The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-11-22
RELIGION.

One fourth of the wealth of the
Presbyterian Church is said to be
in the Synod of New York.
The First Congregational Par
ish of Danvers, Mass, celebrated
it's two hundrcdth anniversary on
the 9Th ult.
Twenty Roman Catholic Bish-
ops have gone forth from the
diocese OF Cincinnati, a number
greater than from any other do
ccse in the United States.
The Baptists of Virginia have
resolved to raise q memorial fund
OF 100000, and Rev. DR.. Burrows,
of Richmond, has been employed
as agent to solicit contributions
to the fund.
In q meeting If one weeks con-
tinuance, held by the Disciples of
Davis Bend, Mississippi, 451
freedmen were converted; and the
work is progressing with unabat-
ed interest. as -
There are but three ministers
in the city of Brooklyn who have
been pastors there for twenty-five
years; they are DR.. Storrs, Mr..
Beecher, and j. w. Sarles, and are
all congregationally governed.
At the late session of the Ohio
Methodist Conference, it WAS sta
ted at the missionary meeting,
that after the missionaries of this
church laborcd ten years in China
but one native Was converted to
Christianity.
| At Bryan, Texas, they were so
anxious to build a church that one
man gave hundred days labor
with his own hands, another sew
enty-five, and another, having but
one hand an one eye, assisted in
such service As he could render.
OF course, they succeeded.
The Year Book for 1872 makes
the number of Baptist ministers in
the United Stetes 1908, with q
larger number of churches. The
Examiner says that Of these there
are not fifty ministers, or fifty
churches, wishing to see the Bap,
fist denomination open commun
ion in theory or in practice.
The Rev. DR.. Vernon writes
that Father Gavazzi, in fixing the
number Of the Free Church of It
ally at ten thousand, is entirely toe
high. The four Protestant church
es-the Waldenses, the Free
Church, the Methodists, and the
Baptists-do not altogether mum
Der more than four thousand mem
bers.
The Synod Of the Presbyteriar
Church in Northern Iowa has
passed resolutions declaring thai
the action of the last Legislature
in abolishing the death penalty
was hastv and unwise, and recon-.
mending to all Christian people
that petitions be circulated look
| ing to the restoration of the law
as it formerly was.
i In the Episcopal dioce3es of thu
thirteen Southern States the gair
in ten years, ending with 1871
was from 80, 600 to Sc, 900; littl.
more than So per cent. The
greatest gain was in the State OF
Texas, from 100 to 1000 commu
nicants; nearly 800 per cent. ThG
only loss was in South Carolina
of 1924 out of 5,672 communi
cants; or nearly SO per cent.
The project Of an American
church in Rome, under the care o
Presbyterians and Congregation
alists, is likely to be realized. A
I recent conference at the TracI
House Of several influential min
listers and iayman of the two de
nominations resulted in the ap
pointment of a Committee, consfs
ting of Messrs. A. S. Barnes, r. P
Buck, A. S. Hatch, r. D. Benedict
W. A. Booth, W. E. Dodge
Rev. W. L Burlington. D. D., ant
Rev. r. S. Storrs, D. D.. for I'll,
purpose of procuring funds ant
r taking further measures towarC
the promotion of the enterprise
. AYonarcflist and Harry Bassett wer