The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1876-03-02
CHURCHES AND MINISTER'S.

THE Baptists Of impoverished South
Carolina have raised over 100000 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.
BI-Hop MARVIN on, T., South has
consented to write a life Of Bishop An
drew, aud wishes TO collect letters writ
ten by him,
TIE southern Presbyterian assembly
cnumemtcs 81 Sabbath.schooIs the aver
age attendance Of teachers being 1000
and scholars $4,000,
THE Jewish order known rs the Benai
Berth has over $50 lodges in the coun,,
try, with 10000 members, 1t has paid
out for benevolent purposes the past year
about $l26 900.
THE theological school Of Vanderbilt
university has fifty students, nearly all
Of whom are licensed preachers. The
whole number Of students in the univcr'
sity is 800, and steadily increasing.
RECESr statistics show that on the en-
tire globe there are 1904 600 M~ethodists
in full membership, and 23,7O7 Methodist
ministers, The number Of Mcthodists in
Great Britain is 100000, and of preachers
1900.
THE general conference Of the Original
Frccwi.lI Baptists, Of North Carolina,
contains 80 churches, 80 ministers and
500 members, A paper called the Tom
sot is published under the auspices OF
this body, and edited by f. H. Ellis
DIR. JonN HALL,o New York, said to
his congregation; 81 hate to have this
church called mine; ] hate to see it in
the newspapers called DIR. Halls church
1t is not mine; it is yours and your chill
drcn's, or rather it is Christ's, the
Lords"
THE Baptist Ministers Centennial
Club, Of Illinois, now numbers 100 mem.
bcrs, representing aggregate pledges OF
about $4,000. The object Of this club
is to raise funds for the coming year in
aid of Baptist colleges and theological
schools in the state,
Is Toronto, Canada, ten years ago,
there were but two Baptist churches III
the city, with n membership of about
500, and with not more than 400 Sunday
school scholars. Now there six churches
with comfortable houses of worship, sub
,tantialIy paid for, membership Oh about
LOO, and not less than 800 scholars IN
the Sunday-schools.
Is 1892 the Baptists numbered $4,000
members; in 1872, 10000; in 1882, 33l,-
600 in 1910, 81 900; in 1891, OO,OOO;
in 1860, l,OI6,0OO; in 1874, l,76l 900.
Estimating the increase in 1879 at one
half of what il 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 Vocc della Ncrita, published at
Rome, denies that there has been any
negotiation ON the part Of the English
RituaIistS with the Vatican looking to 4
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 Il denial. 1t is safe
to assume, therefore, that the story was
made from whole cloth.
The Baptist Year Book, just issued,
reports for 1875, 1854 baptisms; an
aggregate membership of l,76l III, and
Il net increase OF 81, III. In the New Eng
land states there were 1896 baptisms, and
a net increase of $40 members; that is,
thrcc-iOurths 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
sos; that is, twO-iitths of one per cent.
The increase at the south is much greater.
one Of the editors of a prominent
southern religious journal says: eve
went the other day to a church which
numbers $50 members. That church is
located in a good farming community,
and has a rost0ifice convenient to all the
members. Many Of the members are in
good circumstanccs-all are able to pay
for Il good religious paper. Not one was
taking the UNCONVENTIONAL paper of his
state, nor, so far as we 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"
L., Loo, Lana. Inn1t DuIIlnnI That Illn