The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-06-12
RELIGIOUS.

4 ciety organized.
A Boston church. which has expended
$500 annually for floral decorations, is
said TO have devoted only $40 or 500 dur
ing the past year.
The new Methodist Episcopal Church
In Newcastle, Erie Conference, will be
dedicated June 10. DR.. Ives, of Auburn,
N. Y, will offieiape.
According to the Investigations Of DR..
McCosh, OF Princeton, there are 8, 497, ,ol5
communicates in the Presbyterian
Churches throughout the world.
The Board OF Foreign Missions Of the
Presbyterian Church reports that the en-
tire receipts OF the year have been $685.
1885,, 900 less than last year,
Mr.. Gurdon-S. Hubbard, OF Chicago,
has given thirty acres OF land near that
city to the Reformed Episcopal Church,
for the purpose Of a theological semi
nary.
4 The Congregational Union was found
ed twenty-three years ago, and has as
sisted 925 churches IN "a States and Ter
1 ritories, at an expenditure OF nearly
5000, 900.
The religious interest in the Brooklyn
Tabernacle continues unabated after
Two years. progress. Last Sabbath week,
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new cases of religious inquiry.
The salaries of the Bishops OF the
Southern Methodist Episcopal Church
are now paid by voluntary contribnsions
from members of the churches. Tneir
treasurer reports them fully paid Up.
The First Baptist Church in Proyi-
dence celebrated it's centennial anni-
lvensary Friday evening. Samuel G. Ar
dan of a h a r. olhln Ron of
| Society, delivered historical address.
In imitation of the Presbyterians, who
propose to erect Centennial statue to
moving in the direction o. setting up one
to the memory OF Boger Williams.
4 Rev. H. Smith Carpenter, recently of
4 San Francisco, but formerly and at pres
ent of Brooklyn, has received call to
the North Presbyterian Church in
| Washington, d. Q. He has not yet ac-
tcepted.
| The Hanson Place Baptist Church,
Brooklyn, owing to diminished Fevspues,
| last week voted to reduce the pastors
salary from $1,000 TO $4,000, and alse to
adopt other measures to reduce eX-
penses.
Rev. 4. j. Scott, M IA, late Principal
of the Theological Seminary in the Meth
| odist India Mis- sion Conference, arrived
| at New York recently, accompanied by
his wife and three children, on a health
| vacation.
II is stated that Bishop Whittingham,
the P. E. Bishop of the Baltimore Do,
cese, will be tried for violation Of canon
OF Diocese in not causing the rectors OF
Mount Calvary Church to be brought to,
trial for the alleged violation OF the
canon Of Church.
The Elizabeth District Conference OF
the Newark Annual Conference held its
session last Tuesday in the Methodist
Episcopal Chupch at West Brighton, h
Staten Island. The session Was spent
in discussions on religious processes:
finances, temperance, and other mat
terS.
Rev. Father McElroy, pastor of the
Church OF Our Lady OF Mercy, Brooklyn,
has returned from Europe with health
Irish Jesuit priest, Father Bonner, OF
Dublin, wholly and almost instantly
cured of paralysis.
To-day eight living Bishops of the
Episcopal Church in the United States
are from Virginia, and during the past
year two have left, one to the gold coast
of California, the other to the Church in
Kentucky. Fifty young men are in the
Theological Seminary Of Virginia, also
studying Tor the ministry. q
Twenty clsrgymsn. of the Protestant
Episcopal Church have left that COM
mnuion and joined, the Reformed Episco-
palians during the past year. Three
were connected with the diocese ,of)Vir-
ginia, Two with Pennsylvania Pittsburg
and Kentucky, and one each with Mary
land, Tennessec,- Alabama, Albany,
| Massachusetts, Long Island, Indiana,
Colorado, Kansas, Central New York
and North Carolina.
The Methodists seem to be attaining
great strength in Australia. The body
| has three Conferences, and the peculiar
tiles Of the system seem to be very pop
| ular. StranggRenough, 1the first Meth
odist preacher was convict. He was
under sentence of death in England for
murder. He was converted, and was so
clearly changed that through the inter-
eession 0f1ricnds his sentence was com
muted to Punishment.
The Unitarian faith is being pushed lib
Italy; in Milan Signor Braeciiorti, who
was O Catholic, is doing mission work
with much effect, but with the embar-
easement of getting next to no pecuniary
support, as the Italians, used to an un-
l PAACcHnVON, Wv hVs AVAitAO Suut
the support that.t others got from the
church alone, the Protestant minister
must obtain more directly. Bracoiforti
advertises his subjects in one OF the pa
pers, much as Rev. Crawford Nightin-
gale does, and as the Universalsts are
habitually -tfoing in this country. In
telling how he found out he was'a Roman
\ Catholic, he accidentally remarked that
he then thought Protestants were free
and perfect in their religious system, but
he soon found they were as fullot dogma
as the Catholic.
Rev. Geo. a.. Mingins, a New York
City Missionary, defivered an address
before the Chic ago Presbyt Sunday
school Association last Tuesday, oh the
subject OF the degraded classes of the
great cities. Mr.. Mihgins said; The
problem agitatlng the 'Chrfstian world
To-day is, What are VIE going to do for
the unevangeiized masses? How are We
to step the supply bf the ranks OF the
or iminal eiasseSi one reason we DO nc
mo re ior them is our ignorance OF their
CO ndirion. Christiafs who are intelli.
gent about the religion 'of the Chinese or
the FIJI IslandeTs are as ignorant OF
home heathenisin as b donkey is OF as.
tronomyI Could we but take an Inside