New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-12-29

last Sunday the completion Of the htich year OF bis
rastorate. The sermon delivered nv Bishop Healy
OF toe diocese OF Portland After ne a!loh
gifts were presented To the pastor ~ his iflelus
The First Presbyterian Church of Chicago
mas just paid mortgage debt OF $4,000; The Madison
Avenue Presbyterian Church Of this city IS engaged IN
PAVING of mortgage debt Of $40 600 its chapel On
last sunday $4,000 was subscribed 1y few ggptlcmgn
for object. Tie 81 Bartl0lomew's Episcopal Chuch
OF this city. has paid IFS debt OF Slt5OoO
The friends of the movement 10 procure the
closing of the public houses I'm Ireland upon sunday have
again brought the matter before the Government Upon
DcccmbcrI2 large deputatlon waited upon the Chie''
Secretary for ireland 20 lay before him declrtloh III
favor Of SUNDAY closing signed by 10000 persons
Among the signatures, which Included those Of maais-
rates ccry men, traders, etc, were those OF -ofi w"
Law Guardians similar movement h"s Deeh S'"'''u
IN Wales.
Bishop Charles Z. Cheney, Of the Refomed
Episcopal Church iD a letter 70 The A0rH"eSr" Ao'0
cute OF Chicago reviews the progress OF thal demoha
ton siaco Autumn 1873. in this period OF four years
"tbo Reformed Episcopal Clurcn has organized very
nearly one hundred parishes, s9o5t every one OF "h'eA
IS absolutely sclfsustaiuug. on the letter es OF me
bishops ofc Church ;cre are more geo appiration irr
admission 10 ministry, rom clergy men OF CNels
evan. eiicJI denomination
The Friends Foreign Mission Association OF
England has, IN O public letter. disci1med attacks
made by one OF its missionaries in Madagascar upon
the sincerity Of the Mahogany Government in It's Efforts
10 abolish slavery and upon the spirit in which the
mission Of the London Missionary Association is carried
on m that country belief IN the honesty Of the nten-
lions Of the Hlagary Government Is expressed, anu
the most friendly relations declared TO exist between
the TWO missionary societies
The Rev. DR.. Loyick Pierce, the patriarch
Of the Southern Methodist Episcopal Cnurch being now
i'm bis niuetydh year. has written letter to The Chr'S
tan Adrocate of this city in which he counses union
Of tie Northern and Southern Methodist Churches III
fo,i l, mission work He SAYS: eve are becoming
seutaly one at in frserual peace and love; but
we must become absolutely abroad Actual iTatel,
nZatOu I'm al foreign mission Woih WI! insure id'S4bi
union and peace and goodwill at home"
Home mission work is just now actively
prosecuted on tue North Pacific Coast Of the United
States The Baptiss Of Oregon are about TO provide
missionary steamboat TO along Puget Sound, carry
ing preachers and preaching 10 the settlers there Inc
Rev sheldon Jackson OF the Presbyterian Church. mas
founded prosperous mission at Fort Wrangel, Alaska
Territory This point OF the Territory has permanent
population Of 500 white people and Indians ana
transient population, sometimes numbering IiVVV VI
more, partly composed of miners.
The UHicasdljSt Register, for 1878, gives the
following as the latest statistics OF the denomination in
The United States general conventions % State con-
ventions; g12 parishes: Col church organizations;
50 1913 members 659 suuday-scnoos 60,757 teachers
and scholars; 765 church edfces; 722 ministers; ana
church property worth, above all Indebtedness
S697sI1O. A gain Of 1900 church members Is re-
ported for the last tive years. There is only one reg
Ilrly ordained Uuivcrsnst minister in the United King
dom OF Great Britain and ireland.