The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-01-26
RELIGIOUS RACKET
Collected at Home and Cleaned from Our
Exchanges. .

EXCHANGES.
Preaching win take place this morn-
ing and evening in the Presbyterian
church. Sabbath school at the usual
hour.
Right Rev. Bishop O'Connor. of
Omaha, and one of the ablest Catholic
ministers in the United States, will
preach in st. Mary's church this MORN
ing at half past ten O'Clock.
Special attention is called to the reli-
gious exercises in the court house this
morning and evening. Rev. W. NJ.
Young pastor of the Baptist church
viii preach. Sabbath school at 1916
O'Clock. Public cordially invited.
During the past week the meetings at
the Methodist Episcopal church have
been well attended. Some eight or ten
seekers" have been at the altar for
prayer. One conversion took place on
Thursday evening. The series of meet
ings are still continued. Seats free.
Character is the theme Of Rev. W. H.
Gillam's lecture this evening.
There are now So pupils in attend
ance at the Cheyenne Baptist Sabbath
school,
The membership of the Cheyenne
Baptist church is increasing. Thirty
five are now enrolled upon the record.
The cottage prayer meeting at the
residence of Elder Ford was the larg-
est and best meeting of the kind held
for a year past.
Rev. c. NJ. Sanders, pastor of the
Congregational church, will preach a
sermon tonight to young people. His
reputation as a talker is such that we
feel justified in saying the house will be
filled.
The pupils of the Presbyterian Sab
bath school are preparing to give a con-
cert on Sunday night, February 2.
On Sunday, the 9th prox., commun-
ion services will be held in the Presby-
terrain church.
Talmage says that Paul was the first
great sensational preacher. He upset
everything and made a row everywhere
he went.
Rev. Talmage is AZ years old, and
has been in Brooklyn ten years.
The Baptists of Leadville are organ
izing a church.
Father Wagner, of New Rochelle,
Illinois, is in Denver endeavoring to
establish a German Catholic school.
A Pittsburg merchant named Rus.
sell is preaching the doctrine that the
world will come to an end in 1914, the
'forty years of trouble'' to precede
that event having commenced in 1874.
He has made $50 converts.
The new rentals of Beecher's church
have aggregated in the neighborhood of
81, 900, 900 during his sojourn in Brook
Ign, and he has earned a million by
preaching, lecturing and writing.
A Methodist minister in Massachu-
sets was promised a salary of $500, but
when the official board learned at the
end of the year that he had made 5000
by digging clans and mending shoes,
they deducted that amount from his
stipend.
The Methodist church educational
advantages are shown by the latest sta
tistics, as follows: Universities and
colleges, 81, with instructors, and 5000
students; academies and seminaries, 90,
with 504 instructors, and 14,100 stu
dents. Estimated value of buildings,
libraries, apparatus and furniture,
50, 615 1877; endowment, 81. 1928. 1913;
total, $4,543, 260. The property in
vested in seminaries, female colleges
and academies. under the supervision
of the church, is over So, OO0, 900. The
grand total in colleges and seminaries,
exclusive of theological institutions, is
nearly s7,OOO,oOO
Prof. A. j. Schem computes the pop
ulation of the world at 1896, 1872, 900
souls, of whom 6S5, 450, All are under
christian governments, and I'll, 1893, $50
under non-christian governments. The
total area of the earth is 52,O62, 40
square miles, of which 32,419, 915 are
under christian governments, and 49,
642, 800 under non-christian. govern
ments.
OF Presbyterians in the United States
(north) in December, 1878: Synods, 81;
Presbyteries, IS; ministers, 4,901;
churches; 5,269; communicates, 687,-
S55, members of Sunday schools, $780,
SS2; baptisms during the year, adults,
1910; children, 1926. Freewil Bap-
tists-churches, 1,343; ordained preach
ers, 1,IS8: members, 1926. Roman
Catholics-archbishops, IL; bishops, "a;
priests, 5,54s; churches, 1894; chapels
and stations, 11,777; members esti-
mated at 5,00O,0O to 100000, the
smaller number being probably more
nearly correct. Universalist-minis-
ters. 1872; lay preachers, g.; churches,
765; parishes, 912; members, 35, 1856;
sunday schools, $50; sunday school
teachers and scholars, 60, 757; value of
parish property, s9,97s, ITO. Protes-
tant Episcopal-bishops, 81; ministers,
3,2l6; parishes, 1900; communicates,
2s1, or; baptisms, 40, 1877; contributions
for all purposes, So. 734, 26s.
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