Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1873-08-14
Reli~ious and Educational.

A new university having been pro
nosed for Texas. and bids for the location
invited. the town Of Corsicana offers
100000.
III is seldom that q man In his seth
wear is received into the church with
baptism, as was the case with Charles II.
Hinckiey at Barnstable, Mass, recently.
-Rev. z. r. Hale hes made visit 10
the Uni.arians Of Hungary. The church
In Transatlantic is the Oldest Unitarian or
panization in the world 1t has college
whose professors speak English with per-
feet freedom.
The Chicago Interior, of Presbyterian
predictions, says, "We believe that some
Cniversalists will go to Heaven; and
some protesting Calvinlsts, unless they
improve on their present conduct, stand
very good chance Of going To hell"
1t is announced In the London papers
that the New Testament Company Of Re
visers of the Scriptures have got as far as
the fifteenth chapter Of Acts. AT the past
rate Of progress, they will have finished
the new English Bible in about eleven
years.
The Maine Missionary Society Of the
Congrcgationaists has raised and expcnd-
ed for missionary purposes within the
State, for the last nine years, an average
Of $4,000. Last year 1t bad 1873 mission
aries in the field, part Of them for only a
portion Of the time.
Rev. DR.. Farmer, Of the Southern
Presbyterian Church, and an earnest adj
vocate for union between the churches,
North and South, gives up all hope OF
seeing the thing accomplished. He
writes: "Nothing remains but separa-
ton until that day Of final vindication,
when the Omniscicnt Judge shall pass
judgment upon us both"
In West Tennessee there is sect Of
protesting Christians known ms Thomas
ties, whose distinguishing belief is the
humiliation Of the wicked after Christ
shall make his second advent to reign
over the earth a thousand years. This
second coming they believe will take
place in 1880 or 1881. They are an off
shoot from the Campbcllitcs, or Disciples.
The following is said TO be an APP
proximately correct classification of the
adhercnts Of The various churches among
EngIish-speaking people: Protestant
Episcopalians, IL, 100000; Presbyterians,
II 100000; Baptists, 10,500,0OO; Cnngren
gatlOnalists, 7,JOOU0O; MethOdists, lo,-
100000; Roman Catholics, 10000, 600
100000 Of Protcstants against 10000
600 Of Roman Catholics.
According TO an account given by
Professor William Mathews, Of Chicago,
Mr.. Surgeons labors have greatly i'm
paired his health "Tbe sword" says
Professor NJ, "has proved too sharp for
even the stout scabbard. Ten years ago
preaching was almost rs easy to him as
singing to bird TO clcctrify, convince,
and persuade audiences was labor of
love. Now every Sundays efforts cost
him forty.eight hours pain"
"A colony is settling at Ridgcway,
! North Carolina, near the southern part OF
Virginia, composed largely of Mcthodists
| from England. The entire tract contains
six thousand acres. II is the intention To
build one hundred houses To form town,
and also divide out one hundred and for
ty lots OF forty acres each. Rev. w
Reading, Wesleyan Minister, by consent
of Bath district, has consented to come
from England and act AS their pastor foi
| the first twelve months ut least.