The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-11-16
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

Canon Simpson has been elected
Mayor of Appleby, England
twenty-five Presbyteries approve
and twelve disapprove the overture for
reduced representation in the General
Assembly.
In Chicago the actual attendance
at the Protestant churches is estimated
at 10000, and at the Catholic nearly as
many more. M
The Baptists, who now number
over 100000 members, cannot obtain
the 15,Os0 subscribers necessary to Il
revival of the Baptist Quarterly ReUie1C.
The deaths of ministers from vel
low fever now number sixty-five. OF
these, thirty-eight are of Protestants,
twenty-three of Catholics and four of
Hebrews.
AT the beginning of this century
the COngregationalists contributed an
average of eight cents each for mis-
sionary purposes; now the average is
SOP per annum.
For three years past an Evangelist
named Penn has been laboring at Aus
tin, Texas. Only on thirty-one days in
that time did he not preach, and on all
the other days he has delivered from
enc to five sermons, having preached
in all nearly 1000 times.
According to the latest report, the
Canada Presbyterian Church has 4
synods, 80 presbyteries, 61S ministers,
TAI pastoral charges, and 1851 COM
municants. There were 1000 bap-
tisms last year, and the collections for
all purposes aggregated 81, 100000
"A list of the converts from the
Church of England to that of Rome,
Just published, contains the names of
Miss Stanley, sister of the Dean; Miss
Gladstone, sister of the eX-Premier: DR..
Arnold's eldest son, Prof. Paley, Prof.
Barif, Adelaide Proctor, and Elizabeth
Thompson, the military painter.
The Gar has resolved to throw
open Central Asia to missionary enter
prise, and the London Globe saws ar
rangements are being made for the es-
adjustment of a regular crusade in
every part of Turkestan." Heretofore
the GoverningG General has strenuously
opposed missionary work in these PROV
inceS.
"A Sunday-school convention at
Shoe Heel, N. c., was brought to a
tragic close by the sudden death of
Rev, DR.. Baker, one of the most promi-
nent ministers in the State and eighty
years old, who fell back while in the
midst of a glowing description of the
Joys of Heaven, and expired with the
words: 81 have preached my last SER
mon"
The revision of the New Tesla
ment is almost completed, and will
probably be presented to convocation
III England next year. Already it is
nearly all printed, the two universe
ties having given 100000 for the privi-
lege of printing it, of which they pay
$4,000 yearly. The revision of the Old
Testament will require about three
years longer.
MIR. Moody, in answer to the ques-
ton, "Will not you miss Mr.. Sankey?'
is said to have replied: "Of course;
but we have parted for a year-until |
get some new sermons. My old ones
have been published and republisned
SO many times that | am ashamed to
deliver them. That is the condition |
am in. He has recently been holding
meetings in Chicago in his tabernacle,
drawing largely on the congregations
OF neighboring churches.
Rev. George Muller, of the Bristol
Orphanage, writes that the statement
that he received for his orphans large
sums while in America is entirely
false" the whole amount during a
ten-months' tour being less than $500
not half the cost of the work of a
single day. Mr.. Muller does not com
plain of this, as he came to this coun-
try on preaching, and not on col
Letting, tour.
The Methodist Freedmen's Aid So
ciety reports that the results of its
work the past year were never exceed
ed. 1t has erected more school build
lngs, educated more teachers, prepared
more ministers, and brought about
more conversions than in any previous
year Its receipts were S63,40 and
its disbursements about $1,000 less.
Its debt has been reduced from S15, 900
to So, 600. The amount collected and
disbursed in eleven years has been $715,-
S52.
The Evangelical Alliance has issued
a programme for the week of prayer in
1879. 1t recommends, besides the gem
eral petitions and acknowledgements,
that thanksgivings be offered for the
" cessation of war and the peaceful set
tlement Of European questions; also
for the Divine blessing which has at
tended the international meetings and
services held in the Sale Evangelique,
the distribution of the Holy Scriptures
and other Christian work during the
Universal Exhibition in Paris"
The Boys and the Apples.