The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-01-27
RELIGIOUS ITEMS.

THERE are 1000 converts and monas-
teries, inhabited by 21,000 monks and
nuns, in Belgium. The income of the
religious orders in that kingdom is
500, 00O, OO0.
The Episcopal Convention for the
election of a Bishop for Iowa will be
held in Des Moines in February-a ma
jority of the standing committees hav-
ing signi6ed their assent to the plan.
GERMANY is the most productive field
abroad for labor in the Sunday-school.
Twelve years ago there were no Sunday
schools in the country now there are
$50 schools, 1000 teachers, and $4,000
scholars.
ANEW work on the Identification of
the ten lost tribes of Israel is announced
in England under the extraordinary title
of the "Anglo-Israel Post-Bag; or, How
Arthur Came to See it." Rev. Canon
Titcomb is the writer.
THE way they build a Methodist
Church at Clarendon, in Canada, is that
the gentlemen pay for the building, the
young men for the painting and furnish
ing, the ladies for the carpets, and the
young ladies for the lamps.
THE Episcopalians of Philadelphia
seem to contemplate a practical but
thorough revolution in their church
work. They have formed an association
with a view to making all the seats in
the churches free and to aband IN the old
practice of selling and renting pews.
They design having regular weekly col
l~ections in the churches for the support
of the preaching of the gospel and the
benevolent work of the churches.
THE newly-elected chief of the Chero-
kee Nation, Ouchalatta, is a member of
the Baptist Church. On the 26th OF
December he was ordained as a minister.
He is described as ga full blooded ma.
tive, medium sized, about fifty years OF
age, and distinguished for his upright.
ness of life and e%loquence as a speaker"
Three of the supreme judges of the
Creek Nation are also Baptists, as are the
Superintendent of Public Instruction
and the National Treasurer.
"OUR contemporaries" says the
Methodist, have given us credit for ia
voring taxation OF church property, but
have not quoted our reason. In sub
stance we said, when all other gratuitie.
and bounties are stopped we favor stop
ping also the present bounty to churches
So long as other bounties ara allowed, il
would be a public ~indecency to tag
churches. Railroads, steamship lines
manufacturing corporations, etc, ought
first to be taken off the INDECENT list"
THE ladies of the Baptist mission t.
the Chinese in Portland, Oregon, repor
as the result of the years successful
work, the conversion of fourteen Chimes,
youths, n of whom is preparing fer th'
ministry, an increasing moral and civil
izing influence over forty other pupil
in their schools, the majority of whom
have renowned idol worship, and
strong impression on the Chinese popu
lation of the superiority of Christian
customs.
In Union Theological Seminary, say
the Observer, are six sons of foreign mis-
sionaries, all born on foreign soil, ant
retaining in their vernacular the Ian
guages of the several countries from
which they came and to which they in
tend to return. This knowledge @
Arabic, Turkish, Hindostanee, and Tia
mul will give an immense advantage t
these young men in taking the work GU
of the hands of their honored fathers
A hopeful sign for missions. There ar
eight others in the seminary who, in ad
dition to their knowledge of English
speak German, Spanish, Welsh, an,
Greek in their v%ernacular.
AN interesting instance of religion
friendliness between men of different be
liefs occurred at the Packer IDstitut
chapel in Brooklyn, the other evening
when the Rev. P. F. Dealy, a Jesui
priest, lectured before the Long Islam
Historical Society, and was introduce
by the Rev. DR.. Storrs, and rendered
vote of thanks on motion of The Rev
DIR. Burlington. His lecture was upo
the work and sufferings and discoverie
of the early American missionaries, VIII
were all Roman Catholic priests; an
he manifested a most liberal and catht
lie tone. DR.. Burlington, in moving th
vote of thanks, recalled the interestin
historical fact that in 1850 the Rev. F.
Their Druillets, one of the pioneer Cathc
lie missionaries to England, was she
tered in the house of Governor VIII
slow, of Massachusetts, who gave hil
the KEY of a chamber SO that he Nigh
retire to a room aud pray after his ow
desire and manner, without interrul
ton. In that room the first CatbOli
mass ever celebrated in New Englan
took place, soon after, and a grim Pur
tan guarded the door against all il
truders.