The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-07-05
RELIGIOUS ITEMS.

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one missionary in Japan.
Rev. DR.. Huston, of Baltimore,
has been acquitted by the Confer
enee, of the charges preferred
against him.
| The estimated value of tho prop
England is more than $4,000.
! The Pilot says that In the city of
| Boston alone there are nearly sixty
priests and over one hundred thou
sand Catholics.
Eighteen ministers of the Baptist
Church have declared during the
present year in favor of open COM
munion.
Bishop Pierce, of Georgia, is in
his sixty-second year, and yet his
father is able to preach two long SER
mons every Sabbath.
The total membership of the Or
thOdox Quakers. at present in the
United States is 81, sos, being an in
crease of Us in twenty years,
Hartford has furnished eleven
Bishops to the Episcopal Church
from clergymen who have been rec
tors Of Hartford churches, and Bos-
ton has furnished nine.
The American Missionary Society
has received offers of the services of
two hundred colorcd men for mis-
sionary work among their kindred
in Africa.
M, A,,r,,;,,,, DILL Cs1o;otx- -,
made a grant of Bibles and Testa-
monts to the Southern Methodist
Church to aid in its work among the
Indians.
The Pottawatomies, the Kansas,
the Osages, the Kontenares, the
Menomonees, the Papagoes of Ari-
zona, and the Pucblez tribes of In
dians are said to be members of the
Catholic Church.
The Greek Church has rules for
architecture as we'll as ritual. Its
church edifces must always be built
i'm tho form of 4 cross or ship, and
extend from east to west, with the
altar situated at the eastern cXtrem-
ity.
TillotsOn very justly says that
shame is a great restraint upon sin
ncrs at first; but that soon falls off,
and when they have once lost their
innocence, their modcsty is not like
ly to be long troublesome to thcm.
The Presbytcrians have two mis-
sionaries, three teachers, and one
Chinese assistant, and three Chinese
colporteurs at work among the Chi
nese In California. The services are
well attended and orderly.
The number of trustees of MethO-
diss churches, 94,080; of stewards Of
societies, 80,640; of class leaders,
Il, $50; of Sunday-schooI Superin-
tendents, 1855; of Sunday-school
teachers and officers other than SU-
perintendents, 176, ,424.
The past year has been peculiarly
by magnificent gifts. The
amount is computed ut S8,495, 800,
of which two were S1,000,000, and
over twenty-three were 500, 900 and
over, eleven were S25, 900 and over,
twenty were $4,000 and over, and
thirty-three were 81, 900 and over.
The Womcn's Foreign Missionary
Society of the Presbyterian Church
reports eleven missionary women
and eight Bible women i, in India,
seven missionary women in China,
several Bible women at DrOomiah,
Persia, three missionary women and
nine native teachers in Syria, and
women in other places.
Nearly all the Manchester CEng.,)
ministers, orthodox and
heterodox, lately met at a soirce, at
which DIR. McKerrow, an influential
United Presbyterian pastor, made a
speech, urging that their denomina-
tions, including Unitarians, should
act in concert in Sunday-schOOl
and once year hold a COM
service in common.
Three hundred acres of land on
Island, opposite GrcenpOrt,
Long Island, have been negotiated
for by the leading New York Meth
odists, to be devoted to camp-meet-
ing purposes, and for the erection of
cheap summer residences for minis
ters of the denomination who wish
to spend portions of the summer at
the sea-shore. 1t is expected ac-
will be prepared for
10000 people by August or Septem-
Der next.