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THE RELIGIOUS WORLD.

English Methodism contributed
500, 900 per month last year for the
erection of chapels, school houses and
parsonages.
The Friend of India estimates that
Protestant Christians raise at least
IS, DOC, 900 annually for the evangeli-
cation of India.
The Atlanta Christian Index, one
of the best religious newspapers in the
South. has resumed its quarto form
and old size and reorganized its edi-
torial corps.
Rev. Charles F. Deems relinquishes
responsible editorial duties, his paper,
the Christian Age, having been con-
solidated with the Church Union.
Too many religious papers down East
for the demand.
St. Mary's Church, Birmingham,
which has just held its centennial, has
had but three Wears in a century.
How many churches III this country
can exhibit such a record? asks the
Christian at Work.
The Rev. Charles Sturgeon recently
baptized his twin sons, now in their
eighteenth wear. One of them has
entered a merchants Office in London,
while the other is pursuing his studies
as an artist. 1t is stated that their
father still hopes to see them in the
ministry.
Bishop Vail, of Kansas, (P. E,
has issued pastoral letter appointing
Friday, November -, as Il day Of
fasting, humiliation and prayer, III
view of the severe providential discip-
line through which the State has passed
during the last summer, through the
drouth and the plague of locusts.
According to the report Of the
Committee on Statistics to the Ten
nessee Conference, NJ. Z. Church,
South, there are in the bounds of that
Conference fl ,004 white members, 10
colored members, 342 local preachers
and nearly 200 travelling preachers.
This is an increase of 1859 white
members during the year.
The Y. NJ. G. AS third canvass of
Massachusetts, has resulted in five
hundred conversions. Seventy places
have been visited, two or three days
each, occupying 126 working days
consecutively, requiring 10, 600 miles
travel and 800 days gratuitous service.
Receipts of State Executive Committee
S2,027, with small balance in the
treasury.
Of the 1871 clergymen who received
the d. D. last year there were %
Presbyterians, % Methodists, Is Bap-
fists, 10 Southern Presbyterians, IL
Congregationalists, s Lutherans, 8
United Presbyterians, Beach Reformed
Dutch, Reformed German, Reformed
Southern Associate and Unitarian,
while the Universalists and the Re
formed Episcopal bring up the rear
with one each.
At the recent session of the Ten
nessee Conference of the NJ. L. Church,
South, a proposition to strike out Of
the general rules the following clause,
drunkenness, or drinking Spiritu0us
liquors, unless in case # necessity"
and substitute the following, Making,
buving, selling or using rs a beverage
intoxicating liquors" WIS rejected by
vote Of - yeas to 107 nays. The
Conference voted almost unanimously,
however, It's condemnation OF the
manufacture. sale or use Of spiritnous
liquors a. a beverage.
\ Boston letter to the Herald and
Prcsbyter says: The ordination of Nee
Sima, the japanese missionary, is a
marked event, and in his discourse on
the occasion Rev. Prof. J. II. Seclye
improved the occasion to signalize the
wonderful progress Of the gospel. In
1920 the first missionary Went 10 the
Sandwich Islands and III 1870 this
field no longer needed preachers from
abroad. In 1885 there were 200, coo
cannibals in the Fiji Islands; now half
the population arc church goerS. and
a good proportion members. Yet as
the field opens funds fail.
George William Curtis, editor of
Harpel's Weekly, has been engaged
to conduct the services in the Unitarian
church at New Brighton, Staten Island,
where he lives, during the autumn and
winter. On this the Liberal Christian
remarks that cit would he very
excellent idea if more laymen Of the
congregation would feel called to
lend a hand when the regular pulpit
supply, for one reason or another, Is
not forthcoming. There are always
good printed sermons to lie read, and
there seems TO be no reason why a
little society should not keep together.
even where it is impossible to support
a pastor, if the laymen are willing to
take little trouble and assume some
extra responsibility"