The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-09-24
THE RELIGIOUS WORLD.

1t is estimated the Protestants of
the United States contribute for re-
ligious purposes So, 900, 600 yearly.
The Texas Baptist State Conven-
ton will begin its twenty-seventh annu-
al session in Galveston, Saturday De-
tOber 3.
The Methodist church at Sandy
Ridge, Lowndes county, Ala, hls
had recent accession Of forty-cight
persons.
The different branches Of the Lu-
theran church in this country contain
2,100 ministers, $3.50 congregations
and 495, 600 commitments.
The Catholic Church in Japan has
two bishops, about thirty priests, and
1900 converts, among whom their
work Is "silent but surely successful
The Baptist Church at Brownsville,
Edmondson county, Ky, has had for
tv-sixreccnt accessionS, and tie Bap-
fist church at Smithfeld, Ky, twenty
two.
The great Papal Mission Society,
whose headquarters are at Lyons,
France, reports twenty-thrce Mis>iona-
~ bishops, 40 missionaries, 800 ma
tive priests, and G00,000 adherents.
Rev. Wesly Prettyman, ofthe North
ern Methodist church and postmaster
at Marietta, Georgia, has heen arrest
ed at Atlanta charged with embezzle-
ment and other violations Of the post
Office law.
The Catholic Benevolent Society,
at Fortress Monroe, numbering forty
three members has issued an address
to the Catholic soldiers Of the United
States army, urging them to organize
similar societies.
One of the newly-professed NUNS at
Noue Dame, Indiana, was Agnes Ew-
ing, Of Lancaster, Ohio, grand-daugh-
ter of the iIlustrious Thomas Ewing,
well known IN American history as
Secretary Of the Treasury, Secretary
Of the Interior, and Senator in Con
gress.
DIR Lovick Pierce, the Oldest clergy
man of the NJ. +. Church, South, has
been in very feeble health since last
May. In a recent note to the Nash
vile Advocate, he says cheeiily, 'well
it seems as If viii get fully up again.
Glory be to God for my added inch Of
working-lite.
The building up Of camp-meeting
seaside resorts has become such sue
cess that they are called summer CT
ties. NIartha's Vineyard Island con-
tains 1850 cottages; Ocean Grove,
near Long Branch, $40; and at Sea
Cliff S200,000 have been expended in
various Improvements. While relig-
ious services are provided for, outdoor
amusements and home comforts are
enjoyed, and pecuniary profits and
spcculaions are not overlooked.
Prominent Baptist laymen seem to
be leaving law and politics for the
pulpit. Judge Rodger Green, of
Washington Territory, he's been or
dained to the ministry and taken
charge Of the church at Olympia.
Hon. J. X. Connally, of Richmond,
Va, is about to resign his senatorship
to commence theological study at
Grcenville, :. c. Charles T. Daniel, Il
prominent lawyer of St. Louis, be-
comes pastor Of church at Webster
Grove, No.
The violent opposition of the Chi
nese Of Canton to Christianity has
nearly escaped It Is said; and many of
them have become earnest supporters,
as Jealous in good work as the Mis-
sionarics themselves. \ system of
free schools is being inaugUrated
which takes large numbers Of scholars
from mission schools. On this account
the London Missionary Society has
been compelled to relinquish the
school they had at Fatschan. The
children preferred the schools Of rieir
own neighboihood, taught by men Of
distinction. Hospitals, too, are erected,
at which medicines are dispensed gra-
It's, and the sick receive medical adj
vice without charge. The poor find
support IF N a fund for the purpose,
and widows and orphans e hone.
Preachers are being sent ouC in ilnita-
ton Of the evangelical missionaries,
who are to preach both through the
city and country adjacent To these
enterprises pubic men are contrib
uting their thousands.