New-York tribune., 1879-02-01
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.

young Mahratta woman, who has studied
Sanscrit from the tine when She n child recently
astonshed some missionaries IN India by her talents
and memory. She arived IN Calcutta with Drother'
having letters of Introduction to learned men, and has,
It is said surprised them all An epic poem containing
600 shloas" was produced, and she repeated from
memory any portion OF it that might be selected for her.
the first word being given a guide. Wherever she
goes presents OF money jewels and clothes are gwen
her Her object IN making thc IOufi5 10 Collect money
to pay off her fathers debts"
The country round about the ancient sites
Of sodom Gomorrah and Babylon abound, in bitumen.
This was the incentive the building OF the railroad
from Jana to Jerusalem, down the Euphratcs Valley.
for which the Sultan Of Turkey has recently granted an
English company the right Of way. IL will eventually
connect with Egyptian railways. Tho Jews poiEt 70
this project as fudlment OF the prophecy N ls"ah
XIX %" In that day (Wncn the Lord shall smlto
Egypt y there shall be highway Out of Egypt 20 As
SYRIA and the Assyran shall come Into Egypt AMI the
Egyptian into AssJ rla.'
Hung Wung Chung, who conducts ,he Chris
tan school in Sdu Francisco, Is described as nhe
Chinese scholar of much dignity and many at
talnmens and Is said to be "a de'cendant OF Confll-
Gus" He was tptzed durIg tho past year, and be-
came a member of the Pr0test3it Church for Chlnese
lie teaches tho children in the classics OF their naivo
land including the pteceDts of Confucius, and closes
Lords PRAYER. In Chicago Chinese sunday mas
been III existence nearly ak months and one was organ
San Francisco Chndmen TO the fund for the yellow fever
| sufferers amounted tc Sl2Oo.
The meeting of the Baptist ministers OF
NewYork and Brooklyn last Monday is regarded as the
s0rmicst session they have ever had The details Cr u
The Examiner says It has "no heart" to print After
giving "the essential facts in the case" 1t confesses
that every Baptist who reads the full reports In tho
daily newspapers "wIll hang his head from very shame
IL points that in its present form the system OF
weekly meetings is 4" the child OF DIR. Fulton,' and
,t,, az q a,1,tl has ntp1if
needfu 10 suspend ITS father from It's fellowship
II appears that Dr. Fulton sent letter to The Examiner
I'm reply to its report OF the meeting two weeks ago. and
requested he published This the editor declined
10 do on tho ground that no possible good can come
from giving the communication TO the public" The let
ter was not modification OF anything said by Dr. iul'
the meeting but u moro lntenseIy peIsoHdi c-
fcction" on DR.. Samson
Items from far and near: 1t is related of a
colorcd clergyman in Ncw-Iaven that in calling upon
dealer for some communion wine, he was asked what
kind he wished and replied "SOme or do ladies or dc
eongregashun have expressed preference for gin"
w In or about ST. Petersburg, Russia there are two
Congregational Churches, both OF which are presided
over by English pasors.....The Auburn Theological
Seminary within q few years, has received endOwments
amounting 100000. Seven members OF the last Two
classes havc gone to foreign lands missonartes...
United Presbyterlans Edinburgh Scotland, have de-
termincd TO recommend to the Synod that marriage with
the sister OF deceased wife shall longer exclude
men from membership in the Church One estimate
Of the proportion OF Baptsts 10 the population IN North
Carolina places il high One-seyenh, OF whom 1GO
600 are coOred people, added last year to their mum
bers o. 900 members. bust Of Charles Kingsley has
been placed In Chester Cathedral, and Dean Howson
saws: "The friendness of Canon Kingsley was great
henet 10 me- and added much 10 the happiness OF my
| lIfe" The Baptist missionaries among tho Teloo-
Zoos In india had baptized 10000 persons when
last heard from, and il believed that the number OF
converts has now reached 90 correspondent
in Poland that 100 Jews have been arrested at
Koona for seeking to eyade military service and that IN
another district twenty their death at
the hands of Cossacks The new Union Chapel III
the Yosemite Valley, wIl be structure OF stone ana
mite Assembly, The contract for II has been awarded.
-. The latest estimate OF church accommodations ia
England gives the Established Church 100000 cit
tiugs; the Wesleyan Methodlsts l,702: 2:!24; the In
dcpendants u lOl the Baptlsts 9l3,7SJ the lrlln
tive Methodsts 1861 and all other religious bodies
a total OF $50, 1913, making grand total OF 12,J3l