The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-03-11
ECCLESIASTICAL.

fused to participate in the centennial ex-
hibition if kept open on the Sabbath.
The King of Burmah has asked for
more Christian teachers to come and re-
side in Mandulay, and promises them
protection and aid.
The pulpit of the excellent DR.. Isaac
Watts was sold a few years ago in Lon
don, and is yet used in. a small place OF
worship in that city.
Two Methodist clergymen in Ala
bama have recently united with the
Baptists- Mr.. Golland, of Able
| vile, and Rev. DIR. William Locke.
"A remarkable meeting of foreign
missionaries employed in city mission
work, was held recently in London.
Grace was said in fourteen different lam
guages.
Rev. Father Bjerring, of the Russo
Greek chapel, in New York city, has
asked permission of the Holy Synod, in
st. Petersburg, to preach in the Epis-
copal church. ---------- 1922
Rev. Prof. Alphonse August Dupont,
a Catholic priest, was recently received
into the ministry of the Episcopal church,
at st. James church, Syracuse, by Bishop
Huntington.
The pulpit used by George Whit
field, In his open-air efforts on Blackheath,
was carefully preserved until very few
years since, when it was borrowed by
careless preacher and broken.
In Scotland, the Baptists have more
than doubled their numbers in the past
| six years. They have now seventy
churches, and three thousand members.
The increase the past year was seventy.
The southern Presby terrain Assembly
enumerates 81 Sabbath schools. Their
united contributions amounted, last year,
to $4,000; the average attendance of
teachers being 5000, and scholars S5, 900.
The Board of Home Missions of the
Presbyterian church reports that on De-
cember first the receipts for the eight
months of the year had been $1O4, $40,
against the sum of $34, 294 during the
same time last year.
The statistics Of the Free. Methodist
church are nine conferences, 255 preach
ers, 10, 900 members, 225 Sunday schools,
5000 scholars, and church property to
the amount of five hundred thousand
dollars. The church was formed in 1850.
| In addition to other bridal presents
Senator Christiancy presented bis bride
with large and assorted family, ready
made, consisting of numerous children
and grandchildren, thus enabling her to
start out in Housekeeping in style be-
coming senator's wife.
In the Zulu mission, South Africa,
there have been numerous cases of the
conversion and awakening of the native
Christians to a sense of their personal
responsibility. In one of their public
meetings, five hundred dollars was sub.
scribed for the cause of Christ.
=. The Protestants have now fifty mis-
sionary stations in japan, and many ma
tive preachers. A new Presbyterian
chapel, with room for seating three hum
dred persons, has just been opened in the
capital, and DIR. Verbeck preached the
sermon in the Japanese language.
The pulpit of. the celebrated Rich
ard Baxter is still preserved in the vestry
Of the Unitarian chnrch al Kiddermin-
ster. It il small, and ofthe octagonal
form. In the front of il, Near the top,
are the words, in yellow letters: Praise
ye the Lord y" and on the four front
panels are the words: T" Daw, widow, gave
this" } ISzG@4s&-T
The new St. Patrick's cathedral, in
New YORK, is S22 feet long, 81 feet wide
in the clear, with a transept 172 feet,
an elevation of 100 feet from the floor
to the crown point of the clear story.
The walls have been built, and they are
now putting on the roof. The cost of
the cathedral will probably be in the
neighborhood Of million dollars.
In Toronto, Canada, ten years ago,
there were but two Baptist churches in
the city, with a membership of about
500, and with not over 400 Sunday
school scholars. To-day, there are six
churches, with comfortable houses of
worship. substantially paid for, MEM
bership of LOO, and not less than
1,50O scholars in The Sunday schools.
The largest organ in the world is
in Albert Hall, London, and was built
by Henry Willis, in 1870. It contains
one hundred and thirty-eisht stops, four
manuals, and nearly ten thousand pipes,
all of which are metal. The wind is
supplied by steam power. Thirteen coup.
lers connect or discennect the various
subdivisions of the organ, at the will of
the performer.
The last census of the United
States shows that there is one church to
every five hundred and thirty-two per-
sons. The increase of population from
1860 to 1870, was sixty-six per cent,
while the increase of churches in the
same time is ninety per cent. They were
nearly doubled in twenty years. This
indicates that the growth of the churches
is greater than that of the population.
The Berlin correspondent of the
London Times writes: Russian gov
eminent missionaries stationed at Hako-
dadi, writing to the semi-official Church
Messenger, triumphantly relate the
steady progress of orthodoxy in Japan.
The conversion of the Japanese to the
Russian religion, they say, is universally
considered by the japanese as guaran-
tee of their success in the great work of
introducing European culture and civil
ization."
Let patience have her perfect work
and bring forth her celestial fruits.