, 1876-02-20
PERSONAL.

It is said tia. Chang, tue Chinese giant, ha:
lately been received into the Baptist Church e
Shanghai. His height Is 7 feet inches.
The venerable Dr.. Lovlc1 Pierce, the Patri
arch of tue Southern Methodist Church, h.!
lost his voice. He is now in his o2d year.
Tho rev. William Patton, D. D., OF Nov
Haven (Congregationallst). has submitted to q
severe surgical operation at the Ego of Is, and is
rapidly recovering.
Alr. Moody las been invited by the Pastora
Union of San francisco to visit California. Ht
replies that hs would like to 20, but tho work in
the East presses him so that he feels unable te
plan beyond it.
On the 18Th u1t., the United Presbyterian Pres.
bytery of ki.marnock, Scotland, ordained the
key. George 4. Heushan, OF Daibeattic, Us as.
s,stant and successor to tho videly-known Rev.
DR.. ". B. Robertson. OF Trinity Church, Irvine.
Mr. ueughau has brother living in Chicago.
The labors OF Messrs. Whittle aud Bliss in St.
Louis meet with much favor. The ST. Louis
Presbyterian thus speaks nf them: Plain, un-
assuming men Of very moderate education. they
have power IN that they exalt Christ, They cut
NO capers and abjure sensatiouaism, and thus
far nothing in violation of the strctess decoru N
has occurred in their public meetings."
Tho statement thnt a1r. George n. Curtis had
been reading the lev. Stopford Brooke's ser
mons in the Church of the Redeemer, Staten
Iefand, hns created the report that he has be-
come q lay reader in the Protestant Episcopal
Church. The Church of the Redeemer Is Untta-
rian, and 3ir. Curtis reads such sermons as seem
to him to be most instructive and edifying.
Prof. Won Schultz, one OF the leaders Of the
German Old Catholics, has published q pamphlet
in which lie advocates the abolition of compul-
sorry clerical celibacy- He claims that before the
TF-r ,Enf- fFt It
agreed on three points onty: ~ That a Bishop
ahou!d not I've in matrlmony; (2) that priest
should not marry secnnd time; and (3) that a
Eerson who had been married twice should not
bo ordained priest.
Tho Bishop OF London has refused to grant
the request ct one OF his parish-church miuis-
ters. who ashed that Bishop Qu,ntaru, of Tan
pessee, might confirm come children in his
church. 1t is not explained whether the refusal
was such az to Imply any obi ection to the Bishop
Of Tennossces peculiar rlews OF Ills American
position, or whether it was merely an act of Off
cial order On the part Of the Bishop OF London
in maintaining the exclusive care Of his onn
diocese. '---<
Sister Anna Names WAS licensed to sspropbe-
ey" by the Baptists Of Burlington, Mich, last
fall, and she ia now doing an active evangelical
work In Porter about forty have been brought
to Christ under her labors; III the Village Of
Decatur eighty wero brought to repentance,
about one-half of them adults; q second se1ies
of meetings in Porter resulted in the conversion
of over twenty souls. She has also spoken With
good results in Lawton. aud thence went to Va
verify to continue her efforts.
/, The Rev. s. Il. Meeker pastor for nearly fifty
one years OF the old Reformed Church in Bush
wick, williamsburg, N. T., died Feb. 2. He rose
at his usual honr, bnt after being up short
time he said he felt faint. He then laid down,
and died in perfect peace about fifteen minutes
later. In 1895 be Was installed pastor OF the
Bushwick Church, the Oldest church save ore in
Kings County. He founded the first Sunday
school in what is now Rrooklvn,' on Sunday,
April n, 1897. During the fifty years Of Ills
pastoEate be never missed but one Sunday, BY
sickness, from tho pulpit and throughout the
entire time has Kept hlmself " free from. blame
and reproach."