Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1878-04-04
Religious Intelligence.

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The Catholic press is discussing o
proposition to establish an Am erican
Catholic University.
Pope Leo XIII, is eighteen days
older than Cardinal McCloskey. both
having been born in the month of
March, in the year 1910.
The costly stone Church of the In
tercession, at Washington Heights,
New York city, was sold under fore
closure Of mortgage last week. The
mortgage bid In the edifice for
$4,000.
The Baptist statistics for Iowa are
as follows: Associations, %; churches
1893; ordained ministers, $50; licen-
tiates, %; baptisms, 1909; church
members, 23.256; Sunday schools,
1913; scholars, 1901.
The Southern Methodist General
Conference, which meets in Atlanta,
Ga, in May. will consist of 14S minis
tiers and as many laymen, represent
ing thirty-seven Annual Conferences
and about 70O,000 members.
The statistics OF Moravianism at
the end of 1877. show 9S, 1888 members,
11,OS7 Sunday schools, and over 5000
pupils in boarding and day schools.
together 1S5, 1873 persons are under A
Moravian instruction throughout the
world.
The Quakers came into VanWert,
O., about three years since; built
them little chapel in the east end of
town, and organized society. They
had revival last winter. The first
OF November last they commenced a
revival, that has just closed with
some 300 conversions.
The New jersey Methodist Confer.
ence, sitting at Burlington, resolved
Thursday, in view OF the harm done
TO the church by professedly religious
men suspected Of fraudulent failures
in business, that discipline in all
cases should be rigidly enforced.
Some years ago Rev. DR.. Mast was
compelled to suspend labor upon his
Commentary" one volume of which
was given to the public. The friends
of sound Biblical knowledge will be
pleased to learn that he has been per-
mitted to resume his work, and all
will join with us in wishing that his
life may be prolonged that he may
complete his expository labors.
The work OF revising tie Author
lied English version of the Bible is
paid for in England by the Syndics o!
the University press, who have a
copyright on the book; the expenses
of the American revisers are betrayed
by private contributions. No COM
pensation is paid to the revisers for
their labor. 1t is expected that the
work will be completed in two years
The Presbyterian Board OF Foreign
Missions reports the following re-
ceipts from May 1, 1877, to March
1873: From churches, $195,837 .23
legacies, S26,s67.16; miscellaneous
s24, 999.31; total, S247,7O3.7O. This
does not include the gift OF $4,000
from Mrs. Green, received in May
1877. The actual falling off in re-
ceipts from the same period in 1877 is
upward Of $4,000.
In each OF thetwo principal denom-
nations OF Germany-the Protestan,
and the Catholic-the lack OF minis-
ters Is one OF the questions continu-
ally pressing for discussion. Tidings
come from the Catholic dioceses
both in the East and in the West, tina,
about one-fourth of the parishes are
destitute, or insufIiciently supplied
with. priests. And in the Evangeli.
cal Protestant Church, owing to the
inadequate supply of students, it is
to be feared that the same percentage
of pupils will soon be vacant.
DIR. Howard Crosby boldly declared
in the Edinburgh Presbyterian Coun-
Gil: "The great defect OF some of oul
theological seminaries is that they dc
not teach the Bible. They teach
about the Bible, but do not teach the
Bible itself. The power of the Church
for the truth will be greatly increased
when every minister goes forth to his
high vocation thoroughly charged
like an electric battery. with the
Word OF God" A like defect and Q
like remedy may be forcibly com.
mended to the attention of many
Sunday school teachers in a number
of localities nearer to us THAI Scot
land.