The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-07-06
= Churches and nIInIsaers.

1t is said that Rev. DIR. G.. f. Stell-
ing, the retiring Preside1t of the
General Synod of the Lutheran
church, has determined 10 with
draw from the Latheran and Join
the Congregational denomination.
M. Landlaye, the eminent Belgi-
an, has announced his withdrawal
from the Roman Catholic Church.
He says that many Belgians have
become disaffected toward Roman
ism, aud are ready to. follow him
into the Proteslant fold. Gg' 4
The Episcopal fund of the two
Episcopal Dioceses of New Jersey
amounts to $4,000. 1t is not tn
be divided as long as the Bishop, of
Northern New Jersey lives. The
latter gets $4,000 year, and the
Bishop or New Jersey $4,000.
The annual income of the Church
of England is, $36,000,0o0, The
Church has 10000 religious eiiitices,
including 30 csthedrals, 10, 600 glebe-
houses, 81 episcopal palaces, and
100000 acres of land, much of it
in good condition for tillage.
ReV. De. Gregg, Vicar of East
Harborne, has Withdrawn from the
Church OF England on account OF
Dissatisfaction with the rituaiistic
developments. He has been cleo
ted Bishop of England by the Gen
eral Council or the Reformed Epis-
copal Church. BnE ys...G ereIt.
Three ministers of the Church of
England are announced as having
Withdrawn from the church to be-
come Roman Catholics.
The Synod of the Reformed
Presbyterian Church has adopted a
report stating that 'ahe custom OF
the OhHrchis In opposition to hav-
ing other ministers preach 10 our
people and that they see no rea-
son, In the present state of the
Church of Christ, to depart from
the established custom. e4'''-A-
While the supply or ministers in
the Methodist Episcopal, Presbyte.
rian, aud other churches is beyond
the demand, there are many vacant
ran saSs sr rei e aSsh q
work that would tempt an ange
waiting for ministers"
The -Methodists manage 10 keeI
some. on -of their Bishops constant
ly going round the world to visit
their missions. -BiShop And ews
who left last fall to circumnavigate
the globe, will return this summer
and In September Bishop Wiley, OF
Boston, will set out from San Fran
cisco to make the same tour. ~
It was stated at the Lutheran
Baptist Convention which met in
New Orleans recently that the Cath.
olics were making rapid progress
In winning converts from among
the colored people In the south
ern tier Of counties In Louisiana, i
was said, there were 100 Catholic
missiona ries among the freedmen
and since the close Of the war 90,
600 colored people had been receiv
ed in the Catholic church, q greater
number than had been gather
ed into all the Protestant churche
in the State in the same period.
Fisk University at Nashville hai
had 246 colored students the pas
year. Or these Is are in the col
lege course, and % are preparing
for colleg& Eighty -three are stud,
ying Latin, 80 Greek, 81 the hishe
mathematics, % botany, and 30 the
ologys IT - proposed to add &
missionary course" of three years
In which instruction shall be givel
In those practical and military
branches required to prepare mis-
sionarIes for African fields. SOM
elementary Iinstruction will also b
given in medicine, the common
trades suchaa blRcksmi thing, brick
making, house-building, etc.
The Unitarisns Of Great Britain
who are not very nnmernus, hav,
Just held their fifty-second annua
meeting In London, or rather thei
representative" the British and For
eign UnltsriAn Society," hss! Fhs
receipts or the society were S35, loo
and the5 Jubilee sFnpd had an in
come OF about $4,000. There ar
eight Uuitarian places of worship
In Scotland, and, in the judgmen
of the Irish committee, there is
good field f0g Unitarian work II
Ireland. The UnitariAns IN Scot
land, Freland land Wales receiv
grants from tire society, and appro
priations are also made for lecture
In England.