The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-03-16
CHURCHES AND MINISTERS.

over the beard question.
THE Alabama Baptiss are engaged in
an earnest effort to endOw Howard col
lege at Marion.
A GRAND gathering of English, Ger
man and Swiss Protestants is cOntem-
plated to be heldin Geneva,in the spring.
THE general conference of the Original
FreewilI Baptists, of North Carolina,
contains 80 churches, 80 ministers and
;, 400 members.
The largest salary paid a preacher in
New York city is to DR.. Morgan Dix,
$4,000 a year, and Drs. Chaplin and
Hall get $4,000 each.
BISHOP MARVIN IN. E. Church
SOuth) has consented to write the life of
Bishop Andrew, and wishes to collect
letters written by him.
THE republic of Costa Rica grants re-
ligiOus liberty to all sects and religions.
1t has a population of 100000 inhabi-
tants, and but one Protestant minister
in all the land.
NINE Methodist missionaries are under
/ appointment for foreign fields, and will
shortly sail for their respective missions.
! One goes to America, one to Bulgaria,
! four will join the Bombay, Bengal and
/ Madras missions, and two are for the
/ India mission.
] THE London Times has a letter from
/ COnstantinOple, which gives the details
/ of great suffering among the American
! christians from the cruelty of the Tur-
kish rulers, and the Unrestrained rapine
of the Koords. Many of the christians
are protesting conversion to Islamism, in
the hope of escaping oppression.
| FOREIGN exchanges report revivals in
the west of Ireland, were 300 persons
have professed conversion; in Australia,
where the wonderful stories come that
l 200 bave been lately converted; and in
the eastern part of England, under the
preaching of the Rev. Mr.. Henry Marley,
who was in this country last winter.
THE opinion prevails in certain quar-
tiers in England, that the Jews, with the
ROthchilds at the head, propose puTchas-
ing the Holy Land of Turkey, with a
view of going there in a body. With
many, the restoration Of the Jews to the
land of their fathers is regarded as an
event indicated by the finger Of pro-
phecy.
POPE Plus has been setting a common
dable example to Philanthropists by
building a number of tenement houses
, for poor people in Rome. Each house Is
| divided into thirty-two convenient, com
Portable, well ventilated lodgings of two
: three or four rooms, each compartment
: having a kitchen, and all rented at {
moderate rate.
7 THF North Carolina conference of the
2 Methodist Protestant church has refused
, by two to one to concur in the proposed
| convention of 1877, which has beer
I called for the purpose of COnsUmmatinl
Z. the union between the Methodist Pro
= testant and the Methodist churches
y These two On-episcOpal bodies wer
Y separated by the late war.
QUITE a business indulgence was goinI
> on during December, in Spain. For tn
Il cheap price of three reals (forty cents
: pardon was granted for all past sins ant
L for those of 1876. The indulgences ar
I printed in antique style, and 90 by tn
II name of buldas. The pains RENTED ar
3 those Of purgatOry. A discount of thin
: ty-three per cent. is allowed on indu
j gences for the dead.
y THE Baptist Year Book for 1876,
+ out. It gives reports from 925 assOcis
- lions in the United States, in whic
- there are 21 ,225 churches, with Is, II
Il ordained ministers, and 1,615,300 men
n bers. During the past year, 81, 874 wei
% added by baptism, Probably the staff
~ tics of about 600 churches are not II
II cluded in this exhibit, as no reports wei
% received from some 300 associations.
N ACCORDING to the best and latest r
u man Catholic authority, Sadlier's r
id man Catholic directory for 1876, Il
Mt Catholic church has in the Unite
lg States one cardinal-archhishOp ten 9th
1t. archbishOps, fifty bishops, five thousaI
Is five hundred and twenty-eight ChurchC
ne chapeIs and stations, where mass is reg
81 larry said, and Roman Catholic pop
IS. latiOn of about six million.
VI DIR. MITCHELL estimates the Prote
, tant converts gathered in India duril
1874 at 1000, with 5000 more in BU
NAH and CeyIOn. The chief progress h
20 been among the abOrigines, especially t
lie Kols and Santals. Among the mo
prominent conversions to Christian
D. have been those of a prince and ty
10 princesses in TravancOre. And amOI
Ut the Khassias Of Sylhet, in northe
re India, the Welsh Calvanistic Methods
W have labored with much success.
in THE great Sunday school at StockPo
of England, is famous everywhere. It's l.
re report shOwsin its main school three hu
tn dred and one teachers and three tho
sand six hundred and fourteen schOla
ne Including four branch schools, the tot
Dr. membership is five hundred and twent
a four teachers and three thousand sew
o. hundred and two scholars. Since Il
to school was founded four thousand nj
We hundred and ninety-twO teachers a
A eighty-nine thousand three hundred a
Id twenty-four scholars have been enroll
,et in its membership.
IN, PROF. SCHENI, Of the Methodist +
'Ot view, publishes the following figure
an Total population of the earth, 1896, "a
p 600; under christian government, IS
he 459 All; under non christian COVER
ars ments III 1892, $50; total area of t
ut earth by square miles, 1903, 40; ar
ny of christian governments, 32,4l9,91
he area of nOn-christian lands, 1862, 5;
lie. According to Prof. Schem, nearly tv
he thirds Ofthe christian states OF the wOr
o. as estimated by population, are und
for Protestant rule, or the general sentime
|" of the people in them is favorable
lot ! Professionalism.
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