The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1869-01-28
Religious Items.

ity for the statement that thirty thous-
and members are communicated,
annually, from the English Church,
for intemperance.
The Tablet, an organ of the Roman
Catholic Church, is publishing IN es-
tense, the sermon of Rev. DR.. Ever,
an Episcopalian clergyman, to show
that professionalism is failure.
Religious freedom now prevails in
Hungary, and the people are eager to
obtain the Scriptures and religious
books, which are prohibited by the
Austrian concordat, once controlling
them.
The British and Foreign Bible So
clety has already forwarded large
shipments of Bibles to Spain, and
depots for the sale and distribution
Of them are being established in all
the principal towns.
The Congregationalists of this
country have six theological semin-
aries, in which are two hundred and
forty-6ve students. Andover, Mas
sachusetts, has the largest number,
and Oberlin, Ohio, the smallest.
In Pittsburgh, the colored people
have seven churches. One of them
has within three years erected fine
building, although no member of it
is worth over $4,000.
A colored woman of Columbia,
South Carolina has given over $500
toward erecting chapel for her peo-
pile, renting her house to raise the
money, while she herself has been
living in a shanty. This may be
set down as an instance of giving so
that one feels it.
The Quakers are manifesting an
earnest missionary spirit. The Balti-
more Association, assisted by
"Friends" in England, have estab-
lished, in North Carolina alone, thirty
Sabbath schools for white, and sig
teen for colored children.
The Lutheran Church at New
Hanover, Pennsylvania. was organ
lied as early as 1921. The old edi-
flee, which has stood the storms of
over a hundred years, has been COM
pletely remodeled and rebuilt during
the last year and if no casualty oc-
ours is good for another century.
Four years ago, the Free Will
Baptists organized q Home Mission
and Freedmen's Committee to oper-
ate in the West. They have organA
lied from Cairo as a center, eleven
churches, with 900 members and 415
Sabbath Schools. They have also
a mission in West Virginia with a
fourishing High School.
The annual incomes of the various
English Bishops range from $40, 900
to about $4,000. Canterbury en-
joys the latter and Sodor the former
amount. London and Windsor have
each an income of $4,000 a year,
and Durham $4,000. The other
Bishoprics are worth from $4,000
to 1927, 900 a year.
Rev. Albert Barnes, the comment
ator, completed his SEVENTEEN year
December 4. Writing TO friend
he says; 81 believe there are glori-
GUS things in prospect for our earth,
and that it will be greater thing to
live in the next half century than it
has been in the one that is past"
He breaches occasionally, but has
no PASTORAL charge, and is a practical
farmer, with farm of one acre.
The Protestant Episcopal Almanac
for 1869, gives the following general
summary of statistics of that church
in the United States Bishops, AZ !;
Bishop elect l clergy, 1925; bap-
tisms, 1855 combinations Is. 406;
communicates, 157, 1884; marriages,
1856; burials, 1,454; ordinations,
deacons, So; presbyteries, %; can
didates for orders, 230; Sunday
school teachers, 1850.