Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1872-07-06
RELIGIOUS ITEMS.

one missionary IN japan.
Rev. Dr. Huston, Of Baltimore,
has been acquitted by the Confer
oncc, Of tho charges preferred
against him.
The estimated value Of tho prop
crty Of the Established Church Of
England is moro than SS2O,O0O.
The Pilot says that in the city Of
Boston alone there are nearly sixty
priests and ovor one hundred thou
sand Catholics.
Eighteen ministers of the Baptist
Church have declared during the
present year in favor of opon COM
muniOn.
Bishop Pierce, of Georgia. is in
his sixty-socond year, and yet his
father is able to preach two long SER
mons every Sabbath.
The total membership Of the Or
thodox Quaker5 at present in the
United States is 81, ,505, being an in
crease Of rs in twenty years,
Hartford has furnished eleven
Bishops to the Episcopal Church
from clcrgymcn 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 colored men for mis-
sionary work among their kindred
in Africa.
The American Bible Society has
made grant of Bibles and Testa-
mcnts to the Southern Methodist
Church to aid in its work among the
Indians.
The Pottawatomics, the Kansas,
the Osagcs, the Kontenares, tho
Menomonccs, the Papagoes OF Ari-
zona, and the Pucblcz tribes Of In
dians are said to be members of the
Catholic Church.
The Greek Church has rules tor
architecture as well as ritual. Its
church cdifccs must always be built
in the form of cross or ship, and
extend from east to west, with the
altar situated at the eastern cXtrcm-
ity.
Tillotson very justly says that
shame is a great restraint upon SIN
ncrs at first; but that soon falls of,
and when they have once lost their
innocence, their modcsty is not like
ly to be long troublesome to them.
The Presbyterians have two mis-
sionaries, three teachers, and one
Chinese assistant, and three Chinese
colportcurS at work among the Chi
ncsc in California. The services are
we'll attended and orderly.
The number of trustees Of MethO-
diss churches, 94O8O; of stewards of
societies, S0,64O; of class leaders,
H. $50; of Sunday-school Superin-
tendcnts, 1855; of Sunday-schooI
teachers and officers other than Su-
pcrintcndents, 176,424.
The past year has been peculiarly
marked by magnificent gifts. The
amount is computed at SS,495,99O,
| Of which two were 100000, and
over twcnty-thrce were $780, 600 and
over, eleven were $4,000 and over,
twenty were $4,000 and over, and
thirty-three were 81, 900 and over.
The Womons Foreign Missionary
Society of the Presbyterian Church
reports eleven missionary women
and eight Bible women in India,
seven missionary women in China,
several Bible women at Droomiah,
Persia, three missionary women and
nine native teachers in Syria, and
missionary women in other places.
Nearly all the Manchester (Eng,)
Dissenting ministers, orthodox and
hctcrodox, lately met at sotree, at
which DR.. McKerrow, an influential
! United Presbyterian pastor, made a
speech, urging that their denomina-
tons, including Unitarians, should
act in concert in Sunday-school
matters, and once a year hold a COM
munion service in common.
Three hundred acres of land on
Shelter Island, opposite Grecnport,
Long Island, have been negotiated
for by the leading Now York Meth
odists, to be devoted to camp-meot-
ing purposes, and for the erection OF
cheap summer residences for minis-
ters ofthc denomination who wish
to spend portions of the summer at
the sca-shorc. 1t is expected ac-
commodations will be prepared for
10000 people by August or Septcm-
) Der next.