, 1876-12-17
RELIGIOUS MISCELLANY,
THE cHucH IN GENERAL.

VfscEs are now at work upon the Epistle to
Titus.
The Baptist Union. the organ Of the Open
Communion Baptists, suspended publication
this week.
The Congregational churches OF Detroit have
invited the Tr.ennial Council to hold its next
session in thnt city. The time Of meeting will
be next year.
Dr.. Potter denies the report that Grace
Church, New York City, is to be made "a free
church. although he thinks it may become so at
some indefinite time in the future.
The Western yearly meeting of Friends re-
ports 1e,l7s members of local meetings, 1908
Scriptures, and /, ITO members who use TOBACCO,
100 who cultivate it, and - who sell it.
The Cherokee Baptist women have formed a
missionary association, pledgipg themselves to
give dollar ench yearly This, 1t is said, is do
ing better than the white Baptjsrs Of Virginia,
who give only about 80 cents per member for
missions.
4 Biblical scholar in Germany has been doing
some pretty close figuring to determine the
dates OF events described il the Old Testament,
and announces as one result the discovery that
Noah issued from the ark Oh Sept Il, 9444i8 at 6
O'Clock in the evening.
The Ca1yinistic A1ethodists of England report
the following statistics for 1876: Churches,
!,o95: chapels anu preach1ng stations, l,22; mln-
lsters, o2;; preachers, 3o5; deacons' 3.I3g; con-
municants, 106,142 probatloners- 6,2o5; chill
dren in the churches, 4, III; scholars 153, ,7G3;
totnl collections, $Tu,2l5.
Great precautions have been used to make
the Tabernacle noW IN process OF ere:tion for
Mr.. Moody in Boston entirely secure from fire.
There will be doors on the four corners, besides
centre doors on fremont street and Warren
Tho r1af yri1I 11e} },fl1ra tim har br
iron rods. There Will be neither basement nor
gallery, anu the noor OF the auditorium Will rest
on the ground. The ante-rooms and other
apartments Will be in lean-to, built OF brick.
With an iron roof It is expected that this
Tabernacle will seat 5000 persons.
A missionary writing from the Island of Man
csia, South Pacific, reports that the island is
now q land OF Bibles. Not only the heads OF
every household are in possession Of copy, but
nearly eFery chAd upon tue island has one. he
tells OF the case o. Door ola native WHO was
interchangeable "a hls eudeaFors 70 secure copy
the missionary all the money he had, then he
tried to make up the price IN cocoanut oil, and
lastly, rather sAan 1a4 snort, ne solo tne ontF
young COW he had to pay Tor them
The Presbvtcrfans in England, who have re-
cantiy hecn uuited. are m sinfr a 1nenoria1 fund
in coumemorntion Of the event One lavman
has subscribed S125,0N, OF S25,oOOa a wear for
1rc Years. Another has subscribed s5{)OOO tn
endow professional char in the Divinity School
in London Another subscr1bes $l2,5o0 and
two others s1o,oooeach. fIve ~ p pereons subscribe
S5,0OU each, anu lonr S@,UoU eaca. ABOUT
Sl5, ,ooo have been subscribed IN smaller sums,
and congregatlonal couectlons are an no~ making.
Tue total subsGlned Is nearly S5oo'0o.
a con,u,,ttee has bee,, onnointed on heholf of
the Methodist Episcopal Church to enter into
correspondence with other BRANCHES Of the
Ncthndist family in ali parts of the world in
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