The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-05-31
RELIGIOUS.

Missions has expended during the last
fiscal year $480,3t6; the receipts have
been S472, ,749. The debt of the board is
now $43, 6i14. The total receipts from
the women's boards h6ve been 1926, 600
an increase for the year. This depart
ment of mission support is growing in
the Presbyterian, as in the other Pro
testaut churches. There has been a
falling off in the contributions of the
people of nearly $4,000, but this has
been balanced by severe retrehchrnent in
every department.
The American Tract society's opera
tiOns have been curtailed during the past
year. The receipts were in all Sal 1856,
which, added to balances in the treasury,
makes the total resources for 1876 $40
269; the expenditures were S441 ,1lD.
The number of new publications issued
was 1872, thirty one of them Volumes
The society publishes six periodicals, al
of which are said to be self-suppOrting.
The number Of COlpOrteUTs employed was
2O9. A resolution vas adopted at the
annual meeting proposing Il return to
the Otd-fashiOned May anniversaries.
SOME singGid- ilIBstrations occur OF
| the terment of the theOiofiEal opinions
which charaCterizes our times. The
| Rev. DR.. Armitase, the most amiable OF
| Baptist ministers, having in his Easter
| sermon spoken strongly of the paTticipa
| tiOn of the Jews in the CruC fixiOn OF
! Christ, the Rev. DR.. Gottheil has in reply
! announced a series of sermons designed
| to set forth the Jewish side of the
! TRANSACTIONS" Dr. GOttheiI is the pastor
Of the Temple EmanueI the largest
| Jewish place of worship III this city. At
the same time, Wong Ching Foo, q
Buddhist. is Iecturing in New York on
Buddhism. and especially in vindication
of the 4" intelligence, morals, and religion
of the Chinese"
THE American Home Missionary So
ciety (COngfesationalJ, whose aim is to
support feeble churches, has bad Il salts
factory year. From April ], 1876, to
April l, 1877, it has employed 99G min
listers, who have supplied ., 1876 cOngTe-
cations and missionary stations. Seventy
two churches have been organized during
the year, and twenty-seven have become
seif-sUppOrting. Over 5000 persons
have became church members on
profession Of faith. The receipts
for the year were 1928, ,7l2,
the expenditures 9310,604, leaving a
balance OF 1897 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
eTnacle services In Boston, the churches
of that city have been open everv even
ing, with a numerous attendance Of wOr-
shippers. The large additions to the number
of members heretofore reported stih con-
tinue. Mr.. Moody has gone to Mortified.
Gospel meetings, as they are termed, are
now held in Lynn. Here, too, hundreds
have been added to the churches. Among
the speakers who have recently appeared
at these gospel services il General John /.
Swift At the recent meeting of the
Suffolk North Congregational conference
it was stated that IN Cambridge the num-
Der of members Of the orthodox Congre-
gational churches had in nine years
increased from ], ,157 to 1853. It 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 "CultErKampf, or war
between the empire aud the church is
thus stated The archbishOps of Gnesen-
Posen and Cologne, the bishops of
Breslau, Paderb0rn, and Munster, and
LAit dA4lA4di blsLblJ VI d OENi Ola III a ~
have been depOsed. The sees Of Treyes
and FuIda have become vacant by death.
The proceedings against the bishop of
Limburg have not been brought 10 a
close. About 600 members Of different
orders and congregations have been eX-
PEELED from the diocese of Cologne,
among them 20 priests. The parishes
without priests are, in the diocese OF
Cologne, 81; in PaderbOrB, 90; in Nun,
ster. Go; in Trevcs, 40; In Limburg, II
IN Breslau, Ga in Hiidesheim, ] /; and
like proportions iD the other diocesea. in
many of the parishes the vacancies have
been caused by the death of priests; the
bishops will not fill the vacaGcies, from
an unwiliingness to conform 10 the gov
eminent regulations. af +'~ -
As the American Bible secietv grow
in resources, its operations attain grans
proportions. In siXty-one years It's issuel
Of Bibles aud Testaments have amOunte-
| 10 32,774, ,365 copies. During the pas
year the copies issued were, at home
| 62I ,T26 abroad, 259 230 making a totz
| of SS1. .056 There were manufa ctured a
/ the Bible house, 559, AS copies printed
abroad, 2TS, ,247. The society has dimin
| ished. the number of its district superin
tendents, having now twenty-uine ther
are also 239 county agents employed b,
auxiliary societies; there were -durinl
/ 1876, so volunteer Bible distributors
/ who gave their services grat'iitOusly
| The society and its auxiliaries have 10
| gether, through their agents, VISITED
| during the past year 47O, ,5S8 families o
| these, 90, $50 have been found without
the Scriptures, and 80, 800 supplied The
money receipts, as already stated IN thl-
| intelligence, were $54S, $40; this Is an
excess over the receipts Of the preceding
year Of SIC. Ssl.