The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1872-03-21
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.

A Catholic protectorate has been cs-
tablished in st. Louis.
Two German prelates are to be ele-
waited to the rank Of Princes of tho
Holy Roman Church.
The largest Protestant Sunday
school in Philadelphia contains about
eighteen hundred scholars, and tho
smallest ten.
There are eleven thousand persons
III full membership within the Method
ist Church in Germany and Switzer-
land.
During 1871, fourteen thousand
Bibles, ten thousand New Testaments,
and tifty-four thousand copies OF the
Gospels were distributed nSpain.
The Protestant Communion was cell
ebrated, probably for the first time in
Spain, in Vallodelid, on the 18th OF
November last.
One archbishop, fourteen bishops,
and one hundred and twenty-one
priests attended the funeral OF the late
lamented Archbishop Spalding.
Rev. DR.. Chickering's tract, "What
is it to believe in Christi" (No. 357,
American Tract Society published by
other societies in this and other coun-
tries, is now on it's Miln million, in
nine Languages.
The Baptists in Great Britain num-
Der 253, 1895. The increase during the
past year was 9,720. The membership
IN London is 81, ,976. Thirty-nine new
churches were formed during the
year.
"He died wickcdy rich' was the
appropriate comment passed upon n
certain professor of religion who died
worth 81 900, 900, and left not II cent of
1t to religious or charitable purposes.
One of the best temperance sermons
ever delivered is this sentcnce-"If it
is small sacrifice for you to give up
drinking wine, do it for the sake Of
others; if it is n great sacrifice, do it
for your own sake
The congregation of Henry Ward
Beecher's church during the past year
contributed more than two hundred
ann fifty thousand dollars for chari-
table and religion, purposes at home
and abroad.
The Presbyterian churches of Chi
cago have received only thirty thou
sand dollars of theninety- Ave thousand
dollars for which they asked their Sis
ter churches, as the smallest possible
sum with which to supply their needs
and repair their losses.
Thos. Kclso, ESQ.,, of Baltimore,
Nd, recently subscribed ten Thousand
dollars to the loan fund of the Church
Extension Society. This fund now
fully reaches two hundred thousand
dollars in subscriptions, with about
eighty thousand paid in. 1t is rapidly
increasing.
The latest definition of Catholicism
has been suggested by tho "submis-
sion" of the Able Graty and other &C.
clesiastics who at first stoutly resisted
the Papal dogma, namely, 1T is none
of believers business what he be-
lieves."
The Dean of Carlyle says that "all
suggestions for imparting new life to
pulpit exercises will be rendered nu-
ratory if precision Of utterance, clear
ness Of voice and enunciation, suita-
BILE impressiveness and earnestness OF
manner be neglected or dcspised."
Lyman Beechcr, to explain his mar
velous success in Boston pastorate,
said-"It is not that do tit is my
church; preach as hard as I can on
the Sabbath, and then Ihave four hun
dred members who go out and preach
every day in the week.
The Arabic language is the spoken
tongue of sixty millions, and the sacred
language of one hundred and twenty
millions Of Moslems. The entire BIZ
BILE has been translated into it, and is
now issued in many editions, either
complete or in part. An edition Of the
Gospel in raised Arabic letters is also
issued for the blind.