The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-05-17

Of the 100000 required to save
the Old South Church, Boston, the
sum of $15S,OOO is still to be raised.
Over 500 have joined the churches
in Springfield, Mass, as the result
of the Moody and Sankey meetings.
Messrs. Penteccst and Stebbins
have just closed a meeting 10 Mid
dIetown, Conn, at which 400 were
converted.
Chicago has 90 Lutheran Church
es, of which one is Dutch, one Eng
Iisb, II are German, and the rest are
Norwegian and Swedish.
The London Christian World.
which celebrated its twenty-first
birthday on April u, has weekly
circulation of $4,000 copies.
Rev. E. II. Jenkyns, formerly of
the Church of England, in Canada,
has accepted the pastorate of the
Reformed Episcopal Church at
Wheeling, West Va.
The Vestry of Trinity Episcopal
Church, New York, has selected
the Rev. DIR. Dekoven, of the Uni
versity of Racine, Wis, as successor
to the late DR.. Oglesby, as assistant
minister.
Rev. G. T. Ashley, an English
clergyman of some note, has with
drawn from the Church of England
on account OF dissatisfaction with
the doctrines of the Church respec-
ting baptismal regeneration and
priestly dissolution.
The Washington street NJ. E.
Church of Poughkeepsie, N. Y,
through the liberality of its men,
bers, has recently been relieved
from a debt of $4,000 which had
been accommodating for some years
past.
DR.. Seth Smith, of New London,
Ct, has left So, 600 to a Congrega-
tional Church in that place, and
81, 900 to another in East Lynn, and
$4,000 for the foundation of the
Smith Memorial Home in New
London, for respectable aged and
INDECENT women.
Rev. p. B. Morgan, of St. Johns
Protestant Episcopal Church, Gin
cinnati, has formally announced his
withdrawal from fellowship in that
church on account of it's Romish
tendencies, and his intehtien 10
unite with the Reformed Episcopal
Church. Mr.. Morgan is to become
pastor of st. Paul's Reformed Epis-
copal Church, Chicago, vice DR.,
Hunter, who has returned to the
Methodist Church.
Bishop L. Spalding, of the Ro-
man Catholic diocese of Peoria, has
of late been discoursing upon the
"Decline of Professionalism" and the
Catholic papers are quoting hi;
opinions with great appreciation
Unfortunately the bishops facts dc
not sustain him, especially when be
speaks of the United States. He
says: "In population of over 40,
100000, after a hundred years o.
perfect freedom, some hundred
sects or more hold, with what power
of grasp they may, 100000 O.
members. II we reckon the Catho.
lies al 1000 600, there remain some
100000 neither Protestant MOI
Catholic, but simply Indifferent t
all forms of religiOn. No words, j
would seem, could add 10 the signi
ficauce of this fact, which of itsel
proves the hopeless failure of Pro
testantism in the United States
The bishop has forgotten that Ro
man Catholic statistics report popu
lation, and Protestant, in this coun
try, communicates, in the United
States are 100000; the Methods
} population is fairly computed a
, 100000. Tine Baptist communi
cants are over 100000; the Baptis
population is over 100000. Thi
distinction is just as applicable t
the Presbyterians, Lutherans, Con
gregatiouaIists, and Episcopalians
How is it, if Bishop Spalding's rea
soning is sound, that in the chart O
the United States census showing
the "ratio of church accemmo da
ton to the total population over te
years of age" one-half of the Who'll
space is represented by the Metho
dists and the Baptists, and abou
= one-nipth by the Roman Catholics