, 1876-11-05
RELIGIOUS MISCELLANY.

THE CHURCH IN GENERAL.
1t Is estimated that the number OF Friend
| throughout the Worlu amounts to not more thai
| $4,000, of whom nearly $1,000 are in America
There has been steady decrease OF Friend!
during the last year, and the society has under
gone great changes. The Philadelphia Yearly
Meeting, which used to embrace nearly all tht
Quakers in the country, has now $500. The
largest number are found in Indiana, where
there are over 10000,
Another man has been found in London whost
crime is that he has too much faith. His chile
had scarlet fever, and he refused to call q ply
sician, but vent down on his knees and asked
the Lord to cure the boy. The Judge said thai
the prayer was undoubtedly good one, but
that it ought to have been accompanied with
chamomile tea. He then sentenced the crimi-
nal to three months hard labor, declaring that
It was not because he prayed, but because he
did not practice.
A Virginia Baptist predicts that, if the de-
nomination increases as rapidly during the next
l00 years as it has in the past century, 1t will
number ~, ,0OO, ,O00 ut the next Centennial. a
New York brother, with more prophetic eye
and superior mathematical powers, shows that,
in the same ratio of increase there would be
III, 070 Baptists in the United States III 1876
and that, in the ratio OF increase Of population,
there will be here ut that time $50, ,000, GOO Of
people, 81 per cent of whom will be Baptists.
However, our contemporary will be satisfied il
there are 225 600 Of people and 50, 600, 600 Of
them Baptists in 1876.
lu Connecticut village church member
had grudge against his pastor Instead Of
satisfying it IN the ordinary way, By bringing o
libel suit or getting up q scandal, he took a
novel way Of bis own At the evening prayer
meetings freedom was given to MI who wanted
to speak, and the brother improved the oppor
tunity, not by making angry or scurrilous har-
angues, but by quoting passage after passage
from the Bible descriptive Of the pecularities OF
voice and manner as meek as those of Moses at
his meekest, be would recite these passages,
with not word of comment, but throwing all
the comment into the modulation Of his voice
and the expression Of his eonntenance. He
finally got even with the minister, who, wor-
ton. The ceurch Is now vacant, and will be
promising field OF labor for any clergyman, old
or young, whose spiritual hide Is as repella1t Us
alligator leather.
Therewasa doub1eserVicei in Methodist church
at nottingham, Manitoba, on recent Sunday.
A quarrel had divided the congregation, and
each party claimed 70 be dominant. Each had
called a new minister, and the two clergymen
were on hand to begin their labors The first to
arrive took possession Of the pulpit. aud the
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mon, and the other began to read chapter OF
Scripture. When the reading was over, and it
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