The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1872-08-29
RELIGIOUS ITEMS.

churches, valued at $S8, 800, 900.
A SECOND Spurgeon has been dis
covered in the person of Rev. Alex
ander McLarren, of Manchester,
England.
THE Cathedral at Chester, in Eng
land, was founded in the year 200;
and was used as place Of safety
against the Danes in 500
NOVEMBER 20 is to be celebrated us
the three hundredth anniversary Of
the formation of tho first Presbytery
i'll England.
THE Baptists of Baltimore have
subscribed Sl5,OO0lto build u Bap-
tist church for the negroes in the
southern part of that city.
TnuRE are within the boundaries Of
the Southern Baptist Convention
455 associations, ,16S churches,
G,403 ministers, and S93,O37 mem-
bers.
THERE never was as great an in
tcrcst taken in the Sunday schools us
that now displayed in Pennsylvania.
1t is IL sign of great improvement and
high social progress.
A SPANISH church is to be erected
at San Francisco.
THERE are 81 900 ministers i'll this
country, with M average salary OF
500 per aunum. Somebody advises
IL strike for higher wages.
THERE arc several ministers of the
Protestant Episcopal Church in New
York who hold confessional service
and have mass every morning.
ITALY, where but few years ago
no son of Abraham was safe from
perRecution; now admits Jews as
teachers to the highest institutions
Of learning,
TIE Protestant Espiscopal Church
in the United States reports an nc
tual accession to its communion
last year Of 2l,124. Total number
of members, 22l 995.
The hymn "Nearer, Ny God to
Thee" which has touched more
hearts than any other modern com
position, was written by Miss Sarah
Fuller Fowler, of Lon Ion, who died
as Mrs Sarah Il. Adams in 1910.
The number of Trustees of Metho
dist churches. 0i,0S0; of stewards Of
societies, 5000; of class leadors
1856; of Sunday school Superin'
tondonts, 1855; Of Sunday schoo
teachers, and officers other than Su
perintendcnts, 176,42G.
The Central Presbyterian Church
of San Francisco will commence tho
construction of new church mex
week, capable of seating 1000 per
sous and to cost $4,000. They have
also engaged the services of PHILIP
Phlllipa, the Singing Pilgrim" at
salary Of 5000 per year.
One OF the resolutions passed. b.
the Methodist General Conference
was to the effect that they would re
sist all means which may be employ
ed to exclude from our common
schools tho Bible, (which is TIM
charter of our liberties and the i'll
spration of our civilization"
THE LATE Marinus Lord, of Hart
ford, left an estate valued at $50, ,OOO
Upon the death of his wife, he pro
vides in his will that the whole shal
be divided between the American
Tract Society, the Sunday-Schoo
Union, the American Bible Society
and tho Home Missionary Society.
The New York Examiner has a
article which, i'll view OF the fac
that "while people find it perfect
safe and prudent to go about thel
ordinary busidess in all sorts c
weather, rain or shine, rainy Sun
day will keep them as closely shu
up at home" inquiries, "Wby is
that u Sunday rain storm is so muc
more dreadful 10 encounter than
secular one ?"
THERE IS sufficient quantity {
fermentod and distilled liqnor use
in tho United States in one year t
fill canal four feet deep, fourtee
feet wide, and one hundred an
twenty miles in length. If the VII
tins of tho rum traffic were there a
SO, we should see suicide at ever
mile, and thousand funerals da.
II the drunkards of America cou'
be placed in grand procession, h'
abreast, what an army Of victims!