Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-03-05
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

The American Bible Society will
celebrate the 500th anniversary of the
printing of Wycliffe's Bible Decem-
Der 2.
The South Carolina Methodist Con-
ference (Northern) reports 27,O43
members and 6,299 probationers, 243
churches and 347 local preachers, show
ing that it has grown rapidly. The
collections, however, are extremely
small, indicating poverty.
The Superintendent of the North
western Department of the Sunday
school Union states that his missionaries
report for the year past 400 new schools
organized, with 1869 teachers and 12,-
610 scholars; 5,756 other Sunday
schools visited and aided, having 5,756
teachers and 52,045 scholars; 3,047
Bibles and Testaments distributed; 6, 145
families visited; 1900 sermons and adj
dresses delivered.
In memorial to their Bishops,
fourteen thousand of the clergy of the
Church of England make the following
statement: 1--WE, the undersigned
clergy of England, venture respectfully
to appeal to your lordships as the only
members of our order in Parliament. as
such, most earnestly to support meas
ures for the further restriction of the
trade in intoxicating liquors in this
country. We are convinced, most of
us, from an intimacy with the people
extending through many years, that
their condition can never be greatly
improved, either intellectually, ply
sically or religiously, so long as intem-
perance extensively prevails among
them, and that intemperance viii pre-
vail so long rs temptations to it abound
on every side"
1t is reported that the Pope has ac-
cepted a compromise with the English
Ritualistic clergy by which those who
are already married are to be re-or-
dained, but allowed to assist in minis
tering in Catholic churches in mass,
benediction, preaching and catechism,
but will not be admitted to parochial
functions, especially confessions. The
English and Irish laiCy would never
confess to married men. For the pres:
ent the parts of service outside the
canon of the mass are to be allowed in
the vernacular, the Congregation of
Rites deciding which portions of the
old Salisbury rite are TO be incorpor-
ated with the liturgy. The younger
clergy are to take the usual VOWS of
celibacy when ordained sub-deacons.
The converts will be allowed and en-
couraged, If they prefer, to adopt the
usual mass of Latin.
Several paragraphs having ap-
peared in the newspapers concerning
the modern innovations in and the re-
turn of the Jews in large numbers to
Palestine, Mr.. F. S. De Haas, late Unit
ed States Consul at Jerusalem, writes
1.-THE facts are: There is not o railroad
in all Palestine. There is not an Amer
lean missionary in the Holy Land, nor
Sunday-school. But one Protestant
church in Jerusalem, another outside of
the walls and one at Nazareth. The
Jewish population has increased during
the last few years, but the population
of the country has more rapidly de-
creased. The Jews have no intention
of re-occupying the land, They go
there to die, not to live. No jew
around Jerusalem owns or cultivates
an acre of ground. The Jews of Eu-
rope and America will never return to
Palestine unless forced back at the point
of the bayonet"