, 1879-07-06
GENERAL NOTES.


A London paper says that e50,000 have been
spent in prosecuting the Iitualisss and all to no
purpose. >.
The late Capt. Pratt, Of Essex, Conn, left in
bis will S100,0O0 in trust Tor a school for chill
dren of Congregational Church members
Irish Presbyterians in General Assembly, BY
vote OF 319 to 275, have refused to sanction the
use OF instrumental music in their churches.
The ministers Of the Free Church Of Scotland
have BEEN enjoined By the General Assembly to
discountenance rafflcs or bazaar lotteries and
other similar methods Of raising mouey for re-
igious purposes.
or the 8o,25o,000 Eng1ish-speaking people In
the world, II, 750 900 are Episcopalians, 14000-
600 Methodfsts, 13.500,000 Catholics, 10000, coo
Presbyterians, 600 GOO Baptists, and 1000 900
Congrcgationali6ts.
At recent communion service in Sacramento
eight Cinnamon were received into the Church
on profession of their faith, and again at San
francisco nine Chinese men and two Chinese
women we're thus received.
The cornerstone OF the Sixth PRESBYTERIAN
Church, corner of Vincenues and Oak avenues.
will be appropriately laid Tuesday afternoon at
o'clock An interesting programme has been
prepared for the occasion.
Advertisement from the English Ecclesiastical
E1ZILes " dukEtl4 Df y QE1lEuCGu ElEfT$EQaQ,
shooting in August or September, In return for.
taking Sunday duty. address Vicar, care Of,
etc, Bedford street, Strand, W. c."
The project for Pan Methodist Conference
is again agitated in the Methodist papers. An
other effort will be made to get the British Wes-
leyan Conference, which hns SO far avoided CON-
miltfng itself, to cooperate in the scheme.
The ciyil authorities of Austria are euergeti-
catly sHbprcssing Protestant worship in the
Empire Mission Churches in Prague, Vienna,
and elsewhere, and Bible readings have been
suppressed under threat OF fine and imprison-
mcnt.
ia minister in seneca Falls" says the Og-
deusburg Journal, rs charged with hiring
livery horses nnd wagon, swapping horses six
times In two days, and returning to the stable
with the same morse he took out, having made
$lN BY the operation"
The Canada Presbyterian Church, whose
General Assembly has been IN session in Ottawa.
has aa extensive work in home missions.
Through the agency Of this Board the Gospel Is
aries, to 33,2l3 worshipers, 1854 families, and
10,GN communicates.
4 splendid new Greek Church, with sitting
accommodations for 1000 xorshipers, has been
opened in Moscow road, Bayswater, London.
AS there is no Greek Bishop stationed in En-
gland, the ceremony OF conservation las been
postponed, but short dcdicatory service has
rendered the building available for ecclesiastical
purposes.
The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Lord
Chancellor, the Archbishop OF York, the Bishop
OF Londou, Lord PenZance, and the Lord Chief
Justice Of England, have agreed upon some
notifications to the Public Worship act, with
the VieY of obviating the difficulties under
which Lord PenZance has been laboring In hold
ing the Court OF Arches.
st. james, Episcopal Church, Philadelphia, Is
In trouble. The, venerable Rev. DR.. Morton is
TOO old to work vigorously, and the cougreea-
tion has dwindlcd. until financial crisis is at
from active duty on = salary, and hire q popular
assistant Rector. he refused to acauicsce. aud
the Vestrymen hayc all resigned.
The General Synod of the ,Moravtan Church
met at Heernhut, Germany, May 90, after an
interval Of about eleven. years. Fitty-three
members we're present, Of whom eleven were
from America, including two Bishops. Bishop
Edmund de Schweiuitz. Of America, was chosen
President OF the Synod By Il vote Of 50 to Il for
H. L. Rechel. Three Vice Presidents were
chosen, one each fronl the German, the British,
and the American Provinces. The Synod then
proceeded to business.
OF camp-neetings yet to be held this season,
list by no means complete, is given Of seventy
five for the entire country. Fifteen Of them will
be held in Pennsylvania, twelve 10 Ohio, ten in
| New York, and three in New Jersey. The Gus
tom OF holding no services at these meetings on
Sundays is growing IN favor, the ground for sus-
pending them being that irteligious people, lir
ing in the neighbor!lood of the grounds, go to
the Sunday services as they would to an agricut-
ural fair Or o travelling circus
Bishop Samuel 7. J. SchereschcwslzY has nam
cd the institution at Shanghai, China, under his
care, ''I1e St. John Missionary College," The
first Episcopal Missionary Bishop In China was
Dr. Boone, consccrated IN Philadelphia thirty
five wears ago. OF the eleven Bishops present
on that occasion only two. Bishops Whiting
ham and Lee, survive. Bishop Scheresehewsky
has labored twentY-tWo years in China, and
language.
Theology and .Homiletics in the special course
aud Lecturer on Pastoral Theology, aud the Rev.
Austin Phelps, Bartlett Professor OF Sacred
Rhetoric both of tile Ando7er Theological Semi
Prof. Taylor has been connected With the Semi
nary nearly thirty years as Treasurer, Trustee,
and Professor. &c leaves a parting gift to the
Treasury Of $4,000. ThefSeminary has, with
Prof. Tay1or's gift, received In cash and sub
scriptions during the past year about S2o0,oOo
There is now on exhibition at the Exposition
Building mammoth object chart, showing ut
glance all the connecting links in the plan Of
redemption, with the appropriate Scriptural
texts from the Old and New Testaments. The
cross is Of course, the central figure, and IN the
development Of the plan OF salvation Us unfold
ed 1t occupies u plUnucuL pOS1L1ou. Inc CA1-
vas measures is by ~ feet, and is painted in oil
colors after designs bY the Rev. s. ]. Lackey,
u. D., OF Cleveland. C1ergymen and teachers
are invited to examine it tomorrow and Tues
day between the hours Of and L
At the last parish Meeting Of St. Marks
Church, Evanston, on Easter Monday, the
church was declared Tree; that is, the pew sys-
TEN was abandoned and the voluntary contribu-
tion plan bY collections on each Sunday was sub
stituted and, the parish being entirely tree from
debt, the success OF the new method Of support
has been greater than was anticipated. Strang-
ers are cordially invited to attend the services at
1O:45 a, m. aud D. m. Ushers arc in attend
ancc to seat visitors. There are no reserved
sents. Regular attendants will please send
their address to the Rev. j. Stewart Smith, Rec
tor.
At the instance Of Col. Sickles, United States
Consul at Bangkok, Siam, proclamation has
been recently iisued by the King, IN which he
places his Kingdom among the most enlightened
in respect to religious liberty. 1t says: Who
ever is Ut the opinion that AM particular reliS-
ion is correct, let him hold to it as he p!eases;
the right or wrong will be to the person who
holds to it. In the treaties und in the customs
OF the Kingdom of Siam, there is no prohibit
tion against persons VINO shall hold to any par
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