The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-05-13
RELIGIOUS ITEMS.

The seven Congregational Theologicaia -
senainaries report 36 professors ana 3034 :
tudents.
The Reformed (Germen) Church has
lad an accession of 2,737 new members
since January. ia
The receipts of the Presbyterian Board
,f Church Freedom thls year are $iS,Oo0]
IN advance of those OF last year.
The Presbytery of New York has re- u
lnested all its ministers to preach his
l0rlcal discourses on or before july A.
Vermont has but three Presbyterianl1 Ii
churches. The third was recently oreaN :
nized at Ryegate, with ninety-eigAtl
members. H.
Rev. Charles A. Lord, OF the Christian +
ID rrror (Congregational) Of Portland, II
Nj g., has accepted o fnofessORship in
Bow doin College.
ON May 25 there is to be consum. u
mated all important union of two re-c|
ligious bouies-tha United Presbyter-
ians and English Presbyterlans.
The American Home Missionary Soci-
ETY. (Oongregationa!) closes its financial
wear out oil debt. Its receipts were
81 900 higher than in the previous year.
Rev. Dir. Breed is lecturing to raise
funds to pay for the Witherspoon statue.
the Presbyterian contribution to the |
About 81, 900 is yet needed. |
The receipts for foreign missions in |
the Southern Presbyterian Church for
the past year We're S6l,237, an increase
OF nearly $20, 900 oyer the previous year.
The anniversaries OF benevolent socie-
ties in London are more numerous this
year than ever before. They began In
April and Will last nearly all this
month.
| John Fretwell. jr., has collected about
six hundred volumes or Unitarian lltera-
| ture in Europe and America, which Will
lbe on exhibition at Philadelphia this
summer.
| In thirteen counties in South eastern
| Texas there is not a single Presbyterian
church. The denomination is called on
4 TO raise funds to found missions in this
| neglected section.
4 The Baptists are strong In Virginia.
lThe regular Baptists have 63, 435 white
and 110, ,5OS colored members. Ine Anti
: mission Baptists have about $500 men,
uers; total, 1898 members. .#
Il Rev. Burdett Kemper died recently at
his home i'll Garrard County, KY. III the
S5th year OF his age. He mas preached
the Gospel over ftly years, and itls SAID
: he has baptized over 1000 persons.
The oldest priest in New England is
Father Fitton, of Boston. he celebrated
mass when there was only one Catholic
church in this country between Boston
and New York. lie is hale and hearty.
} The General Conference of the African
, Methodist Church of the United States
, lmet at Atlanta, Ga, on Monday. Six Bish-
OPS and 25O delegates were present. The
! Conference Will be in session two
/. weeks. ...
D A little more than three years ago
p three missionaries OF the Presbyterian
. Church began their work in Mexico, and
now the churches which they nave
: founded number between 1,5U0 and 2,00O
S members.
, The eighty first annual council of the
, Protestant Episcopal Diocese OF Virgin
ia Will he held at Alexandria, Va, May
II. The council VIII elect "a Bishop to
succ eed Bishop JOHNS, whose death oc-
L CURED recently.
q The faith of the Second Adventists ex
:, periences no visible abatement. So fal
) as the Massachutts Conference is con
o |cerned, their numbers hold about thu
e same as usual, 100 delegates from 81
;. towns and cities having reported a
- their annual meeting at Lyon, las
- week.
'' Rev. DR.. D. W. Fisher. Pastor of tn
e First Presby terian Church OF Wheeling
e w est Va, has resigned and sails snortly
for Europe, in company with Rev
. Alexander Clark, VINO Is fraternal dele
gate from the Methodist Protestan
10 Church to the English Wesleyan Con
tie ference.
or Tue First Reformed Episcopal Churcl
ie of New York City, underline care OF Rev
is w. L. Sabine, has bought three lots o
Is Madison avenue and Flfty-h1th street
II. where they ''purpose building churc
he edjiice OF their own, simple ana plain, a
h becomes thaprinciples OF the Reforme
Church"
ne Charles ", Emperor of Germany, lie
1t. behind him this comprehensive test
IL mony: II have tasted more satisfactlo
m in my solitude in one day, than III a
-, the triumphs of my former reign. III
'es sincere study, profession and practice
the Christian religion have in them sue
Joys and sweetness as are seldom foun
-e- IN courts and grandeur"
'er Bishop G Clinton has been in conferent
~ with Bishop Miles, representing respec
.ly lively the African Methodist Epjsoop
es Zion and the Col0red Methodist Episc
tin lpal Churches, concerning the union
~ tne two bodies. Negotiations are pen
- ing also w4th the African Methodi
ne Episcopal Church and a union of the:
ca tnree colored organizations is favor,
,a- by large number OF their members.
,at The Rev. Williams Stevens Per
:. (Protestant EpiscopaD, who, for b
Ia last seven years, has been rector
OF Trinity Church, in Geneva, N. Y, h
been offered the Presidency Of Hoba
College in Geneva. Doctor Perry is
graduate OF Harvard University and h
=. been Secretary of the General Conve
uo' ton and Historian of the Plotes I'd
Nj. Episcopal Church Of the United STATE
ing In honor ofits founder, the officers
of Vanderbilt University, at Nashyir
on, will observe the Commodore's Dirthd
oin oi as perpetual holiday. For the occasi
ere q prize ior oratory, called the Founde
RS Priz4, has been established, ior Whi,
me there will be four competitors elect
annually by the literary societi'
ihe Other exercises will be ordered by {
the Faculty, On the appi oaching 9th
ow May Two addresses Will be deliveret
ra- one by the President of the Board
1er Trust and one by the Chancellor Of t
ost University.
Ieu The TJniyersities' Mission fChurch