negotiating churches in Scotland
eligible for calls to vacant cougrega-
tions in the English Presbyterian
Church, and the other to instruct their
union committee to take steps to pro-
mote union OF the different sections
Of the negotiating churches located in
England.
ME:THoDIsTs IN VERMoNT.-The sta
tistics of the Vermont Conference show
u, AIS in fun membership, 1850 MEM
bers on trial, making total member
ship, including rs local preachers, of
1858. There are 14S churches, valued
at $SS3. 100, and % parsOnages. valued at
$40, ,l75. They report 10I Sunday
schools, 2,0A officers and teachers, 49,
volumes in libraries. For missions
during the last year they raised
S7,920 90, and reported as paid and SUBJ
scribed for centenary purposes, the sum
OF S55, ,665 16.
GREAT RELIGIOUS ACTIVITY IN SCAN
DINAvIA.-Rev. Mr.. Wiberg, the super
intendent of the Baptist mission, writes
from Stockholm, March 8, that the good
work is prospering in an unusual de-
gree. Conversions occur in Stockholm
every week, aud baptisms are OF fire.
quent occurrence, attended by crowds
of spectators.
In the south of Sweden, d wonderful
work of grace is going on, and hun
dreds are said to be converted. In one
place thirty-seven were baptized in two
months.
Cheering intelligence also comes
from Norway. One of the brethren was
to baptize fifteen, and organize church
on February 26.
CONVERTS AT BEIRUT.-AIr. Jessup
writes, under date of January g: ga
joyous day in the Beirut Church. Six
young men and five young women were
received to its Communion. The SER
vices were crowded and most solemn.
or the eleven received, only two were
born of Protestant parents. Two were
graduates of Abeih Seminary; three
had lived for several years in The fam
lilies OF missionaries; one has taught
different missionaries the Arabic Ian
guage for ten years; and eight of them
are now engaged in teaching in various
capacities. Only two of the eleven
were porn IN BEIRUT
BAPTIST MISSIONARY contributions.
The Baptist Union for Foreign Mis-.
sions, in closing its yearly accounts,
exhibits the following statement:
The total expenditures for the
The total receipts Tor the w %
year are:
From donations. s..,.........Sl4 ,6SI IS
From egacieS-,...........,. 1881 90
From contingent fund 1875 Sc
Miscellaneous sources. 49, ,455 50
Balance on hand,
April /, '66.............. 1869 T5-SI9l,7lA 90
Balance against the Union,
ApEn 4 S7,36S IS
The amount of donations is SIS, ,O44 IS
In excess of the sum received from the
same same sources the previous year,
while the amount received from legacies
is $l5, ,S56 42 less. The Baptist Home
Mission Society shows receipts for the
year amounting to S169, 9,46O, a sum far
In advance of any previous year. Four
years ago its income was but $35 900.
And 1t Is said that the increase of spirit
ual fruits in the past four years far ex-
ceeds the ratio ofincrease of receipts,
or missionaries employed.
The anniversaries of both societies
Will be held at Chicago on the 2Sd and
18th of May, and are expected to be oc-
cas1ons OF much interest,
A CHRISTIAN SEMINARY FOR You've
WOMEN IN PERsIA.-A letter from the
venerable DR.. Perkins of Oroomiah, da-
ted December Is, describes the anniver-
sary in the Female Seminary on the
10th of November. Nine graduated, all
hopefully pious, and "on the whole, the
best and most promising class that has
ever gone forth from the school," The
exercises"weree exceedingly interesting,
refiecting great credit on the long and
hard toll of the teachers, and on the
capacity and industry of the pupils" !"
In his address at the dinner table, Mar
YohRnnRn told them, with fearful eyes,
that "when he was in America twenty
five years ago, he attended the ami
versary of the best Female Seminary in
America Mount Holyoke), and on that
occasion lifled the prayer to God that
he would not take him hence until he
should see something like it in Persia;
and he now rejoiced in the answer to
that prayer" Two members of this
school Joined it few months ago from
the distant shores OF the Tigris,
making their way about three hundred
miles, with much hardship and expo
sure, over the toughest wilds Of Koor-
distan. N