The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1877-06-01

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The number N nov publications Issued
WA i32. thirty one " them volumes
The society publishes sir periodicals. all
~ which are said n be selfsupportiag
The number NJ eOlp0rteurs employed WIS
goo A resolution was adopted At the
annual meeting proposing 4 return ~
the old fashioned May anniversaries.
~OWE singular illustrations occur u
the ferment " the theological opinions
which characterizes our times The
Rev Dr. ArmitaEe, The most amiable Of
Baptist ministers, having in bis Faster
sermon spoken strongly Of the participa
ton Of the Jews In the Cruc fiKiOn Of
Christ, the Rev DR.. Gottheil has In reply
announced y series Of sermons designed
to act forth " the Jewish side OF the
transaction" Dr. GOttheil ia the pastor
OF the Temple Emanuel, the largest
Jewish place of worship In this city. At
the same time, Wong Ching Foo, q
Buddhist. is lecturing in New York on
Buddhism and especially in vindication
of the " intelligence, morals, and religion
of the Chinese"
THE American Home Missionary So
ciety Congregational, whose aim is to
support feeble churches, has had a salts
factory year. From April !, 1876, to
April /, 1877, it has employed 996 min
listers, who have supplied Z, l96 cOngre-
cations and missionary stations. Seventy
two churches have been organized during
the year, and tw%enty-seven have become
selt.supporting. Over 5000 persons
have became church members on
a profession of faith. The receipts
for the year were 1928, ~,
the expenditures $3l0,604, 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
ernacle services in Boston, the churches
of that city have been open every even
ing, with a numerous attendance of wor-
shippers. The large additions to thenumber
of members heretofore reported still coz
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 is General John l..
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-
g~ational churches had in nine years
increased from 1857 to 1853. 1t was
claimed that ~theologically Cambridge
had changed in ten years, and that it is
now predominantly orthodox.
TIE total result of what is called in
Germany the "CultVrkampt," 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 Posen-s 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 600 members of different
orders and congregations have been ex-
PEELED from the diocese of Cologne,
among them 100 priests. The parishes
without priests are, in the diocese of
Cologne, "a; in Paderborn, 90; in Mum
ster, 60; in Treves, $40 in Limburg, II
in Breslau, "a 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
eminent 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 32,774,3SS copies. During the past
year the copies issued WERE, at home,
621, 726 abroad, 259 $50, making a total
of S8l ,O56. There were manufactured at
the Bible house, 55s, 44S copies printed
abroad, 27S,247. The society has dimin-
ished the number of its district superin-
tende nts, having now twenty-line there
are also 239 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, 63,S55 have been found without
the Scriptures, and $500 supplied. The
money receipts, as already stated in this
intelligence, were S543,579; this is an
excess over the receipts of the preceding
year of S16,3Sl.
AFTER a full debate in the Italian
senate, the Clerical Abuses Billp' was
rejected on May 7, the vote being 90 for
and 105 against. Thus ends a contro-
versy perhaps the most acrimonious of
the many which have arisen between
the pope and united Italy. The APP
prebension of the consequences certain
to follow the passage of such a law led
to the allecution of March II, in which
Plus TX. appealed to Catholic Europe
for protection. The bill was a very radi-
cal measure. 1t proposed to punish by
fine, and imprisonment extending from
three months to two years, any minister
of religion who should, abusing the
acts of his ministry, disturb the peace of
families" or who, by discourse deliv-
cred or read to public meetings, or by
writings otherwise published, should ex-
pressly censure, or by other public act