The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1879-05-28
RELIGIOUS NOTES.

RELIGIOUS NOTES.
Spiritualism is said to be unknown in
China. A fft
There are Il, 900 Sunday school children in
Syria
There are 500 or more Sunday schools IN
New York City. 4
The Methodist Holiness people will hold
six national camp meetings this year.
The one hundredth Presbyterian church
in Nebraska has recently been organized.
Just $s2 53s is the amount the Presby.
terrain board of foreign missions Is behind
hand. sue rh fsa- iel-s
Pilgrim Congregational church, st. Louis, |
Rev. G. L. Goodell, pastor received 90 addi-
tional members May 4.
Under the will of Mrs Catharine Williams
$3.50 is beQueathed to the Franklin Ave-
nue. Presby terian church, Brooklyn.
Rev. DR.. s. Parker, Elizabeth, n. j., has
been elected president of Racine College.
Wisconsin, in place of the late DR.. DeKoyen.
The recent gift of $1S6 900 to the Rochester
Theological Seminary has been increased by
donations from persons IN New York City to
$4,000.
The First Congregational church at Lemp-
ster, n H., having been without pastor for
one year, is cow earnestly DESTROYS of Sc
curlngone.
The Baltimore papers report quiet but
very general revival of religion in that city,
which is largely credited to the labors of
MIR. Moody.
People in Germany are much opposed in
many places to Christian work, and are
especially averse to the institution OF
Sunday schools. s3 q
Bishop Bowman has returned from his
Episcopal visit to the Methodist Episcopal
missions in Europe and India after an ab-
sence of nearly year. -,s.a.,l
The interior of the Baptist church at North
Adams, Mass, was destroyed by fire on the
5th inst. The origin of the fire. which
started in the organ loft is mystery.
The Southern Baptist convention met at
Atlanta Ca on the nSth. Three hundred
delegates were present. Rev. ]. f.sBoyce,
OF Kentucky, was reelected president.
The Brooklyn Sunday school Teachers
institute has closed its sessions for the warm
weather, and the chief teacher has been pre-
scented with a silver dish for his meritorious
services. afas .fssa n 1ez,
The average Sunday attendance at church
in Buffalo is ~ 400. OF this number Is, 600
are Catholics Is, $50 Lutherans, 8, 610 Meth
odists, Ills Presbyteriaas, 1855 Eplscopa
hans, and 4, $50 Baptists. -5
The total number OF persons. in holy or
ders In the Russian empire is about 100 ,000
There are 400 cathedrals, 81, 302 churches and
12408 chapels OF late years 423 churches
have been built every year.
Father Hyacinthe's services IN Paris are
well attended, and he has secured the assist
ance of young French priest. who is help
ing to prepare large class OF young people
for their first communion.
Rev. s C. Jennings, D. D., now in his
seventy-seventh year, will retire from the
pastorate of the church at Sharon, Penn,
June "a on the completion of half q century
of labor with that church and congregation.
Work has been begun on st. Paurs
Cathedral School, to ba erected at Garden
City, Long Island. The building will oe
made fre-proof, and will have sccomnlods,
tions for 300 pupils. 1t will be built OF brick
and stone, alter the Gothic STYLE Fzl
st. Paups church, Selma, Ala, is com posed
OF about 800 persons, of whom 200 are COM
munlcants. The church is now without q
minister, but efforts are now on foot to Sc
cure one. Services are held regularly by
General John II. Forney. 4
Active steps are taking for the formation
of Female Missionary association to be
connected with the English Presbyterian
church, having for its object the Christian
education of the women of China. The
Regent Square congregation, London, have
been the first to form. of branch society.
The confessional, as practiced in the
Anglican church of st. Margarefs Liverpool
has been condemned by the Chester con
sistory court. Chancellor Espin said he had
visited the church, and found in each of tbs
transepts chair and prayer book, screened
from the body of the church by curtain
and evidently used as confessionais.
Rev. Edward Judson'n church, at NORTH
Orange, N. j., has enjoyed the presence anC
blessing of God in marked measure during
people. The membership has risen from 24t
to 592. Duricg the past year the church ha
raised $47, 33087. SIS, 900 of which was con
tributed TO clear the church debt.
The Protestant Episcopal city mission o
Philadelphia has been in existence MN,
years, under the presidency of Bishop Ste
VEINS. The mission has paid out over 800. 00O
Last year there were 234 baptisms under 1T
auspices, 2 404 services and 40 combinations
Agents of the mission made 16. 468 visit
and distributed 2,739 garments. The re
ceipts were upward of SIS, COO
A beautiful heraldic stained glass windo,
has just been placed in the Edmund d
Langley chapel, attached to All Saints
church. Kings Langley. 1t is the gift 9
her msjesty the queenin memory OF Primo
Edmund de Langley, the fifth son of E5
ward III. ard first Duke of York. Tn
prince was the direct ancestor of the queen
and his rsmains lie beside those of his wife
Isabel of CASTLE, under a magnificent ALTA
tomb within the chapel
As the Episcopal convention for the Eas
ern Diocese of Michigan meets in about
month, there is naturally increasing solici
tude on the part of both the clergy and lait
bishop. Among the names mentioned oui