The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-11-15
RELIGIOUS ITEMS.

The emerald rainbow round the throne.
RELIGIOUS ITEMS.
Missouri has /, 1855 Baptist churches
and 81 ,92o members.
1t has been proposed to have an
hour each week set apart for Christians
throughout the world to unite In
prayer. ,r,. -m
The Italian Government has seized
and appropriated for secular uses thir-
ty five converts and religious houses
In Rome. III, IL
Out of &c 900 London Jews, 1000
are members of Christian churches
and of 10, 900 in Berlin, 1900 are con-
verted. I-,- rti.8.' raaf r -
The Baptist Publication Society at
Memphis, Tenn, has secured $S6.e0O,'
and expects to raise 100000 by Janu-
airy. . ...l - ~ ,si.s.,I
'-Three-fifths of the population of
New Orlean are Roman Catholics; the
Episcopalians are next in numerical
strength. .5s4s
There is a movement on foot to
clergymen near New York. 100000
have been subscribed to the project.
Presbyterian ministers seem to be
a very long-lived race. Seventy four
of them have died during the past year
and the average age of sixty.three was
nearly sixty five.
Roman Catholics in this country
have church accommodationSfor ], $50,
SIS, and Evangelical Protestants 49,.
642, 1873, the difference being eight to
one. g5
More than 100 Sunday schools
have been organized since the war, in
the single State of Missouri, by mission
aries Of the American Sunday School
Union. .D'-'-''Nt . i'if i'-'
Extreme ritualism is losing pOpu-
larity as the novelty wears of, in Eng
land. The receipts at st. Adams last
year were only half as large as the year
previous. .~s,,-,.'-o.r
There were 80 Baptist churches
built in England during the year 1871,
which, with the enlargement of the old
churches, make an addition to- the sit
tings of 1852. The cost Of these was
S423, 200. 60 IL. w.. .,.....-..i,is.
The. Protestant population of
France is $40, 749, including S6,O41, in
scriDed electors. Of these, 81, COZ, but
little more than one third, voted for
the members of the Synod of the Re-
formed Church of France. ri.
Rev. George Hepworth will have a
$4,000 iron church up in New York
before Christmas An equally good
brick one would cost 500, 900, and
could not be built in less than eighteen
months time. ,.,...s 100. -
The Bible House just completed at
Constantinople cost $65, 900, is four
stories high, built of stone, and intend
ed to be fire proof. It's interior arrange
ments are admirable, and its exterior
handsome.
The number Of theological students
in the German Universities is said to
be falling off to sn alarming extent.
Ten years ago they numbered 2,562;
now only 1885. The decrease is espe-
cialIy on tie Protestant side.
The Right Rev. Charles T. Quin-
tard, Bishop of Tennessee, designs WISH
ting the ten Southern dioceses during
the coming year as solicitor of en-
dowments for the Episcopal Universe
ty of Sewanee, Tenn. His duties IN
the Tennessee diocese will be attended
to during his absence by other Bishops.
Japan is to have bran new relig-
ion, furnished by order of the MikadO.
There are between forty and fifty sects
in Japan now, and these are an ANAL
gamatiOn of Confucianism, Siutuism,
and Buddhism, OVERLAND with q few
other imported varieties. The new
cultus is to be simple, and calculated
to please the most fastidious.
Who says we are not reli gious peo-
pie? The sale of large quartO family
Bibles in the United States is enormous.
A single house in Phiiadeldhia turns
out an average of two thousand q
month, most in splendid bindings.
But, then, it is not the Bible with
splendid binding that is most general
ly used in tbs appointed way.
The British and Foreign Bible So
ciety has, since 1t was formed in 1904,
a period of sixty eight years, issued
81, 1884 ,095 copies of the Scriptures, or
portion thereof, thus averaging very
nearly million copies per year. The
issue for the last year was upward of
two and half millions Ofcopies.o The
expenditures of the Society for the last
year were G1S3, 175, or 1886, 567. 49,, 49,
The number of Church parishes in
Russia is Sc, 900. The aggregate of the
incomes of clergy amounts to about
So, 500, 600, of which the treasury con.
tributes 5000, 600; church property
yields $500, 900, and the rest rises from
contributions. The deacons in Russia
number II. 444, and they receive on an
average $3.50 each. Next to the dea-
cons comes SO 1921 CLERKS" and their
maintenance costs about $46 each.
In 1860 there were ISL converts. In
1850 the number Of monks was 9,47S,
and of nuns 1898.
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