The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-03-02
CHURCHES AND MINISTER'S.

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The Baptists of impoverished South
| Carolina have raised over $50, 900 to en-
dow Furman university.
A GRAND gathering of English, Ger
man and Swiss Protestants is cOntem-
plated to be held in Geneva in the
spring
Bishop MARVIN IN. E, South) has
consented to write life of Bishop An
drew, and wishes 10 collect letters writ
ten by him.
THE sUutherti Presbyterian assembly
enumerates 81 Sabbath-schOOls, the aver
age attendance of teachers being 5000
and scholars $4,000.
| THE Jewish order known as the Benai
! Berth has over 250 lodges in the coun-
try, with 10000 members. 1t has paid
out for benevolent purposes the past year
about $126,000.
THE theological school of Vanderbilt
university has fifty students, nearly all
Of whom are licensed preachers. The
| whole number of students in the liniver-
sity is $50, and steadily increasing.
RECENT statistics show that on the en-
tire globe there are 3,704,00 MethOdists
in full membership, and %, 707 Methodist
ministers. The number of MethOdists in
Great Britain is $50, 900, and of preachers
$4,000.
THE general conference of the Original
! Freewill Baptists, of North Carolina,
contains 80 churches, SO ministers and
! 5,400 members. A paper called the TOin-
sOt is published under the auspices of
this body, and edited by F.. r. Ellis.
DR.. join HALL, OF New York, said to
his congregation: Il hate to have this
church called mine; ] hate to see it in
the newspapers called DIR. Halls church.
It is not mine it is yours and your chill
dren's, or rather it is Christ's, the
Lords"
The "Baptist Ministers Centennial
Club, of Illinois" now numbers $50 mem
bers, representing aggregate pledges of
about S25, 900. The object of this club
is to raise funds for the coming year in
aid Of Baptist colleges and theological
schools in the state.
IN Toronto, Canada, ten years ago,
there were but two Baptist churches in
the city, with membership of about
500, and with not more than 400 Sunday
school scholars. Now there six Chttrches
with comfortable houses of worship, sub
stantialIy paid for, a membership of about
LOO, and not less than 800 scholars in
the Sunday-schOOls.
In 1892 the Baptists numbered 5000
members; in 1912, 172, 900; in 1882, 334,
600; in 1910, 81 900; in 1851, no, 900 ;
in 1860, 100000; in 1874, 1,76I,O0O.
Estimating the increase in 1875 at one
half of what it was in 1874, there are at
this time more than 100000 Baptist
church members in the United States, or
one Baptist to every % 20 of the pOpu-
latiOn of the country.
The VOce della Verita, published at
Rome, denies that there has been any
negotiation on the part of the English
Ritualists with the Vatican looking to a
union with the Roman church. Rev.
frederick Lee, of Lambeth, who was
credited with the letter to Archbishop
Manning making the proposition for
union, has also made denial. 1t Is safe
to assume, therefore, that the story was
made from whole cloth.
THE Baptist Year Book, Just issued.
reports for 1876, 1854 baptisms; an
aggregate membership of l ,761,171, and
a net increase of 81, 127. In the New Eng
land states there were 1896 baptisms, and
a net increase of $40 members; that IS,
three-fourths of one per cent. The net
increase in ten central and western states,
namely, New York, New Jersey, Penn
sylvania, Ohio Michigan, Indiana, Hi
nOis, Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota, was
l 500; that l., twO-ifths of one per cent.
The increase at the south is mnch greater.
ONE of the editors of a prominent
southern religious journal says: Owe
went the other day to a church which
numbers $50 members. That church is
located in a good farming community,
and has rOstOffice convenient to all the
members. Many of the members are in
good circumstances-all are able to pay
for good religious paper. Not one was
taking the UNCONVENTIONAL paper of his
state, nor, so far as VIC know, any other
religious paper. We made an earnest
effort to induce some of them to subscribe
even offered them a handsome pre-
MUM; but with all that we could do we
got only one subscription. Reason: DON'T
read"
IT has long been assumed that the
world is nOn-Christian, and old tables
Osignally guessed at, arc still repro
duced to prove the proposition. Prof
Schem, having gone carefully over the
data, reaches two results First, nearly
one half the population of the earth is
under Christian governments; second
nearly twO-thirds of the area of the earth
are under Christian governments. Here
are his totals Total population of the
earth, l 1898, 842, 900 under Christian gov
ernments, III 1885,, $50; total area of tn,
earth by square miles, 52,062, 400 area
of Christian governments, 80, 1925
area of nOn-Christian lands; 1852, $50
Another result of Prof Schem's figure
is that nearly twO-thirds of the Christian
: states, measured by population, ar
Protestant.-T The Methodist