The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1873-10-09

Sct 6CCSSS w Iuem, Sney n8O Deen put on
their guard by male confederates. None
of them, therefore, would admit their i'm
moral purpose in immigrating; some said
they came to see their mothers, some to
hunt up sister, some to take in sewing,
etc. Eight of them consented to 90 to
the Methodist Chinese mission. They are
also expert smugglers, and these were
completely swathed in silks. Upon the
fourteen women were found eighty -four
gowns and thirty-seven pairs of silk
Religious and Educational.
The Mormons are building $1,000
church at Beloit.
The Bible has been abolished from
the public schools in Poughkeepsie, New
York.
The English Book Society has sold
more than a million copies of "Pilgrim's
Progress" in penny edition.
- The seating capacity of the new Uni
versity Hall, Ann Arbor, Mich, is 5000,
and by adding temporary seats, 1900 per-
sons can be accommodated.
The Pope has given to the Indiana
Notre Dame University marble statue
representing the Virgin Mary sitting in
meditation by her spinning wheel.
The Southern Presbyterian Synod of
Kentucky comprises S,O31 communicates,
135 churches, 80 ministers, and Presby-
teries. The largest church in the SYNOD
is at Louisville, numbering 3S4 members
- The whole number of applicants for
admission to Brown University this year
was 80, of whom II succeeded, all for the
freshman class. Among the number are
two natives of Burmah, and two colored
students.
"A Baptist chapel in the city of Paris
has just been completed, capable of seat
ing 600 people, at cost of $4,000. Mr..
Spurgeon and Rev. DR.. Neale, of Boston,
were expected to participate in the dedi-
cation services.
The Established Church in Scotland
is anxious to unite the whole Presbyterian
element in the city of Rome in one strong
church, to be under the supervision of the
Presbyterian churches of Scotland and
the United States.
The colored Baptists of Florida num-
Der over $4,000 members, gathered in
about fifty churches. They discard
shouting and wonderful dreams and Wis
ions from their religious exercises and ex-
periences.
There were never so many missiona.
ries going to foreign fields as at present.
The Rev. W. Taylor, the great missionary
evangelist, writing from Bombay, says
that If he had fifty sent to him he could
give them all selfsupporting charges.
Among the innovations at Richmond,
Va, are free nightschools. This, without
doubt, is one OF the results of the war and
slave emancipation, and is promise of
the time when the bitterness of the South
against Yankee institutions will be for.
gotten.
One hundred and forty adult Indians
were baptized recently at the St. Paul's
Episcopal Mission, British Columbia
Most Of these Indians had been for four
or five years under the catechetical in
struction of Rev. Mr.. Good, their mis-
sionary.
The church known as the United
Brethren in Christ will celebrate, in
1874, the hundredth year of its exist.
ence. In 1774, its founder, Rev. Will
liam Otterbein, organized the first con-
gregation in the city of Baltimore. He
W. as warm personal friend of Francis
Asbury.
There were in the Libraries, public
and private, of the United States, 4,5OO,.
600 books in 1850; 1900, 900 in 1860, and
45,OOO,OOO in 1874 wonderfully rapid
increase. There are LOO free municipal
libraries, and-signifcant fact-more than
half of them are in New England, and
more than third in Massachusetts alone.
The following figures show the
nfh IF In - =
English speaking countries: Protestant
II, 5OO,O 900; Baptists, 1O,5O0, 900; Congre-
GOO, 600; Roman Catholics, 10000, 900.
The Protestants are 81, OOO,O 900 against the
1O,OO0, 600 Roman Catholics.
Bishop Potter announces that gener-
erous subscriptions to the fund for the
erection of great Protestant Episcopal
Church in the city of New York continue
scribed 100000. The sum of 81 900
will be needed to meet the cost Of ground
and superstructure. The sittings in the
cathedral, when completed, are to be
free.
-Sabbatarianism is not quite extinct in
Connecticut yet, although it is now law
full in that State for a man to kiss his
wife on Sunday. It is not lawful, how
ever, for him upon that day to hunt or to
fish, and at East Haven, recently, sixty
nine men and children, belonging mostly
in New Haven, were committed to jail
for taking such an irreligious liberty.
The ungodly stormed about the lookup,
and threatened rescue of the sixty-nine
martyrs.
Miscellaneous,
-Scientific Journals sav TINT milk de.