The Russellville Democrat., 1877-05-31
RELIGIOUS.

BALTIMORE has 22S churches. Oi these g are Methodist Episcopal, 3S Protestant Episcopal, g Roman Catho. lie, Is Lutheran, r Presbyterian and l6 Baptist. The Methodist churches of all branches number 79.
 THE Christian standard thinks the disciples of Christ added from forty to fifty thousand new members to their churches in 1876. This denomination is credited with membership of from 300,- 900 to 500,0O0.
 MRS. GEN. SHERMAN has received by contributions from the Catholics of America $230, 900, which will he pre- sented to the Pope on the fftieth ami versary of his elevation to the spiscopate.
 AT the graduating exercises of the High school in Hartford, Conn.,, Whang Kai Hah, one of lhe Chinese boys who is being educated in this country, took the second prize in Reclamation over six American boys.
 THERE are 3,509 Congregational churches with 350,65S members, in the United States, and 3,333 ministers. In 1876, %, ,SS4 were added on profession of faith and 12, 400 by letter. The longest pastorate was that of Dr. Leonard With ington. which was sixty-one years. THE vicar of Great Icy, Essex, Eng land, expelled from the Sunday. school at Easter eight girls who came under the prohibition of wearing "collars, cuffs, artificial flowers, feathers, brooches, lockets or earrings"
 0.rox,x,, IT orrx,Sso of fDoIhar, M u bequeathed $3,O00 to the town for the es- tablishment of high school, one of the conditions being that the school should be kept at least six months of every year, but at the last town meeting the | town voted--l04 to S2-not to accept the legacy.
 | A CORRESPONDENT of the Nashville 1 American says that the Nashville Insti. tutc, the central Tennessee college and Fisk university send out every year from two hundred and fifty to three hundred colored teachers, and that these teachers, representing the average ability of the race, are well spoken of by county super. intendents everywhere for their attain ments and their ability to govern. ONE of our religious exchanges, in speaking of religion and insanity, says ''Very few men have religion enough to drive them crazy. Mir. Moody breaches the offer of salvation to sinners. If q sinner who hears this offer refuses to be lieve it, and goes off and blows his brains out, because through his turning into q religious meeting he has been reminded of his guilt, it is hardly fair to say that it was religious excitement which caused that mans death. It was not too much religion, but too little of it, which lee Judas to commit suicide"
 A NEW religious guild has been es tablished in West-end suburb of Lon don. It is called "The Society of tho Love of Jesus," and, with the single ex ception of the vicar, consists entirely o female members between the ages O sixteen and thirty. Among the stipula tions are-that no member will read any book which has not been submitted tt the vicar or the lady warden, that they will all dress simply and modestly, avoie all extravagances, abstain from all i'm proper places of amusement and never 0 free choice attend any place of worship which is not in unison with the churcl of England.
 l THE Bishop of London refused to con secrate St. Agnes' church, Kensingtol Park, last January, unless certain figure in the large stained-glass window above the chancel was removed. Tn, figure was fulllength representation o the Virgin, surmounted by crown o glory and surrounded by a halo, placed side by side with figure of the Savior also surrounded by halo. The obiec tionable figure was removed, the spac' was filled in with plain glass, and thu church was conseorated. Recently, tn, figure was replaced in the window witt the Bishops consent. The crown abou the Virgins head had disappeared, bu the halo remained.