Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1868-11-22
CHURCH MATTERS.
About ministers, Churches and th'
Progress of Religion.

About Ministers, Churches and The
Progress Of Religion.
Thereare more colored theological stu,
dents among the Baptists than white.
The recent earthquake in California
ruined a Presbyterian Church In San
Jose.
The American Home Missionary So
ciety sustains twenty-five Missionaries in
California.
Rev. ]. W. Cracraft, lately withdrawn
from the Protestant Episcopal Church,
has Joined the Congregationalists.
The Free Church of Scotland, in the |
quarter century of its Independent ex-
istence just completed, has raised forty
million dollars.
The Bishop of Oxford is sorely dis
tressed because his only daughter and
her husband, a Staffordshire rector, have
gone over to the Church of Rome
The Copts at 0siout, the seat of
United Presbyterian mission in Egypt,
are studying the Bible with great zeal
and divided sentiments.
The Roman Catholic cathedral of Buff
falo is receiving from Europe a chime OF
forty bells, said to be the finest In this
country. They have come over, at differ
ent times, by the Cunard steamers.
There are II congregational churches
in Minnesota, with membership Of, o96;
3S3 having been added during the past
year, lS6 by profession and 1871 by let
tiers.
1t is understood that the conservation
of the Rev. 3. Wistar Morris, Episcopal
Bishop elect Of Oregon and Washington,
will take place in Philadelphia early in
the month Of December.
Rev. Frank Russell, late of the Hart
ford Theological Seminary, has accepted
call to the church recently organized
by the American residents at Hilo, Sands
wich Islands, at q salary Of 4 $1,000 in
gold and a parsonage.
The Christian Advocate says thlt the
statistics of the Methodist Episcopal
| Church, for the past year, show an ms
crease of Sunday schools of 1896; of
officers and teachers of 1880, and of
scholars of l0l ,269.
The North Western PreSbtyerjdH's
London correspondent says the Bishop Of
Cape Town, Africa, has been the antago"
mist of evangelicals as well as of Bishop
Colenso. His warfare against both is IN
the interest of high church principles and
goes hard.
Henry Ward Beecher says that the
best time for family prays is Immediately
after breakfast and Immediately after
sumner; for then the children will be
most likely to be quiet, and to feel that
they have something to be thankful for
No one will be hungry DO one will be
sleepy; and if ever the whole attention
will be given to devotion, 1t will at those
times.
Rev. DR.. Kinds, ex-Bishop Of Norwich,
. England, has published q pamphlet
taking ground in favor Of greater freedom
of thought in the English church, under
its present constitution, than is generally
allowed. He does this under the insinul
, | ating title Of freedom of discussion. A
: thesis that We are free to discuss we are
free to reject.
: Minnesota Synod has increased nearly
! tbirty-three per cent during the las
year. Eight churches received each
, more than twenty accesslOns, nine ney
: churches were organized, and six churcl
IS edifces are being built Besides tn,
work among the Swedes and NOrwegians
=, the SYNOD has thriving churches amOnl
The Dacotahs, the largest church on To
u roll being of converted Indians.
Is Massachussettshss 496 Congregations
.e Churches-the same as lastyear. Their
e a gain in membership, as compared
E. with last year, of 1862 The total mem
10 bership of the churches is 1925 ga, -
male, and 81, 1872 femsle) of whom IL ,5U
are absent Baptisms we're ,92S adul
o and l, O72 infant; total, 10000. Total
r Sabbath schools, 63, 440, with an averag
A. attendance Of72,78O,
J. For more than thirty years MISSIONS
D, ries of the London Society have lahore
p in the Samoan Islands in the South II
!, ci6c and now heathenism has bee
II" abolished, and the whole nation prOfesst
'e Christianity The Bible has been trani
cd lated into their own language, and
if third or more Of the population have bee
., taught to read. There are about So
members of the church, and 1000 cal
ia didates more than 200 Of the male men
he bers are preachers, and many have gol
an os missionaries to distant islands. AbO
re- $4,000 are annually contributed for Il
Of support OF native teachers, and abO
AZ $1,000 to the London Missionary SOcIei
a A weIleregulated, self-sustaining natl
ost seminary, with nearly a hundred st
obNnf tbIr
1t candidates for the ministry. Before t
act gospel was introduced there, the lsla
nd had no commerce, but now they have
TO export tIade of from 100000 to $500
:, a year.
-, The New York correspondent OF
me EpiscoDaIida says 1.-THE freshest II,
md city in the leading Ritualist Chapel
ore town Is the organization Of a society
e,- voung ladies' called The Sisters OF
er, - On Sunday morning they w
ID all dressed in white, with large or
cry imprinted on their garments IN fro
by and come into the chapel with ioiC
ny arms and downcast eyes-Just like ?
EN-, ccssion of nuns, when one OF their nu
leir her is going to take the white veil III
i've, thew nil knceldown, one behind the 9th
are in front of the altar or chancel, and
me client prayer after which, with
lon. usual genu0ections they proceed to Il
IL Vi seats. The work of the Sisters on W
,L,. DAYS is to minister to the wants OF
.,no poor and to perform such other act
one charity and benevOlence under the dll
.,,c, tion of their rector or father, as
NAV occasion may require. Before Christ
Il Of and Easter, rumOr has it, we shall |
heir divers other ecclesiastical theatrIcals
10 not dissimilar character
hau The American Bible Society, at
ousn meeting on the 5th, made a grant of Ri
S ,ly for Spain, to go through the hands o
'ns American and Foreign Christian III
ne, y Of who already have an agent in that C
onh,, try. The only other grant of Bible
Hb,ib Snain, to be found on the records OF
. he. Society, was made in the year 1887, a
oung thirty years ago. A box of Bibles
a peT- forwarded by a ship bound to a Spi
Imed mort But the captain grew so unca
socia- thew drew toward their port, with tn
o the Of having his ship and cargo c0ntis
none for having Bibles on board, unde
,h we r;oid policy that so long prevail
e up SSo;n. that at last he had the b
cling RIFLES brought on deck, dashed
natu- heavy stones to it, and sunk itin tn
! have and that was the last of it We
give the present attempt will be more PR