Omaha daily bee., 1874-04-27
RELIGIONS.

A colored compromising will be
held at Iowa City in jane.
There are 1000 Episeopal clergy
men in the United Stafes.
The value of church Hpperty not
taxed in this country IL upwards Of
500, OOO, 200.
In 1873, forty msfnbers were
added to the societ8 of Jesus
Desuits,) making the &tal number
of members of the sociefy 9,1O2.
Rev. DIR. Edison has been rector
of st. Anne's Parish, Lowell, Mass,
for fifty years. This has been his
work: Baptisms, 3,592; confirma-
tons, LII; MARRIAGES, l,oss; fun
erals, 1890.
Miss Turner who has just been in
duced into the pastorate of the Mel
bourne Unitarian Church, celebrated
her installation BY reading for the
second lesson that chapter of Cor
inthians in which Women are Or
dered to keep silence "a the churches.
Bishop McQuade, Of Rochester,
Bishop McNierney, Of albany, and
other American bishope who Off
ciated at the consecration of Bishop
Crinnon, at Stratford, on Saturday,
are guests of Archbishop Lynch,
of Toronto, Ont.
DIR. Schaff writes: "Congrega-
tionalism is the ruling sect e the
six Northern States, and has TX
tended and still exercises Q benelc-
ial influence upon the religious, 10
cial and political life of the whole
country,
The annual report of the Iowa
Baptist anniversaries give the who'll
number of churches of that denom-
ination in that State at $40, with an
aggregate membership of 1902.
There are 173 pastors, including
20 missionaries.
The following Roman Catholic
prelates are designated for appoint
ment as Cardinals: Archbishops
Manning, Lechamps, Antici, Mat
tell, DeMerode, Vitelleschi, Nina,
Simeoni and Bartolucci. Monsignor
De Merode is the great rival of Car
dinal Antonelli, and was a vigorous
promoter of the Mexican expedition
of Napoleon III.
DIR. Angus, in his paper read be-
fore the Evangelical Alliance on
the "Duty of the Churches in Re-
lation to Missions,n took the ground
that the present generation of
Christians ought to give the gospel
to the entire world. He affirmed
that with SO, 200 missionaries, and
with $4,000, 900 a year for their
support, the work could be done in
ten years.
Rev. j. w. Lambreth, of the
China Mission, NJ. E. Church, Is
appealing to the Church, through
the press, in behalf of the China
Mission, He has been twenty years
in the field, and is stationed at
Shanghai. He asks for three men
and their wives to reinforce the
work of evangelizing, and funds for
the support of the laborers and for
building churches.
Senator Hayes of the Massachu-
sets Legislature has introduced in
to that body a bill providing for the
preservation of the Old South
Church in Boston. 1t proposes that
the members of the Society who
wish to remove from the old Church
be allowed to do SO, taking their
share Of the p~roperty's value with
them, leaving those opposed to re-
moval to remain with the church.
The best recommendation for the
plan is that 1t preserves the old
building,
Aletter from Japan in the Cologne
Gazette says that the religious ques-
ton, which Is an increasing topic Of
among the Japanese, has
again been brought before the pub.
lie by a memorandum issued by two
officials of the religious department.
The memorandum begins by point
ing out that Japan has made
such immense progress that
her civilization and COM
merce are equal to those of Europe,
but that in religious matters she
still hesitates between Buddhism
and Christianity. 1t therefore pro-
poses that public disputstions should
De organized between Buddhist and
Shinte priests on one side, and
Christian preachers on the other.
Each of these disputations would
axe place on a specified subject, to
Ne agreed upon before hand by the /
,Ontending parties. The speeches
would be taken down by shorthand
writer's, and published in several
languages, an interval Of ten
would elapse between one dis
'utation and the next. By these
means, the memorandum continues,
he world would &c able to decide
Which religion is the true one, and
make its choice accordingly. The
expenses of the proposed disuptations
you'd be covered by the sale Of the
reports.