The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-01-30
RELIGIOUS.

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1 changed from the last Thursday Of Feb
ruary to the last Thursday of January.
A revival of great power is progressing
at South Berwick, Maine, where all de-
nominations are united in the services.
| The COnsist0ry which was to have been
held during December Tor the creation Of
Cardinals is deferred, according TO Ro-
man rumor, until after Easter. T..
According to a recent statement there
are in this country seven Catholic arch
bishops, 53 bishops, 1873 priests and G92O
churches, chapels and stations.
Rev. j. Crompton, formerly a Unitarian
minister in Norwich, has Joined the
Church of England and has been Or
dained by the Bishop of Norwich.
At Silver Creek, Kansas, where, q year
ago. a Baptist Church was organized with
ten members, the number has increased
to tifty-eight, and candidates are await
ing baptism.
Disturbances have occurred in Geneva
over the baptism OF children by the old
Catholics in two villages Of that canton,
and the presence Of troops is necessary
| to preserve order. ...-,.
Rev. w. III. Milburn, the "Blind Man
Eloquent" is to supply Trinity Meth0d-
ist Episcopal church, Chicago, until
spring, when it is expected that DR.. O..
III. Tiffany will go there.
| How much better one can appreciate
the merits Of u sermon when it is only
twenty minutes long. Its effect on the
auditors mud decreases in direct pro-
portion as it exceeds that length OF time.
The Reformed Episcopalians of Chi
cago- are prospecting and working for
the establishment Of q church in the
West Division, where there Is said to be
ample room and fine prospect for
| them.
The Baptist church OF Preston, N. Y,
which has been in low spiritual state
for many years, is now rejoicing over a
great work. More than thirty have been
converted, thirteen Of whom have been
baptized.
During the past four years the contri-
buttons of Trinity Episcopal parish,
Southport, Conn.,, for missionary, pur-
poses, have amounted to over $4,000,
which is pretty good for "a country con-
gregation.
At the last regular Monday morning
meeting of Methodist ministers in Bos-
ton, resolutions were passed ind0rslng
the conduct of President Grant and Gem
eral Sheridan IN respect to the late pro-
ceediDgs in Louisiana.
| 1t is understood That the Pope's golden
rose " ill be bestowed this year on Queen
Marie, the mother of King Louis III, of
Bavaria, whose recent conversion to the
Roman Catholic faith created SO much
excitement in the religious world.
| Rev. Leroy NJ. Vernon, ID. D., superin-
tendent OF the Methodist missions in
Italy, mas accepted the pastorate OF the
American Union church at Rome, be-
lieving that denominational distinctions
should have " place in missionary oper-
ations.
| The Marquis of Ripon, previous to his
| JnnnyprEinn Roma (,Dfhnlipisn huI
begun the building of a large church for
the Church OF England. He has had the
editice finished, and has presented it to
the communion for which he first in-
tended it,.
The sermon which Dr.. Colenso de-
clined to preach in Westminster Abbey,
on the ground that he did not wish the
last days OF his stay in England to be the
occasion of contention, is TO be published
in the coming number of the CohtempO-
rary Review.
The American Congregational Asso-
citation has opened a Bureau of Minis
terial Supply in Boston. Both ministers
and churches using the services of the
Bureau are to make some payment; a
minister desiring settlement paying 70
and the church looking for pastor CIV
ing the same amount.
| At a recent Plymouth Church prayer
meeting the assistant-pastor, MIR. Haili-
doy, made the statement that 1900 per-
sons attended the services in the church
each Sunday, either in the morning or
evening, and 5000 were present at its
Sunday school or mission services.
A missionary in Japan, has discovered
| the spot near Jeddo where the massacre
| of Catholic missionaries and converts
took place in 1913. The spot is called
"Hill of Martyrs" and the bridge which
unites it to the city "Bridge OF Chris
tians." Other interesting memorials OF
that massacre have also come to light.
The native young men belonging 10 a
theological class III Ccylon, during late
vacation from study, found their recrea.
746 houses and saw about 1880 adults
and $40 children. They found some
cases of special Interest and met very
few cases Of opposition.
While Offering the closing prayer of
his service IN the Baptist church at Man.
atawna, Penn, on FRIDAY evening, the
10th inst, Rev. W. s. Crowley, pastor of
the Baptist church, died just as he had
pronounced the final Amen. He was
torty-tive years of age, and his death is
ascribed to heart disease.
There are twenty-six vacant Catholic
sees in Spain, simply because the Pope
would not recognize Serrano or the Re-
public, and preferred to leave the Church
without chief shepherds rather than be
suspected of recognizing the rebellious.
lie will probably appoint bishops now
that Alfonso has been chosen King OF
Spain.
Lent begins this year February 10th,
which will bring Easter on the 2Sth oil
March, which is within six days of the
earliest day upon which it can occur.
In some years Easter falls as late as the
25th of April, and there may be rs many
rs nine Sundays between Epiphany ana
Ash Wednesday, but This year there will
be only five.
The Presbyterian furnishes the follow.
ing statement of the relative strength OF
the four leading Protestant denOmina.
tions in Philadelphia. Baptists, 81
churches and 16,507 communi cants; Pro-
testant Episcopal. 70 churches and 18, 125
communicates; Methodist Episcopal, II
churches and 1870 communicates; Pres.
byterian, u churches and 22,O35 commu.
4 nicants.
/ The Presbyterian Board of Education
lreports this month that "the receipts fol
the past month are but little more than
half of what thev were in the CORES spond-
ing one Of last year. Those for the eight