The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1874-09-24
Religious and Educational.

There is not in all the State of Texas
single Cniversalist church editice or
church organization.
More than one-fourth of all the peo-
pie of Upper Canada, at the last census.
reported themselves as Methodists. More
than half of all the church buildings are
Methodist.
Among the graduates of the Normal
School at Salem, Mass, this year, was
one young lady, graduating at the head
OF the class, who has run sewing ma
chine and earned money to pay her OK
penses during the two years.
The local papers of Little Rock,
Ark, are calling for missionaries or re-
ligious teachers. They state that out of
1862 school children only 1860 attend
Sabbath-school; that 1914 convicts in the
penitentiary have no religious teaching
whatever, and that 1870 persons in the
poor-housc are equally destitute.
The Protestant Episcopal Church
Congress, to be held in New York in o.
tooer, promises to be an important re-
ligious gathering. The congress is the
result OF meeting of New England
clergymen held in N lew Haven some
months ago: The sessions will be held
in Cooper Institute. The meeting will
be devoted to frank and courteous dis
cusslon OF different views, without the
authority to settle or determine any
thing
Reports from the mission of the
American Board of Commissioners for
Foreign Missions in Turkey show that
remarkable progress has been made in
the conversion of Mussulmans to Chris
tianity. They hear the missionaries
gladly, and in some places are eager to
have them establish regular missions.
In the Eastern Turkey mission 4,7s7
children are under instruction, there are
7,4Sl communicates, and 5,S4S persons
attended worship. During the year three
new churches were built, making a total
of thirty-two.
During the fifteen years of Bishop
Whipple's episcopatc in Minnesota,
fifty-thrcc churches have been built in
the diocese and twelve churches rebuilt
and enlarged; sixteen rectorics have also
been built. Thirty-five clergymcn have
been added to the diocese. The bap-
tisms number $500 infants and 1880
adults; combinations, 4,116. The total
of church offerings in the diocese has
been 1861 1857 During the year pre-
vious the Bishop had consecrated five
churches and one hospital and confirmed
54S persons.
The Christian Brothers, or, more
formally, the Brothers of the Christian
Schools, have their establishments now
in every department of France, in En-
gland, Austria, Prussia, Belgium, Italy,
Switzerland, the Levant, Egypt, Algeria,
Cochin China, the United States, Can
ada, South America, and various other
parts of the world. Their numbers
throughout the world at the close of the
year 1871 were 9,717 brothers, living in
1,13O establishments, teaching 1905
schools, or &, OS5 classes, containing total
of $40, 1888 pupils of all grades and ages,
of whom 30S,973 were children. They
are strongest in France, where their num-
Der of brothers is 1904; establishments,
61S; schools, 1,727; children, 247,331 ;
total pupils, FOG, 946; of these the city of
Paris has 754.
The annual address of the Protestant
Episcopal Bishop of Texas to the Dioce-
san Convention states the following
facts: During the conventional year the
Bishop baptized eighteen white adults
and seventy-seven white children, total
of ninety-tive; and confirmed 900 white
persons and two colored persons, a total
of 292. One church building had been
consecrated, eighty visitations had been
made, ia addresses delivered and 40
sermons preached. Five lay leaders
had been licensed, making twenty-one
now at work. The diocesan clergy now
numbered thirty-thrce (twenty.sevcn
presbyters and six dcacons), and the gen
cral progress of the church continues to
be steady and decided. The number of
parishes is now about forty, though some
have only nominal existence, and there
are now more than thirty missionary
stations.