The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-08-24
CHURCH NOTES.

RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE FROM ALI LANDS
AND PEOPLE.
The Roman Catholic bishop If Mon
treal is in financial difficulties
Sermons by telephone are announced.
Botteled-up sermons for family sc will
soon follow.
Bishop Colenso, who is now sXty-fve
years old, is described as handsome
stately old man,
The Methodist Episcopal church at
Port Huron, Mich, is damaged to the
amount of $4,000 by a recent storm.
The Advance Congregational thinks
that if Schuyler Colfax were president
Mormonism would not be tolerated "a day,
1t is never worth while to make rents
in 4 garment for the sake of manding them,
not to create doubts to show how cleyerly
We can quiet them.
The Jewish churches Of London gave
| $1,000 to the hospital fund.- to which all
the denominations, except perhaps the
Catholics, contribute yearly.
Both houses of convoc&tion of the
Church OF England have asked the arch
bishop of Canterbury to canse prayers for
fair weather to be offered in the churches,
The king of Belgium has written a
letter to Bishop Crowther, full blooded
African, congratulating him or the success
attending his labors as missionary in
Africa.
-Petetons in support of The bill for
Wales &u sundaJa have beer ivory vStScf;
sively circulated and signed throughout
Great Britain.
The English Wesleyans had, in 1886,
some $50 circuits and ,625 ministers, an in.
crease of 324 circuits and 7G7 ministers in
43 years.
The famine in Jerusalem is so great
that the chief rabbis and the presidents Of
the two principal congregations have issued
an appeal for supplies Of wheat, barley and
other food,
The Rev James Alexander, D. D., q
prominent Presbyterian minister died re-
Gently at Moundsville, West Virginia. He
was native of Pennsylvania and q gradu-
ate of Jefferson College.
-Methodism makes good muster in the
field Of foreign missions. All the Methodist
branches together have nearly 5000 regular
missionary agents and upward Of ~, 500
members, with 23,267 on trial.
The Baptist churches in Japan, English
and American. have formed an assertion
The native brethren furnished the preaching
for the occasion, and at the communion 60
native members were admitted.
There are in Vermont 1873 Congrega,
tional ministers, 80 Of whom are pastors Of
churches and 81 are acting pastors. About
one-fourth Of the whole number are without
pulpit charge.
The Rev. II. Jones, rector of St.
George sln-the- East, a London parish which
contains tens OF thousands of inhabitants
receives from his living $500 year, out OF
which he pays the salaries Of two curatcs
at ESQ.
The Rev. A. Morton Brown, D. d., q
prominent English CongrogationaIist, died
recently at Cheltenham, where he had been
pastor thirty-four years. He was author Of
Evenings with the Prophets" and other
books.
In the entire country, less than a CEN
| fury ago, there were but "a Lutheran minis
tiers. The present number is $3.50, with
5000 congregations and 725,OO0 communi.
cants.
The Methodist Church Extension
society proposes to build forty new churches
this year in each of the ten western terrific
ries. Of course they will be small and
simple churches.
Usually the more fortune man ac.
quies the less he cares to please others: in
return they become anxious to please him
so that the sum of civilitles between them
remain the same though differently divided.
Brother Inskip has been holdino a
holiness camp meeting in Iowa. What
most chihy fills his soul with delight is that
he found so many Of the brethren ENJOYING
that state of grace which he describes by
the words fully saved"
The Jewish parents of young ladv
who was recently married in San Francisco
celebrated the event by giving newcIothes
to all the inmates of the Hcbre Orphan
Asylum, and sumptuous collation. to all
purtake Of il.