The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1874-01-29
Religious and Educational.

The Baptists in Maine are decreasing
in churches and membership.
-Berks County, Pa, has 100 churches
II of which are located in Reading.
Steps are being taken to organize
Reformed Episcopal Church in St. Louis
The church property in the United
States is estimated to be worth $3.50, 900,
600.
The Old Catholics have now 1O(
parochial charges in Germany, and &C, 6O(
enrolled members.
DIR. Lyman Beecher said of his pulpit
efforts, that he always roared when h
had nothing to say. d.
The Superintendent of Public In
struction in Virginia reports the financia
condition Of the school system highly
satisfactory.
The Universalists in this country have
nine hundred and fifty churches, five col
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 mum
Der in the State TO- O4.
There are twenty-five candidates fol
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 8
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. q correct
statement. of the religious statistics io1
Prussia: There are Is, 614, 800 Evangel
lists, 1893 Iutherans, Il, 792 Baptists
IL, 792 Mennonites, AGA Moravians, 8 32A
Irvingites, 1920 Old Catholics, odd sects
14,61i, Roman Catholics $3.50, $40, Jews
nc. 600, and about 1900, 900 Greeks. r.
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 a return to primitive order,
and fully. Justified by the needs of modern
society and the condition Of the churches.
The Lutheran Observer reports, az the
effect of concessions granted BY the Gar
Of Russia year or two ago, to the Luz
therans in his empire, that 80, 900 persons
in that country rpjoined 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. I'll
The Intsrior asks if it was ever
known Of . congregation who went
heavily in debt for new church who did
not soon thereafter snub and ship their
pastor. A church deb, the editor thinks
makes people cross, flf-natured aud
critical, and the pastor is usually the tar
get at which they discharge their arrows
OF discomfort ssfTJi5 .tsg.T
"A minister in a Massachusetts town
near the New Hampshire line, whose
salary is somewhat In arrears, is reported
to have astonished his congregation on q
recent Sunday by saying to them from the
pulpit; Edo not, my dear hearers, dslude
yourselves with the idea that I am a
angel, for am far from having arrived al
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 - / am yet only of the earth
earthly, must have something to eat, and
In order to do that I must have some
money to pay the BILL" @ @