New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-01-25
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.


It is estimated that of the 10000 students
in the colleges the United States only $4,000 are pro
Tossing Christians and fewer than 5000 are engaged
even nominally in any KIDD Of active Christian work.
The large number of Christian associations which have
been organized within the past few years report about
1000 conversions.
An interesting and instructive course of SER
nous on the general subject Of Missions Is being deV-
cred on Sunday evenings in the various Episcopal
Churches in the city, The first given last
Sunday by the Rev. Arthur Brooks III Zion Church
on Missions Historically Considered. The next VIII
by Rev. Heber Non. tomorrow eve9lng IN
the Anthem Memorial Church, en- Missions In heatl1n
to the Treatment OF other Rel glons There VIII he SIX
dlscOurscS III all.
Universalism during the past year made an
increase OF hfywO parishes, 500 families, torty-siX
churches Q $40 church members and twenty church
edidces the United States and Canada. The value OF
its church property so 0O0 and,there was
gain OF forty-ve in the number Of Sunday schools At
the same time the statistics have fallen off in some other
respects. There 912 fewer Sunday school scholars
and eleven fewer preachers COLLEGES and academies
49, and their assets by 100000. In the United states
the denomination has 737 churches and III ministers
There died in Bedford, England, Il short
time ago John Howard who was born in the year that
John Wesley died. and whose desire had long been that
lie might live to the age of Wcscy-a desire which was
graifed for lie died eehtyeIgh the exact period Of
WcscyS life. He was an iron manufacturer, ana mad
accumulated large fortune he had been Mayor OF
Bedford four times. its senior magistrate for many
years. and for siXtyyc years OF his life 1t was his Gus
tom TO preach by appointment. when eigytwo wears
of age and obliged TO sit while nc spoke he would go
miles TO fulfil an appointment. lie has son IN
carried away by the tide, but keep the end in view
The debt of the Southern Methodist Pub
fishing House is $500 600, and Plan has been devised
for paying Twelve years the debt was $4,000
but the building which the society cost $685.
OO0 The committee appointed to devise plan 10 pay
the debt has concluded that ii cannot be paid by pub
fishing religious books or "by passing around the hat
and so has concluded TO issue bonds TO the extent OF
100000 bearing interest at per cent III S3O0OOO OF
the bonds not subscribed for, the Publishing House
will be abandoned When that amount is subscribed,
those subscribing will be called on to pay their snh-
been subscribed already. The bonds first mortgage
and run for forty years.
At Omaha the congregation has entirely out
grown the wooden cathedral OF the Episcopal Church,
and Bishop CarksOn Is urging vigorously the neeeS-
sity OF building permanent structure. lie proposed
that If the congregation would raise $4,000 IN add-
ton to the So 600 already raised, he would pledge him
self add another 5000, and erect large, plain and
durable structure at a of $4,000 which would be
finished for that and be dedcatedwthOut debt The
proposition accepted and the congregation has Sc
cured almost the entire amount The Bishop s now APP
es nreemsed Tne 6nding as planned will seat about
700 people but Will be so constructed tha II can be eI
Orcd brick, without any expensive cut-stone work.
The new professor at AndOver Theological
Semnary-the Rev. DR.. John p. Gulliver-was the pas
tor of Presbyterian Church in Binghamton when the
professorshIp was offered him. Before he went TO Bng
hamton he had been the pastor of a Congregational
Church in Gaesburg ILL., 1t seems that the charter OF
Andover requires that all professors shall be members OF
the Congregational Church. Southern Methodist news
paper hears that Dr. CULVER has applied to the Gales
burg church for certificate of membership. in face of
the fact that he accepted the call Of the Bnghamton
church without sing TO be member OF the Gacsburg
church. This it cites fair illustration OF the loose
religious and UNCONVENTIONAL views of large class OF
people up North, and stopping not for grammar or
moderation. il concludes by saving "A man in these
parts that would do such thing would be considered
either kDave or fool and he ought TO-"
The sum of money appropriated for the
work of lining with mosaics the dome OF St Pauls Ca
tnedral, LOnio is S250,000, and the artists commits
stoned to furnish the President Leighton OF
the Royal Academy, and Mr. Poynter The subjects
will be taken from the Apocalypse. Objections have
been made the OF mosacs on the ground that the
darkness would prevent their being seen, and colossal
figures on gold ground have been proposed instead, but
TO no purpose. 1t is recalled by The Christian Union
that little more than a hundred years ago proposal
allow Sir Joshua Reynolds 10 decorate the cathedral
was declined The King OF England and the Arch
bishop OF York approved IT, but the Bishop OF London
whose consent necessary refused to do so III these
words Whilst live. and have the power will never
suffer The doors OF the Metropolitan Church 10 be opened
for the introduction Of popery"
Cardinal Spaccapietra, Of Smyrna, who re-
Gently died, remarkable pIelatc. Plus TX first
brought him into prominence He was remarkably gifted
as q preacher. The Pope sent him on various distant
missions Everywhere he gained the love of the people
to whom lac preached. When he left Porto Rico the
negroes gave him pair OF gold buckles for his shoes
with an inscription which enumerated all the pairs OF
shoes he had our while among them When sent TO
SMYRNA he succeeded III building cathedral, and il is
told of him that in order to raise the money he went
about as a simple pilgrim asking help. In twelve years
the structure built and the Cardinal had the pro-
found pleasure of consecraling himself His fame as
preacher great in Asia Minor that when II was
known he would preach his church was crowded, not
only with the faithful OF his own faith, but with per-
sons of other crceds who we're attracted by his elo-
quence
Fresh items from far and near: COngre-
gational Church in Illinois has rejected n candidate for
its pulpit on the sole ground that used
There the whole world. according TO careful es
innate only G503 900 Leo Kill has sent ten
Jesuit missionaries into the countries discovered by
Stanley and Livingstone. Dom Pedro has conferred
upon the Cardinal-ArchbIsh0p OF Paris the insignia
Of the Grand Cross OF the Order OF Christ, and
sent him an autograph letter Govt is hered-
itary in the SpnrgeOn family; the grand
father Of the LoadOn preacher complained at
eghtytwo that it would shorten his days, but he lived
10 be eghty-eigh The articles which belonged TO
Plus TX will be solo privately in the Vatican admission
being confined persons of place in the Church
Michigan Congregational Church, thirty eight years
old which has had thirteen different pastors during
its existence, only little than two aud three
fOurths years Tor each minister. An English wear
complains that cremation society is about to establish
a funeral pyre in the midst ofhs parish .MahOmeans
claim original Gospel has been lost and that the
tue version is verbal one which Christians do not
The question Of the ownership Of certain
Bible has the OF two lawsuits In Waterbury,
Conn., and another one is likely to result before the case
is fully disposed Catholic Congress at Lise.
France, recently recommended the abandonment Of