The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1875-07-29
RELIGIOUS ITEMS.

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RELIGIOUS ITEMS.
The total amount of receipts for the
past year reported by the various re-
Iigious societies of Great Britain, at the
late anniversaries, was considerably over
$S50,000,000.
IHE missionary treasury of the Re
formed (Dutch) Church is empty. Very
few of the churches have paid in any
contributions during the past two months.
The Board of Managers make an appeal
for help.
TWELVE years ago, in London, there
were but 81, 700 sittings in the Methodist
Churches. There are now 81, 900. And
within that period forty-four large
churches, capable of seating one thou
sand persons each, have been built.
The American Bible Society's receipts
during the month of June were S35, lii; :;
their issue of volumes, 6S,017. At their
late meeting they made grants of books
valued at 81 800, besides $500 in money,
to the Presbyterian mission in Mexico.
Mr.. JOHN MCCALLEY, wealthy citi-
zen of Lancaster county, Penn, by will,
dated in August, 1870, made the follow
ing bequests: To the Presby yterian Board
of Foreign Missions, $4,000; Home Mis-
sions, 1000; church at Pequa, Penn,
$4,000; library of said church, $4,000
in all, the munifcent sum of $50, 1000.
The Diocese of Breslau, which has
heretofore been partly in Prussia and
partly in Austria, has been divided by
the Pope so as to bring it wholly within
Austrian territory. This arrangement
will, it is expected, prevent all compIi-
cations between the two countries grow
ing out of the movements of Bishop
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The Rev. Thomas Hooker Eddy, NJ.
d., and Mrs. Eddy, late of Pittsfeld, Il
linois, and the Rev. William Allen Fair,
late of the diocese of New York, mission
aries of the Board of the Protestant
Episcopal Church, sailed for Africa from
New York on Thursday, July l. DR..
and Mrs. Eddy expect to land at Monro-
via, and MIR. Fair at Cape Palmas.
REV. d. J. PIERCE, at Portland, Ore
gon, baptized ten Chinese converts, stu
dents in the Sunday-school. One of
the baptized was severely whipped in the
evening by Chinese relatives; two or
three Others have been disowned and
abused, and threats are circulated against
Others for daring to become Christians,
but it is said they stand firm.
DIR. H. A. SAwTELLE has withdrawn
from the position on the Board of Man
ayers of the Missionary Union (Baptist),
to which he was elected in Philadel phia.
He breads being made an occasion of
conflict. Several associations have de-
clared by resolutions that neither he nor
DR.. jeffrey, of Brooklyn, who was
elected at the same time, are regular
Baptists.
ONE hundred and fifteen female mis-
sionaries have gone to foreign lands from
Mount Holyoke Seminary, Massachu-
sets, eighteen of them from the last two
graduating classes. Applications are on
file for twenty more, Cape Colony,
Africa, asking for eight to serve as teach
ers. Several of the graduates have al
ready gone to Cape Colony, where they
have had great success in Christian
work.
WE find it stated that there are six
teen places for teaching Protestant prin-
ciples in the cities of Buenos Ayres and
Montevideo, and that in twelve of these
the English language and in four of them
the Spanish language is used. The
efforts of the Methodist Episcopal Church
OF the United States are devoted to the
evangelizing of the natives, and more
than fifty thousand copies of the Bible in
Spanish have-been circulated in South
America in late years.
The Bishops of the Methodist Episco-
pal Church, South, having decided that
the sale Of intoxicating liquors in large
or small quantities. to be used as bev-
erage, constitutes violation of the
Methodist law, the Augusta District
Conference calls upon the members of the
Methodist Church TO separate themselves
from this traffic, and requests the pastors
of the different churches to judiciously
yet firmly" enforce the ruling of the
Bishops.
AMONG the Maories of New Zealand
the missionary work, which the wars of
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sumed much of its old-time vigor, al
though It can never be what it once was,
owing to the fact that the race is so rap
Idly dying out. According to the census
of 1874 the remnant is only forty-six
thousand, but among these there is
steady revival of the work. One of the
tribes of the Hanraki has recently aban-
doned its heathenish worship and built
Christian church. There are at the
present time ten Maori clergymen in New
Zealand.
AT the Conference of the New Con-
nection Methodists of England, recently
held at Dudley, an effort was made to
displace attendance on class meeting as
condition of membership The circuits
had voted on the proposition during the
year-thirty-two, representing 1920
members, approving the change, and
twenty-slx circuits, representing 1920
members, voting against it. On motion,
the class meeting was retained in its
present position as one of the institutions
of the body.
DIR. HURsT's "Outline of the Church !"
gives the following populations to the
creeds of the world: Christianity, 407,-
100000; Buddhism, 34O,OO0,OO0; No
hammedanism, 100000, 900; Brahmin-
ism, 175, 100000; Confucianism, sc, ,000,-
600; Judaism, 100000; all other forms
of religious belief, 174,O0O,00O. OF the
Christian populations of the world, 131,
COZ ,449 are assigned to Professionalism,
200, ,339, $50 to Roman Catholicism, and
1880, $40 to the Oriental churches In
the New World, comprising North and
South America, the Roman Catholics
are in the majority, having 50,931 ,9S3
of population, to 1885, 800 of Protest.
ants.
THE eighty-third annual report of the
English Baptist Missionary Society re-
ports revivals in various parts of the
mission field, and the accession by bap
tism of 8, ,546, nearly twice the number Of
the preceding year. The chief mission
of the society is in Bengal, the Other
fields being the northwest provinces Of
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Province in China, Camaruns River in
f Africa, Jamaica, Bahamas, Hayti, Trim
idad, Brittany, Norway and Rome. The
income of the society for 1S74-5 was moi
, quite up to the expenditures, the amount
: being $201, IFS. Still the collections fol