The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1875-02-03
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.

three miles to church this winter.
Oakland, Cal. has a Presbyterian Sur
day school with lab Chinese pupils.
There are nominally eighty-nine Epis
copai churches and chapels in New Yorl
county.
A Rhode Island man broke his bow
ribs because be would not attend Sunda
school.
/ Five hundred and twenty>eight person
have Joined the Brooklyn Tabernacl
within the past nine months.
During 1874 the Roman Catholics los
by death three Bishops in this county
Whelap, Mcfarland and Bacon.
1t has been noted that of the eipb
Bishops chosen by the Episcopal Church
since October last, five are under fort,
years of age.
The Episcopalians propose forming 3
general Church Building Society. Tn,
scheme has received the approval of mos
of the bishops.
=, AT East Elmore, vt, four years age
there was but one praying family: now
there is church of 100 members. and the
revival is still progressing.
Father Chaniquy. the French convert
from Romanism, is said to have induced
twenty families to leave the Roman Cath
ole Church at Putnam, Conn.
The Wesleyan Methodists are prenar.
ing to build Theological college at St.
Lambert, principally for French Canadi-
an young men preparing for the ministry.
The Bishops of Hildesheim and Mum
ster have had their salaries from the State
Withdrawn on account of their persistent
disregard ofthe ecclesiastical lave.
Sturgeon thinks anything legitimate
TO shake a congregation into attention
de advocates game Of battledore and
shuttle-cock in the pulpit, and saws he
knew clergyman VINO tried the experi-
ment.
The Detroit Free Press tells of a man
who claims to have traded horses thirty.
seven times, and cheated the other man
every time, and yet when his wife died the
other day he promised to meet her IN
heaven.
In Philadelphia the Episcopalians have
70 churches and Is, lbs church members:
Methodists, IS churches and 1870 mem.
bers; Presbyterians, y churches and 90
0S5 members; Baptists, 81 churches and
l6;507 members.
There is a marked revival among the
Mohammedans at Lucknow. Old de-
serted temples have been repaired. and
are crowded with worshipers. Street
preaching has been resorted to, and schools
have been opened in which the doctrines
| OF Islamism are taught.
Retorts from China record the recent
destruction of the home of the two Mis-
sionarles connected with the China In
land Mission. The Missionaries were
forced to fly for their lives, leaving all
their property in the hands of the mob
The Independent says: A correspondent
OF the UNCONVENTIONAL newspapers chron-
icle the fact that q clergyman sis doing
service in this part of the Lords vines
yard and with suspicious omens. A han.
py conglomeration ofChristian and H ea-
then cant.
However rich man may be, however
titled, however proud, let him go his way
with humility, remembering that he is
only about the two>billionth part of the
population of the world, and that he will
come day die and be missed BY men lust
about as much as a mashed grasshopper
is missed by his swarm.
The Western Baptist Educational I'm
ion has purchased the Patee House. the
largest hotel at St. Joseph, Mo-, with the
intention of turning it into a Baptist
University. The articles of incorporation
place the endowment fund of the new col
lege at $780, 900, with power to increase
it to 81, 600, 900.
At the Consistory held Dec. 81, the
Pope nominated Several titular bishops
for Italian, French, and Spanish dioceses.
Seventeen bishops, an pdrtibus, were also
nominated. The Pope, in addressing the
cardinals, after the close of the Consistory,
severely censured those ecclesiastics who
took part in the late election to the Ital-
ian Chamber of Deputies.
During the erection of his new church
at Elmira, which is to be the largest
Protestant church building in New York
State, Rev. Tom Beecher has preached at
the opera house, every Sunday evening, one
cent admission being charged. The size
of the audience at this novel figure has
been sufficient to cover expenses. Z,
The Rev. Barnabas Root native Afri-
can, was recently ordained by Congre-
gatlonal Council in New York city. He
was brought to the United Safes in 1859,
and shortly afterwards returned to West
Africa to work among his own people
He came back again to study in 1868, and
since then has graduated at Knox College,
ILL.,, and studied for three years in the
Chicago Theological Seminary. He goes
to Mendi Mission.