The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1875-08-14
RELIGIOUS rTEMs.


The New York Independent gives al
Incomplete list Of 129 d. Ds. and 73 LII
Us. conferred by y colleges.
Bishop Ames, OF Georgia, declines the
membership of the Sioux Commission
church duties claiming all his time.
The number of clergy in the new p. K
Diocese of Southern Ohio is SO; number
Of parishes, "A; number OF communi.
cants, I'LL.
4 One hundred and sixty ministers were
Ipresent at the National Camp-meeting
a held at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and the al
tendance of the people was very large.
Moody and Sankey have been invited
by the Round Lake Camp-meeting As
lsociations TO hold a ten days ting
on their camp ground in September
| next.
Rev. DR.. John Cumming, the ceiebra-
tied Mflienarian preacher, in London,
has announced that ne Intends to de-
liver some lectures on MOODY and his
place in prophecy,
| The P. e. Diocese of Maryland repor ts
l57 clergy Of all orders, against 1853 Of the
previous conventional year; cpnfirma-
| tions, 1,172, against 1,5SS last year; total
contributions, $3Sl,622 W, against $685..
I76 "a. ial3 7 Hf's
In China the Catholic religion is max
/ ing rapid progress. Conlucianism 10
gaining. Prutestanism is spreading
very slowly. Buddhism Is at stand
stiil, and Mohalnmedanism is losing
Baltimore American. 1p Tf-e
The eyangelistIc labors OF Rev. VIM.
Taylor in India, during the last two
| or three years, have resul ct in the adj:
mission 'intO the Methodist Episco opal
Church oil 7OS persons as members and
623 as probationers. .aa
The Methodist Episcopal Church
South embraces 81 annual CoAferenc 9 !,
has eight BishOps, all efsctive but
Bishop Paine, and a membership OF about
700,00O. The increase OF t4e white m M
bersnip since 1866 has been about 300,-
F0O0. s7|a IT. .,l7. -
The last census of Canada shows
twenty-oae thousand Congregationalisis.
two hundreu aud thirsy-seven thousand
Bapusts, five hundred and fifty thousand
Presbyterians, and ,fitteen hundred
thousand Roman Catholics In the Do
minlOn.
The Cumberland Presbyterian Church
lis composed OF 10000 enrolled men,
bers, and represents the religion, sehti-
ments and work Of nearly quarter OF
d million OF people, located mainly IN the
west, northwest, soHth, ana south west
portions of'our country. 4
A conference OF the Old Catholics is
to be held at tresiau, Silesia, he gin ming
August 20. Bishop Kerfoot, OF the Prot
estant Episcopal Diocese OF Pittsburg,
nas been urgently eatfested TO attend
and participate in the proceedings, aud
to bring other Episcopal divines with
aim. tFtf
The English Primitive Methodists, at.
their late annual conference In Leices.
ter, reported The following statistics
Aembers, l69 ,392; preachers, 1895; iead-
ers, l0.ll2; chapels, ETC., ., 499; sunday
schools, 3.64f; teachers, $685.; scholars,
B,S59; aiso, ~ day-schools, IA teachers,
ana ., l22 scholars. 4 Isl ,.A vi
The Plymouth CONGREGATIONAL Church,
Chicago, lately dedIcated, seats 2,6y0l
people, being larger than ANY ProLestant
churcn in the West. IL Is arranged ~
the form OF an amphittieater, with no
galleries and pillars TO break the view
or the SOUND. 1t Is built OF Joliet mar
bic, at cost Of $4,000.
A Mr.. Carter, who iabors am ong Lon-
don thieves, burglars and pickpockets,
has gathered a church OF eighteen hun.
dred members from these outeasts OIL So
eiety. His wife insEucts sixteen hun
dred mothers, meeting four hundred at
time, VINO, Without her labors, Wodld re-
ceiye no Instruction at all.
A unanimous call was extended July
10, to Rev. Josiah Welcn to become pas
tor of the first Presbyterian Church in
Salt Lake City, Utah. Brother Weich
organized the church in November, 1871, 4
and by hfs earnest labors and Chris LiasI
zeal has won the love Of his church anu
the rpSnacL of tho n0m nuuitv
The Roman Catholics have, during the
past month, for tne first time, celebrated
mass in the state Prison at Charlie stow n.
Mass, as the last Legislature passed u
law pfoy.dlng That no prisoner should be
deaIed the liberty OF worship according
10 his own conscience. or The TIA pris-
oners in that institution $40 are Cath
olies.
Dr.. Wentworth suggests thai the two
millions OF MeLhodists in the United
states contribute ab average oil five cents
apIeoe--pne hundred thousand dollars in
Cne aggregate--to place u broAze or mar
Bile statue Of John Wesley, Asbury, or
some other denominatiouai noLability, in
tue art gallery OF Lhe Centennial Exhibi-
tion ~ Pailadelphia.
The Baptist Missionary Union has I39.
missionaries under Its direction, while
LIS work Ia Germany, SWeden, France
and Africa is carried on wholly by ma
tive agencies. Eigaty OF these mission.
aries are in Burmah, IL in Assam. 18
among the felOogoos, India, I8 aulong
tne Chinese, in Japan, in spain and ,
ia Greece. There are also 9T5 native
preachers and TAI cnurches, with S..
367 members.
A late number Of theNLondon Inquirer
speaks OF u brave UnitarIan lniiiI ster
VINO, in his dissatisfucbion with all the
nymn books, compOses his own hymns
anu gives Them out '.yerse by verse to j
the admiring congregation" VINO is
this bold relormer? fhere is a Unitarian
minister in the West who has his wife
TO read the hymns for him in public wor-
ship, as she is trained elocuIionist, but
the other man goes q step fartAef.-l
Christian Adyooate.
An incident showing the progress of \
things In the Sandwich Islands is pre-
sehted In private letter to us from an
old classmate and friend. Rev. Lowell
Smith. d. D., went to the islands more
than forty years age. There he has built
up q church, into which have been
-breuKht more than 3,0g0 conyerts. AS he |
is advancing in lite, native islander,