The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1871-02-24
RELIGIOUS INTELLlGENCE.

CUTtSttCtH IBtOft.
RELIGIOUS INTELLlGENCE.
BAPTIST.
AT the close of the war there were
about ten thousand Baptists i'm West
Virginia. Now, there are twenty thou
sand-much more thoroughly organ
lied for working now than at any
previous period. Many churches, that
g few years since were mission stations,
are now self-sustaining. Many new
points have recently been looked after,
and new churches are already being
organized at centres.
Three of our churches In Baltimore
are vacant; Franklin Square, by the
resignation of Rev. J. B. Hawthorn;
High Street, by the resignation of Rev.
r b. Kelsey, and Broadway, by the
resignation of Rev. j. Il. Chambliss.
The Christian Index says: "Our
missionaries i'm China everywhere are
having as many baptisms per annum
as pastors on an average i'm America;
and our Board has some $40, 40 worth
of property there, or more. We hope
that those who account the Chinese
mission q failure, will ponder these
facts"
On the recent visit of Rev. A. b.
Earle to Wake Forest College, nearly
every unconverted person In the house
knelt; and every student In the College
but Une.
The Coliseum Baptist Church, In
New Orleans, a few Sundays since,
subscribed five thousand dollars to-
wards church expenses. The church
is displaying great energy under their
new pastor, DIR. Taylor, recently Of
Chicago.
Rev. A. Ii. Earle expects to spend
six weeks i'm Texas, during the coming
spring. He hopes, also, to visit Missis-
sippi. Many an earnest appeal has
been received by him from the South
west.
Rev. f. w. Roach, of Virginia, has
been called to the care of a church I'm
Kentucky, at a salary of 81, coo. He Is
now on visit to that State.
EPISCOPAL.
Two years ago the congregation of
Trinity Church, Rock Island, ILL.,, num-
bered but fifty communicates, and
their property, as q parish, was valued
at $500. Now they number about eighty
members, and have built and paid for
church which cost them over $4,000.
To the generous gifts of q few Of the
people the parish islargely indebted for
this beautiful temple of worship. Judge
Lynch and the Hon. Porter Skinner
each gave $500. The Ladies' Aid
Society added to this over s, 800.
The free pew system has proved q
decided success in St. Mary's church,
Brooklyn, Rev. ID. V. M. johnson, ID.
D., rector. Last year S11 ,045 were col
lected through the offertory. The re-
cord for the year gives 112 baptisms,
AZ confirmations, 81 funerals, q mar
riages, and upwards of 500 communi.
cantS.
The following statistical imforma-
tion will be of ofinterest to our Episcopal
readers. The Church Journal says:
"Tbis week we begin the year 1871
with thirty-nine Diocesan and nine
missionary Bishops, In place of thirty
seven ten years since; 2,ISO other
clergy for 2,02S; with 222,O0o commu-
nicants for 1851, and 202, 10 Sun
day school children for 1892. The
for last year in thirty
seven Dioceses and two missionary
DiOceses amount to ~5,OO2,72l 8S.
These were contributions for mission
airy and Church purposes, leaving US
to imagine the wealth lying behind,
out of which the large sum was vol
untary offering. The ordinations have
been 20S, the deaths of the clergy, in
two Bishops, were 80; the
net increase TO-"
MISCELLANEOUS.
Ash Wednesday on the I'D of Eebru-
ary, Good Friday on the 7tb of April,
and Easter Sunday on the 9th Of April.
The use of the gown i'm various Pres
byterian churches in the city of New
York, Is claimed to be simply a restora-
ton Of the ancient clerical dress.
Bishop McIIvaine, of the diocese of
Ohio, is now in the fiftieth year of his
the thirty-ninth Of his epis-
copate, and the seveDty-first of his
age.
Fourteen million copies of Spurgeon's
are reported to have been sold
i'm England, and three hundred thon-
sand i'm America, and Spurgeon is but
thirty-six years old.
England has thirty thousand pulpits
to population of thirty millions, or
one pulpit to every thousand of the
In the United States there
is church for every six hundred per-
5 )ns of the entire nation.
The Congregational Church of New
London, Conn, has had but ten pas
tors i'm DO years. At their late bi-cen-
tenniaI celebration all the ministers of
the city were present, including the
two Catholic priests.
The Rev. Newman Hall estimates
that the churches of Great Britain have
lost $1,000 members by intemperanee
within three years. He considers this
low, as it is only one for each
church.
The Colorado Annual calls an elect
,ral conference of Methodist laynen to
meet at Denver ON the Sth of July next,
% select provisional lay delegates to
he next General Conference, and says
hat this will be the first conference of
he kind in the history of the Methodist
,hurch.
The clergy of Carlisle, Pa., recently
protested to the War Department
against The Sunday morning inspec-
ions at the military barracks, asa des-
.cration of the Sabbath, and complain
ID, also, that the playing of the military
,and drew audiences which Otherwise
night have gone to church.
Our Methodist brethren, In spite of
heir Book Concern fuddle, are wise in
heir generation. They publish in the
United States eleven weeklies, with q
of 100000; one Sunday
choof paper circulating 40a009 one
quarterly, with fifty years experience;
wo monthly magazines, circulating
1000 copies; and one monthly tract,
rith circulation of 20, ,000eop16a Wili
nc coming man he Methof}