The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-04-03
RELIGIOUS.

MIS-. van Coil, the Evangelist, having
completed her three weeks labors in
Chicago, has gone to Fond du Lac.
The fiftieth anniversary Of the Re-
caster, Pa, was celebrated last Sunday.
There are 5000 priests in Germany. or
these only two have consented to accept
the Falck laws in the administration OF
their parishes.
The Bishop Meade Memorial church
In Clarke county, Virginia, now needs
only $400 to complete it and have 1t dedi-
Gated free of debt. :.
The Province of Oregon, established
in 1S46, now has q Catholic population OF
10000, provided with seventeen churches
and eighteen priests.
The cornerstone was recently laid OF
st. Philips Church, Palestine, Texas.
st. Philips Church in Hearne, Texas,
was recently dedicated.
Although Archbishop McCloskey be-
came Cardinal, he will not take prece-
dence over the Archbishop Of Baltimore,
who is Primate OF America.
The new diocese Of Niagara, Canada,
has chosen for Its first Bishop the We ener-
able Archdeacon Fuller, who has been
forty-one years in the ministry.
Rev. Eben HALEY, ID. D., of Albany,
New York, will celebrate the tiftieth
anniversary of his ministry week after
next. Rev. e. HALEY, of this city is his
son.
The newly organized Presbyterian
Church at West Troy, N. Y, has pur.
chased eligible lots and are about to
build when the spring opens. They ex'
pect to finish their church edifice in the
fall.
There are eighty-two priests, eighty.
five churches, one hundred and SIXTY.
five chapels, and Catholic population
estimated at two hundred thousand in
the three dioceses of Texas.
Rev. ii. w. Spaulding, d. D., rector oi
st. Peters church, Pittsburg, has been
appointed to succeed Bishop Scarbo-
rough as dean of the Pittsbu deanery,
Episcopal diocese of Pittsburg.
DR.. William e. Tarbell, of Lynn, Mass.
who goes out as missionary physician tc
Kin Kiang, China, left San Francisco on
April / for his mission field. He gives
up a large medical practice, and goes
out both as minister and doctor.
Rev. Robert Nelson, Missionary tC
China, has been in ST. Louis during the
esting way to several of the congrega
tiuns, the work now doing in China by
the Protestant Episcopal Church.
The Northwestern Christian Advocate
tells of one preacher, with wife and
three children, in the grasshopper re.
gions, who has spent thirty years in the
ministry and who has received Tor his
work this conference year but So 25.
Rev. DR.. Begg, one OF the leaders OF the
Scotch Free Church, has been presented
with $25, 900 as testimonial OF his serv.
ices ..in connection with Professionalism,
religious education and national relig-
ion." He was DR.. Chalmers fayorite
companion.
Rev. &. Dardis, after taking a turn In
the ministerial ranks. OF the Methodist
Church and the Methodist Episcopal
Luurch, North, has now left the latter
and gone TO the African Methodist Epis-
copaI Church.
The moderate religious development OF
society in the southwest may be inferred
from the fact that Rev. W. +. Adams,
the newly appointed bishop of the dio-
cese of. New Mexico, recently preached
his opening sermon to an audience ol
only fifty listeners.
Among the pastors elect at the next
general conference of the Methodist
church are j. l.. Simpson, of Allegheny
and l.. Ii. Calhoun, OF Pittsburg. or the
laymen: j. j. Gillespie, j. II. Clancy,
LIZ
at Princeton, Illinois, in May.
Dean Stanley is TO be invited to de-
liver the inaugural address at the un.
yelling Of q statue of Baxter, the author
of the ''Saints Rest" at Kidderminister
The statue has been the result OF a sub
scription by Churchmen and Non-con
formists, and the Bishop of Worcester
has been liberal contributor.
The Archbishop Of Cologne, on behalf
Of the whole Roman Catholic Eplscopatt
OF Prussia, has sent petition to the
Lower House OF the Prussian Diet urg
ing it not to pass that part of the Eccle
siastcal bill which gives the people |
share in the administration OF loca
church'property.
The Northwestern Advocate reports
conversions in the churches which form
it's constituency-in Illinois, TIL; il
Iowa, 396; Minnesota, 263; Indiana, 459
Michigan, 307; Wisconsin, 20, and il
many of those States revivals prevail
where no statistics are given this week
| The Fourth Presbyterian church o
Albany, n. Y, Rev. DR.. Henry Darling
pastor, recently made provision for thu
payment of an old debt of $4,000. Tit
| Immediate incentive to this was the do
nation of $1,000 by few OF its member
to Auburn Theological Seminary. Th'
incongruity between the two things LEI
to an effort to remove the lncumbrance.
The trustees of Ocean Beach settle
ment, N. j., mile south of Ocean Grov
camp ground, have donated lot of lan'
on one of the finest avenues in the vii
lage to the use of the Episcopal clergy
The latter now propose when they ca
raise $1,000 to build thereon house TO
ministerial recreation during the sum
mer, and church Or chapel tor perma
nent society. 1t has the approval OF til
Bishop.
Rev. DR.. William Stevens Perry, Q
Geneva, N. Y, Secretary of the Hous
of Deputies, is going to England and tn
Continent in May, to be absent for sey
eral months. He goes by appointment
of the General Convention to gather ma
terial for the "Centennial" history OF tn
Protestant Episcopal Church and t
represent the Board of Missions OF tn
American Church in the May meeting G
the Society for the Propagation OF th
Gospel in Foreign parts.
Dean Stanley, of Westminster, ha
stirred up the extreme ritualists in Ems
land, by denouncing what he calls "et
clesias tical man-millinery." He declare
in recent address that the dress of tn
clergy has no distinct intehtion-syn
bolical, sacerdotal, or mystical; that
originated simply in the fashions con
mon to the whole community of the RI
Imam Empire during the first three Gel