Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-01-31
Progress or ReItgfOn-Revlvals, San
day-schooIs and Church Matters.

/ SteCUeG DlSHOp OF the HrOGeStan
Episcopal diocese of Central New
York.
Wisconsin has a population o
nearly half million, of whom 300,
600 are Romanists, and not over
$4,000 are connected with the evan
gelical churches.
Religious freedom now prevails in
Hungary, and the people are eager
to obtain the, Scriptures and re-
ligiOns books which were published
by the Austrian concordat once con-
trolling them.
Rev. John White, who was sent to
the Mendi Mission, in Africa, by the
American Missionary Association, q
few months since, has been obliged
to retire, finding that he could not
ivessin that climate.i -
The Rev. DR. Bachman, of Charles
ton, S. c., is still exercising the
vocation of pastor of one of the
lutheran churches of that city. On
Sunday, the 10th inst, he delivered
his fifty fourth anniversary discourse.
The Quakers are manifesting an
earnest missionary spirit. The Bal,
timore Association, assisted by
a''Friends@ in. England, have estab,
lished, in North Carolina alone,
thirty Sabbath Schools for while and
sixteen for colored children. 2 'Ss'-
Tie Sabbath School children of
Kentucky have undertaken to erect
a monument over the remains of
Ed. w. S. Sedwick, lately Sabbath
School missionary Of Kentucky,
whose remains lie in the cemetery
at Bardstown, Ky. sg3 20 fisi ss -
IA Society for the Promotion of
Evangelical Religion in the North
west has been organized in Chicago
by some Episcopalians. Alexander
g. Tying, of Peoria, well known as
a lay preacher and Sabbath school
.laborer, is president. He is he son
Of S. H. Tying, d. d. Sd. - "a {.
Since May / the New School
Presbyterian body has commissioned
100 new missionaries, in addition to
the 450 of the previous year. One
new synod has been formed, that
of Kansas, and two presbyteries.
The Church Erection Committee has
aided in building thirty -one houses
of worship during that time. e 1as
81 The Semi Centennial Anniversary
of the Missionary Society of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, was
held last week in Washington. Last
year the contributions amounted to
S614,137; year before, $6S6,320
The aggregates contribution of the
five decades amounts to 1881, 377.
They are now in debt a little over
500, 000-a loan on which interest
is being paid.
> Rev. Orrin Abbott, one of the
early pioneer Methodist preachers of
Western New York, recently died in
Chicago, Ill. He was in almost eV-
cry prominent battle fought on the
northern frontier in the war of 1912,
and was chaplain of a regiment for
a four months campaign in the late
war.
Ar. Gomez, a native of Ceylon,
has, for about fifteen years been la
boring among the Dyaks of Borneo,
a race whose rank in society used
TO be measured by the number of
human skulls gathered as trophies
of their prOwess. From this people
he has collected about three hundred
converts to Christianity.
"A correspondent writes from
Parkersburg, Ind: "A precious
work of grace has been in progress
in this community for the last three
weeks. The Presbyterian society is
nearly three times as large as it was
before; 241 have already joined the
church. The work has been of great
power, moving the whole communi-
ty, and there has been the most per-
feet harmony among all evangelical
denominations" f --.. .--
The Congregational churches in
Kansas, either from principle or
from a paucity of male members,
are adopting female office-bearing
as well as female suffrage. Thus,
Que Mrs. Wood is clerk of the
church in Cottonwood Falls and
another Mrs. Wood holds the same
office in Lowell, while in Webaunsee
Mrs. ii. n. Jones has been elected
deaconess. ..H ..s.
The death of the Baptist mission
airy, Mrs. Deborah B. L. Wade,
wife of Rev. Jonathan Wade, ID. D.,
of Burmah, is announced. Her
maiden name was Lapham, and she
was born in Nelson, N. Y, January
10, 1901. She sailed with her hus-
band from Boston June 90, 1928
She has thus rendered valuable ser
vice for nearly forty five years.
Rev. J. b. McFerrin "has long
cherished the purpose of writing 9
history of Southern Methodism il
Tennessee. The work will abound
with sketches of early Methodist
preachers, and interesting incidents
connected with the introduction OF
Methodism into the Sewmee OF
Cumberland Valley, as well as into
East Tennessee, or Holston, ant
the Memphis Conference"
The London correspondent of thu
Boston AdUertiSer says that though
the Unitarians in England are fewe
than any other non conforming see
except the Quakers, they are NOR
numerous than any other in Parlia
ment. The reason given is becaus
they are generally well off, and 81
take the lead in public spirit and re
forms that their unpopular theolog.
is forgotten.
The missions Of the America
Board report fifteen more churches
| Tin all 300, than there were yea
ago; seventeen more native pastor
| IOl }, and l,S2l additions by pre-
fession duriug the year. There ar
fifty two self-sustaining churche.
Five missionaries have died durin
the year. There have been eleve
ordained missionaries with the
wives, one physician and eightee
single ladies gone out as ne