Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-01-14
RELIGIOUS ITEMS

The Baptist denomination is TO day, nu-
merically, seventeen times as strong i'm
proportion to the population as it was one
hundred years ago
The Presbyterian ministerial meeting of
Chicago and its suburbs have been discuss
ing the question. "Are we a Christian Ma
tion?' The end of the discussion has not
been reached.
The Iowa Lutherans NOW number 100
ministers, one hundred and eighty congre-
cations, and more than 10000 communi
cants. All their Institutions are exceed
! ingly prosperous.
| A missionary in India says that he re-
CARDS the conversion of one woman rs
| equal to the conversion of twenty men, so
far as their influence in the propagation of
| Christianity is concerned,
| The Episcopal Convention of New Jer-
sey, owing to the prolonged illness of Bish.
Op Odenheimer, passed resolution re-
! questing him TO take entire rest from his
| Episcopal labors until he feels fully re-
stored. ... .u... ......
During the year 1872 the mission bpord
o.. the United Presbyterian Chhtrh of
SCI tland has donated to missions IN
France, Switzerland, Bohemia, Belgium
and Cans da an aggregate of 1900.
One thousS nd churches have been oida5
by the Methodist Episcopal Board of
Church Extension since June, 1861, in
sums ranging from $50 TO $4,000. The
Board and Church have good grounds to
he proud of the work.
y number Of American EVangelists have
been holding a series of meetings in the
city of Dublin, among the Wesleyans,
Quakers and presbyterians, for the nro
motion of holiness. They met with a cor
dial welcome, and their labors are regarded
as eminently successful.
The Ritualists in London are making
great efforts in the way of raising funds
In some districts school boys and young
women are employed to canvass the inhab-
ltants for subscriptions, and they are most
persistent in their applications.
1t is stated in the public prints that the
Old Catholics have now one hundred pa
rochial charges in Germany, with sixty
thousand enrolled members. Another
priest has Joined the new movement. who
was formerly religious teacher in West
phalian Government school.
The Church Almanac of 1874, gives the
following summary Of the Episcopal
Church in the United States, Dioceses. IL
missionary jurisdictions, 8 (; Bishops. So:
other clergy, 3,042; ordinations of deacons,
l47; priests, ll3; candidates for orders $40
consecrated, SO F.; baptisms, 80, ,944;
23,5l5 communicates, 26O,-
According to the recent census the in
habitants of C-ylOn number $500, 900. and I
are distributed, according to their religi-
Gus belief, as follows Buddhist, l,520575:
Sivite, +65, 4l4; Roman Catholic. l82'6i3:
l7l.542 Protestant, "a '756
COL; Presbyterian, SOL;
Baptists, l,47s, There are 5,345 buddhist
priests, 1,07S Sivte priests, 449 Moham-
medan priests, and S62 devil dancers, while
the Protestant clergy and missionaries
number 2l5, and the Catholic priests 81.
The Presbyterian and Congregational
journals of the country are having little
fraternal talk over the matter of church
consultations. The general sentiment is
that the numerous instances where there
are feeble churches of these two denomi-
nations In place they should be united,
and thus become self-supporting, whereas
now they are only saved from utter ex-
tinction by aid from the bounty of the
Home Missionary Society.
The rector of an Episcopal Church in the
region Of Cleveland, Ohio, invited preach
ers OF the Presbyterian, Methodist and
Baptist persuasion 10 mite with him in n
late Thanksgiving service. Pages of Scrip-
ture We're read by the Methodist drawer
was offered ty the Baptist, the sermon
preached by the Presbyterian, and the
hymns 1tyeu nl, hy the Episoopalian.