The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-01-24
suNDAY ITEMS.

Paris is shortly to have Unitarian
church.
Rev. Alphoose Dupont, formerly Roman
Catholic priest, has taken orders at Syracuse.
in the Episcopal Church.
The members OF the Protestant Episcopal
Church In West Virginia are anxious to
have the diocese of Virginia divided go they
can form new diocese.
An itinerant preacher from Ohio has been
holding "open air meetings" in Baltimore.
near The City Hall, bis chief object being.
confcssedly, TO convert the city officials.
The Unitarian Year. Book for 1876 re-.
ports 352 Uoitarian societies and "9s minis
tiers, Of whom 217 are engaged in the acIual
work Of the ministry. OF these socleties 100
are without pastors.
One of the converts at the Moody and San
kew meetings, In England, was young Nor
weeiar. lie has returned to Norway and
started Sunday school, the first ever started
in the northern part Of that country.
The first colored man has just been or.
dained as minister Of the Reformed Epis-
copal Church. His rame is Frank c. Fer
guson, and he was ordained deacon By
Bishop Cummins, at Pineville, s. c.
The great obstacle with which the mis-
sonaries among the Zuius have TO contend
il polygamy. The exchange OF wives for
cattle, as source of revenue, ease, and
honor, has irresistible fascination for the
owner Of kraa'.
The Russian Mennontes are still coming
to the Uuited States, though not in such
large numbers as formerly. Ten families ar
rived last month, and twenty-five or thirty
more families are expected soon. The most
OF the party last arrived have gone to GreaT
Bend, Rush county, Kansas.
More than fifty Methodist ministers in New
York and vicinity have organized weekly
preachers meeting exclusively for prayer,
praise, and religious testimony. The FIRST
was a meeting held In the lecture.room OF
the Seyentb-S,rcet Methodist church on Fri
day last.
The Chicago AdcQnce think, that one oil
the causes why there are so many heDie
churches in this country Is q sectarian com
netiliou. which has Organized three or four
times as many churches rs can be sustained.
All denominations (lt thioks) have sinned In
his matter, and must retreat 10 better posi-
ton
TIE Christian I.rael'es" are q sect in
~cOthGG. iDty Cidtu' W uhfS ieeei'S"
revelation from g nj Tia! they are deSct nd
ants Of the Is, tribes of Israel, whom the
Lord Is thus gathering from among the Ms
tons. according TO bis promise by bis pro-
phets. They keep S;x,h-day night, and also
the hour from ~ 10 II A. N. OF First Day
AZ sacred time, By special revelation. They
practice circumcision, md will not Use mixed
clothing, food, seeds, etc.
The revival conducted by Messrs. White
and Bliss, in Louisville, Ky, was very sue
cessful QUE Among the results are the ad.
tii.ion Of 200 new n,embers to one Presby-
terrain church and 100 10 another, besides
smaller gains to hers. Fifteen members
have been received lately into the Seventh
Presb} terrain church, Of indianapolis, In6.,
and twenty persons into the Ninth Presby-
terrain church, of the same city. The Scotch
PRESBYTERIAN Church OF Chiciso received
TWENTY-FIVE new members at their last com.
muniou.
In China there are 1856 Protestant mission
aries stationed al Al important points. Que
missionary has been in the field tbrty-eight
wears, another thirt y-oup, and another thirty;
the others Tor shorter terms. Ia japan
there are 100 Protestant missionaries at
Stations. Of the wloe number A are Or
dained, are physicians, and 81 are women.
In Siam there are "a missionaries at sta
lions. Or the 1876 missionaries 10 China 210
are from the United States, 1914 from Great
Britain. and 81 frGm Germany; of the 100 10
japan Is are from he Uaitcd States and "a
from Grea. Britain. All The Protestant mis-
sonaries 10 Siam are from this country.