The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-09-27
RELIGIOUS ITEMS.


1t is estimated the Professionals Of the United
States contribute for religious purposes, $72.-
OOO, 900 yearly.
Professor David Swing, it is said by the cor
respondent of the Philadelphia Presbyterian,
will be called to Robert Laird Golfers church
i'll Chicago.
The following is the summary of the official
statistics of the Protestant Episcopal Church
in the United States, in 1874: Bishops, SO:
priests and deacons, 3O55; communicates,
246,O 5l.
The Rev. d. d. Gregory, prominent cler-
gyman OF New York State, and formerly pastor
of the Tabernacle Church, Cincinnati. died at
his home in Binghamton, N. ", Wednesday.
Sept. Is.
The Owchmaa, of Hartford, claims for the
Bishops of the Protestant Episcopal Church
full power of deposing the inferior ministers of
that Church, while such ministers have no
chance OF appeal against such deposition, even
if Illegal, uncanonical, irregular and unjust
At a secret meeting of the Jersey City Pres
byterian Church, of which MIR. Glendenning,
the alleged seducer of the late Mary z. Ponce
roy, is PASTOR a dissolution of the church or
ganization was resolved upon. They deem
this measure as the shortest one to get rid of
| a very bad bargain.
| Father Hyacin.h is IN fix. He has given
up the intallibility Of the Pope, and now sur
seems to be nothing left to him but the love
of Loyson and the unblessed cradle of his
boy. But other people manage to worry
through with the intalliblities
The man is still living, the Rev. John VIM
ter, D. D., of Pittsburg, Pa, who remembers
hearing his mother in England exclaim with
joyful heart, 'There's convert there's
convert y This was Krishna Pal, the first
convert to Christianity in India. Since then,
A1,a V~,.l, Al L..
American Baptist Missionary Union alone,
more than 1O0 600 have protested Christ.
The Pilot says: "The two hundredth ami
versary of the formation of the Archdiocese of
Quebec will be celebrated on the 1st of Octo-
Der. Thirty Weight bishops will be present.
BY decree of the Vatican the Cathedral has
been created into basilica and the Pope
has signifed his intention of giving q mosaic
picture representation of the Holy Virgin.
The occasion will be one of rare and sugges-
tive interest to the Catholics of America"
The committee appointed by the last Profess
tant Episcopal Convention to report plan for
the division of the church into provinces,
similar to the English and Roman Catholic
Church, have prepared circular proposing
division into seven provinces, meetings to be !
held triennially, and the National Council Of
all the provinces decennially. This change a.
proposed on account of the rapid increase o.
the dioceses making the House of Bishops
too large and the House of Delegates un-
wieldy.
Harput, in Turkey, is the center of seventy
four Protestant mission stations. The number
of native helpers is 40. One new church was
organized during the year at Geght; 1873 were
added on profession of fai h. making the num-
Der OF COMMITMENTS HOG. The churches
contributed $6S68, which was considerably
more than the American Board gave to the
mission. A strong desire for higher education
manifests itself among the Americans The
Theological Seminary has fourteen students,
the Female Seminary thirty-three, the Normal
School fifty-one.
The Presbyterian church in Ireland, accord
ing to the minutes of the last meeting of the
General Assembly, consists OF five synods,
thirty-six presbyteries. 49, 427 families 1O9, 305
communicates, G6,238 stipend-payers, 621
ministers, 60 licentiates, and 556 congrega-
tion- The ministers salaries amount to san,
800: money raised for missions, SG6, 400;
raised for church purposes, SAC, 900 miscal-
laneous, S34, 3l5; total amount raised, $3.50,
Ireland there is, beside, presbytery in India.
two missionaries in China, and five to the Z
Jews occupied in Europe and Syria.
A pamphlet recently published by the
United Presbyterian Church states he fol-
lowing on the salaries paid to some foreign
missionaries In India the American Board I
pay $1,000, the Presbyterian $1,000 to $1,000,
the Reformed Dutch) S1100, the Methodists
$1,000. In China the American Board pay
5000, and Southern China $500 the Presby-
terrain $1,000, except in Canton, $500 the
Methodist $3.50 the Baptist $500 and house ;
the Episcopal $1,000 In Bulgaria and West 4
ern Asia the American Board pay, according
to size Of family, from $3.50 to $3.50 Presby-
terrain Board from $500 to $500, and no
house the Methodist $3.50.
The Bishop OF Mayence has explained the
reason why the Catf ole Church in Germany
could not take part in the celebration of the
anniversary of Sedan. The festival, he says,
is not promoted by the entire people, but bya
party which falsely represents itself as the
representative of the German nation, and is
taking the lead in the struggle against Chris
tianity and Catholicism. German Catholics,
moreover, have been held responsible for the
attempt of disreputable individual Prayer
for the German people is, however, always a
duty, and the Bishop directed his clergy on
the anniversary itself or the following Sun
day to pray for the restoration Of that internal
unity without which external unity is only an
empty show.
The Rev Theodore L. Cnyler, while 10
London, went to bear Mr.. Sturgeon, and
writes as follows of the great preacher: He
inst plants that broad, fat figure of his before D
the crowded thousands and opens his homely
mouth. and ceast less strain OF racy English.
pure gospel truth, and henchant appeal to
the conscience pours out as steadily as water
from Croton reservoir. His notes would
not cover more than the back of an ordinary
envelope. He Lever precomposes one sent
ence. Bnt he has the whole Bible on the end
of his tongue, and uses it it'll rare discretion
and point His versati)it is wonder
full He superintendS q church of five thou
sand members, thu illogical school, an Or
phanage and several other institutions. edits .
newspaper, breaches three sermons week,
writes books of Biblical commentary, pub
fishes his own almanac, and has made the
Book of Fifty Hymns.
A CHANGE OF MIND.-The Baltimore Gazette
says Eliza Godfrey, formerly living near
Leavenworth, Kansas, is among the curiosl-
ties of womanhood. She is an interesting
and not unattractive damsel Of sweet sixteen;