Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1878-05-30

Religious Intelligence.
The next International Sunday
School Convention will be held at
Toronto in 1881.
Eight of the graduates of the last
and present senior class at Andover
VIII go to foreign missions.
The exact deficiency of the Pres
byterian Foreign Mission Board, for
the year just closed, is 81, 929.
George William Curtis, Of New
York. will preside at the Unitarian
festival to be held in the Boston Mu-
sic Hall May 80.
Attention Is called to the lack OF
church facilities for Protestants in
Berlin, There are only thirty-four
churches and ninety-five pastors for
the $4,000 people who call them
selves Protestants.
The Southern Methodist Church is
gaining large German constituency.
They have about 10000 German
members, belonging to two German
Conferences and to several English.
The Catholic university at Louvain
has had surprising growth. Begin
ming in 1853 with eighty-s six students,
1t now has an annual total Of from
1900 to 1900. During its existence
Of forty years it has had 10000 names
on its lists.
There Is in Providence a body OF
about fifty colored Catholics who
have been organized into a Society
Of the Immaculate Conception.
There is said to be no similar body
of colored Catholics north of Balti.
more.
The recsipts of the Baptist Mission
airy Union for the present year, just
closed, were s21S, 3O7. which is 81 600
less than the receipts of last year.
The debt Of nearly $4,000, with
which the year began, has been paid
of.
Sunday, October 90, and Monday,
October 81, OF this year, have been
set apart In the Church of England as
days of special prayer OF Sunday
schools. The Archbishop OF Canter.
bury has expressed his approval OF
such a selection.
The Reformed Episcopal Church
has in Philadelphia eight churches,
Chicago eight, in Brooklyn four, in
New York two, and one each in Bos-
ton, Baltimore, Louisville. Washing
ton and Memphis. The number OF
communicates reaches nearly 5000.
1t is estimated that about 800 per-
sons have joined the Hartford
churches as the result of the revival.
or these the Congregationalists get
$40, the Baptists 203, the Methodists
100, and the Presbyterians thirty.
There have also been large additions
to the Episcopal and Catholic
churches.
The Seamen's Friend Society re-
ports 1888 loan libraries sent out dur
ing the year ending April 80. 1t pub
lishsd 100000 copies of the Sailors
Magazine for gratuitous distribution
among seamen, and 100000 copies OF
the Life Boat for Sunday schools
The receipts Of the society were $751;
$40. expenditures. $S4,997.
Bishop Haven says when Mrs. Van
Colt, the Methodist Evangelist. was
In New Orleans. she planned to
preach to white and colored audi
ences the same day, when she could
not preach to mixed congregations
When she left the city she was at
tended to the wharf "by the greatest
escort Of leading white citizens and
of colored admirers that that city, OF
any other city, ever witnessed"
The meetings at Thousand Island
Park, in the ST. Lawrance River, will
be held with short intervals from
July 10 to August %. The annual
camp-meeting will open July 10. and
close July 81. A scientific confer
ence will be held from July % to 20.
There will be an International Tenn
perance Meeting from July 81 to Au-
gust 6; Young Mems Christian. As
sociation Convention, presided over
by H. Thane Miller, from August 1 to
IL, and the Sunday School Parlia-
ment from August Ii to %.
The Southern Presbyterian Church
has an Indian Presbytery, which held
its annual meeting recently at Sandy