The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1872-01-06

without interruption. She was sent
out by the Bible Society.
The Catholic priest st Westerly,
Rhode Island, has prohibited shs
members ofhis church from engag-
ing in the liquor business.
The Lutheran denomination in
this country numbers now abont
five hundred thousand communi.
cants, under the care of some two
thousand two hundred ministers.
The Catholic population Of Amer
lea, is estimated at 5,50O,OOO, with
4,SOO priests, worshping in 1850
churches and 100 chapels and sta
tions.
The statistical returns Of the NJ.
Z. Church for 1871, show that the
present total number of effective
travelling preachers is S,lS0; Of
supernumcrary preachers, 54S; Of
superanuated, 97l, making a grand
total of 1900.
The latest denominational statis-
tics give the Baptists in the State Of
New York 1O1, 744 members,
composing S41 churches, with 754
ordained and 80 unordained preach
ers.
The American Congregational
Union reports that while new Con-
gregational churches are being
formed at the rate ofa hundred a
year, thenumber ofhouselesschurch
es has increased at the rate ofthirty-
five a year. Most Of these are in
the west.
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The revised edition Of the Bible
in Chinese, which has for some time
been preparing at Pekin, is now
nearly ready, and WILSON be issued
from the American Mission press,
within the walls Of the capital.
A clergyman at Council Bluffs,
Iowa, has made a new departure in
the matter of "hitching up" folks.
He has swept away the old estab-
lished rules Of marrying for a fee,
and announces that he shall hereaf
ter marry by weight, charging four
cents per pound for the happy man,
and two cents for the bride. The
idea is a novel one.
1t is said that a large majority of
the preachers connected with the
"Disciples of Christi Church ap-
pear dependent upon secular means
for their support. Probably the
ratio of preachers devoting them
selves wholly to the ministry is only
about one to fourteen churches.
CHURCH DRESSING. - Here is
some plain talk and advice which
ought to be needed: There was q
time when good taste demanded
the use ofthe plainest clothes intho
sanctuary, when the wealthiest were
distinguished for their conspicuous
absence ofpersonal adornment, and
sartorial display was mark of yul-
garity at such times and places.
But nova days, in the congregation,
on the Sabbath, rich and poor alike
seem to make a@desperate strain, the
one to make some faint approxima-
ton to the other, in point ofextrava-
giant display, and the other to dc
monstrate the utter hopelessncss Of
the attempt. It would almost APP
pear as if whatever might be
thought ofthe propriety ofa modest
garb in other places, the proper
costume for the house Of God, where
theoretically, we all go to be remind
ed Of our common origin and des-
tiny, were an agglnmoration of ell
the jewelry, and all the chignons,
end all the feathers and fiirbelows
in ones wardrobe. The wearer is
to carry all thispiled agony to the
sanctuary as to fair-as ifher er.
rand were not SO much to praise
as to be appraised-and there en-
ploy the sacred time in envious
comparison of her own mountain of
millinery with the Himalayan tri-
umphs other neighbor.
SLEEPING IN CnuRcH,-Rcv,
Mr.. Spurgeon, the celebrated Bap-