Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1874-01-29
Religious and Educational.

The Baptists in Maine are decreasing
in churches and membership.
-Berks County, Pa, has 1870 churches,
81 of which are located in Reading.
Steps are being taken to organize a
Reformed Episcopal Church in St. Louis
The church property in the United
States is estimated to be worth $3.50, 000,-
600.
The Old Catholics have now 100
parochial charges in Germany, and &C, 1000
enrolled members.
DIR. Lyman Beecher said of his pulpit
efforts, that he always roared when he
had nothing to say.
The Superintendent of Public In
struction in Virginia reports the financial
condition Of the school system highly
satisfactory.
The Universalists in this country have
leges, eight seminaries and two theologi-
cal schools.
The Baptist General Association of
Missouri reported 5000 baptisms at its
late session, which makes their total num-
Der in the State 79,404.
There are twenty five candidates for
the ministry in the St. Louis Lutheran
Seminary, dependent on the benevolence
of the churches. The actual needs of these
students call for money and provision in
increased measure.
The Illinois Conference comprises
about one-fourth of the State, and is di-
vided into eleven presiding elders dis
tricts, and 1872 pastoral charges with a
total membership of $1,000. The amount
to be raised by this Conference during
the year, for the various benevolent OBJ
jects, is about $4,000.
The following is said to be correct
statement of the religious statistics of
Prussia: There are 15,614890 Evangel-
lists, 1893 Lutherans, 1872 Baptists,
1872 Mennonites, Ii, 644 Moravians, 1924
Irvingites, 1920 Old Catholics, odd sects
1851, Roman Catholics 8,950,679, Jews
nc, 600, and about 100000 Greeks.
The Congregational Conference of
Connecticut, at late meeting, granted
permission to the churches desiring it to
set apart Christian women to the Office of
deaconesses. They regard such pro-
ceeding as return to primitive order,
and fully justified by the needs Of modern
society and the condition of the churches.
uC oil cOSOfOcI ICpoi 10, DO Vic
effect of concessions granted by the Gar
of Russia year or two ago, TO the Lu-
therans in his empire, that 30, 900 persons
in that country rejoined the Lutheran
Church in 1872. These concessions were
granted in response to the petition Of q
delegation from the Evangelical Alliance
of the United States.
The Interior asks If II was ever
known of q congregation who went
heavily in debt for new church who did
not soon thereafter snub and ship their
pastor. A church debt, the editor thinks,
makes people cross, ill-natured and
critical, and the pastor is usually the tar
get at which they discharge their arrows
of discomfort
"A minister in Massachusetts, town,
near the New Hampshire line, whose
salary is somewhat In arrears, Is reported
to have astonished his congregation on a
recent Sunday by saying to them from the
pulpit: "Do not my dear hearers, delude
yourselves with the idea that / am an
angel, for am far from having arrived at
that blissful state. If were an angel,
would fly away to heaven and get my
dinner, and come back and preach to you
again; but as am yet only of the earth,
earthly, must have something to eat and
in order to do that l must have some
money to pay the bill"