The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-01-10
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Isl Kew west. Eioriaa, she southern Me-
thodiss Church recently est blishfd q mission J,
FOR the benefit 81 the Csbans, four thousanas
az whom are said 10 bays soEgtt . home
there. The mission promiscs 70 acn'eYs
much.
s The latest missionary ssssastics eper.sa
give the followipg totals OF - m oao ns,
Africa including Madagascar, 1oo. OoVs Eu u.
rnne. Including Scandinavia and Germany,
IA 6fsn: Asia. 700. 600: Polynesia, ~, 0ss;
America. North and South. p ,o0Os Wsest
indies, les oog.-toiai, sec, 600.
The Baptist missionaries among tfie eoies
ard Gertaans of RnssIs have had greas sue
Gees the past year. In NeudoIs suey base
bap,ixed asl, and in Torpoise 80.
There are but three Baptist csrarcies In
tbe STATE of Michigan with membership OF
more than 400; six of more than .S0o,;; sew
en,een Of more than 200; fourteen between
I60 and 200; thirty-tRos between NV anu
I6O. seyenty.tiye between 80 aud l00, ieaY-
ing enore than Ig0-nearly half the churches
in the State with membership OF less tnan
so. ,.s;, il.
gaptist church council In Kansas lately
ordained two deacoEs and defined lnelr
Functions. They are 10 manage the tempo.
raIities OF the church in the absence OF the
nasfor: they are TO lead in the deYotionai
meetings of the church; and they may
preach the Gospel and administer the 9fai'
| RANGES as they have opportunity In a
word, they are to be the "7ice' pastors Oh
the church. . 1882
Nearly 800, 900 is spent yearly on mis-
s;onarv work in Africa. OF this sum over
600 600 is expended by European societles !;
the remainder is supplied from America,
THE Church Missionary Society. (Engnsn)
has liz 600 children In It's schools IN airica'
and the WESLEYAN II ,000.- An effort Is now
heine made TO open Central Africa. Wnere
there are. 1t is estimated, 1500O,o00 VINO
have never heard The Gospel.
Tn India. says London paper, there are
some DOC, 900 Christians, or less than one 10
200 of the population; and even OF THESE,
250. 900 appear to be Europeans, or 10 nave
European blood in their veins.
At the annual meeting of the Methodist
Mission at Foochow, China, afty.nine
preachers were reported as connected VIVID
Is. The statistical report showed that there
were l. 28 members-increase, l47 ;b5l pro.
hationers-increase, Ii; and 421 baptized
children-an increase Of 10I. Total MEMBER
ship, 1900.
A law suit over the ownershipiof church
building has just been decided In Kentucky
BY the State Chancellor. A presbytery OF
the. Associated Reformed Church, which
owned church in Louisville, Joined the
Southern Presbyterians in 1870. A suit to
dispossess them of this building was brought
before the courts. The decision confirms the
right OF the presbyters 10 retain the pro.
| perry on the ground that as the church haa
secured the right to use an INSPIRED Psai'
| mody - in worship before joining the South
ern Church, no distinctive principles had
been surrendered.
The Board of Home Missions Of the Pres
byterian Church report that on December
| LIST the receipts for the eight months Of the
year had been s104,9 $40, against the sum OF
| S134294 during the same time last year.
The receipts of the Sustentation Fund are
S13, $40, against $22, G84 last year. The debt
Of the Home Mission Board is 300. 600. The
General Assembly's Commltteeon Freedmen
! report the receipts from April 1stto Decem'
Der 1st as 800, 155, against $lS, 25S last year.
The Board Of Missions OF the Methodist
Episcopal Church South, at its recent meet
ing at Louisville, KY, discussed plans for
bringing the negro race within the pale OF
the Church. The Board seemed to think
| the Catholic Church was in fair way to do
| this. and immediate action was necessary Tor
the success of Professionalism In that object.
During the present century the Church of
England has spent S90,000,000 in church.
building, and 81, 100000 for educational
purposes. The Church of England, during
the year 1874, gave 81, 600, 445 to foreign mis-.
sions; In connection with Nonconformists,
Ss17, 1926 more. The Nonconformist mis-
sjonary societies. contributed 81, 518,6 10 for
foreign work, of which the Wesleyans gave
1905, 795.
The Pope has extended the time for OBJ
tanning the indulgences of the Jubilee to the
Sunday after Easter, 1876, in the discretion
of the chief pastors of the Church. Bishop
Loughip, of Brooklyn, has announced the
fact to his diocese.
There is a Catholic priest in Kansas
Father Pongelene, of the Usage Mission
who is distant relative of Victor Emanuel.
H. was once q lawyer 10 Turin.
Since.the outbreak in Acapulco, Mexico,
against the preaching of the Rev. M. N
Hutchinson, of the Presbyterian Board, the
Protestant church in that town has increased
until II DOW numbers one hundred members
In the surrounding country and towns four
hundred and ninely-six persons have become
Protestants since the attack upon the mission
aries.
On accoant of his liberal views on con!
munion Rev. r. G. Palmer has been expelled
from the Genesee Baptist Ministerial Unlor.
Dr.. Talmage during the last year and eigl
months has received into the membership
of his Brooklyn tabernacle nine hundred AND
! twelve new members.
The resolution OF the Presbytery of Ale
gheny in relation to the publication Of Sun
day newspapers is7much discussed in Pitts
| burgh.
The Rev. Henry c. WestWood, of Lancas'
ter, Pa, has been elected pastor of the Pres.
byterian church In that place, for many years
| In charge OF the late Rev. John Chambers.
MIR. Westwood was originally Methodist
minister. ..-sge 3, st...f. ~.
AT ST. Paups Reformed Episcopal church,
| Chicago, eight clergymen Of different de-
| nominations assisted Rev. DR.. Fallows in ad.
mlnistering communion on Christmas-day.
The first No. ;of the appeal, the new
Reformed Episcopal paper, has appeared. 1t
contains a sermon by.Bisbop Cummins aud
editorials by Bishop Cheney, Dr.. ,Fallows,
and other writers. 80 RI.
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