The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1876-03-14
ECCLESIASTICAL.

:. In the Alabama Methodist confer
ence there are 20 preachers, and 2S,025
white members.
The fremont Temple Baptist church,
in Boston, of which DR.. Lorimer is pas
tor, contains 1909 members.
Rev. VIM. P. Harrison, D. D., of the
Georgia conference, has become associate
editor of the Baltimore Episcopal Meth
odist.
Rev's l. B. Grubbs, S. A. Kelley and
F. G. Allen have assumed control OF the
Apostolic Times, the organ of the Ken
lucky Christians.
The American Board of Foreign Mis-
sions has reduced its $500, 900 deficiency
to about S., 900, and has appropriated for
the expenses of the coming year as much,
within s25, 900, as was spent in 1875.
The Catholic memorial fountain at
tine Centennial grounds in Philadelphia
is to cost $4,000. The statues will cost
$4,000, and will come from the studios
Of several of the most distinguished Ital-
ian sculptors.
The South Carolina Baptist State
Convention recommends to the trustees
Of the Southern Baptist Theological
Seminary to retain this institution in
Greenville, unless Kentucky shall have
raised her promised 100000 before an
other session of the convention.
The Methodist estimates that there
are 10000 families in the Methodist
communion who take no religious paper,
and places the circulation of nom Meth
odist papers in that denomination at 9o,-
600, which is just equal to the united
circulation Of the official Methodist pa
perA
The Friends of Birmingham, Eng
land, conduct and sustain Sunday -schools
for adults. Many of the scholars have
reached middle life. Two thousand men
and women are brought together by this
agency for religious instruction every
Sunday. The schools were begun twenty
seven years ago.
Continued ill-health has forced DIR.
M. B. Wharton to resign his pleasant
position as pastor of the Green-street
church in Augusta, Ga. His resignation
was refused, but he felt it his duty to
make it unalterable. Rev. W. w. Lam
drum, Of Memphis, has been called to
succeed DR.. Wharton.
The friends of the late Bishop Lee
Of Iowa, are proposing to complete the
unfinished tower upon the Episcopal
Cathedral at Davenport, and to call il
the Memorial Tower" in his honor. Il
is estimated that between $4,000 ane
$4,000 will be required for the purpose
and steps will be taken to raise the nee
essary funds at once, that the work ma!
be begun Immediately.
The new Methodist Almanac give
the latest numerical statistics of Metho
dism throughout the world, furnishing
the following totals:
Episcopal Methodists in U. States. ,025, AZ
NOn-Episcopal. ........................... 1913
MethodistS in other countries. ,015, 81
Total lay communicates. 1S9, 10
The total number of itinerant preacher
1881, and of local preachers 81, Ala
an increase during the year of 1926 itir
Grant ministers, and decrease of 1,65
local preachers.
The American Bible revision com
mittee is at work on the Psalms and tn
Epistle of James, and the First Epistl
of Peter. So far the five books Of Nose
and the Acts of the Apostles have bee
revised. The names of the committe
members are Drs. Woolsey, Dwight an
Day, Of New Haven; DR.. Schaff, of Ne
York; Bishop Lee, of Maryland; Prof
Thayer and Mead, of Andover; Har
and Krauth, of Philadelphia; Aiken, {
Princeton; Drs. Crosby, Washburne an
Chambers, of New York, and some other
Rev. DR.. s. S. Laws, of the Presby
terry Of New York, has just been electe
president of the state university Of Mi
souri,. He graduated with honor .
Miami university, Ohio. In 1856. he W,
graduated from the theological seminar
at Princetown, and in 1854 was mad
president of Westminster college, Mi
souri,. He invented the stock telegrap
now in use throughout the world, frol
which he has derived an ample fortun