Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1878-02-28
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.

The British Baptist Hand book for
1877 reports membership of 269,-
$50, an increase Of 4,O39.
The ministers Of Pittsburgh and
its vicinity are discussing the need
of better marriage license laws.
Seventy years ago there was but
one Lutheran Church in France. and
that was in Paris. There are now 10
churches in that country. with 10
ministers.
Ex-senator Revels has been ap-
pointed Presiding Elder in the Miss
issippi Methodist Episcopal Confer.
ence. He still retains the Presidency
OF Alcorn University.
The average number of baptisms
by Baptist ministers in the United
States last year was eight. The
average number by Baptist missiona-
ries was IA.
The First Reformed Presbyterian
Church of Philadelphia has class OF
Chinese pupils, Most Of these &C.
lestials spend their week days in sell
ling cigars and peanuts at street
corners.
The church OF neutrality-suspicious.
gyllgegertysiliogogoch. in Wales, is
vacant, and it is suggested that the
Rev. Mr.. acknowledgements,
now located in Now Zealand, would
be a good man to fill the vacancy.
New Haven is busy in erecting an
immense temporary building for the
use OF Moody and Sankey. whose
services are to begin there on the
third Sunday in March. The build
ing. which will cost $4,000, will seat
5000 persons.
The Reformed Episcopal Church is
gaining ground in England. Bishop
Sudgen and five Ministers have Sc
coded from the Free Church of Eng
land to join it. Bishop Sudcen has
been declared coadjutator Bishop
with Bishop Gregg.
Minnesota has more Lutherans
among its population than any other
name or confession. The number OF
Lutherans there is 10000. nearly. all
Germans and Scandinavians. There
is but one English Lutheran Church
in the State.
The Presbyterian Board of Foreign
Missions has, since its organization
spent 1898, 900, or an average OF $23,
900 annually, among the II dians OF
this country. In 1861 it had 200
Indian communicates; now it has
1.763: but many adhered TO the
Southern Church when the disrup-
ton occurred.
During the past year. according to
a report from Rev. Daniel Rogers
Baptist missionary TO the Cherokee
Indians over 245 baprisms took place
i'm the churches. Four churches
were organized, and the association
now numbers 10 churches. with an
aggregate membership Of LOO
against 763 for the previous year.
or the 10 Catholic Archbishops In
the United States four are Irish; of
the Sc living Bishops. 20 are OF the
same nationality; OF the 5000 Priests
no less than 1900 belong to the Irish
race. The same proportion holds
good in the laity, who are officially
returned at 100000, and OF these
100000 have been supplied by
Ireland.
Sunday school work in the Presby-
terrain Chruch may now be expected
to blossom out i'm renewed vigor.
The position of Sunday school Sec
retaryship has for some time been
vacant, but it is now filed by the APP
pointment Of the Rev. j. A. Worden
of Steubenville, Ohio. Mr. Worden is
one of the most intelligent aud pro-
gressive Sunday school men OF the
day. He is in the prime of his life.
with black hair. keen eyes, and a
pleasantly incisive manner OF speak
ing. A prominent part OF Mr.. Wor-
den's duties will be to hold Sunday
school institutes and conventions,
and otherwise S tir up the Presbyteri-
ans to the degree OF efficiency in ju-
venile religious education which has
been reached by other denomina-
tons.
The Congregational brethren are
having a spirited time discussing
whether or not they constitute de-
nomination. Some OF their leading
men hold that they do. while others,
just as eminent, maintain that they
do not. One OF the principal associa-
tons has recently been discussing
the conundrum, @What constitutes a
Congregational minister" No sat-
isfactory answer has as yet been
given to this, and as things now
stand, the outlook indicates that the
brethren will have to give ii up.
Both of these discussions have
arisen out OF the somewhat anoma-
lous condition OF sundry Congrega
tional churches in Brooklyn. The
question as to the Ministry grows
out the application OF a
young clergyman, who is entirely
without ecclesiastical standing, to be
recognized as a Congregational
In the City Of Churches.