The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-02-15
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The colored Baptists of Virginia
have built and paid for 90 churches
the past year.
There are in England 2,0l2 Con-
gregational churches, a decrease of
two since 1876.
There are only two consecrated
Roman Catholic churches in the
Archdiocese of Boston, all the rest
being in debt.
The Southern Presbyterian Pub
LEGATION Committee have removed
their store and business from Rich
mond to st. Louis.
DR.. Noah Hunt Schenck's church
in Brooklyn, New York, is threat
ened with 9 foreclosure of its mort
gage unless the debt of $4,000 is
paid.
A United Presbyterian church is
to be built at Blsntyre, Scotland,
the birthplace of DR.. Livingstone,
as = memorial of the missionary
traveller.
Moody and Sankey began their
second week of revival meetings in
Hartford, Jan. 18th, with an aggre-
gate of 1900 persons in the audi
ence of the day.
The Central Congregational
church of Brooklyn, DR.. Il. M.
Scudder, pastor, has succeeded in
raising the entire amount needed to
pay its debt of $65, 900.
The American Bible Society, nine
months of whose fiscal year have
lnn4 n0ooaH rnHnlafno IF q nRoaf
Trailing off in receipts, and asks for
more liberal subscriptions.
The Tabernacle, Brooklyn, Rev.
T. De Witt Talmage, D.. D., pastor,
is threatened with q foreclosure,
fhaving been in default since July
lst, 1877, on principal and interest
of q bond mortgage for $4,000.
Rev. Thomas J. Melisb, Baptist
minister, who was one Of the lead
ers Ia the Christian Union move
iment which was begun three or
four years ago, has been received
into the Protestant Episcopal
The Worlds Conferences of the
tYeu1g Men's Christian Association
i viii be held at Geneva, Switzerland,
beginning Aug. 10, and closing
4 Aug. 20. Preparations are being
made for an excursion party from
thib country.
Bishop Cheney states that on the
Iletter-files or the Bishop of the
Reformed Episcopal church there
are more than Eve hundred sppIi-
cations for admission to the minls-
i try of that communion from eler-
igymen of almost every denomiAa-
| tion.
1 Mr.. Sturgeon gave curious lee
ture in London the other evening
called Sermons in Candles." In
the course Of it he exhibited to his
audience for the purposes of illus.
tretion an old candle-box, rush
light, . dirty old lantern, and can
die lit ct both ends.
A novel method of raising money
for church purposes has been put in
lpractice At B0scawen, N. II. A
swarm Of bees was discovered, some
time since under the caves Of the
Congregational church, and with
the sixty pounds of honey taken
from this hiding place, q festiVai
was held which brought the church
q handsome amount of money.
The New York Times Gays: 'eRev
e. p. Hammond, the evangelist, il
now holding large and successful
lreYival meetings at Marietta, Ohio
where about i've hundred person.
have already protested conversion
The meetings. at Parkersburg, Yves
Va, are stil1 kept mp by the pastors
&c Is estimated that fully 1000 per
cons have been converted there
efnce the meetings were opened By
81 Mr.. Hammond.a n-e q
The broad church move ment ii
Scotland, which lie popular with {
large number of clergymen o.
, wide literary attachments, is basel
! largely on the philosophy OF Kant
, Professor Edward Card (brotheI
OF the popular preacher to tn,
} Queen, If we may believe DR.. Nc
8 Coeh, is rather the leader of ihI
; movement, and in the Doctors opin
ion, Is undermining the native phi
! losOphy, and probably the undefly
! ing principle of the old theology o.
: Scotland" s