The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-04-20


Though the sins were not thine own;
Thou hast deigned their load to bear,
Gracious Son Of Mary, hear!
Henry Hart Mlnaan
WE so often think of meeting again as
necessary consequence of death and
yet, beyond the grave are diverse ways.
THE Disciples of Christ have estab-
lished a mission in Kingston, Jamaica,
which reports a number of additions to its
membership.
The annual revenue of the Episcopal
Church in England is reported at $780,
00,000. OF this amount the Archbishop
of Canterbury gets $4,000. s, ~
THE progress of the Presbyterian
Church in Texas is exceedingly encour-
aging. In 1867 only ILL church mem
bers were reported, and in 1876 the num-
ber was 1928. In eight years the synod
has grown nearly four-fold. 1t has grown
more rapidly than any other in this
country.
The Indian Commission of the Prot
estant Episcopal Church has issued an
appeal for help. The schools are full and
the religious services are well attended.
The school at the Spotted Tail agency has
40 pupils. Unless subscriptions are
sent in, the embarrassment of the Com
mission will render the withdrawal of the
ministers and teachers necessary.
REy.DR. DICKSON, an officer of the
Presbyterian Board of Domestic Missions
says that he has been in correspondence
of late with more than thousand minis
ters, and the report ofreviyals of religion
was almost universal-unprecedented in
modern times He thinks the accessions
to the churches this year will be greater
than any former year of its history.
The English Clergy List" shows that
one-third of the benefces in England
and Wales are under 5000 year in
value. There are 1868 liyings of f150
and under 9200 year 1,546 of s100
and under f150; 1854 under f100, and
396 of which there is no return. The ad-
dition gives total of 4, ,654 livings, many
Of them with populations exceeding 1000
and 5000, under f200 year.
THE domestic missions of the Method
ist Church are reported to be in -four
ishing condition. They represent 306
missionaries members, 1908; proba-
tioners, 1928; local preachers, 92;
churches, %, valued at $252, ,S65; and
SO parsonages, worth $3.50. Sixteen
of the missionaries are among the Indians,
and tne report shows 2, 167 members and
51S probationers of this class, and IL
churches.
AN effort will be made in the coming
Methodist General Conference to split
the denomination on the color line, by
making it divide the conferences and the
churches into white and black on the
plea that the way to Union with the
Church South will be hastened by this
concession to their usage and prejudice,
without detriment to the reconstructed
party. 1t is insisted upon in Texas as a
necessary concession.
THE Evangelical and Unsectarian
China Inland Mission is endeavoring to
send the Gospel inte the interior of that
great Empire by means of forty-four mis-
sionaries and their wives, seventy male
native assistants and six native Bible
women. They occupy about fifty sta
tions in five of the Eastern Provinces
whose aggregate population is about
220, ,000, 900. The other nine provinces
with 10000 900, have no resident Pro-
testant missionaries. They have, how
ever, nine Roman Catholic bishops and
two hundred priests.
THE Southern Methodists are in terri
BILE furry over dancing church members
Their discipline makes this practice an
ofense grave enough for exclusion; but
in many places to exclude all the pioul
dancers would be equivalent. to shutting
up the meeting house altogether. What
they should do, therefore, is a grave
question under the circumstances. Ont
minister writes about it as plague, and
declares that he will do his utmost to de
stroy and root it out of the church. Th,
Southern Methodists have resolved :" tina
Bishop Haven having told so much abou
the South that is untrue, ought to desis
from the exercises of his episcopal offic,
until there is thorough reform in hi
morals"
The recent division of the Catholi
Diocese of Pittsburg, forming it into two
is an lndlcauOn OF the rapid CROWN Q
this church in the United States. Bisho
.Domenec retains the charge OF one of tn
divisions, and in letter to his peopl
gives the following statistics: In 1876
there were 80, 900 Catholics in the diocese
now there are 100000. In Alleghan
county alone, more than twenty-si
churches have been built, and larg
additions made to others. Twenty ne
converts have been erected, and eigh
new communities of women introduced
This growth brings the Irish Presbyt,
rians, who abound in Western Pennsy
vania, and the Irish Catholics face I
face, very much as they confront one al
other in their old home.
An Arabian Joan of Arc.