The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-04-27
CHURCH NOTES.
rAIlY.

The chaplain Of the Alabama house Of
representatives is colorcd man.
Rev. [. Z. Bayliss, the Baptist evangelist,
has removed his family from Virdcn, H.,
to Lansing, Mich.
Rev. L. l. Root pastor Of the Presby- |
tartan church at Edwardsville, ILL.,, has de-
cidcd 10 remove TO Parksville, Mo.
Rev. Mr.. Rensselaer,, of Greenvile, H.,
has been called to the pastorate Of the High
land, III. Evangelical. church.
Subscriptions amounting to 100000
have bsen made for the founding OF Liver
pool blshopric, and the sum Of 100000
more is asked for.
The Chicago Unity, for which Robert
Co.iyer writes, remarks that "Coniucianism
and Buddhism united in China have not
yet been able 10 produce Dennis kearney.
OF the inmates of the Iowa Insane
Asylums nincty-,wo Including twenty-one
women have gone mad through intemper-
ance, and 100 Including 40 women owe
their insanity 70 religious excitement.
A Philadelphia paper ascertained that on
a recent Sunday there were 2l,9i4 women
and children and ll,3l4 men present at
twenty.nine churches. OF this number 22-
600 attended four Roman Catholic churches.
At the meeting ofthe Macoupin countySun-
day school ssociation, to be held at Carlin-
vile, H., in May, Rev. Adams, Of the Wes
leyan University, Bloomington, will deliver
an address on The Bible, the Source Of
Modern Civilization
Bibles are not allowed TO enter Russia ex-
cept through the Holy Synod, but the late
war enabled the British and Foreign Bible
society TO place 100000 copies of the book
in the hands of Russians while they were
out of their native country.
The municipal council Of Paris has
warned the archbishop that all members Of
the sisterhoods and Christian brotherhoods
teaching in the communal schools are to
quit before April lst. This measure will
entail yearly increase of 100000 francs
III the municipal laAaIoH'
The sale of relics has been forbidden by
| the Pope, because it has been discovered
that men who are enemies Of the Catholic
faith and DESTROYS Of filthy lucre, hunt up
and steal authentic relics and sell them,
especially in Rome, 10 the great scandal OF
the faithful, and especially of the foreign
ers."
Among the English-speakisg people Of
the world the Episcopalians rank first in
number, with l1,750,O00; Methodists are
next, with 100000; and then come Ro-
man Catholics, with l2,500,000; Presbyter-
ans with 100000; Baptists, with so00,-
900; Congregationalists. with 1000 900, and
Unitarians, with 100000.
The public and private charities OF Bos-
ton are forming an organization to be known
as the Associated Charities Of Boston. BY
means of it the worthy poor will, it is be-
lieved, be better found out, and impostcrs
who receive help from several societies at
the same tine, will be discovered. The
Rev. Philips Brooks, the Rev. Edward Eve
rett Hale and others are leading the move
ment.
A colored preacher in Kentucky called
on Il tobacco dealer for subscription IN
aid of the church over which he presided,
and when the dealer said he ought to 60 10
work and earn something for the church in.
stead of begging, offered TO work If the
dealer would employ him. The dealer
agreed; the negro preacher laid aside his
clerical coat and labored assiluously n the
factory all day, and at sunset received "a $50
check in payment
The Belgian bishops have condemned the
government education law because instrUc.
ton in dogmatc religion is no longer made
compulsory, and have prescribed . prayer
which is to be rected aloud after mass il
every church and chapel. 1t calls on Goo
to prevent the bill from becoming q law
One of its most characteristic sentences is
"From the schools without God, and til,
schoolmasters without faith, deliver us, {
Lord! Amen
When the Second Baptist church ut st
Louis was destroyed by fire the Jews place,
\ theil fine synagogue at the service OF DR.
Boyd's congregation, which worshippe,
there and communicated. DR.. Boyd invt
ed DR.. Elliot, a Unitarian clergyman. TO re
main at the communion. and now il Is on
cially stated that "hc invited him onurel
= upon his own authority and that 9TH
church docs not approve or endorse 'ope,
10 communion of the extreme Sort In thi
Ne case the Israeli,es set the Christians nue.
Ne the better example.
n Tho Philadelphia Society of Friends
taking active steps towards the forma.io
4 Of settlements in the west, SO as to lring tt