The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-01-29
ALL SORTS OF RELIGION.

The Episcopalans of Brooklyn have sub
scribed s26, 900 toward purchasing an Episco
pal residence for the bishop.
The Archbishop of Canterbury has beer
struck with paralysis on one side, and his life
has been in imminent danger.
Three Chicago sermons last Sunday were
1.-THE Modern Dance ''The Strength OF zion,'
and discharged from Hell"
-Seventy-six members have been added tc
the Congregational Church in Washington
City, at the four last communons.
Bishop Kingsley has been holding mission
ary meetings at Pekin. He wants nine Meth
odist conferences organized in China.
The Pope has received $4,000 from the
diocese of Amiens, France, being the amount
of Peters pence collected in few days.
Two members of the Gcumenical Council
have died in Rome since its rganization-one,
Cardinal Pentini, and the other the Bishop OF
Panama.
1T is said that twenty Of the twenty-eight
Episcopal Churches in Maine support their pas
tors and pay incidental expenses by public Sum
day collections.
AT the late sale of pews in Mr.. Beecher's
church, in Brooklyn, every pew commanded
premium. Tbe total receipts were s57, 543, or
s3o49 more than last year.
The Office of "Reader to the Empress Of
the French" will again be vacated in few
weeks. This time, the poor but pretty reader
marries the Vicomte Clary.
The revival in Hamilton, Ohio, is still pro-
crossing in all the churches. 1t is said to be
the most thorough and widespread that has
been known for thirty years.
There are one hundred and twenty-eight
Roman Catholic 1nonasteries in the United
States, where men live under VOWS of celibacy
and poverty, and three hundred nunneries of
various grades.
Tile Congregational Church u townsend
eSSrntTs, Massachusetts, have voted to discon-
finre the 1ss bf ferhiented wines at their COM
r,nunion services, using instead the Oppressed
juice Of raistns.
-.pav, Father Baltes, of Bellville, has peen
annointed Roman Catholic Bishop OF Southern
illinois. to fill ihe vacancy occasloned oy the
death of Bishop Junker. Bishop Baltcs IS u
naive of PENNSYLVANIA, and was educated at
Montreal, Canada.
in the Disestablished Church OF Ireland
serious troubles have arisen, threatening
schism, on the question whether, as IN TINS
country. the General Convention shall consist
of two houses, one composed of the bishops,
and the other OF the church and lay delegates,
or all sit and vote in one body.
:. The Presbyterian body, just united, mas
1929 ministers, oi whom 1880 are pastors, lols
stated supplies; 329 missionaries, evangehsts,
ichaplains, agents and colporteurs; 2sl proies-
sors, teachers, editors and secretaries; s4 with
out charge, and lat not designated. OF those
without charge, quite number are old and
infirm; some have left the ministry because
not adapted to its work, and others are hlhns
gaps and waiting a CALL
The editor of the London Jewish Messen-
ger argues that the opening of the suez Canal
portends the restoration of Palestine to the
Jews. at the same time, the editor Of the New
York Jewish Messenger holds that the resto'
ration of the Jews is abandoned, that their
distinctive habits are disappearing, and they
now look to the fulflment OF the prophecy re-
specting them in the gradual subduing OF al
nations with the religion which came to the
world through the Church of Israel.