The Osceola times., 1876-02-26
CHURCHES AND MINISTER'S.

M DdFtisls VI ihippNSiiNhtu H'uth
,'arolina have raised over $3.50, 900 to en-
dow turman university.
\ GRAND gathering of English, Ger
man and Swiss Protestants is contem-
plated TO he held in Geneva in the
spring.
BISHOP MARVIN on. T., South) has
consented to write life of Bishop An
drew, and wishes to collect letters writ
ten by him.
The southern Presbyterian assembly
enumeratcs S7l Sabbath-schools, the aver
age attendance of teachers being 5000
and scholars $4,000.
The Jewish order known as the Benai
Berth has over $50 lodges in the coun-
try, with 10000 members. 1t has paid
out for benevolent purposes the past year
about Sl26,OOO.
THE theological school Of Vanderbilt
university has fifty students, nearly all
of whom are licensed preachers. The
whole number Of students in the uniyer-
sity is $50, and steadily increasing.
RECENT statistics show that on the en-
tire globe there are 3,704, 900 Methodists
in full membership and 23,707 Methodist
ministers. The number of Methodists in
Great Britain is $50, 900, and of preachers
1900.
The general conference of the Original
Freewill Baptists, of North Carolina
contains 80 churches, 80 ministers and
5,i00 members. A paper called the Toin-
sot is published under the auspices of
this body, and edited by f. X. Ellis.
DIR. JoHN HALL, of New York, said to
his congregation ~ hate to have this
church called mine; ] hate to see il in
the newspapers called Dr. Halls church.
1t is not mine it is yours and your chill
drens, or rather it is Christ's, the
Lords"
THE Baptist Ministers Centennial
Club, of Illinois" now numbers $50 mem
bers, representing aggregate pledges of
about $4,000. The object of this club
is to raise funds for the coming year in
aid of Baptist colleges and theological
schools in the state.
IN Toronto. Canada, ten years ago.
there were but two Baptist churches in
the city, with membership of about
500, and with not more than 400 Sunday
school scholars Now there six churches
with comfortable houses of worship, sub
stantialiy paid for, membership OF about
LOO, and not less than 800 scholars in
the Sunday-schools.
In 1892 the Baptists numbered $4,000
members; in 1912, l72,000; in 1882, 334,-
900; in 1910, 81 900; in 1851, 40, 1000 I;
in 1860, l,0l6,000; in 1874, l,76l 900.
Estimating the increase in 1878 at one
half of what il was in 1874, there are at
this time more than 100000 Baptist
church members in the United States, or
one Baptist to every % 30 of the popu-
lation of the country.
The Voce della Verita, published at
Rome, denies that there has been any
negotiation on the part of the English
Ritualists with the Vatican looking to
union with the Roman church. Rev.
frederick Lee, of Lambeth, who was
credited with the letter to Archbishop
Manning making the proposition for
union, has also made denial 1t is safe
to assume, therefore, that the story was
made from whole cloth,
The Baptist Year Book, just issued.
reports for 1875, 1854 baptisms: an
aggregate membership of l,76l III, and
net increase of oI,l27. In the New Eng
land states there were 1896 baptisms, and
net increase of $40 members; that is,
three-fourths of one per cent. The net
increase in ten central and western states,
namely, New York, New Jersey, Penn
sylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Hi
nois, Wisconsin. Iowa and Minnesota. was
| ,666; that II, two-ffths of one per cent
The increase at the south is mnch greater
ONE of the editors of prominent
southern religious journal says: awe
went the other day to a church which,
numbers 250 members. That church is
located in good farming community,
and has rostoiiice convenient to all the
members. Many of the members are in
good circumstances-al are able to pay
for good religious paper. Not one was
taking the denominational paper of his
state, nor, so Far as we know, any other
religious paper. We made an earnest
effort to induce some of them TO subscribe
even offered them a handsome pre-
MUM; but with all that we could do we
got only one subscription. Reason: Don't
read.
Ir has long been assumed that the
world is Christian, and old tables,
originally guessed at, are still repro
duced to prove the proposition Prof.
Schem, having gone carefully over the
data, reaches two results: First, nearly
one half the population of the earth is
under Christian governments; second,
nearly two-thirds of the area of the earth
are under Christian governments. Here
are his totals; Total population of the
earth, 1898, ,S42, 900; under Christian gov
ernments, III, ,3s2, $50; total area of the
earth by square miles, $1,000, ,460 area
of Christian governments, 32,4l9,9l5;
area of non-Chrstian lands; 1862, ,5J5. |
Another result Of Prof. Schem's figures
is that nearly two-thrds of the Christian
states, measured by population, are
Protestant.-The Methodist.