The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1877-04-02
Church Items.

The Genera Assembly of the PresbSte-
rian Church in Victoria, Australia, reports
122 settled ministers. 400 elders, $4,000 COM
municantS, 2G4 Sunday schools, and an in
come of 100000.
The collections for the United Prcsbyte-
rian benevolent funds are stated to be very
encouraging, but the Presbyterian Board Of
Home Missions announces 4 falling of in
receipts OF S25,000.
The Northern and Southern Presbyterian
Assemblies meet on the same day this
year-viz., May l7th-the Northern at Chi
cago, the Southern at New Orleans. DR..
Henry j. Van Dyke, OF Brooklyn, will
preach the sermon at Chicago, and DR.. B.
NJ. Smith, of Virginia, will perform the
same service for the Southern Assembly at
New Orleans.
The Right Rev. Benjamin Bosworth
Smith, of Kentucky, is the presiding Bishop
OF the Episcopal Church in the United
States He has held the episcopate longer
than any prelate in the Church with the
exception OF Bishops White and Brownell,
who held it respectively forty-nine years
and half and and forty-fve years. Bishop
Smith will complete the forty-ffth year OF
his episcopate october 81, 1877.
Ritualism is on the increase in London.
EuchariStc vcstments are now worn in
forty churches in that city.
The Baptist ministers OF Boston have in
yited the National Baptist Sunday-School
Convention,' which is to be held on May
1919, TO meet in that city. A committee OF
entertainment has also been appointed.
The Hon. r. w. Thompson, Secretary Of
the Navy, was lay delegate to the Metho-
dist Episcopal General Conference held in
Brooklyn, May, 1872.
The first Methodist Episcopal church in
Toxic (Yeddo), Japan, was dedicated on jan
uary 2Sth. The Rev. DR.. L. S. Maclay
preached the opening sermon. Two hum
dred persons were present.
A Methodist Sunday-School Congress will
be held at ST. Louis April 9th and 10th.
The Methodist Episcopal church at Hiro-
saki, Japan, has just received nineteen na-
tives to membership.
Rev. w. j. David, missionary Of the
Forelgn-M Mission Board Of the Southern
Baptist Convention, recently visited Ogbo-
moso, in Yoruba, where no missionary had
been for twenty years, and found the chairs,
tables, compass. seXtant, ETC., safely pre-
served.
Hon. William III. EYarts, secretary OF STATE,
is the son of jeremiah Evarts, for num-
Der of years secretary and treasurer OF the
American Board OF Commissioners for For
eign Missions.
The widow of the Rev. DR.. S. II. Cal
houn, for many years missionary on Mount
Lebanon, Syria, has sailed for that mission
field, with the purpose of closing her life
there. The Rev. Giles F. Montgomery and
his vile. missionaries OF the American
Board, also sailed for Central Turkey.
Rev. C.. H. Corey, principal Of the Rich
mond Institute for training colored preach
ers and teachers, reports four young men
who desire to preach the gospel in Africa as
soon as their studies are completed.
Thiry-two missionary societies have sta
iions in China, Japan, aud Siam. They en-
ploy two hundred and forty-nlne ordained
and ferty-fve medical mission
aries. The American societies have in China
one hundred and thirty workers out OF two
hundred and seyenty-four.
Messrs. Moody and Sankey expect to re-
main in Boston until June.. Their future
are not yet decided upon. Hart
lord, New Hayen, Montreal, md San Fran
cisco are all appealing to them for visit. /