The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-02-19
NUMBER 50.
ECCLESIASTICAL,

The cornerstone of new United
Presbyterian church and missien build
ing has been laid at Cairo, Egypt.
..Messrs. White and Bliss, evangel-
lists, are about to begin series of re-
vival meetings in the ink at St. Louis.
The journal de Geneve says Perc
| Hyacinthe will not visit the United
States this year, but will deliver a series
| Of lectures at Lausanne.
REV. J. U. Mitchell is engaged in
the attempt to establish Universalist
mission at Alloa, Scotland. lie is sup
ported by the Woman's Centenary Asso-
citation of the United States.
"A Catholic priest has established a
mission among the Esquimaux of the
Arctic circle. He travels over an I'M
mcnsc district with sledges, sleeping
nights under a snow hut.
The Unitarian church ut Brookfeld,
Massachusetts,, has decided unanimously
to substitute water for wine at the COM
munion and to abolish the deaconate, Gre
ating instead pastoral council"
"A meeting of Sunday-school editors,
publishers, writer's, and workers will be
opened at Painield, N. j., March 9Th,
continuing five days. Various questions
relating to Sunday school work are to be
discussed.
The secret Jewish order known as
the Benai Berth has over go lodges in
the country, with 10000 members. 1t
has paid out for benevolent purposes the
past year about one hundred and twenty
six thousand dollars.
Rev. DIR. George Taylor (NIethodist),
of New Haven, has arranged to exchange
pulpits with Rabbi Wechsler, of the
Jewish synagogue. 1t is said this is the
first instance where a Rabbi has been
invited into an evangelical pulpit.
Rev. J. S. Inskip, president of the
national camp meeting association, has
been appointed editor of the Christian
Standard, Philadelphia, the organ of the
party in the Methosdist Episcopal
church known as Perfectionists.
The Baptist mission to. the Chinese
at Portland, Oregon, which is carried on
by ladies, reports the conversion of four
teen Chinese youths the past year, one of
whom will enter the ministry. The ma
.jority of the pupils in the school have
renowned idol worship.
Mr.. George A. Hall, of the Brooklyn
Young Mems Christian Association, as
sisted by other Christian laymen, will
make an evangelistic tour of the south,
visiting all the principal cities, begin
ming with Charlotte, N. c., Jan. 25, and
closing with st. Louis in April.
In 1892 the Baptists numbered Co.
900 members; in 1872, 1000; in 1882,
334, 900; in 1910, 571 900; in 1851, no.
600; in 1869, ,O16, 900; in 1874, 1,761,-
600. Estimating the increase in 1873 at
one-half of what it was in 1871, there
are to-day more than 100000 Baptist
church members in the United States, or
one Baptist to every % 20 of the popula-
ton of this country.
The Bishop of Winchester has given
notice that he will move at the meeting
of the convocatiOn next month TO :" cs-
tablish such relations between the church
of England and the eastern church as
shall enable the members of the one
church to join without censure in the
sacraments of the other church" This
is the Bishop vino says church of Eng
land ministers ought to hold no COM
munion with NOnconformists.
Bishop McCoskry, of the diocese of
Nix higan, in an address at missionary
reccI thy, said concerning the Protestant
Episcopal church: (D. That never in
the history of the American church were
the rulers of the church i'm more perfect
accord in all matters of faith, doctrine,
and discipline. and (2) that never before
had she been SO thoroughly equipped for
the Masters work, in the number of the |
EpiscOpate, as now. Yet there was not |
that proportionate growth of the church
that should reasonably be expected. He
then assigned as the causes for this lack
of growth QD the materialism OF the age,
and ~ the intense worldliness of the
age (a) outside the church, and (b) in
some measure within. The world Is in
yadipg the church, instead of the church
COM; ucring the world. Hence, the COM
mon resort TO worldly ways in the main
tenancc of worship. And (3) the I'M
warrautable suspicious against her ac-
credited teachers and rulers.
In the carly days of the Anglo-Saxon
and some of the Norman churches,
stone bench afforded the only sitting ac-