The Hickman courier., 1877-11-23
ReifE1OHs.

Pennsylvania has the largest number
of Sunday schools among the states
1860.
The Church of Scotland has received
$S,715 toward its proposed mission iN
China
Nine thousand pupils demand admis-
sion to the public schools of Kansas
City.
The last semi-anuual schOol-fund ap-
portionment in Minnesota amounted t.
$146, 500 A.
The Free-will Baptists have in this
country 165 quarterly meetings, l 1,343
churches, 1,l8S ordained ministers, and
over 10000 communicates, together with
a number of colleges, seminaries, and
newspapers.
Mir Aulad Ali, professor of Hindu
stani at Trinity College, Dublin, recently
had to take an oath in court and was
sworn on the New Testament, observing
that he would take the oath on either of
the Testaments.er on the Koran, believing
all three to be inspired works.
There is a new sect in Russia called
the Purifiers, belonging to the Greek
church. Their leading doctrines are
that all must marry on coming of age.
that the husband must be subordinate to
the wife, and recognize her as the head
of the family, and that once week he
must confess his sins to his wife. 1t is
not stated TO whom the wife is required
to make confession.
The San Francisco Bulletin states
that the steamer City of Pekin, which
sailed on September a from that port,
{" carried the largest group of mission
u, Ioe. ro4s 3;
we're seven in number, besides a Japa-
nese lady who is returning to her native
land. a general union of the churches
was held 10 hear from the missionaries
and bid them God speed on their jour
ney."
OF the s. 153 churches belonging to the
Presbyterian church, 948 are reported
vacant-about Is per cent. OF these,
81 are among the strongest, counting
from 300 to 800 members each; So count
from 100 10 200 each; 166 from 30 to 100
members each 234 from % to 80 men,
bers each 342 from 10 to % members
each 81 below 10 each. of which have
apiece. OF the 4,744 ministers CSC
have no regular charge.
The Church Extension and Freedmen
Aid societies of the Methodist Episcopal
church have expended, chiefly for the
colored people, S2,101, ,757. "We have
to show for this, says the Christian Ad-
vOcate, Gin the south thirteen institutions
for higher education, with twenty-six
professors, 1900 pupils, and property
valued at $3.50, 900. Sixty thousand
coiored children are annually taught by
the teachers sent out from our schools
and colleges"
Providence is good place in which TO
raise money. When the Baptists met
there in May they undertook to raise
SIT 900 and ended with taking in S36,.
900 and when the American board met
there last week with debt of $41 900
the meeting paid it all off in less than an
hour" ; COO minute" as our CORE
spondent well puts it--and the enthusi
asm got so high that they went on raising
money the next day after the debt was
all paid.
The religious press having taken DIR.
McCosh to task for his remarks ON Amer.
lean preachers and preaching before the
Edinburg, council, he replies in Their
latest issue that what they commented
upon was but caricature of what he
said and that he means to abide by what
he did say +; and whether the presSAap
proves or disapproves he will advecatt
biblical exposition rather than nationa
exhortations in the pulpit God.
thought, not mans, is what the world
wantH.
"a sermon at New York, Bishop Lay
of The ga Tern diocese of Maryland. told
an interesting story of General Lee, who
wrote 10 him Immediately after the wal