The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-02-12
ECCLESIASTICAL.

white members.
The fremont Temple Baptist church,
in Boston, of which DIR. Lorimer is pas
tor, contains ,209 members.
. Rev. VIM. p Harrison, ID. d., of the
Georgia conference, has become associate
editor Of the Baltimore Episcopal Meth
odist.
Rev's l. b. Grubbs, :. A. Kelley and
+. G. Allen have assumed control of the
Apostolic Times, the organ of the Ken
lucky Christians.
The American Board of Foreign Mis-
sions has reduced its 5000, 900 deficiency
to about $4,000, and has appropriated for
the expenses of the coming year as much,
within s25 900, as was spent in 1873.
The Catholic memorial fountain at
the Centennial grounds in Philadelphia
is to cost $4,000. The statues will cost
$l4 600, and will come from the studios
of several of the most distinguished Ital-
ian sculptors.
The South Carolina Baptist State
Convention recommends to the trustees
of the Southern Baptist Theological
Seminary to retain this institution in
Greenville, unless Kentucky shall have
raised her promised $780, 900 before an
other session of the convention
The Methodist estimates that there
are 100000 families in the Methodist
communion who take no religious paper
| and places the circulation of nom Meth
odist papers in that denomination at co.
| 600, which is just equal to the united
circulation of the official Methodist pa
| pers.
! The Friends of Birmingham, Eng
land, conduct and sustain Sunday-schools
| for adults. Many of the scholars have
reached middle life. Two thousand men
and women are brought together by this
agency for religious instruction every
Sunday The schools were begun twenty
seven years ago.
! Continued ill-health has forced DIR.
| NJ. b. Wharton to resign his pleasant
position as pastor of the Green-street
| church in Augusta, Ga. His resignation
was refused, but he felt it his duty to
make it unalterable. Rev. w. w. Ian
drum, of Memphis, has been called to
succeed DR.. Wharton.
The friends of the late Bishop Lee,
of Iowa, are proposing to complete the
unfinished tower upon the Episcopal
Cathedral at Davenport, and to call it
the Memorial Tower" in his honor 1t
| is estimated that between $4,000 and
$4,000 will be required for the purpose,
and steps will be taken to raise the nee
essary funds at once, that the work may
be begun Immediately.
The new Methodist Almanac gives
the latest numerical statistics of Metho-
dism throughout the world, furnishing
the following totals:
Episcopal Methodists in L. States 3 O2j, 427
Non-Episcopal Observation-Disclosures. IA, 500
| Methodists in other countrics........1,O 15 SIG
Total lay COMMITMENTS. ............:t,1 S9, los
I The total number of itinerant preachers
1881, and of local preachers 81, 474
an increase during the year of 1925 itin-
Grant ministers, and decrease of 1867
local preachers.
| The American Bible revision COM
mittee is at work on the Psalms and the
Epistle of James, and the First Epistle
of Peter SO far the five books of Moses
and the Acts of the Apostles have been
revised. The names of the committee
members are Drs. Woolsey, Dwight and
Day, of New Haven; Dr. Schaff, of New
York; Bishop Lee, of Maryland; Prof's
Thayer and Mead, of Andover; Hare
and Krauth, of Philadelphia; Aiken, of
Princeton; Drs. Crosby, Washburne and
Chambers, of New York, and some others.
Rev. Dr. S. S Laws, of the Presby-
terry of New York, has just been elected
president of the state university Of Mis-
souri,. He graduated with honor at
Miami university, Ohio. In 1856 he was
graduated from the theological seminary
at Princetown, and in 1854 was made
president of Westminster college, Mis-
souri,. He invented the stock telegraph
now in use throughout the world, from
which he has derived an ample fortune.
In 1870 he received the degree of bachelor
of laws from Columbia college, and in 1878
was graduated from the Bellevue medical
school.-Christian Observer.
The Protestant Episcopal church at
Williamsburg, Va, will send to the GEN.
tennial exhibition two old communion
services belonging to the church. One
service is made of gold, and consists of
only two pieces-a cup, with two han
dies, for the wine, and a small saucer for
the bread. 1t was the gift of some old
aristocratic family, and bears their crest
of arms. 1t is supposed to be lis years
old. The other set is of very heavy sill
yer, and was given by George ". 1t
consists of three pieces-a tall tankard,
for holding the wine; a very handsome
goblet, of most beautiful proportions,
and large, heavy plate for the bread,
all of the pieces bearing the royal stamp,
crown, etc.
The re-opening of the venerable st.
James church, at Goose Creek, Hear
Charleston, S. c., occurred Sunday, jan
uary 2. Rev. J. Grimke Drayton was
invited by the vestry to preach the SER
mon, and accepted. The ladies finely
decorated the interior of the church for
the occasion. Hereafter services are to
be held in the church each Sunday, the
building and roads leading TO it having
been put in good repair. The Charleston
News says the parish of st. James, Goose
Creek, was Laid out by act of the legis-
ture in 1706. The church building was
soon too small for its large and increasing
congregation, and the present brick edi- |
fee was built and finished in 17I1. 1t /
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