The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-02-26
ECCIESI1SI'ICxlL.

OF the ninety educational institu-
tions of Iowa, twenty-five are Catholic.
The Shakers of England are agitated
over the beard question.
In Steuben county, New York, there
are fifty-eight living Methodist churches.
There are over four thousand bene-
fees in England which yield the incum-
bent less than 81 900 year.
The Protestant clergy of Quebec
have given the portion of the poor fund
allotted to them to the Roman Catholic
poor.
-. The great Sunday-school at Stock
port, England, is famous everywhere.
Its last report shows in its main school
3O1 teachers and 3,614 scholars. Includ-
ing four branch schools, the total MEM
bership is 424 teachers and 3,614 scholars.
Since this school was founded 4 1892 teach
ers and SO, 1924 scholars have been enroll
ed in its membership.
The North Carolina conference ofthe
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by two to one to concur in the proposed
convention of 1877, which has been call
ed for the purpose of consummating the
union between the Methodist Protestant
non-episcopal bodies were separated by
the late war.
The Rev. DR.. Austin Phelps makes
an earnest protest against the limitation
of the length of sermons to thirty min
utes. He says that people do not make
such demands of other speakers. " Mr..
Evarts spoke four days and MIR. Beach as
many more on the trial of Mr.. Beecher.
Edmund Burke spoke nine days on the
tlial of Warren Hastings. Rufus Choate
once spoke three hours in defending a
suit for side-saddle, and again four
hours in a prosecution for stolen tur-
key. 1t was the latter speech that made
him famous"
We might exclaim, with Carlyle:
Oh easily gullible public!'' when we
see that even in the enlightened state of
New York Mormonism is making some
advance. One of Brigham Young's
prophets preached in Williamsburg re-
Gently, to considerable audience, more
than half of which was made up of Nor
MONS The New York conference of Nor
mons has 176 members. Not large
number; but far too large when we con-
slider that practical adherence to the pre-
tended prophet means disobedience to
law, disregard of moral precepts, as well
as violation of Gods commandments
New York Independent.
Rev. DIR. George Lansing Taylor
(Methodist) of New Haven, recently ex-
changed pulpits with Rabbi Wechsler, of
the Jewish synagogue. 1t is said that
this is the first instance where a rabbi has
been invited into an evangelical pulpit.
In announcing the fact the pastor said ::
20 The press and the public are cordially
invited to be present, to hear what a
Methodist pastor may have to say in in
Producing an Israelitish rabbi to his con-
gregation, and 'espeo tally to hear what
the learned and liberal and, as I sincere
ly believe, God-fearing rabbi may have
to say for himself and for the good cause
of God and man."
MI. Narayan Sheshadri has succeed
ed in making his mission congregation at
Ialna and Bethel among the most pro-
gressive in India. He not only works
hard himself, but has the faculty of
rousing those around him to do the
same Two bodies of workers are en-
gagged in cvangelistic labors. The one
confines itself to Ialna and the neigh bor-
ing villages, going over the ground again
and again. The other body of laborers
carries the gospel over circuit ola hun
bred miles. Since his return to Europe
upwards of fifty converts have been
added to the church. His people, form
ed into a home missionary society, sup
port an evangelist of their own. The
young converts, banded into a young
mems Christian association, also send out
an evangelist among those of their own
age.-M Y. Independent.
"A very valuable table of the num-
Der of Protestant missionaries in China,
Japan and Siam appears in the Chinese
Recorder. 1t is complete up to the year
1874. In China there are 436 mission
aries stationed at Il important points.
One missionary has been in the field for
thirty-eight years, another thirty-one,
and another thirty; the Others for
shorter terms. In Japan there are 100
Protestant missionaries at 7 stations. OF
the whole number, Al are ordained, are
and 50 are women. In Siam
there a missionaries at 4 stations. OF
the 436 missionaries in China 210 are
from the United States, 194 from Great
Britain, and 80 from Germany; of the
100 in Japan, IS are from the United
States and n from Great Britain. All
the Protestant missionaries in Siam are
from this country.
A PROPHECY FULFILLED.-In 1875,
he special correspondent of the London
Times, W. HI. Russell, wrote: I" As a |
\, Ito would in oil ,,rnhaIilitv nayer have