, 1876-12-24
RELIGIOUS MISCELLANY.

THE CHURCH IN GENERAL.
The expense Of collecting and disbursing the
missionary funds Of the Methodist Episcopal
Church is ~ per cent of the amount collected.
The growth of Professionalism in Palestine is
rapid. There are now $50 Protestant churches
in the Holy Land, and the schools there have
1900 pupils
Upon its completion, the Roman Catholic
Cathedral ut Hartford, Conn.,, will be the largest
church .editicc in New England. Its spires will
be $50 feet In height
The Church OF the Unity (Unitarian), Boston,
has paid every dollar Of its Indebtedness out OF
its regular income, and holds all its property
free Of iucumbrance, and ut the close OF the
present year has balance in tst treasury OF
81, L53..
A queer sort Of petty unpleasantness is now
going on in Brooklyn, where several columns
day Of the local papers are occupied with dis
cussions IS to whether this or that particular
clergyman was accorded his proper share OF
houor in the public services of last Sunday COM
memoratiye OF the theatre calamity.
1t Is proposed that every communicant in the
Episcopal Church lay by each week until All
Saints Day Of next year, 10 cents for
tie general missionary work. At the close OF
lust year there were 281 003 communicates. so
that ut 10 cents per week for each one would
yield the sum Of 81, ,s57, ,215 for the year.
The Oregon Methodist Episcopal Conference
reports membership of 3,623, with 7A proba-
tioners and sixty:six local preachers, making
ports 10,697, including probattoners and preach
ers. This shows an advance OF 16 per cent dur
ing the year.
More than half the pastors in Dakota Presby-
tery are native Sioux. There are niue churches
belonging to the body, six OF whom have native
r o31au ,f1ynr 4
members, and their gifts for various objects
amounted last year to 1892. Who dare say that
the Indians calnot be Christinnized, with such
q record!
Seventeen young men we're admitted to the
General Theological Seminary OF the Episcopal
Church in this city at the annual meeting NOV.
matriculated during the year twenty-seven;
After the exercises were ended the Bishop ana
his candidates in the Seminary and q number OF
guests took luncheon with the Dean.
The Congreqatsonalitt calls for the establish
ment Of distinct district Sunday school bureau
for the supervision of Sunday-schools in the
CONGREGATIONAL churches. The cGort to obtain
more thorough organization OF Sunday-school
work, through the American Home Missionary
Society, has not succeeded, the Society declining
to do luore than receive and d1sbufst contI1ou-
tions.
The ultra party in the Southern Presbyterian
(uuIEHs IcpIESE1lLE4 ~ -" - 1.~S r. -
Louisiana, are strongly opposed to fraternity
with the Northern Church on the terms agreed
to by the two Assemblies last spring: Inc ne"
Orleans Presbytery resolves that - 10 require
our church to negotiate on the basis OF reclproc-
fty would require what, IN the nature VI Iue
case, is impossible"
The Second PRESBYTERIAN Church Of Philadel-
phia, which was founded by the Rcys. Gilbert
Tenneut and Wllitetield, celebrated on the 9TH
inst. its 1884 anniversary. Its charter bears Inc
names CT Thomas and John fcnn. Ihe ch'lrcn
slow stands. upon Walnut and I"enty-nrst,
streets, Many "reminiscences ot the OLD time:"'
were brought forward by the SPEAKERS VINO TOOK
part in the celebration.
The Rev. ". C. Powell presents the following
STATEMENT III relation to the support OF Tue
Episcopal clergy in. California. Leaving OUT
three Kcctors il San Francisco, who receive an
aggregate sum of S1o,ooo, the torty-eigntn - aea-
gyIneM Of the diocese who are engaged n u pa- M
rochial and mission work receive .52o2;5v, y.
which gives them an annual stipend o1 Sa9.4o
Der month, which places their work on par
with Chinese lahcT.
nHoy to I'll church, is a question Thicn
many uliniste: and many church trustee Is Is
anr:ous to solye. Sir Henry Cole answered 1t
in his own way at the recent meeting OF the
Watford Public Library. The Vicar OF the
Parish Church at Brompton gave him PERMISSION
TO hold musical service oth:e Weeh-oh l ues-
day. AL the sents we're to be Tee' Ihe1e "as
i've "a or si1 hyms or psallns sung to good old
times, With an accompaniment Of trumpets,
tronlbones, and kettledrums. The yica1 r, gaze ~,
his assent aud the service was held, m im-
mEnse congregation focking in and joining
with one coascnt in the hymns, the effect OF
which was rendered still more impressive BY the
ancient musical instruments.
The students Of Yale sang songs which we're
so far helow the standard OF the h-fashioned
college songs that the faculty ordered ali sng. e
fng to be discoptinued on the campus or In the
h1j,dIn0a Rnt in issuing the order these some-
what impracticable gentlemen forgot that the
chnpel Was one Of the buildings, and forgot TO
say ANYTHING about singing in divine service