Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1878-07-11
Religious Intelligence.

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hold a second free diet this fall.
There are in Germany 1861 Sun
day schools with $40 teachers, and
15S.615 scholars.
The Old Catholic Synod. In session
at Bonn, has, by vote OF 75 to %,
adopted resolution in favor OF the
marriage Of the clergy.
The Methodists are spending about
81 900 a month for missionary work
in Calcutta. They have recently rem
ted large building at $1,000 a year,
for sailors means.
The Massachusetts Bible Society,
during the year ending May q. sold
q, 1913 copies of the Scriptures, and
gave away $40 copies. The re-
ceipts OF the year were $39,S21.
The United Presbyterian Assembly
which met at Cambridge, Ohio, sane
toned the appointment OF women as
assistants to deacons. 1t stipulated,
however, that women should not be
organized into sisterhoods.
The recent Presbyterian General
Assembly adjourned without receiv-
ing an invitation to meet next year
in any city or church. The assembly
however, provided for the expenses
in the future by assessment.
The Chicago Presbytery has done
considerable good work during the
past year, for it reports 1,414 new
members received on profession OF
faith, and that nine churches have
rid themselves Of debt, raising $685.
600.
The American, branch OF the Evan
gelical Alliance will send an address
or Christian liberty in the Turkish
Provinces, to the Berlin Congress.
A meeting OF the Executive Com
mittee was held in New York on june
10. to consider the matter.
At their recent commencements,
Drew Seminary, Methodist, gradua-
ted 81 students; Yale Seminary, Con-
gregationalist, 30; Lane Seminary,
Presbyterian, 4; Wesleyan Universe
", 81: United Brethren Theological
Seminary, at Dayton, Ohio, IA.
The services connected with the
unveiling of the monument OF Fa-
ther B0ehm, the centenarian OF
American Methojism. took place al
the Woodrow NJ. f. church, Station
Island on the anniversary OF his birth
Saturday, June 8. The address was
delivered by Rev. ID. W. Bartine,
ID.
The remarkable revival influence
which continues to sweep over the
Scandinavian Churches in Europe
can be compared to nothing but the
revival OF the times OF the Reforma.
ion. tt seems like the breaking oi
the tidal wave over the dead ortho.
,loxy OF the whole Scandinavia
church.
Over $4,000 persons including
Arabs, Turks, Chinese and Japanese,
besides Europeans, receive portions
Of Scripture on the opening day OF
the Paris exposition from tho kiosk
OF the Crystal Palace Bible stand
The pressure Of the eager crowd FOL
copies was so great that the windows
OF the kiosk had to be closed over q
dozen times.
In his triennial charge recently
delivered. the Bishop OF Oxford re-
gretted the position taken by the
majority of the clergy on the buria
question. He did not think that any
one would be greatly injured il non
conformists were allowed to celebrate
the rites OF burial in churchyard
after their own fashion.
The American College and Educs
fion Society Congregational repor
ted at its annual meeting in Boston {
permanent fund OF So, 1000. During
the year 1000 was received In lega
cies. The receipts OF the year wer'
$4,000, OF which $4,000 went to tn,
College Department, and $27 ,2S3 {,
the general fund. The number o
young men aided has been 437.
At the fifty-eighth annual session o
the General Convention OF the New
Jerusalem church in the Unite'
States, held last week at Boston, tn
treasurer reported the property o
the Convention to be $4,000, AM
the paid subscriptions toward ths
$4,000 fund $4,000. The New Jeru
salem church is represented in TWEEN
ty-fve States.
Rev. E. III. Evans, CT Wales, In al
address at the anniversary OF the Brit
isb and Foreign Bible Society
ascribes to. the extensive use OF tn
Bible in that country the facts tina
infidel literature had not been trans
lated into Welsh, and that Poper
has scarcely made any progress
there. No doubt either that, OF tn
peculiarities Of the Welsh language
The Universal Peace Union, com
posed largely OF Friends, held II
twelfth anniversary In Poughkeepsis
n. Y, on the 9Th inst. 1t uttered a