New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-06-14

Drew's gift OF $25o,O00 as an endowment OF Drew
Theological Seminary, which was lost through MS
failure replaced ny subscriptions amounting
SPAS 600 and 1t is believed the SUN can DC lncrescu
to 100000.
In Kansas Protestant Christianity has made
remarkable progress in late years. One new churcn
on an average, has been built every week IN
State with population OF 70S497 there has been ID
two gain Of 16 203 church members ana thero II
now a total of $50 churches and 1878 members
divided among the denominations as follows Bapusts
60 churches 16,Os3 members CongrePationalists o9
churches 500 members Episcopalians, % churches
1889 members; Lutherans, SO churches, 4,oOo MEM
bers Methodiss l52 churches. SO 767 members Pres
byterians 90 churches 9ol members; CmIteu III
erans ID churches and 469 members. Ihere are III
Roman Catholic churches with 635lO members
Will the troubles of st. James's, Hatcham,
mover ceasei Seldom comes an English mail that has
nothing new that seat Of The latest item Is
letter from the Bishop OF Rochester to the Church-
warden anl the Vicar ruling that the eastward position
consecratng the elements is permissible only on the
under standing that c)nsecratng act Is done before
the congregation With regard to an act OF rudene's
complained OF by the Vicar he hopes he Is right In as
Stunning that if there has been roughness on the
Church side. there has been ove-sentvehe's
on the Wears But the alleged irreverence," concludes
the Il shop is a cricvous dishOnOr to Almighty Goa,
and kind o. outrage HIS House of Prayer; ana
those who nv such means think 10 promote the cduse
truth and order only succeed III lutlcns on II NIi
and permanent injury"
The Saturday ReUieC takes the dedication OF
the now Cathedral in this city the text Of long
article wonderful progress Of the Catholic Church
in the United States The contrast it between the
present religious condition OF this country and its con
dition century ago is startling enough The Cathohc
clergy then in the whole country did not exceed twenty
in number. and there public celebration OF
mass anywhere but in Philadelphia The COngre-
cationaists were far the most numerous ana
powerful body. Next to them came the Baptlsts'
then The Episcopahans, and fourth In order the
Prcsbyteriaus. The remaining Protestant bodies were
small and Insignificant. This order, at the end OF
century has completely changed. The Methodsts,
then few and feeble, stand frst while the Con-
gregationalsts who then almost doubled the size of
the next largest sect. have fallen to the seventh
place The Catholic Church stands fourth in numerical
order and second the value OF its property The Re-
rieg finds it easier to prove the reality than TO explain
the causes OF this sudden religious growth except in so
far as it forms part Of the general Roman Catholic
reaction OF the last half century. 1t has sometimes
been suiscd The RerietC remarks in conclusion, that
future POntiff with the mental grasp ana strong
wrist OF Hildebrand may yet plant anew the
foundations OF church pOity, not on sOVeIclgns
aad dynastics, but on the broad basis OF the
popular will Should such an idea ever occur 10
such man, he might point with much plauslDllty 10
the spectacle Of his Church this country happy
aucurv for the success of bls audacious scheme
"America may yet supply materials to the Ranke OF the
future and original chapter In the history OF
the POpes"