, 1876-02-06

| The Executive Committee Will meet on the las
Monday in February.
RELIGIOUS MISCELLANY.
THE CHURCH IN GENERAL.
| 1t the recent meeting Of the Convention o.
the Protestant Episcopal Diocese Of Mbauy. tht
| question Of division Of the diocese was decided
III the negative.
Dr.. Mitchell, in the Free Church Record
| estimates the number Of Protestant converts
made in India in 1874 at 1000, with s. 900 mort
in Bu1mah and Csylon.
It has been unanimously decided BY the Uni
tartan Church at Brookfeld, Mass, to Substitute
| water for wine at the communion. fnd to abolish
| the Deaconate, creating instead 'pastozal
council"
! Mr.. Moody says that minister who breaches
| 3 long sermon is like fisherman who Leaves nis
| big net in the water until all the fish get out /;
and that PRAYER meetings are killed BY at'nness,
| stereotyped phrases, and long prayer.
| Two hundred and 6ity-four parsons have
abandoned the Roman Catholic faith IN Mon
| tfeal Canada, lately. It ia said that III con-
verss to Professionalism hare announced them
selves within i few weeks IN tnat city. These
results have been achieved largely through
Father Cniniquys work.
The Nagnsski Rising Sun ssys tho Buddhist
religion is fast declining. IL lamashina Ken
alone it is said that eeventT-one Buddhist tenn
pies have been turned into dwelling houses and
made use Of in other. Weys alnco 1873, and during
the last six years between 600 and 700 temples
have been converted to other purposes tha
those for which they were originally intended.
The report Of the clerk Of the Episcopal
Church Of Winona, MIMI, containslthese curious
items: For thlrty-two OF the ffty-two Sundays
past there hare been put in the otfertory ninety
nine cent pieces, twenty o-cent, twenty-six
Scent, 325 5. ffty-four ffteeus, 367 quarters,
forty-sl1 ffties, seventeen 81 bills, i've S.. and
1,549 l0-cent pieces! Estimating for the remsin-
ing twenty Sundays would give about 4, ,000 pieces
during the whole year.
At the annual meeting Of the Young Mems
Christian Association Of Baltimore, tho receipts
for 1875 we're reported to be So, ,I5S, and tho ex-
pendtures $1,000. The Friendly Inn" has
been very successful. lt8 receipts wero in the
past year 50, 959, aud the disbursements $3 539
and - free lodgings had been given. 8, 1855 free
meals furnished, and SCI persons provided with
employment. Ninety-seyen new members OF
the Association we're elected during the year.
Among the newspapers in England which
ceased to exist with the old gear arc Included,
says London correspondent, all the religious
papers whieh were started during Moody and
Sankey's revival They had large circulation
while the American 'EvAngelisss' were here,
aud one lournalist is said to have, made 81, 900
in three months, chiefly By publishing Mr.
Moodg's sermons, But the rage has coma to an
end now, sud With it the Journals which haye
lived upon It."
Tho Committee appointed By the last General
Conference Of the Methodist Episcopal Church
to prepare code Of ecclesiastical Jurisprudence
and report it to the session Of Atsy, 1876 hare
met and agreed upon the following: !. Parish
Court; 2. District Appellate Court; 8. Annual
Conference Court; /. Appellate Court, - at
present constituted; S. A Supreme Court to
have jurisdiction in the trial OF Bishups and
Committee consists OF the Rev. ]. Miley, D.
D., of Drew Theological Seminary, New Jersey;
the lev. F. G. Holiday, D. D., OF Indiana; the
Rev J. B. Wentworth, D. D., Of Evanston. Ill.
the Hon. Judge Lawrence and tho Hon Judge
L. J. Critchfeld, Of Ohio; and the Hon. Judge
Reynolds, OF Brooklyn, \. T.
The Buffalo Courier correspondent SAYS:
"1he reformation in Oxford, N. T., is the
wonder Of al who have Witnessed it. You e1-
pect deacous and dominies 70 pray aud speak,
but they only look on and listen. The leaders
OF the movement are ecofers, skeptics, and the
most hardened men in the place, who range the
bills like Texans, and bring in their lumber
wagons crAmned with the non-church going,
then get them forward and prsy for them; and
sucL prayers!-short, sharp, and rapid The
singing Is powcr-perhsps the power that does
it. There are twenty 'song-meetings' week,
led by the Scotch singer aud evangelist the Rev.
r. 4. Patterson, and he is marvellous man.
The worst men in the community hare the lead
now IN speaking and praytr6 every night.
Everything is under perfect control; no excite
ment."
Easter will fall this year on the 10th rather
than on the 9Th Of April. because Easter-Day is
regulated not By a soiar, but BY 3 lunar cycle
the CYCLIC that regulates the Golden Number.
Nov, bY solar calculation day always begins
at midnight: but by lunar calculation it begins
at noon. It, therefore, the Paschal moon falls
on Saturday after Il n, it is counted as falling
on Sunday, and then Easter-Day is. under the
rule in The Prayer-Eook, the Sunday following.
This 1s what happens 10 the present year. The
Paschal fuu moon falls on Saturday. April s, at
2:43 p. m. 1t is therefore counted as falling on
Sunday, April 3, md Esstsz,Dsy Is the Sunday
fol1owlug-i. e., April l6. It may be added that
should the full moon fall On March q before u
M, that full moon Counted as falling on March
2o) would not regulate Easter-Day, but the one
following. This happened in 1519,-Sunlay. CT
izen.
The Prime Minister Of Victor Emmanuel con-
tends that the State has good deal to do with
the Holy See yet before the doctrine of ''Freee
Church and Free State becomes the common
fact. He Sass that the Church, even according
to the most rigid cauonical forms, is neither the
papacg, tho episcopacy, nor the aiergy, but all
the faithful combined, and they all hare rights
to be respected, and he personally hhs the right
and the dutv to zee them respected. He there
fore has laid before Parliament q bill enabling
Catholic 1alties and the lesser clergy to claim
and legally enforce their rights as against pur-
pied pretates, scarlet Cardinals and white aud
black Popes; and the bill encounters no opposi-
ton. Mlnghe.ti boldly maintains now, along
with Prince bismarck, that the Church can claim
no protection unless allowing the right Of over
hauling Its affairs and appointments What
grandfall from the old-tims practices aud uayB
once psaeticed in Campo Vaecino!
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