The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-01-05
CHURCH NOTES.

On the Pacific coast the average attend
ancc OF Chinese boys and girls upon the
Protestant Sunday schools is 1000.
The Massachusetts house Of Representatives
is 70 lose its chaplain, the Rev Robert g..
Seymour, famous in making very good
prayers not over minute long.
An extraordinary session Of the council
Of the Episcopal church of Louisiana is call
ed for the 29th of January, to elect bishop
in place of the late DR.. Wilmer.
1t is proposed to erect by subscription
in the court Of Louvre, at Paris, a statue Of
Admiral Colgny, near the spot where he
fell during the massacre Of ST. BarthJio-
new.
There is now living in the Province Of
Ontario, Canada a Catholic priest named
John Macdonald, who is ninety-seven years
Of age, and has been more than seventy
years%n the priesthood.
Master Henry Krauss, Of New Haven, a
boy Of eight, has learned 2,l00 verses Of the
German Bible since April last, besides at
tending to his English studies at school.
His stint last Sunday was 1913 verses.
The Catholic archbishop of Quebec has
been preaching. on the BaScilica. The cathe.
drel enjoys that lofty rank among ecclesia-
stical editices on the immortality Of fast
dances and the improperiety OF ball-dresscs
In North Carolina there have been $500
accessons to the Methodist Church South,
owing to reyvals in the past year. The
entire denomination in the south has in
creased in the year between 10000 ana
10000
1t is proposed that the Jewish organiza'
ton of Benai Berth shall be open to all
applicants regardless of creed, and some OF
the prominent members fear a resolution
to that effect will result in discord.
An Episcopslian has offered prize o.
5000 to the theological student "who is
adjudged the most correct, intelligent and
impressive reader of the Bible and Prayer
Book in the service Of the Protestant Epis-
copal Church
The archbishop Of Canterbury being of
the Liberal Evangelical school, the late
Mrs TAFT naturally WAS Rltualist, or next
door to it. In consequence Of this the discus
sion OF theological questions was not allow.
ed at thu archbishop's table.
rev. Joseph b. Phagon of the society Of
Jesus, president Of the College Of the Holy
Cross, Worcester, Mass, passenger 10y tn,
steamer Granada, died at sea of apoplcxy
December %, was buried in the Catholic
cemetery at Acapulco on the 20th inst
The Oxford Undergraduates Journal
says that two undergraduates have lately
been received into the church of Rome, and
that three more are contemplating the wis
dom of such steps. There are Roman Cath.
oIic chapcls now both at Oxford and Cam
bridge.
At noon on the day that Wade Hampton :
life was declared to be in danger from the
effects OF the amputaton Of his leg, the
business of the South Carolina conference
then in session at Newbury, was suspended
and all the delegates kncit in prayer for the
recovery of he governor,
DR.. Lcftwich, Of Atlanta, Ga. has nc.
ceptcd a call to the First Presbyterian
church of Baltimore and, as he thu, leaves
the Church South, it may be taken for
granted that the famous Block dancing
case will not he taken up in the general con
ference, to which DR., Leitwich had taken
an appeal.
A natural pulpit exists in North Stonng.
ton, Conn, formed by . cluster Of large
rocks apparently thrown together in some
uphcaval of nature. The early settlers
used to meet there for religious worship
and among the eminent preachers who oc-
cupicd the pulpit are George Whitfield,
Gilbert Tcnnctt and Simeon Brown, the
latter two being the eminent "Scparatis,s,"
Rev. DR.. Whiting, pastor of the First
Baptist church, Of Quincy, H., for the past
five years, has resigned, to accept n call at
Canton, I'll. He will preach his farewell
sermon this morning, Mr.. Whiting leaves
host of friends in Quincy, and every mem
Der of his congregation, as well as his
many friends outside the church, will regret
his departure.
London has colony of Mormons. But
they do not prosper Such men as the Nor.
mon elders lay hold Of find, it is said, hard
work in London TO be the husband of one
wife and the father OF one family, to say
nothing Of more A deputation from Salt
Lake City is now in London, and confer
encc was lately held to secure converts who
would cmegratc 20 the United States
Pope LEO NH. IL reported to be engay.
ed in drawing up the plan Of an agreement
to be entered into by all the European pow.
ers with Wow to the repression of social.
istic and international tendencies. The
vatican authorities are working out the de-.
tails, and the whole will when completed,
DC dispatched !" the papal representative
abroad for submission to the governments
TO which they aro credited.
| There arc about twenty-five Baptist
1 AL.