The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-12-24
RELIGIOUS NEWS AND NOTES.

Boston has a church for every 1858 in
habitanis.
The Church of England requires 49,
600. 600 a year.
Brooklyn has a church for every l,72l
inhabitants.
St.. Peters, Rome, requires $50, 600 in
repairs annually.
Washington has a church for every
932 inhabitants.
Bishop Potter, of New York, has con-
frmed 72,OOo persons.
The State of New York has a church
to every 805 inhabitants.
From 1880 to 1920 there will not be a
February with five Sundays.
France has 1000 Sunday schools,
Germany 1000 and Italy 1900.
Twelve men have given to Protestant
missions the past year an aggregate OF
100000
Cincinnati has $50, 900 inhabitants,
only SO, 600 of whom nre found IN church
from Sunday to Sunday.
During the last year the Gospel was
preached in 1000 towns. and cltles IN
| China where it had not been previously
heard.
A nephew of Prof. Park, of Andover,
| Rev. C. W. Park, editor of the Bombay
E~ronqelical Review, says 10, 707 converts
were baptized in India last year.
The Congregationalist says: If you
starve your cow you get only poor
cream, and but little of it: just so IN
the treatment of your minister.
A ,vhite nan who has lived among
the Zulus twenty years, and become a
chief. John Dunn, says that no more
missionaries shall be admitted to his
country, near Natal.
Mr.. Henry Tawa Selwyn, a full
blooded Sioux Indian, son Of q Leading
| chief. Medicine Cow, Of the Yankton
tribe, has been ordained pastor OF the
church at Yankton agency.
The Presbytery ofColorado has taken
I'D mission work among the Mexlcans,
of whom there are 90, 900 in the State.
| At q recent meeting they licensed q
Mexican to preach to his countrymen.
ga church without al creed" said
Rev.F. N. Peloubet, at the Worcester
Sabbath-school convention, lis like q
man without q backbone. He doesn't
need to show it all the time, but it must
be there"
Paul, the great apostle, is believed by
Dean Farrar to have been q slight man,
With stopping shoulders, aquiline nose
and thin hair. sable-silvered. His face
was pale and liable to a quick flush and
| change of expression, and at times much
discolored by his malady.
The Presbyterians have a Chinese
mission home for girls in Oakland, CAL,
which has had during the four years
and a half since its opening seventy in
mates. These are taught to cook. sew
and keep house neatly. The cost of each
girls support is about So per month.
The 300 prize offered by the Phila-
delphia Methodist Lyceum for the best
essay on Mental Culture Considered
rs a Christian Duty" has been divided
between Pastor Mcfarland, of Eddy
vile, Iowa. and Pastor Young, of Car
lise. Pa. There were seventy competl-
tors.
, In Georgia there is a minister of the
primitive Baptist denomination VINO
has five churches under his care, making
it necessary for him to preach all day
long on Sundays. During six days of
the week he goes into the forest and
| chops wood to earn aliving. And he is
seventy-one years of age Mt that.
Calculations have been made to show
the number of years it would require at
present rates to convert the entire popu-
lation Of India, and a most formidable
showing was the result. But in spite
of these figures, however discouraging,
great progress has been made since mis-
| sionary work in that :ountry began: In
1880 the native Chris lians in India, Bur-
NAH. and North and South Ceylon,
numbered $1,000. Last October there
! were 460, 900.