The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1871-10-20
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENcs.

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The minutes of the Cumberland
| PresbyteTians report; Ministers, I, li6;
| licentiates, 19S; candidates, 2l4; con-
! gragatiOns, 1,S6S; total n communion,
Sc, ,335.
At the time of the last returns tAe
| members of the Society Of Jesus
/ are given as s, ,S37. Out OF these there
are 2,55I lay coadjutors, 2, III students,
and 3, $50 priests.
Illinois ConvenGon-The Illinois
! Protestant Episcopal convention last
1 week passed, against some opposition,
! the following additional section Ia
! the constitution
No clergyman shall resort tu the
| civil courts for the purpose Of arrest
! ing or avoiding any ecclesiastic-l
/ pEeceedings against him, under pen
! atty of suspension ipsO Jdct0 from the
functions of the ministry"
Miss Caroline Mcmillan Of Getty~-
! burg, Pa, has been appointed by the
/ WOman's Foreign Missionary Society
| as missionary to India. She is a young
woman of piety and culture, who has
been impressed from childhood with
the conviction that her proper field OF
a Dor is the Indian Mission.
a Woman's Missionary Society
has been organized at the Sandwich
! Islands, under the title of the 4" Pacific
Island Branch of the WOman's Board
Of Missions" The Constitution re-
quires that, at least three of its officers
shall reside on other islands than
Oahu.
Count TerenziO Mamiana, formerly
q personal friend of the Pope, and a
member Of his Cabinet, regards RO-
manism as failure. It has produced,
he says, only superstition among the
lower classes, Indifference elsewhere,
and among thinkers, infidelity.
From Boston we hear, what seems
Incredible, that, while the Jews in this
city were wOrshiping one Saturday,
with splendid pOmp, in their syna-
gogue on Fifth Avenue, i gang or la
bOrers were at work upon the tower.
It was the Jewish Sabbath Oh the iu-
side Of the synagogue, and the Pagan
Saturday on the outside!
Thomas K. Beecher, of EIlnira y.
Y, is about to build q model church,
at an estimated cost of $50, 600 u is
TO combine all the excellencies Of a
home, church, end stable; there are to
be parlors, kitchen, bath-rooms,' in
Urinary, children's play-rOom, and
{
q house. Mr.. Beecher is his own
architect we believe.
4 remarkable revival Is in progress
in the north Of Scotland among the
fishermen Of the bauiishire coast. Not
long since one of the Free Church
ministers in that region admitted to
! the communion for the first time
one hundred and sixteen persons OF
all ages, the whole Of whom profe-Sed
to be fruits Of the awakening in his
parish.
The old Roman Catholic Church or
St Bassil, at Seville, Spain, has been
opened for Protestant evangelical
worship. The church buildings com
prise a good day-school, and a SUI
day-schOOl Is in full operation. Ia
Seville there are now five CODgrepst-
tons Of Spanish Protestants, with
Spanish evangelical preachers, AMI
upwards of 200 Sunday scholars.
The Cumberland Presbyterian, aIlu-
ding to the call of the Methodist for
"mCre men''-meaniug more minis
ter5-sensibly says: cit is q mistake to
to suppose that all important church
work must be done by ministers. While
there is such demand for able min
listers, there is also q Ike demand for
able, earnest, working laymen. We
believe, too, the time has come when
women should have a more prominent
part IN the work Of the church.
The Journal Of the SSth Annual Con
venti0n Of the Protestant Episcopal
Diocese Of Maryland is out; from
which we CLEAN the following facts
Number oI persons added by confirm
alton, !, ,7S5, lost by death or other
wise, 3l9: I3, 703. Sunday-sehool tea
chers, ], ,322; Sunday-schOol scholars,
II, 72J. Communion aims, Sl9, ,90I, ,Uf
ali other contributions, S177,757, 30;
appropriations to foreign missions, S5,-
407, 81.
LUTaERANs IN THE UNITED
STATES entire body Of Churches
in the United States bearing the name
Of Lutherans comprises little over
2,20O ministers. 3 ,537 churches, and
nearly 400, 900 communicates. OF
these people the General Synod com,
prise sccording to the latest authen-
tic atistics, 9S,077. A body more
numerous than this in the mem mbe:sliiP
represented IS known as the General
Council in America. The cOmmuni-
cants number 124, ,S19, the ministers
692, and the churches 554.
THE following distinguished diyines
are expected to be present as visitors
at the Episcopal General Convention,
in Baltimore, next month: The Right
Rev. Geo. Augustus S5elwyn, u. d.,
Bishop of Lichfield, formerly Metro
politan Of New Zealand, but translated
10 his present see in 1868; the Very
| Rev. j. S. Howson, d. D., Dean of
Chester; the Rev. l.. J. Edwards,
/ Rural Dean, Treatham the Rev. i.
Ii. lies. Rural Dean, WOlverhampion;
| the Rev. J. r SeIwyn, Wolverhamp-
ton; and the Rev. Z. Willett, West
| BroIn wich.
Writ hacomes Of the colda The