The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1879-09-10
RELIGIOUS NOTES.

OF the $40 professors IN the nine UNIVERSE
ties of Prussia, 30 teach Protestant and 25
Catholic theology.
Last month 2OS Russian Mennonites left
Toronto for Manitoba, making total of
1.325 families and 1883 persons who have
gone to that region.
Methodist pioneer in the West, is expecting
soon to celebrate his ninetieth birthday, and
to preach q sermon on the occasion.
At the recent meeting of a Wesleyan
conference in England it was resolved that
candidates for ordination should be asked:
"Do you take snuff. tobacco or drams2"
The Christian Intelligencer thinks the
morality advanced by Herbert Spencer does
not differ from, nor is it one whitin advance
of, that to be found in the PHILOSOPHERS of
Greece and Rome and in that of Confucius.
1t is equally without power.
The Advance first congratulates itself
upon the fact that the several gentlemen
prominently connected with the Northern
Pacific railroad" are Congregationalists, and
then makes the startling addition. 1--WE are
not disposed to make too much of it."
Rev. Stephen b. Tying, Jr., D. D.. at
the advice of his physician. has decided to
take foreign trip, and sailed on the Al
geria. Since his recovery from severe ill
ness he has taken q three months cruise
along the Maine coast In a yacht, but still
eeds rest and recreation.
The authorities and people of Camunas,
Spain. seem to have resolved to rid the town
oil all religious teachers. They put the priest
to fight by their threats, and sought to
drive out the Protestant pastor, Mr.. Astray ,
He told them If ne died he would die at hi 8
post, and refused to quit the town. At last
accounts excitement ran high.
In Rome was recently ordained colored
priest, who was formerly slave. He has
suffered many indignities, AMI an Italian
lady learning his condition and character,
purchased him and gave him his freedom
He was then sent to the Propaganda, and his
ordination Is the result His field of work is
Abyssinia, where he has been sent to labor
among his own people.
The twenty-third annual conference of the
United Methodist Free Churches of England
was held in London August 7; 12O ministers
and 80 laymen were present. and Rev. T.
dent. During the past year the denomina
ton has lost-by removals, by death and by
Withdrawals IA members; but large gains
have reduced the losses to 400.
Bishop Huntington, of Central New York,
has farm in Hadley, Mass, which he makes
his summer resort. The region is devoted to
the culture of tobacco, but no plant of it has
ever, it is said, tainted his paternal acres.
When urged to go into the culture of it, he
replied: God made this soil to yield some
thing that will nour1sh man or beast, and,
without sitting in judgment on my neigh
bors, choose to follow the Makers plan.'
Those of the Methodist conferences which
meet in the first half of the year-some So
show some gains. They have 1925 travelling
preachers, increase 81; communicates, 49,
442, increase 2,776; local preachers, 5,43S,
ipor
156; Sunday school scholars, 692 ,457 increase
1895. There was decrease of 997 baptisms
of children and 6,O70 of adults The
churches have increased by 1872. The collec,
lions for missions amounted to $240, 801
showing decrease of nearly $4,000.
The Episcopal diocese of Pennsylvania
reports the following statistics: Number OF
parishes. 124; clergy, Dol; candidates for
orders, %; bspticms during the last conven-
tional year. 8. 500, of which $40 were adult;
combinations, L, $50; communicates added,
1886; removed or died, 937; present mum.
Der of communicate % .387; Sunday-school
teachers, 1888; Sunday-school scholars. &c,
23l; teachers of Bible classes. 210; scholars
in Bible classes. 1854; number of church Is
and chapels, 1877, containing Ga .265 sittlngs
Not alone the Baptist denominational pa
pes, but the Presbyterian, Methodist and
Roman Catholic comment upon the recent
shooting of DR.. l. 8 Kailoch in San Fran
cisco. The Baptist Weekly characterizes d.
Young as q cowardly assassin, but at thu
same time condemns, both on political ano
religious grounds. the style of DR.. Kalloch'i
reply. Vicious retaliation" it says I'll
becomes one who processes to preach the
Gospel of Christ. 1t would have-been wise
for him to have defended himself and t,
have avoided the severe and offensive per
sonalities by which his adversary was en-
ragged"