The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-02-18
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The EpiscopaliaDs have seyenty-nine
churches in New York aud Harlem.
There are in New York Episcopal dio-
cese 1876 churches and 290 clergyman -
A site has at last been given to AmerI-
cans in Jerusalem for Protestant CHURCH.
The Catholic population of Massael u
sets is over 50, coo; churches, 175; Prles'f'
1873. -eFet ~ @r E5-r.t
Two ofthe Episcopal Churches OF Gln--
cinnati have made all seats free Sund
evenings.
-Philadelphia has five pastors who hs,a
held the same pulpits tor over thlrty-nFe
years essh9 -.--E
: --Therv are seventy counties in Kentucky
which have not a single organized PresoY-
terian Church. y 'l- e---- 80
Tue Pfe4byterisns report now move
candidates for the ministry than since the
revivals of 1853. ---,----
Lafayette, Ind, has built more hrst-
class churches this year than any other CT
in the Northwest. sr 2 --4
"A Catholic seminary of the Order OF ST.
Francis is to be erected at Rock Island. III,
at cost of 1000. 9F-- -it-@f
The Holyoke (Mass.l Young Mems
Christian Association has voted to admit.
women to membership. ~ ~
The case of Esther Lyons, the Jewish,
convert, has Just been decided in the Eng
lish courts in her favor.
The new Presbyterian paper of Chicago
is to appear the first of February, and has.
nearly $50, 900 to start with.
The Synod of Kentucky proposes to
raise the salary of every Presbyterian min
,,4o L. 4 faIf TO ahnpob work tn
$1,000. 1,'
Rev. George Pearce is the oldest mis-
siOnary in India. He has labored there
for the English Baptists, for forty-three
Yeas. f- r.F-. Is f5- I'D
-Methodism in France reports 80 min
listers, 146 preaching places, ITO local
preachers, 2, 125 members, and 1e, 900 reg
ular hearers. f,- -..- -.-.. ---l sT+
The Baptist Home Missionary Society
in its thirty-seyen years wOr4, has baptized
$4,000 persons and organized LOO
churches.
The First African Baptist Church in
Richmond, Va, has a membership of A.
6S3-5OO having been added by baptism
during the past year.
"A Catholic priest in California recently
seized some Protestant books which had
been lent to a child of Catholic parents, who
attended Methodist Sunday School, and
burned them. fr,
The Christmas gift offered to the Pope
by the Archbishop of New York was large
fish of solid gold. with mouth, formed of
rubies, that opens, and lets fall shower
Of gold ''eagles. E T--..
Rev. James III. Harman, of West Vir-
ginia, considers it minister's duty to COM
mence preaching in the morning and con-
tinue it until night. Strength, he says, vii
come from on High.
"A sensational preacher in Iowa con-
ducts Sunday services in a billiard saloon.
opening church with beer all round, AMI
closing with trent for the crt wd. He
draws large audiences Ef
Rev. Arthur MItcnell, of Chicago, de-
cliues an offered addition of 5 900 to his
salary. and proposes that it be donated
toward furnishing cheaper sittings for those
who are kept away from the sanctuary on
account of dear pewrents.
The Indianaoolis Sentinel says: ''The
rector of Christ Church, Episcopal, an
n0unced to his congregation, on Sunday,
that, after the months trial, the free pew
system had proved decided success, and
that the income for ordinary expenses had
increased nearly fifty per cent. over the old
system of pew rentals"