The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-08-05
TIE RELIGIOUS woRLp.

heV. CharleS opufgeon Is only IoriE-
one years Of age. 81
The Baptists have started Seaside
resort near Toms River, n. j.
The Reformed Episcopalians pro-
pose establishing a paper in Chicago.
BY the last accounts there are now
ssxty-three Protestant missionaries in
Japan. -, =
Rev James Mcbride has resigned
the charge Of the Baptist church at
Macon, Ga.
The Free Baptists of Iowa are agi-
tating the question of Il college to be
located Mt Wilton.
Rev Henry Boekti and DIR Lovick
Pierce are the two Oldest Methodist
preachers II, the world.
The Baptists CT Texas are taking
harmonious action for the establish
ment of first-class college.
Bishop Dudley, of Kentucky, is
5rending July and August at Middle
burg, Loudon county, Virginia.
The NJ. z. Church has over 140
Christian women engaged daily in
spreading the Gospel truth in india.
Rev. DR. Harrison is arranging to
start paper at Atlanta, Georgia, in
the interests Of Southern hethodism.
There are said to one thousand
Scandinavian Baptists in the United
States. They held eoaPs~"ace re
Gently at Cokato, Mmnesota.
C. H. Roberts; Of the Methodist
Church, South, Professor in Pacific
Methodist College, has been requested
to prepare End publish Choctaw >s.o
tionary.
The Universalists are the only sect
that have tried with any success VIC
mel for pastors. The novelty seems
soon to wear of, and the ministry to
be very uncertain enc.
Some Presbyterian papers urge the
Introduction Of the responsive use Of
he Psalms, and insist that there Is
nothing in such responsive service that
belongs exclusively to Episcopacy, or
any other form ofcharch government.
Lambs Creek church, Brunswick,
Virginia, is the only onenJ~ larding
of five colonial churches built in King
George county. One Of the antiqui-
ties Of the house is an old tin'e Oxford
Bible, printed a century and half
ago. ..
The republic of Costa Rico gran Is
Religious liberty to all sects aid folig
ions. It has a population Of nearly
1,000,000 inhabitants, but only one
Protestant minister in all the land.
An appeal has been madeto the Meth
dists of the United States to send
thither several missionaries.
Careful c0ittpuiion shows that the
average contributions. u the !n's>iona-
~ cause for the whole II. +. Church
was AL cents per member. In the
Alabama Conference the contribution
was the smallest being I Of a cent; in
the Philadelphia Conference it was
the largest, being s1.25 per member.
In Grace Street Baptist Church,
Richmond, "a, they divide the menl-
bership INTO several parts. a commit
tee is appointed to communicate with
each member, in each part, into which
the church is divided. If anyone able
to give, persistently continues not to
give, he is brought before the church
for discipline: and if he 'lehs not re-
form, he is excluded from the church.
The Board of Missions Of the Cum
berland Presbyterian Church has
issued from its headquarters, in st.
Louis, circular which SETS forth that
the church composed Of $4,000 en-
rolled members and representing the
religious sentiments OF a quarter Of a
million, is concerned for the support
of its missionary work during the
present year, and asks for aid from
other denominations elsewhere. ..
1t appears from the Christian
Wct'd, Of London, thai Father Boehm
has fellow centenarian in the Free
Church of Scotland, who, in fact,
little excels him in age. That paper
says, May 18Th: "The Rev. DR. james
Ingram, minister of the Free Church
congregation of INST, the most north
erly island of the Shetland group, has
lust entered upon the oic handredth
year of his age and seventy-fourth OF
his ministry. Both DIR Ingram and
his son, who is his assistant, are DIS
ruptioa ministers. The venerable
divine still performs. his pastoral du-
ties, IS in good health, and is said to
possess d powerful voice"