The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-01-02
REuIGIoUs.

The Lord has many fine farms from
which he receives but little rent.
Last week a Christian Convention was
held in Fond du Lac. Wis.,, to organize ~
branch of the Evangelical Alliance. !
The Second Presbyterian Church OF
this city occupy the new edifice for the
first time January 3D.; q New Years Of
There are now sixteen Episcopal cler-
gymen eanonically resident in oregon,
twenty-five churches and chapels, and
744 Sunday school scholars.
The Evangelical Ministerial Associa-
tion of Pittsburg has about 120 ministers
in it's membership. All evangelical de-
nominations are represented.
In the extensive empire Of Brazil, with
a population of Ten millions, there are
only thirteen Protestant ministers
preaching in the native language. Il
The new editice OF the Rutgers Presby-
terian church, Madison avenue, corner
of Twenty-ninth street, New York, Of
which Rev. N. w. Conkling Is pastor, is
now completed and will be dedicated on
the first Sabbath of the new year, Janu-
ary 3.
With the last number of the Herald
and Presbyter, the senior editor, Rev. j.
6. Monfort, completes twenty years of
editorial labor on the organ of Presby-
terianism in this city. He will continue
in the work.
The Churehman has a way Of its own.
When clergymen of the Episcopal Church
join the Reformed Episcopal, it au-
nounces that they have renounced the
ministry, This, OF course, is in Accord
ance with High Church views.
Resolution which springs from Chris
tian principle, and is fortified by it, is
fearless as well as unremitting. 1t is
conservative of good purposes, and the
pledge of their being executed effective
| ly in noble sentiments and worthy deeds.
The soul of the resolute is not less calm
than firm.
According to the latest statistics PIE
Methodist Episcopal Church has, 10, 702
itinerant ministers, 1908 loesl preach
ers and 1,52O,9T6 members End probation
ers. Their churches lumber Ia, ,T76 and
parsonages A, 7o2. 0f the aggregate value
Of $S2,So9, l2a Zen OF the Northwest Con-
ferences number of ministers 1859, men,
bers459, 1856, and probationers 1885.
Grace Church, New York, is undoubt-
edly the wealthiest parish in America,
Judging from its annual contributions
for religious and charitable purposes.
On Easter Sunday last cash and pledges
for $50, 900 were put upon the plate, and
during the last five years nearly if not
quite half a million have been given fol
parochial and other benevolent pur
poses.
|. St. Paups American Episcopal Church
which is being erected on the Via Ma.
ziOnale, in Rome, is pronounced to be, &C
lar as yet completed, the most elegant
and tastefully built editice in the city.
The greatest care has been taken in the
T choice of materials and in the details oi
the work. The .baptistery, near the main
entrance, will be supplied with a hand
some font, the gilt and the work of Miss
Hosmer, zg
4 The latest published statistics of the
Reformed Church in the United States
show that the denomination has synods
Al classes, 619 ministers. and 96 students
for the ministry, 1888 congregations and
140,172 members. or this number 3,S51
were received by certificate from other
bodies, 2S0 were eAcommunicated, 1,65(
were dismissed and 4,444 died. They
have 1,120 Sunday-schools and 70, 72S
scholars, and their benevolent contribu-
tions Tor the year just closed amounted
to $9O,914.
The Baptist pastors of New York and
i vicinity are discussing the questions OF
infant dedication and special centen-
| NAL effort to remove their church debts.
! There is a widespread demand for some
religious introduction of infants into the
Church, and many Baptist pastors meet
the demand by form of dedication, with
out the use OF water, which, of course,
believing as they do in "belieYers' bap-
1 tism" only, they must discard.
| The laying on of hands by the sister,
hood, and presumably SO imparting the
holy spirit, is growing practice in Bap-
tlst churches in this country. The swo-
men leave their 'peWs before the CON-
mencement of the sermon, 60 into the
| pulpit, ana place their hands for mo-
ment on the head OF the preacher. Where
the ceremony originated nobody seems
to know. 1t was recently practiced in
the Warren avenue Church, Boston, OF
which Rev. G. F. .Pentecost is pastor.
| Two other Boston clergyinen Of the same
Pentecost, and were told by him to mind
/ their own business.
/ The Methodist Episcopal Church South
has sent to the several annual confer.
ences disciplinary clause prohibiting
it's members from manufacturing or
using alcoholic spirits except as q
medicine. .Twcnty-one conferences have
been heard from, and the result is 626 in
favor of the measure and 901 against it
Some of the ministers vote against the
prohibition not because they favor in
upCIduCC3 UuU UCCUuoC JuCy ucGM ~ dl
interference with their independence anC
an insult to their Christian manhood
Implying that they are so given to the
use of intoxicants that they must be re.
strained therefrom by law.
/ 100 years ago there were but 7 minis
ters and II churches of the Presbyterian
family in the land, viz: in Virginia,
in Maryland, s in Pennsylvania and il
the ssJerseys.". In ITO these seven min
! listers, as a Presbytery, supplicated thu
ministers of London to grant them
Iyoung man, with EGO pounds for his sup
port, to itinerate among the destitut,
and scattered people Of God throughou
these ssnew settlements In five gener
ations since then the Presbyterian de
nomination, in its different branches, ha
grown to have about $500 ministers
10, ,450 churches, 1,000000 members, con
trihuting during the last year $13, ,454, 90
for benevolent purposes.
The Irish World deplores the loss IL
membership of the Roman Catholi
Church in this country. 1t says tina
there were 1,200, 900 persons Of that sait
in the United States in 1886, and tha
now there are about 10000, 900, while tn
number of those who sought to be Catho
: lies by right of descent from settlers il
this country from the beginning, an
| who TODAY are to be fOund in the rank