The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-02-09
AMONG THE CHURCHES.

Or. Barring, Who has just resigned the Sc,
n Durham, has received a sympathetic ad
dreaa from his cathedral. He Ia now ~ years
Old,
There are In the Rochester Theological
Seminary tI}RptiSt) seven profegsorshps ant
syepty-one students, OF whom twenty-five,
srs In tho German department.
The venerable George Lovick Pierce, til,
oldeat minister Of the Southern Methodist
Church. has become very feeble. He is now
Ii his ninety-third year.
Raw. DR.. ]. H. McCarty, Of New Orleans. Is
totake charge Of the First Methodist Church
4 Syracuse, N. Y. made vacant by the death
Il Rev. H. g. Bidwell.
The yestry Of the Monumental Episcopal
Church, Richmond, Va. has decided to put In
memorial window for Bishop Moore, who
was the second bishop OF the diocese.
The Baptists have In New Hampshire S6
churches, with g2l0 members, and 382 persons
Al reported as baptized within the year.
The net gain for the year appears to be 26i.
The Memphis Synod Of the Southern Pres
hytarian Church has rejected On overture
asking for the formation of colored Pres
bytery, on the ground that at present IL is
not expedient.
Ia the ten years ending In 1871 the Roman
Catholics of New South Wales, Australia, in
creased from 1893 to las, 932, being larger
percentage than any other denomination
could exhibit.
The receipts Of the Baptist Missionary
Union to January / of the present year were
sl16lsi H. or $2a,542 "A more than to Janu-
ary OF the preceding year. Tho financial year
ends April l.
The centennial of Georgia Methodism will
Be celebrated In 1886 In 1856 conference,
held In North Carolina, decided to send two
preachers to Georgia. This was the begin
ming Of Methodism In that State.
The English Church Union claims a mem
bership OF 1880, including ten Bishops $500
During the past ten years the union has
spent nearly e40,000 In defensive litigation.
AT the invitation OF bishops Of the American
Episcopal Church, Rev. w. j. Knox Little
rector Of St Adams, Cheetwood, has left Eng
land to take part In mission services in sew
eral cities of Canada and the United States.
The Revised Book OF Discipline OF the
Southern Presbyterian Church has been re-
iected by the first Presbytery which has voted
upon IT. The book has been repeatedly re-
yised, but rejected and sent back for further
revision In every instance.
Rhode Island, founded by Baptists, has
sixty churches, with 10 900 members. The re-
sult5 Of last winters work In the cities are
shown BY the fsdditton OF 1917 by baptism,
which is the largest number that ever was
reported in the history Of the State.
The Baptist Quarterly Repie,o failed about
year ago for want OF support 1t was pub
lshed by the Baptist Board of Publication In
philadelphia. 1t Is now to be published In
lAncinnatt. Ohio, by private enterprise. Rev.
!. Il. Baumes, ID. d., is to be Its editor.
The suit OF the minority of the Reformed
Presbyterian Church Of Scotland, for por-
ton Of the Ferguson fund (the majority hav-
Ing united with the Free church,, has finally
resulted In favor Of the defendants Of the
Free Church. The minority forms a very
small body.
The Bishop of Lichfield has received long
letter from parishioners of Wolverhampton
expressing dissatisfaction with the decision of
the bishop respecting their complaint of ritual
stic excesses by their minister. The bishop,
In reply, states that he had no intention of re-
opening the question, and that some points of
his decision have been misapprehended.
The English Baptist "Year Book" for 1879
reports that the denomination has In the
United Kingdom 1857 churches, as against
z62o In the previous year; S,451 chapels, as
against 3,40S In 1877; 1,02S,S33 sittings, as
against a43.4 AIS last year; 276,348 members, as
against 269, 1886 in 1877; 399,S17 Sunday schol-
hrs, as against 370,320 In 1877; 1879 pastors as
against 1925 the previous year; 1852 evangei-
sta, as against 1881 In 1877 and 1924 in 1876.
The North Philadelphia Methodist District
has refused to renew the licenses
y Sisters Sharpe and Stewart as exhorters,
fho had been licensed by the Cohocksink
quarterly Conference, the license being sir
egular." A church paper says that no ex-
lorter, local preacher or pastor In that con-
erenee has labored more earnestly or success |
ully In the past twelve months than those |
listers, The question has yet to be decided |
" the Seneral Conference whether women |
nay pc linoensed to exhort and preach.
Rev. Dr 4. 4. Baird, of the Southern Pres.
yterlan Onufeh, who was accused of certain
Irregularities as agent of the Board of PubIi- |
alton of the Church, and suspended from the
ainistry by the East Hanover (Va.1 Presbv-
erys has been restored on "a distinct and
enitent acknowledgment of the moral
1rong done by him, and an expression of
he Church, and on the request of Methodist
nd Baptist ministers. A protest by the nil
ortty was received.
Earl Cairns recently presided at q Meeting
the Church Missionary Society. He ret |
larked tibet 1t was said by some that activity
missionary work was test of a standing '
falling Church, and he believed there was
great deal of truth in the observation,
'urlng the last century the Church Mission
ry Society had done great work, not only
foreign and heather lands, but also at ,
ONE, and 1t had been source of vitality in
religion In this country fer which
hey could never be sufficiently grateful.
The Church Of Ireland is becoming alarmed
I the delay of the Government to make pro-
lslonS for its Divinity School. Since the
assing of the church act it has been felt as a
rlevance that no provision was made for 1t
the Legislature, as was done in the anala-
ous cases Of Maynooth and the Presbyterian
neoiogi al College, for the disendowment Of
men substantial equivalent was given.
ne surplus In the hands Of the Royal Com
issloners is so rapidly decreasing that the
lErch fears that the Divinity School will be
Used over unless immediate acton Is taken.
kEreigh, the well-known correspondent of
Q Boston Jeasnut, writing about the reli- !
Gus settlers of New Jersey says: "The de-
'mlnations that founded the leading States
We he'd the supremacy'for hundred Y. airs.
ae New England States, except Rhode 1
land, were Pnritans, and Rhode Island was t
lpttst; New York was Dutch; New Jersey, :
esbyterien; Pennsylvania. Friends: Mary .
81 "a Catholics BapssIin Eplscopalian; the :
~ Georgia, Metho- i
81 pcest 6iahop Tn the Church.,
R5.A ssNed OAIivant, Bishop n OF England :
M h aae youngest is Right. Rev. Rowley heer
< pr aIp = g Sodor and Man, aged 43. The eos
Il R e,ate q the Irish Episcopal Church Is Va
h e oa sohn Ro0ert barley, Bishop Of ccoos66
n SagI 49, q; the youngest, Right Re-. ~ 20 Z,
I uci Gregg, Bishop OF Cork, age r nss \