Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-02-28

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introduced into the Sunday Schoo
of the First Church in Goshen
| Connecticut.
In Arizona, there are about "a,
600 Indians, not one of whom has
ever vet been instructed ia the prin
ciples of the Christian religion.
Within the past three years, more
than 5000 copies of the Gospels anC
Epistle to the Hebrews in the He
brew language have been distributed
among the Jews of Poland.
The ministerial associations in
Philadelphia announce that theil
churches will meet on the evening
of March 4, to pray for the coun,
try under the administration OF
Grant.
1t is stated that the number Of
persons who, during the last year,
have left the Church of England foI
the Church of Rome, is between
2,1O0 and 1920. Among these are
two peers, nineteen English clergy
men, and seven or eight university
graduates.
Rev. Henry Hoddle, of Shrop-
shire, England, an Independent
minister, having had correspond
ence with Rev. N. A. Hyde in re-
gard to field of labor in Indiana,
has decided to come to this country
in the spring.
The English Church Missionary
Society has a mission in Nazareth,
which is a very flourishing and
prosperous town, and quite a con-
trast to the neighboring country.
There is Protestant population of
five hundred in Nazareth and the
vicinity, and a fine church is to be
soon built.
At a temperance meeting of the
churches at Homer, New York, SIS
was contributed to carry out the
plan of monthly distribution of tenn
perance books and tracts to every
family in the town for a year, and
a committee was appointed to su-
perintend the work.
The Roman Catholics in Penn
sylvania claim a population of 1885,
900, with five colleges, twenty-six
female seminarieS, one hundred and
forty one sof0Ufs, nine aSyIums,
three hundred and forty eight
churches and three hundred and
fifty-two priests.
DR.. Judson baptized the first Bur
man convert in 1919, and since that
time more than forty thousand con
verts have been baptized-Burmans,
Karens and Shans-making an
average of about two every day. or
these, twenty thousand are now
living, and but a very small portion
of the Karen population has been
ever visited or their territory ex
plored.
There are four Annual Confer
ences of German ministers, and one
German district in the California
Methodist Conference. This work
comprises II presiding elders dis
tricts and 27l pastoral charges, of
which all the districts and l66 pas
toral charges are missions aided by
the funds Of the Society,
The Jewish Messenger says that
many Israelites have abandoned the
idea Of returning to Palestine, be-
ing quite satisfied with America /;
but the belief in a restoration of Is
rael as a nation on its soil, is still an
integral article of faith among US,
and if not accomplished for and by
US, we cherish the hope and conf
dence that the prophecies will be
realized.
The American Methodists have
been doing what they can to spread
their form of Christianity in Ger
many and the Scandinavian coun-
tries. But in this work the Baptists
have far exceeded them. In Ger
MANY and Switzerland the MethO-
dists have 1928 members, while the
Baptists have about 1900. In
Denmark, Norway and Sweden, the
Methodists have 7G9 members, while
the remarkably hourishing Baptist
mission has 9,l3S members and 2l6
churches. All but one of the 1879
churches in Norway and Sweden
have been founded during the last
fifteen years.
Mr.. Coan went to a Chinese sugar
| plantation near Hilo, on late Sab
bath, preached to them, and took
up O collection for missionary OBJ
iects amounting to S97! They are
ready and generous in their help
in building churches. They seemed
ashamed of their idolatry, and their
children by Hawaiian wives are all
in the Sabbath school, receiving q
christian education. One of theiI
number, a merchant, has left his
store and breaches to his country,
men. He is q man of good educa
ton, understands six Chinese dia,
lects, besides English and Hawaiian
and is a perfect gentleman as wei
as an earnest Christian. At a late
meeting which he held at Hilo, no
one Of the Chinese was absent.
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The conflict between Church anC
State in Austria has recently beer
: decided by the courts in favor 0
the State, under the following cir
cumstances The Archbishop o
Schwarzenberg was convicted som
time ago for disturbing public orde
by publishing pastoral letter, II
which he advocated disobedience t,
the civil laws respecting marriage
The jurisdiction of the court wa
then called in question, and it Wa
alleged that immunity in such case
was guaranteed to the Bishops b
} the fourteenth article of the Con
a cordat. The Supreme Court c
- Prague has now confirmed the SCI
tence of the inferior court, and dt