The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1875-09-14
The SPIRIT OF DEMOCRACY,
Tuesday September Ii. 1875
RELIGIOUS ITEMS.

AutIt are III iMdsSacuttStttS odiy tuiCc
Roman Catholic Churches without
debt on their buildings.
Rev. R. S James, OF Zlnesville, Ohio.
has accepted a call to the open-com
munion Baptist Church. recently estab.
lished in Detroit, Michigan.
Rev. D. Goodwillir, who has minis.
tered to the United Presbyterian con,
gregation of Liberty, Ohio, for fifty
years, has retired from the pastoral
work.
AT late meeting Of the Board Of
Managers of the Methodist Missionary
Society, the Treasurer submitted state
ment showing the aggregate indebted.
ness to be S134,646.
The only PRESBYTERIAN Church which
received more than two hundred acces.
sions duling the year 1874 Eas DR.. Tai
mage's Tabernacle in Brooklyn, the
number being 23S.
The conversions in the Presbyterian
Church South during the past year are
reported at 7.S46,. being an. addition of
eight for every minister on the rolls Of
the Presby teries,
The new Catholic Church of the Im.
maculate Conception at Fulda, Noble
County, Ohio, has been dedicated, With
excellent order and great rejoicing,
Bishop Rosccrans officiating.
There are six ordained Presbyterian
ministers in Liberia, and correspon-
dent of the Presbyterian urges that six
additional Presbyterian ministers are
needed at once for that work.
The American Board required $780,.
000inlorder to close its financial year
August 81 without debts. The receipts
for foreign missions during the past
nine months, to June /, were S239, 300
InSpain,. where there are nine Ro-
man Catholic Archbishops, SO Bishops,
100000 priests, $4,000 monks and 49,
600 nuns; out of population of 49,
G00000, less than million can read or
write. f3E .8
Rev. W. D Love, pastor of the Con-
gregational Church at East Saginaw,
Michigan, proposed to his people to re,
ceive less salary in view of tile hard
tines, but they have decided not to re-
duce it. IS si,n.5f IN bnsf ~
The Persian Shah has been receiving
delegation of Roman Catholic priests
With such marked courtesy and liberal
promises that the Church is quite hope
full of gaining an entrance into the EN-
pire.
Rev. Mr.. Spurgeon does not a lopt
the modern ideas of Christian perfec-
ton. He says that as soon as he at
tains perfection his friends will hear of
it most probably by means of notice
under the head of "Deaths.''
The new minutes of the Illinois Con
gregational State Association give the
Dumbersof churches, 239 members, 20,-
825; ministers, 237 The number added
on profession is 374; by letter, 1885 !;
total, 2,429. The net gain is l,065.
There are ninety-eigbt Methodist
Churches reported on the General Min
utes in the Kansas and South Kansas
Conferences. Of these, forty-6ve, or
nearly half, are on the list for aid from
the Board of Church Extension.
A prominent Methodist in Chicago
has sued the pastor of his Church, lay
ing the damage at $4,000, for exclu-
ding him from the communion table
The minister did not regard him as a
proper person to partake of the sacred
elements.
The Methodist preachers in the noun
tain circuits OF Kentucky are, many OF
thems fairly suffering for the neeessaries
of life, owing to the devastation of the
country by the late spring frosts, and
finally the floods that have nearly wash.
ed ou: the remaining meagre crops =
The preachers keep to their work, how.
ever, and try to encourage their focks
to look to the Good Shepherd.
A Catholic priest made short speech
at a teachers institute held last week in
Forest, Hudson County; Ohio, in which
be stated that be was in favor of public
schools, and that the mass of their peo
pie held similar views, and that those
Catholic papers which oppose the pub
lie schools did not represent the sent;
ments' of the Catholics iE general, bu
individual opinion.