The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1869-11-24

Professors for Danville KY, Theological Seminary;
The following persons were elected by the General
Assembly at Pittsburg, by uira roce vote.
Rev. L. p. Humphrey, d. d., for the chair OF
Didactic and Poemic Theology. .
Rev. Stephen Yerkes. d. D., for that of Bibll-
cal Literature and Exegetical Theology.
Rev. n West, ID. d., for that Of Biblical and
Ecclesiastical History.
Rev. L. j. Halsey, D. D., for that OF Church
Government and Pastoral Theology.
popery Growing.-The tablet, of New York, de.
mics the statement of the Western Catholic, OF
Detroit, that Romanism is growing weaker in the
United States:
Our present losses by apostacy are not relatively
ten per cent. OF what they we're twenty-five years
ago. and of the children we save to the Church
large proportion. The conversions are more nu-
merous than is commonly supposed and amount
yearly TO many thousands. We are every year be-
coming better supplied with priests and are build
ing new churches and new school houses; we have
made ample provision for the higher education,
and are rapidly providing for the common school
education. Our losses have been fewer than we
had reason to fear, ond our religion is more firmly
rooted in the nation than we had reason twenty
years ago to hope. We do not expect to convert
the country in one or two centurles but ultimately
it will be effected The battle with Professionalism,
W,
carry on war with humanitarianism. We know
not how long the war will be. The Church is not
ruined; never was she fresher, more vigorous, or
more powerful than she is now.
Prof. R. D. Hitchcock D. D., the eloquent profes.
sor of the Union Theological Seminary, who has
suffered SO much with his eyes during the Summer,
and whose general health gave anxiety to his
| friends, sails to-day with his wife in the Cunard
steamer for Liverpool, intending to proceed at
once to the East He hopes in few weeks to be
on the Nile, where it is possible he may meet his
colleague, Prof Henry b. Smith. who is now at
Heidelberg, and Prof Park, of Andover What
jubilee meeting that would be! From Egypt he
intends to cross the Desert to Mount Sinai Spend
ing the whole Winter in the East, he will return
to Western Europe in the Spring, and hopes by
the beginning of next Summer to be once more
among his old friends in America, ready for his
loved work He is already yery much better, and
his physician gives strong hope that this year rest
will completely restore him.
Princeton College, within the last MONTH has
received donations amounting to over 500, O0O.-
| Elk Chancellor Green gives the interest of $4,000
for the endowment of Fellowship and secures the
principal, to be paid in the future.
The Protestant Episcopal Board Of Missions report
deficit on the first of October of over $40 0O0
the years receipts having been ALTO. %. The
Greek mission is embarrassed financially. and DIR.
Hill, who is well in years, has resigned Bishop
Paine has returned from Africa for year or two
to recover his lost health The Chinese mission
promises WELL and the Rev. Mr.. Schereschewsky
is translating the Bible into the Mandarin dialect.
A Call from sitka.-One of the deacons of the
New York avenue Presbyterian church in Wash
ngton 1.-THE late DR.. Gurey who in the service OF
the Government, writes from Sitka that he has es'
tablished Sunday School of thirty three Children
| fifteen Russian and eighteen American, and that
they have no books but Bibles. He earnestly asks
for supply of books and tracts, and believes that
great good would be derived from them"
BiOle.-The exclusion of the Bible from the public
schools of Cincinnati, is calling FORTH both from the
religious and secular press, agood deal OF attention.
All Protestant Christians and nominal Protestants
are unanimous in condemning this exclusion as a
most disastrous policy. The Catholics and Jews
generally unite in opposition to retaining the Bible,
as might be expected, and in those cities where
well tremble for the decision of a question now
brought prominently before all Education Boards
and before the people by the action of the Educa-
ton Board of Cincinnati
Froudes History Of England.-Scrbner K Co., of
New York, announce new and cheap edition Of
this standard history, extending from the fall Of
Wolsey to the death of Elizabeth in twelve vol.
umes, l2mo at Si.25 per volume.
The effort to raise $50, 900 for the University of
Vermont has been completely successful. Ut this
sum, $40 $50 was subscribed in Burlington. The
trustees, however, are determined to push their
exertions to make the amount $780, 900 by Novem-
| Der lst 1870,