Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1876-11-01
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

The first Protestant Church in
Constaatinople was opened in 1916.
There are now seventy-siX in the Turk
ish Empire, of which third are self
supporting and independent. Four
Evangelical Unions have been
formed for mutual counsel and aid.
Connected with these churches are
congregations aggr egat;ng $4,000, with
a population of over $4,000 native
ProteStantS.
The sneering question is con-
tinually ringing in the ear, "What
have missions done?' Africa sends
back response from 100000 church
members; Asia from 120,0 Europe.
with Scandinavia and Germany, So
600; America, 22,OOO Polynesia, TO-
900; the West Indies, 100000; a
grand total of 500, 900 gathered out of
the darkness of idolatry and heathen-
ism into the communion of the Church
of Christ!
DR.. Pentecost, who was driven
from New York to Boston because he
insisted on practicing open-communiOn
in a close-communion Baptist church,
is now in difficulty again. His church
sustains him, but the local Association
proposes to investigator both him
and his church. He expresses his
willingness to submit to an eXamina-
ton, and promises to establish Open
Communionism as the true and only
Baptist doctrine. Chicago Tribune.
In the little village Of Ell Rancho,
n. NJ, the Christian people are not
afraid of work. The members of the
Presbyterian Church living in that To-
cality are building a church. They de-
vote one day in each week to this
work, until the building is finished.
They have already completed the wall
around the graveyard, and have pre-
pared dried brick (adobe) for the
church. The women have plastered
the walls of the graveyard with their
own hands, and as soon as the build
ing is ready will do the same for its
walls. These poor people have will
ing hands but no money
There have been good many mild
criticisms going about the religious
press against the authorities of the
John Hopkins University, for their
the occasion of the formal opening of
the University. 1t is private insttu-
ton and the trustees had a complete
right to do as they chose, and we
should have been better pleased if they
had sought the blessing of God but the
offering of prayer would not have
made the institution religious one,
nor does its omission make it an I'M
safe place for young men. Had Presi-
dent McCosh made the opening adj
dress, instead Of Prof Huxley, nobody
would have noticed the absence of any
religious exercises. ". Y. Iiadepend-
eat.
Bishop Kavanaugh. of the South
ern Methodist Church, seems pleased
with the union which has lately been
consummated between the Northern
and Southern Methodists. IN Ken
lucky Conference he lately said: -
have read good deal in some of our
papers about men who gush or slop
over when on the fraternity question.
This, i think, was often intended for
me. Well, | have Irish blood in me
which makes me warm and earnest in
a good cause. When our brethren of
the North approached us in a fraternal
way, | for one was in favor of meet
ing their advances. | went to their
camp-meetings to try fraternity and
see how it would go-try it on and see
how it would fit. liked it. 1t was
better than had supposed Together
we enjoyed the divine baptism, as the
glory of God came down upon us in
copious showers"