The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-03-29
RELIGIOUS ITEMS.

salute.
The land that Is veryJar a6."-Isaiah xxxiii: II.
land Of life and besutyi
o land supremely fairl
My heart leaps mp TO greet.thee
Thy mountain heights are cleaning
With glory all untold,
Where bright, with radiance streaming,
Thy distant shores unfold.
o land of endless pleasurei vs..
land OF deathless bAlms
Would God that we're kneeling
My nights are filled with signing;
In tears wake and pray
For all thy beauty lying
30 far, 80 far away.
GLAND, sweet ispdl love thee.
Though far off be thy glory
My longing heart is there.
In prayers and tears and anguish
seek thee night and day
For thee in bonds languish.
land, 30 far away.
o land. fair land Of beautyi
0 paradise Of God
o fadeles fields of glory
By angel fo0tsteps trOd
o mountain heights supernali
o realms Of endless day
bail your Joy eternal,
No longer far away.
Mary e. O. Wyeth, In Cristian linton.
TWENTY of Mr.. Sankey's "songs and
solos" have been translated into Chinese
and set TO Chinese music. The musical
faculty there is about extinct, but Rev.
Jonathan Lees, of the London Mission
in Tientsin, writes that these songs have
been introduced into his church and are
used with considerable appreciation.
The Rev. Horace Bushnell, the City
Missionary of Cincinnati, has closed his
thirty-fourth year of labor in that capa-
city. During the year he averaged five
sermons week, besides greao amount
of other work in visiting the needy and
distributing religious publications. His
blind.
NEW ORLEANS is not Protestant city
Out of about 100000 people, it is esti-
mated there are 100000 Catholic COM
municants, mostly of the old French
line. Their churches are very numerous,
and they represent generally the wealthy
and cultured people of the city. The
Jews have some very large synagogues
and temples.
The Baptists in the United States
were very prosperous in 1876. The
number of baptisms was los, ,684, against
SO, ,874 in 1875. The total of communi-
cants is now over 100000. In the
State of New York they own church
property valued at 100000 over all
indebtedness, and pay their pastors an
average salary of 81, l,160.
MUCH discussion has been had of late
on the comparative failure of the Metho-
dist itinerant system in large cities. A
correspondent of the Northwestern. Advo-
cate changes the figures on which the
calculation is based, and shows from Of
fetal documents that the Methodist COM
municants in New York number II. SOP;
in Philadelphia, 19,020; in Brooklyn,
1856; Chicago, 6,771; Baltimore,
2l, 420; Boston, A .439; Cincinnati, 4,70S;
the total in these cities being 79, 416,
comparing favorably with the other
Churches.
The Congregational Quarterly gives
the number of Congregational Churches
in the United Ststes at 3 800; churches
with settled pastors, $50; acting pastors,
1,783. The number of pastors is 1888,
of whom $50 are not in the pastoral
work, and the number of ordinations
without installations is "waxing worse
and worse" The total church member
ship is 350, ,658, being net gain of IL 345.
The number of additions by profession
is larger than for any year since 1859.
The benevolent contributions for the
past year were 81, 278, ,252. 10.