The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-04-22
RELIGIOUS ITEMS.


Chang, the Chinese giant, has lately |
been received into the Baptist Church
at Shanghai.
1t is reported that the Ohio Open Com
munion Baptist Association has in.
creased to one hundred and thirty-four
churches and seven thousand members.
Two Mormon missionaries from the
United States arrived In Tasmania the
latter part of January. They COM
meneed their mission by holding ser
vices in Hobart Town.
One hundred and thirty Mennonite +
families, recently from Russia, have
settled in the neighborhood OF Mountain
Lake, Cottonwood county, Mtnn.
Among the number are five preachers.
On Palm Sunday (April 81 between
eighty and ninety Roman Catholic
churches, twenty-five OF them in the
diocese Of New York, were supplied
with real palms. They were obtained
| from Charleston, 8. q.
| OF the 100000 families which the |
agents OF the Seuthwestern Bible Soci- |
| eCy have visited in Loutsianaand Missls- |
sippi, $1,000 were without the Bible. |
There were 1850 famililiss visited in
New Orleans, 3,5l1 OF which had no
Bible.
|. Bethany College, in Western Virginia,
| founded by Alexander Campbell, ls
likely to be lost to the Christian denomi-
Ination TOR want of means to meet a claim
of $5O, 900 against it. A strong appeal
tor help is made to its alumni and
friends.
| AT the meeting of the Presbytery OF
B, Louisville, KY, April 6, a committee
was appointed to devise a system or
colportage for the distribution of the
works OF the Presbyterian Board of
Publication in the mountain districts OF
the State.
The annual convention OF the Hebrew
Board OF Delegates will be neld in the
rooms Of the Young Mems Hebrew AS
sociation, Philadel phia, on Sunday, May
Il. The board was organized in 1853.
The congregations rhroughout the coun-
: TRY will elecu their delegates this
month.
1t is stated that the Centennial
, Commission has given to the Pennsyl l.
vania Bible Society the right to build a
Bible Pavilion in The Centennial EXhi-
bltion grounds for the purpose of circu.
3 lating the Scriptures in all the IAN
a guages which WILL be represented at the
Exhibition.
The thifty-seventh session OF the Eng
. lIish Old Testament Revision Company
was held March "a. The reyisers took
d into consideration the suggestions OF the
j. American Committee upon the book OF
r. Deuteronomy, and carried on the revls-
ion OF Jeremiah as far as the 21st verse
d of the 44th chapter.
The Theological Seminary of the
V Northwest at Chicago has only twenty
q four students in attendance, five OF
| eI,a nIa a ho,s 10 tnf
l. The services OF six professors are re.
o quired to fit these twenty-tour young
J, men for ministerial usefulness. There
4 are just now comparatively few young
:. men preparing for the ministry.
The Philadelphia Conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, upon the
last day of its session, April 8, passed a
g series of resolutions upon observance OF
r the Sabbath, La these the Conference
/ expressed its approval OF the Sunday
closing of the Centennial Exhibition,
8 and condemned the Sunday exhibitions
d of the Philadelphi Geological Gardens
!. and the running of Sunday excursion
trains to the Centennial grounds.
III According to the ''Year Books" of the
:" Baptists Of this country, the aggregate
lr membership is 1,76l, Ill; a net increase
g. OF 81, LIT. The increase in the New Eng
r lduu DbdGCp 10 OtO ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS z
> fourths of one per cent. The net III
crease in Central ana Western States
% namely, New York, New Jersey, Penn
lsylyania, Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Hi
nois, Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota
- was 1,666-that is, two-ftths Of one pei
cents, The principal Increase is in the
IA South.
s. The receipts of the Dutch Reformed
n Fore ign Mission Board to April Z were
"A S45, ,552. The Board will need $24, 500 ad
altional by the I'd of May in order t.
meet the appropriations OF the hsca
year, which amount to $70,000. Tn,
receipts of the American Bible Soclet,
for March were $96, $50 and for the yea
up to March 81 were $527, 1873. The yol
umes issued to the same date were 81:
&. hundred and eighty-four thousand fou
hundred and twenty eight.
A call has been issued by the Mary
land Annual Conference of the Method
Or ist Protestant Church for conyentio
is to assemble in Baltimore on the secon
30 Friday OF May, 1877, Tor the purpose &
making such changes inlthe constitutio
u and discipline Of the church as may b
ly necessary In order to cOnsummate tn
proposed union with the "Methodist
Church. 1t will be necessary tor two
h. thirds of the Methodist Protestant Cor
ference w uulbe III tuiS Cdil, III UEueF
rs make it valid. The basis of union ha
lie already been agreed upon by join
ID commission of the two churches.
ia The translations from the sacred book
of the world, which are to be edited b
~ Max Muller, will, accordingto to the Lor
We don Academy, be divided into six sec
k. tions: H. Books illustrative Of the relil
ion OF the Brahmins (Sanskrit). O.
Buddhist books (Pali and Sanskrit
v I(3.) Books illustrating the religion
IN zoroaster (Zend). a. Books illustr'
ting the religion OF Conlucius Chinese
I(5. SBoOks Illustrating the religion OF th
z followers of Lao tse (Chinese). (6
y y Books illustrating Mohammedanisi
"a (Arabic). DIR. Legge is to assist in til
=. Chinese translations, Prof. CoweIl! in th
~ ~ sanskrit, and Prof. Chlders in th
" Pail.
t. The Philadelphia Methodist Episcop,
he Conference, just closed, adopted th
er following resolutions in relation I
D. Presiding Elders: II. That the Annua
n. Conferences, respectively, shall b