The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-01-06
RELIGIOUS ITEMS.

THE average salary of Methodist
preachers in Nerth Carolina is five hun
dred and t~hirty-fve dollars.
The Methodist Episcopal Church is
agitating the question of electing a col
ored Bishop at the next General Con-
ference.
IT is said that the Baptist Church at
Hampton Falls, N. H., which has been
built but nineteen years, has during that
time had one hundred and seven min
listers to supply the pulpit.
The Old Catholics are much troubled
by the question of the celibacy of the
clergy. Their synods so far, on grounds
of expediency, negative all applications
Of priests for liberty to marry.
The Rev. DR.. s. B. Page, District Sec
rotary of the American Baptist Home
Mission Society for Ohio and West Vir-
ginia, has had his field enlarged by the
addition of Indiana and Michigan.
THE Baptists in Indiana have a men,
bership of $4,000, and the Rev. Nj. Rus
sci, a Baptist Sunday-school missionary
in that State, reports 525 schools, about
three-ffths of them continuing through
out the year.
In the city of Pit1sburg, Pr~esbyterians
have forty-four churches, Methodists
~thirty-eight, Episcopalians t~wenty-nine.
Hsere are four Protestant colleges, three
theological seminaries, one university
and nine religious papers.
Mr.. SAMUEL R. WILSON, a member
and officer of st. Michael's Church,
Trenton, New Jersey, is building a hand
some residence for Bishop Scarborough
1t is nearly completed, and will be pre-.
sented as a free gift to the diocese.
THE first Baptist Church in Montrea.
was organized in 1881, with a member
ship of twenty-five. Now they have
three costly and elegant churches, with
over five hundred communicates, anC
more than a thousand Sunday-school
scholars.
WHILE other Missionary Boards ar,
in debt, some of them in large amounts
the Protestant Episcopal Church Mis-
sionary Society reports its treasury fire,
from debt. Its receipts for the last fsca
year we're S58, 993. Its missions on thi
Continent cover nineteen States ant
Mexico.
SOME discussion is taking place abou
the propriety of comforting on Protet
tant Episcopal Bishops the power no,
exercised by the Methodist Bishops, o
appointing %clergymen to vacant parishe.
1t would give many unemployed clergy
men parishes, and fill many vacan
pulpits.
THE Rev. DR.. Eccleston has decline
the bishopric of Iowa, to which he ha
been elected, although the standing com
mittees had approved the election. TIL
cause was the uncompromising hostilit
: of a strong low-church party in the die
! cese, whose leaders declared from tn
: outset that the election had been brougt
= about by fraud.
7 THE New York City Methodist Extel
sion and Missionary Society, since il
establishment ten years ago, reports for
, thousand conversions. 1t has now undo
its care seventeen organized churches,
membership of 1892, and 1852 prob
TONERS. Itemploys twenty-three paste
and assistants, and has expended in tn
work $4,000.
; THE Northern Presbyterian Churc
: in its march South has organized Ii
Synod of Atlantic, composed of 81
!. Presbyteries in four States, having OF
: hundred and tw~enty-three churche
. forty-four ministers, and about ten tho
sand members, mostly eolored. Most
the churches have preaching but once
MONTH, but other services are kept U
regularly.
THE programme for the celebration
the Centenary of American Indepen'
r ence by the Methodist Episcopal Church
has been published. The thanksgivir
: services will begin on the first Sunday
q June, and close on the Fourth of Jul
Each church will select a Sunday du
t ing the interval named. The exercis
will be a memorial sermon and a chill
ren's meeting. The people are invite
to devote their gifts to the cause of ed
cation.