The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-07-10
.RELIGI0Us.

! 1t is reported there are 900 Baptist
| Churches In Kentucky who have no Sum
| day-schOols.
Rev. Mr.. Mathers, of Gaspe, has been
appointed to the vacancy in the Episco-
palian pulpit OF Bathurst. N. b.
Rev. r. ID. Wyekoff, having been
obliged to return from India on account
OF his own and his wiie's i'll health, is
now at Freehold, N. j.
The Seventh-Day Baptists propose
forming church settlement, in order to
gather into one colony their scattered
members in this country.
\ The Baptists of Great Britain report
clear increase Of 10,5S2 members during
the past year, the largest gain they have
had In any one year since 1864.
The membership of the church of the
scandal, in Jersey City, has dwindled
away from 130 to forty regular members
since Mr.. Glendenning resumed the pull
pit.
| A wonderful revival has been in prog
ress at Madison, Ind, for nearly two
weeks past, under the direction of the
4 Y. al. G. A. About TOO conversions haye
taken place.
i The next meeting of the Evangelical
| Alliance will be held in Belfast in Ooto-
ber next. A number OF distinguished
visitors from America andpthe Continent
are expected.
i Protestants have built church at
/ Smithfeld, London, to commemorate the
martyrs burned there, and the Catholics
intend to build one at the Power to COM
memorate Others.
The colored Baptists of Georgia intend
to found Normal and Theological
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the centennial plan OF vi subscriptions
from their own people in order to procure
the desired amount.
i. Rev. DIR. M. d. Hoge, Moderator of the
VI Assembly Rev. Dr.. Letevre, of Baltimore,
and DR.. stuart Robinson, of Louisville,
have been appointed delegates from the
Southern Church to the Council Of the
presbyterian Confederation, to be held
} in London, July Il.
The Rev. DR.. Chambers, of Philadel-
phia, after running an Independent eccle-
| siastical existence for several years and
ministering to one OF the largest congre-
cations in that city, has returned to the
: Presbyterian fold, where he has been
cordially received.
The Republic of Costa Rica grants re-
llgious liberty TO all sects and religions.
! 1t has population OF nearly 1000, 900
Inhabitants, but only one Protestant
minister in all the land. An appeal has
. been made to the Methodists OF the Uni
ted States to send missionaries thitner.
The present statistics of the Reformed
, Church in the United States are: Gen.
!. eral Synod, /; district synods, g; classes,
"A; ministers, 637; candidates for the
ministry, 107; congregations, 800; mem
bers, 144,35l; Sunday-school scholars,
73,274; contributions to general and local
beneyolence in three years, $497, ,2l7 26.
The Baptists of Virginia have set apart
SIC, 900 of the proposed Centennial fund
for the endowment OF memorial scholar
ships for the benefit of the sons of Bap-
list ministers in the State. In the other
Southern States the Baptists have taken
great interest in the Centennial educa-
tional fund.
A new Theological College Is to be es.
tablished in London in connection with
The "English Order OF st. Augustine."-
The college is of high Rtualist type,
and its objects are to promote the ordi
nation OF young men having a calling for
the priesthood, and to supply body of
lay preachers for mission work in Lou
don and elsewhere.
There are 16o converts and monas-
| teries inhabited by 2l,000 monks and
nuns in Belgium. The income of the re-
ligious orders in that Kingdom is one
hundred millions Of dollars. Germany
is poor, and German fnanciers would
like to get hold of the money, on the
ground that Belgiana are true Germans
4 and dishonesty usurped such a pile Of
money.
Bishop Cummins has letter from a
clergyman in the Island of TODago, Brit
ish West Indies, giving the following in
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ward parishes Of this island, viz: st.
David's and st. Patrick's congregations,
of about 1900 attendants and 500 COM
municantS, to express our united desire
to join the Reformed Episcopal Church.
placing oul selves under your Episcopal
charge." A cordial reply has been sent.
AT the annual meeting of the New Jef-
sey Baptist Association, held last week,
the following report was made: The
twenty-seven churches report tnirty-one
Il houses Of worship, with an aggregate
seating capacity of 11,7O2, and the total
value OF church property $3l6,300, on
which there is a total indebtedness Of
1878 AZ. Seven churches report no
debt. There has been paid $1l 1882 30 on
debts. Three churches report no houses
seat the whole membership and leave g.
423 seats for strangers. The total mem
bership is 5,27o. Baptisms, 439 during
the past year.
\ DR.. e. r. Fairchild is settled in New
Providence He is a man of large
wealth. His riches have not given him
the bronchitis, nor compelled him to
travel abroad. He took declining
church in New Jersey; saved it from ex-
tinction; healed its alterations, and
made it strong and able to sustain pas.
. tor. He then moved to New Providence,
took a dilapldated and declining church,
and after several years OF devoted labor,
sees fruit in the union and prosperity OF
, the body, and its ability to call and sup
port a pastor. DR.. Fairfield now leaves
this field for another, where he may per-
form the same WORK which has distin-
gu shed him Tor many years.
The changes of most Importance in the
Liturgy Of the Irish (disestablished) P
E. Church may be thus stated: l. The
daily use of the morning and evening
prayer is no longer required. 2. Contir-
nation is no longer made a condition of
communion. 3. Communion is no longer
recommended on occasions of matri-
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