Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1877-06-02
RELIGIOUS.

4'AA@'i'i'' ildD hul lJS NIlC ldsl
fiscal year S4S0,3l6 the receipts have
been S472,749. The debt Of the board i.
now $43554 The total receipts from
the women's boards have been Sl25, 5,OOC
an increase for the year. This depart.
ment of mission support is growing in
the Presbyterian, as in the other Pro-
testant churches There has been a
falling off in the contributions of the
people Of nearly S50,030, but this has
been balanced by severe retrenchment in
every department.
The American Tract society's opera.
tions have been curtailed during the past
year. The recei pts were in all $441, 1876,
which, added to balances in the treasury,
makes the total resources for 1876 SAC, p.
269; the expenditures wera S44l,1lg.
The number Of new publications issued
was 1872, thirty one Of them volumes.
The society publisl ey six periodicals, all
of which are said to be self-supportiDg.
The number of colporteurs mployed was
2O9. A resolution was adopted at the
annual meeting proposing a return to
the oldiasbioned May anniversaries.
SOME singular illustrations occur of
the terment of the theological opinions
which characterizes our times. The
Rev, Dr. Armitage, the most amiabla Of
laptist ministers, having in his Easter
sermon spoken strongly of the participa.
lion the jews ia the cruc fxion of
Christ. the Rex )r Got,uei' has in reply
announced 8 serie, ot aoou- ''-'-ned
to sc, lut +st I'l.a So be
transaction. U7 ottgs is ,ht rals
OF the Temple Enaauy. tle .ama
Jewish place Of worship in .l.s aitv AZ
the same time, Wong Ching 10. 81
Buddhist is lecturing in New York Oh
Buddhism. and especially in vindication
of the intelligence, morals and religion
of the Chinese"
THE American Home Missionary So
ciety (CongregationaD, whose aim is to
support feeble churches, has had a salts,
factory year From April l, 1876, to
April |, 1877, it has employed 1896 min
listers, who have supplied 2,l96 congre-
cations and missionary stations. Seventy.
two churches have been organized during
the year, and twenty-seven have become
Over 5000 persons
have became church members on
a profession of faith. The receipts
for the year were $293,712,
the expenditures SSlO,604, leaving a
balance of $7,S97 due TO missionaries for
labor performed but not yet reported.
The receipts are less by $l6,3l5 than
those of the year preceding.
SINCE the closing of Mr.. Moody's tab
ernacle services in Boston, the churches
of that city have been open every even
ing, with a numerous attendance of wor-
slippers. hclarge additions to thenumber
Of members heretofore reported still con-
tinue. Mr.. Moody has gone to Northfeld.
Gospel meetings, as they are termed, are
now held in Lynn. Here, too, hundreds
have beeu added to the churches. Among
the speakers who have recently appeared
at these gospel services is General John l.,
Swift At the recent meeting of the
suffolk North Congregational conference
it was stated that in Cambridge the mum.
Der OF members of the orthodox Congre-
churches had in nine years
increased from l57 to l,1j5. 1t was
claimed that theologically Cambridge
had changed in ten years, and that it is
now predominantly orthodox.
THE total result of what is called in
Germany the "Culturkampf, . or war
between the empire and the church is
thus stated The archbishops of Gnesen.
Posen and Cologne, the bishops of
Breslau, Paderborn, and Munster, and
the auxiliary bishop OF Posen7- six in all
have been deposed The sees of Treves
and Fulda have become vacant by death,
The proceedings against the bishop OF
Limburg have not been brought to a
close. About GOO members of different
orders and congregations have been ex-
PEELED from the diocese of Cologne,
among them 40 priests. The parishes
without priests are, in the diocese OF
Cologne, o. in Paderborn, 80; in Nun
ster, 60; in Treves, l40 in Limburg, / I ;
in Breslau, Ga in Hildesheim, II and
like proportions in the other dioceses, In
many of the parishes the vacancies have
been caused by the death of priests; the
bishops will not fill the vacancies, from
an unwillingness to conform to the gov
ernment regulations.
As the American Bible society grows
in resources, its operations attain grand
proportions. In sixty-one years its issues
of Bibles and Testaments have amounted
to 32,774,9SS copies. During the past
year the copies issued were, at home,
62l. 1926; abroad, 259, $50, making total
of SSl ,056. There were manufactured at
the Bible house, 56S,44S copies printed
abroad, 27S,?47. The society has dimin-
ished the number OF its district superin.
tendtnts, having now tNenty.uine there
are also 2S9 county agents employed by
auxiliary societies; there were during
1876, 8 $40 volunteer Bible distributors,
who gave their services gratuitously.
The society and its auxiliaries have to-
gether, through their agents, visited
during the past year 470,5SS families; of
these, $3.50 have been found without
the Scriptures, and $4,000 supplied. The
money Teceipts. as already stated in this