, 1875-12-12

Eight perpona were received by 1ettm and thret
On probation into the Grant Place u. E. Church
LAST Sunday.
The Baptists Of Maine are e1penting thei1
! energies in raising endowments for thIee acade-
mics in that Stnte. Ex-Goy. Coburn lhas given
| them $50 900. to which some other parties have
added cas-, 000 and Mr. Harnlin has given 81. 600.
The statistics Of the 81 FREQ Methodist Church ~
are as follows: Nine conferences, ass preach
era, 10, 900 members. 225 Bunday-sehoola 5000
scholars, church property to tho amount Of
] $500 900, and two eemlnaries. Tho Church was
formed in 1850.
| Holding that tho Lord Jesus Christ - has left
on record no provision in the New Testament for
| the organization OF different Denominations,
tho Rev. ". C.. McCune has organized = nav
| church for tho church universal at Ltndwood
and lit. Lookout, Ohio. It invites Christians OF
ali denominations to t1u in-
The Dominican Fatls,rs hnvs held missions in
several places in this state lately. They arc
this week at Lyons, Ia II ~ the1 inteution to
bold missions 10 . numbe OF towns along tho
Mississippi before returning to Louisville, which
place is their headquarters Next week they
will give their attention to the Catholics Of
Clinton, Ia.
The conservation Of the Rev ]. H. Brown as
the Protestant Episcopal Bishop of tho Diocese
tA%F<@
18th Of December at st. Johns Church. Cohoos,
Y. The Rev. Bishop Potter, OF New York
City, will be the consecratoE- Bsshop Doane OF
Albany, will preach the s,rmon, and Bishop
The fifty-tifth annual sesnion Of the Baptist
State Convention OF South Carolina WAS held At
Spartansbnrg, beginning Noy. %. Thirteen
missionaries are employed by the Association at
an expense for the present year OF Si,35l. The
Convention decided to raise Centennial fund
Aa3 347k kak1V {Ftar~
baptist Theological Seminary aud tho Furman
sUniyeralry.
The revival movement still continues in |
Brooklyn, though in quiet and undemoustra- |
tive manner. It was feared by some that !
mistake had been made in trying to continue |
work to recede to the churches. But it seems
that many Of the churches hare taken up the |
movement aud are holding special services. |
These are II in number, and include Baptist. |
Methodist. Presbyterian Congrega ationA1 and
Protestant Episcopal Churches. and the Society |
OF Friends.
The union Of the two Presbyterian churches
on Brooklyn Heights the REV. DR.. Spears and
the Rev. DR.. Van Dyck's, has suggested other
like combinations. The Msthodists lave long
churches in that part Of Brooklyn. but latteriy
the project has been given up. The Examiner
and Chronicle suggests the ulun OF the First
Reformed Church, back of the City-Hali, and
Tue ioHCCuQ 1IesOykeEIAu Oh liuIOH hLItel anu |
also Of the South Congregation nal and the West
minster Presbyterian Cnurches-
The Lutheran 'Church Almanac" for 1876,
which has just been published in Philadelphia,
says that there are In North America 1868 Lu-
theran preachers, and I. 571 congregations which
have 573, 139 communing membtry- There are
in the United States thirteen Lutheran theoiogi-
cal ssminaries With 423 students: OF theology
and seventeen colleges attended by more than
2oo0 students. About fifty periodicals ara pub
lished in English, German. Swedish, Norwegian, /
and Danish. Fifty years ago the Ltutherans in
this country numbered only 1863 caergymen aud
~, ,125 communicates,
An effort has lately been made to provide
funds by subscription, for the rebuilding Of the
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Salem Church. on
Bushnell street. The need Of the organization
is apparent, because it is the only Swedish
church on the South Side aud upward Of 5000
Swedes are dependant upon 1t tor al the re-
igious instruction they receive. Re,:oenfln9
thcse facts, several prominent citizens nuve sub
,crlbed literally. and among them aru the fol-
owing: Marshall Field, 500; Edsor, Keith,
5100; Charles P. KELLOGG, $50; q. t. Hender-
100, s25; George G. Campbell $40; 4 1sberg.
Statistics are mnch needed 20 show the exact
,ums contributed annually by tho religio - de- | ;
nominations OF the United States Tor all pnf- :
roses. The aggregate would, no de1bt, be :
enormous. few years since Presbyterian con- :
zbutlons Tor all purposes were stated to ave tage
more than $50 yearly per member. The Meth
dist Almanac for 1876 presents the follow ing
dist Episcopal Church for the year now clyu-
ng. The last seven items are estimated: ! :
or Conference claimants. 1s2B51 90
arenr Missionary Society,". Cts T40 N,