Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-02-14

of q church which pays its choir
$1,000 a year, while its contributions
to missions are only 500.
The London City Mission en-
ployed, for the year SOS, three hun
bred and thirty-fve missionaries.
The Edinburgh City Mission en-
ployed twenty four male and two
female missionaries.
The largest Bible class in the
world is that conducted. by. Mrs.
Bartlett, at Mr.. Spurgeon's church
in London, which numbers seven
hundred.
ReviYals are reported in. all the
Congregational Churches of Fond
Du Lac, an apparent fruit of the
State Christian Convention lately
held there, .-
In Philadelphia Baptist Church
the baptismal dress Of black has
been discarded and one of pure white
substituted change that meets
with great favor. .....
Seven churches were finished in
St Louis in 1S6S-two Catholic, one
Hebrew, two Presbyterian, one
Methodist Episcopal, and one
Lutheran II
The will OF the late Harvey San
ford, of New Haven, Connecticut,
gives $4,000 to the American Con
gregational Union, and $4,000 to
the American Bible Society.
The Mount of Olives is now the
property of the Crown of France,
showing how the force of sentiment
may sometimes appropriate the
sanctities of history.
According to recent statistical
returns, the number of native Chris
tians in India connected with Pro-
testant churches is two hundred
thousand, all of them the fruits Of
modern missionary labor.
The Society for the Propagation
of the Roman Catholic Faith, head
quarters in New York, received,
during 1868, one million dollars, of
which nine hundred thousand dollars
was from one cent. per week.
The first Episcopal cathedral ever
built in New England was opened
in Portland for the first time on
Christmas day. 1t is modest one,
but we are told has been fully or
gained, after the English system,
by the Right Rev DR.. Nicely, Bishop
of Maine
Rev. r. Heber Newton has ac-
copied the appointment of Financial
Secretary of the American Mission.
airy Society, made vacant by the
death of Mr. Rising, who was killed
by the collision Of the United States
and America.
A Roman Catholic church for
colored people is shortly to be
erected in Detroit. Several colored
youths are being educated for
priests at Naples, Italy, and no
doubt, says the Boston Pilot, will
be given fields of labor in this coun.
try and among their own race in
other lands.
The american Presbyterian, New
School, thinks the New York Pres
byterics in the New School connec,
| ton arc not less New School than
when the excisiOn took place, and
that they will not consent to re
union except on a basis in which
each school will recognize and re
spect the peculiarities of the other
Boston City Missionary Society
Hast year, had an income Of so, 455
| and expended for the salaries of q
missionaries, 6 male and IL female
| $1,000. Among the results of it
labOrs are reported 334 children
gathered into Sunday Schools, A,
into the public schools, SO person
hopefully converted and 25l fur
nished with employment.
Lent is fast of forty days, be
ginning with Ash Wednesday, an,
, continuing till Easter. Easter Sun
dav is the first Sabbath that occur
after the full moon following tn
vernal equinox, and falls this yea
on March Is, which makes the Ler
E ten fast begin February17. Til
| time of Easter varies from aboJ
+ the 22d Of March TO the 18th
April
The Roman Catholics are abOI
to erect a cathedral in London thi
Y will rival any on the continent TIL
site selected is in Westminster, ne;
y Buckingham Palace. The buildir
>, is professedly a memorial to the la
Cardinal Wiseman, who styled hin
$ self, as does his successor, Arc
o bishop Of Westminster. III
If ground it is to occupy has co
5000, 900. 1t will be the first TecO
, Missed Romanist Cathedral since t
DAYS OF queen mary
> In some of the Swiss cantO
4 steps have been taken for the bett
g observance of the Sabbath in Tega
ID to postal matters. The governme
m of Prussia, recognizing the infuen
no of Protestant principles in the pre-
perity of its kingdom, and acknov
n edgiug that the observance Of {
nd Sabbath is essential to the develC
Ike ment.of vital Christianity, has issu
70 DEGREES forbiddiDg its desecratic
Mechanics and laboring men are
7h handing rest from Sunday lab
oe A similar state of things is beg
ming in Holland.
- In Norway the State religion
els the Evangelical Lutheran, dissC
to crs are excluded from Office, :
Jews were not allowed to enter
KINGDOM till 1851. In 1915,