The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-10-16
RELIGIOUS NOTES.

The National local preachers association
meeting at Trenton, N. ]. October 26 20.
A conference of all Lutheran ministers in
North Carolina is to be held, the object being
to bring the various branches of the church
closer together.
The presbytery of Shenango, Penn, has
suspended the Rev. r. G. Graves ID. D.. from
the ministry and the communion of the
church for drunkenness.
Thirteen presbyteries have voted on the
the new plan for reduced representation in
the Presbyterian general assembly, eight in
favor of il and five against it.
Tire annual business meeting of the Ma
tional camp meeting ASSOCIATION will be held
in Philadelphia November 10. Plans. for
meeting next summer will be considered.
The Rev. ]. H. tray, d. D., of La Grange,
Tenn, died recently, at an advanced age.
He was q well known and greatly loved min
lister OF the Southern Presbyterian church'
BY the will of James B. Hosmer, of Hart
ford, the Congregational theological semin-
ary in that city will receive about 800, 900
Various benevolent societies Will receive
small bequests.
The Rev. DR.. Somervllle, the Scottish evan
gelist, who has Just completed an evangelis
tic tour in Australia is now in this country
on his way home. He preached in Philadel-
phis last Sunday.
The Rev. Isaac r. Worcester, d. d., is soon to
retire from the edioorship of the Missionary
Herald of the American board. He will be
succeeded by the Rev. Elnathan Z. Strong,
OF Waltham, Mass.
The Roman Catholic cathedral of Column
bus, Ohio, is to be consecrated October 20 by
Bishop Rosecrans The archbishop of Gin
cinnati and Bishops Kain and Chatard will
take part in the ceremonies.
There are in New Jersey 265 Presbyterian
churches, 366 ministers, 1884 communi-
cants and 50, ,405 Sunday-school scholars The
different boards received the past year 1929,
269 "a, and $672, 104 was given for congrega-
tional purposes.
The Rev. DR.. Manning, who was to have
preached the annual sermon before the
American board at Milwaukee last week, was
sick, and unable to leave Boston. The Rev.
Mr.. yessup, of Syria, filed the gap with a
missionary address,
Thus far 4s ministers have died of yellow
fever. of whom % we're Protestants Among
the latter was the Rev. Z. ID. Miller, Baptist,
of Holly Springs Catholics have asserted
that every Protestant pastor in that town de-
serted his flock, but Mr.. Miller, at least, did
not until death carried him off.
There are several isolated bodies of Free
Baptists in this country, the largest of which
is the Freewlll branch IN New England. and
the west. There is now movement toward
union Of all these bodies. 1t Is not i'm
probable that national convention will be
called in year or two to effect this object.
The western conference OF German Bap-
fists has been held in Muscatine, Iowa.
There are 60 churches connected with the
conference, with $3.50 members. There are
also 65 Sunday schools, with $500 children
Last year "a missionaries labored in different
parts of the field, and 225 baptisms were re-
ported.
The Catholic Advocate claims that the
church has made considerable progress
among the negroes of the south, and that
there are 1ourishing colored churchesof that
faith in several OF the principal cities OF the
south. The facts are, however, that the col
orsd membership of the Catholic church is
quite small.
The Missionary union (Baptist) is sending
out several new missionaries. The Rev. s.
| w. Nichols and wife join the Telugu mis-
sion, and the Rev. Charles ID. King and Mis-!
Miriam Russell the mission in Assam. The
| Rev. ]. T. Elwell, OF Pennsylvania and Mis-
r f. Batson sail for Bassein; Miss Emma A
| Ambrose goes to Toungoo, and Mr.. Bogsrear
to the Rangoon theological seminary. Th'
] Rev. W. II. Roberts and wife sail for Bahmoo