The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-08-01


ored) Conference show the total member
ship TO be 0,472, while the aggregate of
Sunday-school scholars Is 2,l67, or only
about one-fourth Of their membership.
The Rev. William Speer, ID. D., Sec
rotary OF the Presbyterian Board Of Edu-
cation, with the cordial approval of the
Board, has gone 10 Europe for a few
months Of rest and recreation.
-Thirty-six years ago the Baptists
numbered 10000 members in Kentucky.
They now have fifty associations, 1000
churches. ZOO ministers, and 10000 white
and 10000 colored members.
Massachusetts, has now 507 Congrega-
tional churches and 81 .4G2 members there
in. Last year 2,7l9 Of these were added
on profession Of faith. These figures
show a gain of four churches and 900
members during the year.
Only ten Of the congregational
churches In Kansas are self-supporting.
Twenty-Five churches have been organ
lied the past year., averaging twelve men,
bers each and sixteen Of these have been
supplied with ministers.
REV. DIR. Thomas Pearson. Indian
preacher and interpreter at the Klamath
agency, writes To the Pacific Christian i'd
c0cate concerning a revival at that place
which has closed up nearly all the gam
bling and liquor saloons and crowded the
church at every service.
The Rev. Joseph Parker, ID. d., of
London, the author of - Ecce Deus" is
coming TO this country mex month for a
short visit. DIR. Parker is a man of note
among English Congregationalists, and
he will have a warm welcome from his
brethren in America.
Rev. 4. o. Forney, pastor of he Re
formed Church of the Ascension, Norris
town, Pa, has suddenly gone over to the
Roman Catholic Church. He Is the third
pastor of this church who has successive
ly taken the same step.
The average salary of 81 600 Protest
ant clergymen In the United States has
been put down by one who has been gath
ering the facts at 500 per annum. and
while some receive an average of not
over $500, about one-third do not receive
$500.
The Episcopalians, in Chicago, are
organizing the Chicago Church Guild, OF
which the Bishop is president and the
rectors of the several churches vice-presi-
dents. Among other things the Society
will aim TO establish a thorough system
Of missionary visitation.
The 18th, 18th and l4th OF August
next, have been Sc. apart by the Holy
Father as special days of intercession
through the whole Church for her deliv-
erance from her present Affections. The
Litany of the Saints is the prayer en-
joined, and a plenary indulgence Is
granted to those who saw it on all three
days. and who. after making confession,
go TO Communion on the Feast of the As
sumption, August 10. TO those who say
the Litany with this intention on only
one of these days ar indulgence of seven
years is granted.
An original letter from Francis As
bury. first Bishop ofthe Methodist Episco-
pal church. written to DIR. Martin Ruther,
of New Orleans, has been found among
the papers of the latter by his daughter,
and is published in the Methodist Protest
ant. 1t is dated at Baltimore, March IL,
1910, and speaks encouragingly of the in
crease of membership 1000 in the three
Conferences of New Hampshire, Maine
and Vermont the year previous. Him
self and Bishop Mckendree were then
ploughing the field together. though As.
bury was sixtv-five years old and Nc
kendree fifty-three.
DIR. w. Henry Warren, writing to
1 tbt ~ huCOCutc VI ANtW u ttn-
corning the moral condition of Rome,
Italy, says there are 365 churches in that
city, one for every day in the year except
leap year, and they have lavished on
them the best efforts of the best endowed
natures. They have the grandest and
hottest associations, are magnificent in
themselves, are the highest result OF
mans architectural ability, a single one
of them costing twice as much as all the
Methodist churches in the United States,
and the most of them decorated with the
best designs Of artists that God lowered
with wondrous ability. At there affairs
is almost perpetual service, where priests,
gorgeous In silk and gold, intone melliflu-
Gus prayers; where tidy boys swing cen
sers of perfumes, and where magnificent
voices chant anthems sacred for 1900
years.