The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1875-01-14
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RELIGIOUS ITEMS.


A new Universalist church has been
dedicated at Jeffersonville, Ohio. and
steps are being taken for the erection of
one at New Paris
The late Episcopal Convention of Iowa
fixed the salary of the Bishop at $1,000.
Another Convention is to be convened
before Easter to elect Bishop.
The recent Fair held by the various
Methodist Churches in Philadelphia, in
aid of the Home for the Aged and Infrm,
netted $4,000 over and above all exIen-
ses.
The Presbyterians and Congregation
alists in Mankato, Minnesota, have been
favored with revival resulting in an ag-
gregate accession to their membership OF
two hundred.
The Catholic priests of Chicago are en-
gagged in circulating among the workmen
Of their congregation pledges, not merely
to refrain from the use of liquor, but
from the temptation also,
Mrs. A. NJ. Surllyn, a Christian woman
of high social position and large wealth,
Of Mckinney, Texas, has given herself
ana all her means to the foreign mission
work Of the Southern Baptist Conven-
ton.
Since the Congregationalists began to
occupy Nebraska, eight years ago, they
have organized sixty-eight churches,
whose present membership is 1900.
There are fifty ministers of the denom-
ination in the State.
The Friends in Brooklyn made de-
parture lately by holding a church fair.
1t was carried on, says reporter, with
great heartiness and most of the modern
appliances, which may imply grab
bags" "post-ofiices," &c.
The Catholic churches in Prussia are to
be open to the Old Catholics for purposes
of religious worship, This is regardedas
such desecration that the Catholics will
probably abandon them entirely.
The English clergyman who refused to
adminste the communion to parish
ioner who entertained Universalian SEN
timents, will be tried before one of the
ecclesiastical courts for wrong doing in
Withholding the sacrament from the
member.
The st. Louis Dispatch says that in one
of the laundries of that city is man
who is deposed Bishop of the Churcn
of England. He is learned man, and
has relatives of rank in Great Britain,
but love Of strong drink has been his
besetIing sin.
The observance of the present week of
prayer has been quite general through
out the country. In many places the
different congregations have united, and
others separate services have been held,
while in all cases the attendance has
been held, while in all cases the attend.
ance has been encouraging.
The Methodist church at Ripley, Ohio.
after carrying debt on their new house
of worship for four years of over $1,000,
have Cancelled the entire amount, with a
surplus on hand of $4,000. One-half the
amount was paid by Mr.. Stivers, a liberal
member of the congregation.
There probably is no town in Conecti-
cut where Congregstionalism is more
church has membership of 612, which
is the largest in the State, and the Plym-
outh church has a membership of 2SO.
The entire population of the town is
about three thousand.
The minutes of the late meeting of the
Central South Congregational Conference
held at Selma, Alabama, gives summa-
ry of Is churches; of which are in
Tennessee, 4 in Georgia, in Alabama,
and 3 in Mississippi, supplied by % min
listers and licentiates, having an aggre-
gate membership of 1908.
A Baptist in Lancaster, Pennsylvania,
writes to Boston editor: IF you know
Of fany'miniNer in or around Boston who
is tireI of an easy life, and who wants to
work hard, and who is spelling for
fight with encouragement, discord and
difficulty, as well as with the world and
the devil, pass him along this way"
The Baptist church in Brooklyn, of
which Rev. DR. Jeffrey has been pastor
for the last year, began with forty-fve
members, and during the year has grown
to 230. The congregation has built new
and commodious house of worship, which
is well filled, and enter upon the second
year with the most encouraging pros
poets.
1t is said that OF the Ill Presbyterian
churches erected on Manhattan Island,
New York city, since the first settlement,
only forty-six are now used as places Of
public worship. In many instances the
congregations have disbanded. There
are now on the Island Is, ,494 Presbyteri-
an communicates, showing a Presbyteri-
an population of from fifty to sixty thou
sand.
The question is frequently raised
whether the increase of church member
ship outruns, in the United States, the
ratio of the increase of the general pop
,ulation. AS an example, in one of our
great eities, the National Baptist shows
that the ratio of Baptist church men,
bers in Philadelphia to the whole popu-
lation was, in 1900, to 299; in 1880, to
10; in 1850, l to So; in 1874, to "A.
There is some indication that the
Southern Presbyterians, who at first de-
Gined to enter into the scheme of feder-
alton, will reconsider their decision. The
Central Presbyterian says it is certain
that the matter will be again brought to
the attention of the Assembly by some
of the Southern Presbyterians, and pre-
diets movement in favor of the great
plan of unity, in accordance with the
Christian sentiment of the age.
The venerable Father Boehm is the
oldest Methodist minister in America,
He resides in Jersey City: and will be one
hundred years old the coming May. He
was one of the twenty-five clergymen
who attended the first General Confer
ence of American Methodists, many of
whom were younger and stronger than
fiimself but who long ago left him be-
hind. He is in excellent health and
spirits, and read the entire book of Rev.
elation on Christmas Day.