Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-02-07
RELIGIOUS NE us.

There are I23, 500 Catholics in
Chicago.
The Moravian mission in Greenland
is 1856 years old.
There were $40 Methodist Churches
dedicated in 1858.
The Protestant population Of France
is estimated at 10000.
advertisements of manuscript SER
mons have appeared in Boston.
Bishop EaStburn has resigned the
~rectorship of Trinity Church, Boston.
OF the 2I7 Uuitarian churches in the
United States ia are in Massachusetts
New Jersey has 1850 Sabbsth-schools,
with 1900 teachers and l35, 0C0 schools.
The Home Missionary Society now
sustains twenty-five missionaries in
California.
The Roman Catholic Missions in
Anam are still suffering from severe per-
secution.
DR.. Cumming states that the Scotch
Church in Rome is now held IL 8 gran
airy over a pig-stye.
The Chinese Evangelist, Aheong,
finds ready access to his eOuntrymen in
the Hawaiian islands.
Chinese Sunday schools have been
established ia all the Methodist churches
Of San Francisco.
The first Protestant church on Span
ish soil has lately been opened at Mahon,
in the island of MinOrcs.
The New Jersey Baptists propose to
establish a private State Convention Of
their own. They have l40 churches.
"A japanese New Testament trans
lated and edited by American Mission
aries, is now in course of publication in
Japan.
The last convent in the Rhenish
provinces of Prussis has been suppressed.
The work Of exterminstiOn began in
1884.
"A church has been organized in con-
nection with the American Protestant
Chapel in Paris. 1t has forty-niDe
members,
The Bsptists propose to hold 8 Ma
tionsl Sunday-schOol Convention in on
nection with their anniversary, next
May.
"A weekly missionary paper in the
Chinese language was to have been
started Ia the middle Of last September,
in Shsnghae.
1t is said that Chicago has more Sun
day-sehool scholars, in proportion to its
population, han any other city in the
Union.
The Friends " have established, in
North Carolina alone, thirty Sabbath
schools for white and sixteen for colored
children.
The anti-Rituslist party in Australia
have formed what they designate a
Free Church of England" and have
elected q Bishop.
The Lord Chief-J ustice of England
decides that Sunday evening concerts,
and scientific lectures are not in vioIa-
ton Of the Sunday laws.
The Bishop Of Ontario recently
failed to administer the oath OF the
Queens supremacy to the several candi-
dates, and the papers smell treason.
Minister Hale has gained from the
new Spanish Government free PERMITS
sion to introduce Bibles, tracts, and
sehool-books from this country.
The Oid-School Presbyterian Board
of Church Extension has built ninety
churches in thirteen years, at 8 cost Of
something over f40O, 0OO.
The National Sunday.schooI Con-
vention, general and unsectarian, will
meet in Newark, April 2Sth, in pursu-
ance OF q call signed by George Il. Stu
art and others.
Those Jews who want to observe the
same Sunday with Christians, IL they
will go westerly round the globe, will
come back with sunday in the right
place.
The church at Bunyan's birthplace,
for which contributions are asked, be.
longs to the State establishment, and
Bunyan would not be allowed to preach
In 1t II he were alive.
Lieut.. Warren has found that the
old temple OF jerusalem was much small
er than was supposed, and that Josephus
wss not 80 far out Of the way as some of
his critics assert.
The late Charles Elliott, d. D., L. l.,
D., completed, in bis seventy-third year,
In the short space OF three weeks, the
reading of the entire Old Testament, and
called il "reading neWs.~