The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-03-01
RELIGIOUS ITRaS.

EAssn ChurcheS IN pennsylvania.
The gospel of Matthew is being
printed in the Shan language Bur
man.
A movement has been started in
Spain for a National Evangelical
Church. Nearly hundred priests
have taken part in it.
The Baptist churches of Rich
mond, Va, have membership Of
ten thousand-one, fifth Of the en-
tire population of the city.
The densest Presbyterian popula-
tion in the West is between the
same parallels of latitude as those
in which Western Pennsylvania is
found.
The Methodist papers are COM
planning that the Committee OF
Biblical Revisers, numbering tWen-
ty-one names, embraces but one
Methodist.
A correspondent of London pa
per states that an American mission
airy, sent to Calcutta to convert the
Hindoos, has become disciple of
Keshub Chunder Sen, and been for
mally received into the Hindoo-SO-
ma Church.
Four new Presbyterian churches
have been organized lately In the
northern part of Texas, near the
Red river and others, in different
portions of the State, might be or
ganized at once if ministers could
be had.
The total membership of Ply
mouth Church, Brooklyn, is put
down at 2116. The Sunday School
has 1898 scholars. The income for
last year from pew rents was $685.
TIA, and the collections for charita-
BILE purpose $4,000.
Austin College, the property of
the Synod of Texas, is greatly en-
barrsssed for want of funds to meet
n debt that must be paid soon.
The debt amounts to sic, 500, and
unless the friends of the Synod
come to it's aid, an endowment of
$4,000 viii be lost.
OF three hundred and twenty
buildings intended for public wor-
ship in New York, seventy are
Episcopalian, fifty-fve Presbyterian,
forty Methodist, twenty-five Roman
Catholic, twenty-nine Baptist, twen-
ty-six Jewish-other denominations
claiming each smaller number of
the remaining seventY-fve.
The minister's representing the
Baptists, Independents, Sweden
borgians, Unitarians, Presbyterians,
Free Methodists and Bible Christ
ians, had a social meeting in Man
chester, England. lately. at which a
proposal to hold a united cOmmu.
Mon once a year seemed to be gen
orally approved.
The Staunton (Va.) Spectator says:
"On Sunday morning, January q,
at the Presbyterian Church, in
response to a call for additional
funds to complete the new church
building, over $4,000 was subscribed
in less than five minutes, and with
out any interrup ption Of the services.
There are ten branches Of the
Presbyterian Church in the United
States-the Reunited General As
sembly, the Southern General As
sembly, the United Presbyterian
General Assembly, the Reformed
Synod (Covenantsrs, old side, the
Reformed Synod (Covenanters, new
side,) the Reformed Synod Dutch }
the Reformed General Synod Ger
man. the Associate Reformed Sy-
nod of the North, and the Associate
Synod.
The income of the British Scciety
for the Propagation of the Gospel
among the Jews is reported to be
about 98O00 q year. They have
twenty-five missionaries in France.
Germany, Italy, North Africa, the
Danubian Principalities, London,
Manchester, Birmingham and Bris-
tol. The result of missions to the
Jews have been that there are now
between 10000 and 10000 in. the
Protestant Christian faith in Eng
land and on the continent.
During the session of the Israelite
Order of Bnai Birth at st. Louis,
resolutions were offered byJ Wolff,
of Connecticut, and signed by every
member of the Convention, deprs-
eating in strong terms the introduc-
ton of theological matters into the
Constitution of the United States,
or interference in any manner with
the unlimited exercise of the right
of religious liberty in America
In our country there are over
10000 ministers-one to every GOO
people. Ia Japan and China there
is one to every 100000. Would il
be best to divert our half million OF
money and few seorces Of missiona-
ries from the foreign to the home
field? "The semi-infidel masses il
our nation" says one just setting
out for one of the fields referred to
"need to be convinced that Christ
ians are in earnest and believe whai
they preach. Missions and mission
work have just this effect. "
DR.. A. S. Gerhard, of Phiiadel
phia, has used chestnut leaves quit