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painting. 4 remarkable experiment is tried in
making the ground-color Of the roof-dccorations
central tower it is proposed to make it absolute
y black. The church will be ready for occupa-
tion about Christmas.
The New York City Mission, which is in great
measure undenominational, has been in exist
ence fifty years. It's expenditure docs not cx-
coed S5ooo9 annually It employs thirty mis-
One hundred religious services are maintained
every week. The Society appeals to its friends
for help,
The Rev. Newman Halls church in London
now numbers 1000 communicates, and maiu-
tains thirteen Sunday-schoola, seventeen lolg-
inE-houses, Christian instruction Society, and
holds about forty services for the poor every
week. Tie old Surry Chapel, Dr. Ha1l's former
preaching place, is now leased to the Primitive
Methodists. It was once the scene of the labors
Of the famous Rowland Hill.
The Trustees Of the Southern Baptist Theo-
logical Seminary, situated at GrcenyilIe, s. c.,
expect to remove that institution to Louisville,
KY, in September, 1878. The condition Of the
proposed change is that an endowment fund Of
$500, 900 be raised for the seminary, $500 600 Of
the amount coming from Kentucky. The Bap-
lists Of Kentucky have already secured S2G0, 600,
and tue remainder Of the fund, it is expected,
will be raised within two years.
Looking at the outside of the Lcavitt Street
SoAE4 |{sAtAOAtA NA4EC1i, Que NUulU not imagine
it the home OF one Of Chicago's choice circles of
Christian workers. Its Aid Society Thursday
evening gave an entertainment, at which the
pastor, q genial man, and every way fitted for
his work, gave readings. One Of them, Father
Phil's appeal to his flock for money to repair his
church, made the walls Of the little edihce echo
With mlrth, and strengthened the resolve OF
those present to at least protect it, SO that the
rain should not run in rivers down the PASTORS
or their own backs during service.
The church-goers Of Boston must be wonder
Ing what queer things will be next be preached
daily papers of that city, they have the privilege
OF listening to the pastor Of St. Luke's Re-
formed Episcopal Church, who twill preach
sermon in words OF one syllable:n The an
nouncement adds that this will be "a thco1ogi-
cal curiosity" which nobody will dispute. II
the reverend gentleman should take for his text
the monosyl1ubic word "Fool," and make l1is
sermon up Of such words as " Babe -bi-po-bum,''
the seekers after Theological curiosity" could
hardly fail to be gratiied.
The American Baptists began a mission IN
Hamburgin in 1884. From this beginning large re-
suits have been secured. There are now q, SOL
members. The number of Churches is 10; as
socintious, S; Of these the Northwestern num-
bcrs ACES members; the Prussian, L. ,649; the
Middle and Southern, 2,594; the Danish, zoos;
in South Africa. More than half OF ali the
church members are in Prussia. Geographical
" distributed, Northwestern Germany embraces
2,457 members; Prussia, SASS; Middle and
Southwestern Germany, 2,E6; Holland, 1855;
1861; Russia, 4,506; Turkey, III: Africa, ass.
Prof Rohling, Of the University Of Prague,
has written d Book which he calls 4 Anticirist
and the End of tile World.'' His conclusion Is
that Antichrist may be expected in the first de-
cadc OF the coming century; he will oe at first
only small princclet, but afterward Sultan Of
$@F
subduc all the West, and at length make the
whole world tributary to him. Cologne Cathe-
dra1 will serve as one Of his stables. But prior
to this there will be a general European war,
followed by. "sevcral days Of material dark
ness" during which devils are to enter in aud
do their work as avengers by "strangling many
enemies Of the Church." and this is succeeded
By period during which apostolic men are to
20 forth, and IA, 600 Jews to be converted.
Then Antichrist will appaar.
In reference to the growth Of the Roman
Catholic Church in America, it is stated that a
hundred years ago there we're not more than
twenty-five priests in the United States; in $500
there we're supposed to be forty; In 1880 the
number had risen to 2S2, and in 1913 to 800. In
ten years, from 1862 to 1872 the number Of
from 2,3l7 to 4 $40. In 1885, according to the
official statistics of the various dioceses there
were 5,014 priests, 1878 ecclesiastical students,
aud 6,525 churches, or chapels Of the Roman
Catholic rite within the territory of the Repub-
lie. There Tcrealso, in the same year, thirty
theological seminaries, sxty-three colleges, 557
academies and sclect schools, 1,645 parochial
schools, 214 asylums, and hicety-six hospitals
under the authority and control Of the Roman
Catholic clergy Of the United States, sug-
can point to others almost equally suggestive in
English contemporary history. Thus, in sixteen
wears. the number Of Catholic chapels in Great
Britain was more than doubled, there having