The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-11-09
AMONG TIE CHURCHES.

| Superintendent Butler of the Methodist
| mission in Mexico. writes that there has boon
another massacre Mt Foluca, Of Professionals.
| The massacre took place In the Presbyterian
mission. Mr.. Butler did not hear how many
were killed. Ono man was terribly cut. then
dragged through tho streets and finally
hanged TO tree.
Tho Bishop Of Winchester, In paper be-
fore tho Anglican Church Congress-. on "fhe
| History Of Nonconfornity," said that one of
tho rSmidies for dissent WAS the toeration by
tho Church of irregular devotional services.
He believed In making far more use Of laytnon.
The clergy have no monopoly eithor OF vigor
| or wisdom.
At the annual meeting In London Of tho
Society for the Promotion Of Christian knowl-
| cdge. 1t was reported that the receipts for the
year from subscriptions were E13nsl from
bonefactions, (including collections In church,
cs,l G572G anh from legaci's. f1O51 Tho cor
responding amounts for 1878 were GIG. $40,
GlS2n, aud G760n.
Tho New York city Mission Society re-
ports + rhnpCls AMI 10 missionaries, or
ganiznd misRIon churches. with stG cummu-
| nicantH Inst year nenrly 5000 persons
were induced To attend church anrvees,
~ wern restored To church fellowship. nnd
40 united with CHURCHES. Upward OF HOO
children were induced 10 attend Sunday
schools.
The Foreign Sunday-sehooI Association.
Brooklyn. reports for Italy 100 Sunday
schools. with $500 scholars; In Spain. 100
schools. $500 sGhoIars. FrnuGe lnS2 schools.
2OnO tonchers, 10000 scholars; Syria. "a
echnols: Inpnn+ 40 sehnnlass Pnrtngal, %
schools German Switzerland, 405 schools;
Germany. t977 schools, teachers, 1875.
scholars, 1i2. 25i.
At II meeting Of tho Church mud Stage
Guild, held MT tho Office Of the English Church
Union. London, II large number Of cergymen
and momhera Of the theatrical profession be-
inR present, Mr Davis read q paper Oh "Ehe
Attitude or Society. Past and Present, To-
ward tho Stage" Two OF the RpeHkors who
joined In tho subsequent discussion were
actresseA from tho Gatoty Theatre.
The Philadelphia Tract and Mission So
cinty reports The following statistes for tho
past year:; Tracts distributed during tho past
year. AiG.g5n, meetings held. 5a2 BIBLES dis
tributed, ~. visits by missionaries, 1850;
visits by tract visitors, 20, 500; children gath
erod into Sunday schools, 300, persons per
e.laded to attend church, 5s7; sick and dis
tressed relieved, Al. Interested In religion
5o7 signed tho temperance pledge, 453, re-
ceipts, $2567 9G; disbursements, $25tl So.
Tho American Missionary Association,
whose chief work In this country is among
tho freedmen, will. doubtless, soon have H.
mission In Central Africa probably past Of
Lake Nyanza, among tho Gallas. hlr. Arth-
ington. Of Leeda, Eng, has offered $4,000,
Aid Society. offers to raise an additional $t5..
600. The association promises to raise the
additional 100000 needed for beginning
When the 100000 Is In hand tho mission will
be- begun.
Tho General Conference Of the Evangelical
Association has decided To change the name
of the denomination, which ia n growing
German Methodist body of 1000 members,
TO Evangelical Church Of North America"
Tho conference reelected only three or the
four bishops who served the past quadrcn-
MAN for the next four years. 1t decided to
put two agents. lnstend OF one, In charge OF
its publishing house at Cleveland, and to put
the whole business under book committee,
to be constituted like that or the Methodist
Episcopal Church.
The General Conference OF the American
Wesleyan Connection d body OF about twenty
thousand members, which was organized
In 1913 by n secession from the Methodist
Episcopal Church on an antt-slavery basis.
was recently In session In Pittsford Mich.
Seventeen annual conferences were represent
ed by clerical and lay delegates. The Rev N.
Wardner, OF the Champain Conference Now
York. was elected president. The Church is
bitterly opposed to all secret societies, espe-
eiaIy TO Freemasons, against whom most of
their literature Is published. In the confer
encn the motion WAS made that il any dele
gates were connected with the Masonic frator-
nifty they be denied seats.
At tho English Church Congress at Swansea,
Prof. Watkins, OF st. Augustine College, said
the currents Of higher religious thought In
England were being Influenced chiefly by the
theory Of evolution and comparative thnolo-
gy, or the science of religion. He differed
greatly from Herbert Spencer, he said that
when Che history of this century is written,
Spencer will be placed In the very first rank OF
English thinkers. He quoted approyingly,
Mr.. Spencor's remark that "the genesis OF an
atom s no easier to conceive than that of q
planet" and makes even q greater mystery OF
the universe. and said: Science In her ad-
vances along the lines OF evolution us in all
trnn1S
every step the Infinite and the One, and In
doing SO she led religion by the hand and babe
her wonder and adore" Bishop Perry said he
could not accept evolution.