The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1873-05-28
VOL. IX,---NO. 2O.I
Religious and Educational.

raelites.
Rev. W. E Smith, formerly of Brooklyn, is
TO start a newspaper at Yokohama, Japan.
Nearly $1,000 has been pledged to the San
Francisco Theological Seminary.
A Roman Catholic Cathedral is to be erected
10 Hartford, Connecticut, at a cost of 100000.
The number of churches in the city Of Boston
congregatiOuaIly governed is said to be eighty
three.
The Bapfist Fear Book shows that somewhat
over $4,000 baPtisms took place during the past
year.
The Jews have thirty synagogues in the city
Of New York. The first synagogue in that city
was erected in l7O6.
The Young Mems Christian Association of
Chicago proposes to supply all the railroad trains
from that city with Bibles.
The advocates Of the religious amendment to
the Constitution are not backed by any prom
inent religious paper in the United States.
The National Bqptist, of Philadelphia, favors
the taxation of churches, because all churches
would thus be free from all sectarian grants Of
any kind.
Twenty-Five theological students in the United
States are learning Spanish. to ft them for pro-
testant missionary enterprise among the Mexi-
cans.
The Lutheran population of the United States
and Canada is estimated at 100000, and in
Brazil and South America 100000.
In Troy, New York, with population of from
fifteen to sixteen thousand inhabitants, there are
ten Presbyterian Churches.
The late statistics of the Jesuits show that
the Order is not declining iu numbers. 1t is
claimed that the present number is S957.
There are in Rome $500 Evangelical Italians,
who regularly NEE: in twelve balls, and there are
seven schools in which their children are edu-
Gated.
The native Christian community in India, in
the year 1871, numbered 224.l6l, being an iu-
crease iu the last ten years at the rate Of sixty
one per cent.
The members of Christ's Church, St Louis,
have paid of, at a single effort, debt of sixty
thousand dollars, which has been annoying them
for long time.
The First Presbyterian Church, Oakland. Cal,
has issued call to the Rev. DR.. Eels of Cleave-
land Ohio, formerly pastor of the First Presby-
terian Church, San Francisco.
The Virginia Baptists are eudeavoriug to raise
100000 for the benefit of Richmond College,
and the enterprise is commended to Northern
friends.
The Congregationalists Of New York have 229
ministers, 2s4 churches, and 27I37 communi-
cants Their benevolent contributions for the
last year amounted to sl76,927.
The High Church party in England have raised
a fund of 100000 for the purchase of advowsous
and presenting them, as they fall vacant, to |
clergymen of their own school.
There are in Alsace and Lorraine s2s monastic |
houses and colleges, providing accommodations
for 5000 inmates, all under monashc VOWS and
discipline.
FOrty-seveu of the Episcopal Churches ln the
city of New York, during the year 1872, con-
tributed the ssm of SS452ls. Eight of these
churches gave of that amount S647.O73
One of the teachers in Mr. Surgeons Sun
dsy-school, has nine hundred women enrolled
in her class. The average attendance, every Sun
day afternoon, is fve-hundred.
There is Bible nearly one hundred years old
q 10 CnIo J
It is two feet square, and is the gift of an old
gentleman who wished it to be placed where it
would do the most good"
Iceland, with $4,000 inhabitants, has 300
priests Of the Lutheran Church. The govern
nent pays their salaries, from $50 to $500 per
Tear. One priest built his church at his own ex-
Dense, because be could receive no salary while
bis people were destitute of house.
Oakland. Cal, has two Congregational church
IS, two Presbyterian, three Episcopal, one Inde-
pendent Presbyterian, two Baptists, one Method
st, and one Roman Catholic, besides few mis-
non efforts, of which two are Congregational,
one Presbyterian, and one Disciple.
The Protestant Episcopal Church in the
United States has seven missionary Bishops and
rs other missionaries distributed throughout
he South and West. Twenty years ago the
,Ommunicants Of this church numbered 10000,
low the number is 100000. indicating a very
healthy growth.
The Catholic population of the United King
lom of Great Britain is estimated at 100000,
Who are supplied by $500 priests. The Catholic
Peers in Great Britain and Ireland number
hirty-three, including Duke, Marquis, seven
3arls, four Viscounts. and twenty BarOns.
twenty -four of these are members Of the House
f Lords. There are also forty Catholic
arOnets, aud thirty-six Catholics in the House
# Commons.