Abbeville press. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1860-1869, 1869-01-15
The general Association of Califor

The general Association of Califor-
mia has just issued its Minutes, from
which the following facts are cleaned:
The amount raised for charities among
the Congregational churches tho past
year was nearly $4,000. The value
of their church property is sot down
at S225,OO.0 Tho amount raised for
Church Erection and the payment of
church debts has been nearly $27, 900.
Amount raised for current expenses
s44, 900. This denomination has 4G
Sunday-schools, with $500 scholars.
The number of baptisms during the
year were 1888 of which were of
infants. The yrcscnt membership of
the church is about two Thousand, the
increase of the last year being ITO.
Tho number of ministers 43, ten of
whom have been installed rs pastors.
The largest church is tho First, in San
Francisco, which has 339 members ;
tho smallest, that of El Dorado.
which has but four. The number of
preaching stations, where churches
have not been formed, is five. There
has been q gain of four churches, five
having been organized, and one dis
banded the past year. The abscntecs
from the churches number 2O2. Ten
persons have been cxcommunicated.
The pastor longest settled in his pres
cnt field of labor is Rev. George
Mooar, d. D.: second oldest, Rev. J
a. Benton; the third l. L. Dwincll
ID. D.
1t has been resolved by the arthori.
tics of tho NJ. T.. Church, North, "to
concentrate all the newspaper patron,
age for the South upon single paper, ii
at Atlanta, Ga The Charleston and
New Orleans advocates are to be ab
sorbcd in this central. In this absorb,
ton process, it is hoped that the ami
mus of the absorbed will, before com.
ming!ing with what we hopo will be
better, cvap..r.lc, OF, at the least, left
while to the alternate benefits of dew
and sunshinc.-Christian NeighIor.
A GREAT Work OF GcD.-The sup
preston of The order q: the Jesuits through
out Spain and the Spanish islands, and the
proclamation of religious liberty by the
Provisional Government, the consequent
opening of chapeIs for Protestant WORSHIP
in Mdrid, Seville, and elsewhere, the &C
,ivity Of foreign and native friends of the
Bible in intro o!ucing and circulating it, aue
the divorcing the public mind from at
tachmert to priestly connections with edu
cation, are wonderful facts, wrought onl,
by the great power Of God for the triumph
of His truth and kingdom.
The United Brethren Church has
in this country, one General Confer
enee, thirty-seven Annual Conferences
five Bishops, and over one hundrc,
thousand members. They have
weekly paper, a children's paper, ant
missionary paper. They also hav'
six colleges and four seminarics. Th,
Religious Telescope, the able organ O
this Church, has an article showing
that their affinities are with Metho
dists rather than with Moravirns will
whom they are often confo
GREENvILLE, TESN.-Five or six O
the Cumberland Presbyterian chur
chcs in the vicinity of this place have
recently received accessions from tn,
world varying in numbers from eigh
to forty-one.
The question Of dispensing with presi
ding elders agitaled in the United Breth
rem Church. A correspondent of til,
Religious Telescope objects to the ofic,
because:
l. 1t may be regarded as implying ,ha
the pastor and his flock are not con- peten,
10 transact their own business.
2. 1t is expensive. To give presiding
elder living requires from each field a,
aggregate of about sixty dollars.
8. The Office of Presiding elder requir es
the labors of aoout seventy five ministers
who might possibly be more proftably
employed elsewhere.
THERE is a movement in England te
bring Dr.. Coenso before the ordinary
colrts, and relieve the church OF the scan
dal now attaching to it in seeming to sup
port him in his heresy.
Two murderous wives are in Jail 10 New
York. One killed her husband with ,
rolling'pin and the other with poker.
FASHIONABLE CHRISTIAN NAMES
There is fashion in Christian names q
we'll rs other things. Mr.. Riley notes tha
in the city Of London, from the tbirte entf