The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-11-12
Religions Items


SUNDAY contributions in the churches
have fallen of in amount since the issue
OF ten-cent currency resembling i'm ap.
pearance the fifty-cent bills.
THE net gain of the thirty-four Ran.
fist Churches of Boston, the past wear,
was three hundred and seventeen. max.
ing the present total Baptist membership
of the city 10,022.
The statistics of the recent Methodist
Conferences in the Northwest show a
considerable increase in membership,
but decrease in the amount of contribt.
tions to missions and Church work gen.
orally.
In New Jersey, where Universalism
originated a hundred years ago, it is
hardly known, dozen congregations.
some of them very feeble, com prising all.
Asan organization, it is weaker today in
pennsylvania than it was twenty-five
years ago.
In Canada the Roman Catholics are
in the majority, and they have a vast
amount of money invested i'm church
property. The PrOtestants of that Do
minion are by no means averse to taxing
churches, and the fact named is Thought
to have its influence i'm forming their
opinion.
THE sale of tent and cottage lots of the
Cincinnati Methodist Camp-meeting
grounds was entirely successful. Though
not more than One-fOurth of them were
disposed of, they sold for more than
enough to pay .or the entire tract of
about fifty acres. result beyond the ex-
pectation OF the most sanguine.
AT the late Baptist Convention in
Providence, Rhode Island, the Baptist
Church at jamestown applied for letters
OF dismission from that body, on account
OF its exercising open communion with
other Christians, which is contrary to the
principles generally of Baptists in this
country.
The Congregational churches in the
United States number 1925; members,
323,679. In other portions of North
America they number LOG churches, SO
ministers, and 6,451 members-making
a grand total on the American continent
of 3,43l churches, 1897 ministers, and
800, 100 members.
The Board of Bishops of the Methodist
Episcopal Church have decided that the
licensing of woman to preach in that
Church is without disciplinary au-
thority, and consequently void. The
friends of Mrs. Van Colt intend appeal
ing to the General Conference of 1876,
and the ruling of the Bishops may be
Overrulcd.
The Presbytery of West Virginia,
which embraces the whole of the Presby-
terrain Churches in the State, except those
in the Panhandle, which belongs to the
Northern Assembly, was organized ten
years ago with only three or four minis
tiers actually in connection with that
body. 1t now has nineteen ministers on
its roll, and is, on account of the extent
of its territory, beginning to talk of a
division into two Presbyteries.
AN agent of the American Bible So
ciety in Chicago found Protestant min
lster, pastor of one of the Protestant
foreign churches in that city, destitute
Of the Bible. He told the agent that
since the fire, in which everything had
been consumed, he had been compelled
TO borrow his married daughters Bible
Tor family use. Almost every family in
his congregation has been rendered desti-
ute as well as himself by the fire, and to
he present he had been unable to pur-
,hase even Bible.