The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-01
ECCLESIASTICAL.

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Iowa has twenty-five Catholic edu-
cational institutions.
There are six disciple preachers in
the Kansas legislature.
The Shakers of England are greatly
shaken over the "beard question:
Rev. w. Fl. Milburn, the blind
preacher, is to sail for England this
month, on lecturing tour.
There are said to be seventy-two
Arabs preparing for the Roman Catholic
priesthood in Algeria.
The Rhode Island house of repre-
sentatives has passed bill taxing the
property of religious institutions.
Whittle and Bliss, the evangelists,
will soon conduct series of services in
Selma and Montgomery, Ala.
The Methodist Recorder has sub
scriber eighty-five years old, who earned
the money to renew his subscription by
chopping wood.
Rev. z. w. Warren, pastor of First
Baptist church, Atlanta, has been called
10 the care VI tiic fhoe ChulSH, INicH
mond.
The preachers of the United States
cost $4,000 900, and it is the hardest
earned money in the country.-&. Louis
Christian.
The old Methodist church in San
dersville, Georgia, has been pulled
down. The oldest inhabitant doesn't
remember when it was built.
The board of missions of the Meth
odist church, south, will hold its annual
meeting Friday and Saturday, May 5th
and 9th, at Nashville.
The bishop of London has given
great ofFense to the High church party
because he refused to allow the bishop of
Tennessee to confirm in London church.
Jonathan Lipps, of Carter county,
Tenn, was born in October, 1777, being
now in his ninety-ninth year. He has
been a consistent member of the Bap-
fist church seventy-seven years.
"A Christian pound weighs sixteen
ounces-down weight a Christian yard
is thirty-six inches-cloth not stretched;
a Christian ton is two Thousand pounds
not estimated" but weighed.-Star
in the West.
Certain religious women in New
York city are moving among employers
to induce them to pay their workmen on
Mondays, instead of Saturdays, in order
to lessen the Saturday night and Sun
day drunkenness. This plan is adopted
by a number of mill corporations in other
cities, and has been found to work well.
The Moody and Sankey meetings in
the New York hippodrome seem to drive
in practical direction. A man in the in
quiry meeting the other night confessed
that he was professional thief, and was
overwhelmed by sense of his sins, and
one of the men convicted of sin and con-
verted was a car-conductor who had long
been in the habit of stealing. Like
Zaccheus he is now bound to make resti-
tuition.
The Third Unitarian church in Chi
cago has provided a kindergarten service
for the children of parents who attend
the morning worship, and who must stay
at home or leave their children to the
care of servants unless some such ar
rangement is made. The teacher is &C
complished in the work, and takes charge
of all children between the ages of three
and seven from 10:45 to 11:45 o'clock,
until the parents can meet them in the
church parlors.
One of the peripatetic bootblacks OF
the city, while shining the understand
ing of gentleman, said, looking up from
the boot work: Some rich folks are
mighty mean when Pm done they just
give me three cents or so, and walks off.
I tell you what, if God was quick tenn
pered, some folks would get hurt" Just
SO; the boys theology was sound as the
catechism it is of Gods long suffering
that we are not consumed.-M Y Oh
server.
When Bishop Tuttle (Episcopalian)
and his fellow-missionaries went to Utah
in 1867, not one minister, and only one
church and twenty-six COMMITMENTS
were to be found in his whole jurisdic-
ton, including Montana, Idaho and
Utah. The statistics at present are:
Clergy, 10; candidates and postulants, 5;
churches, 5: baptisms, 900; confirmed,
274; communicates, 402; contributions
by the people of the field for church
purposes, S1O2, 412.31.