Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-04-02
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

klhuu ItVulIb5 lbb AoIblBu lulHhlphhll1s
TO come home once every seven years.
-Conneoted with MIR. Spurgeon's
church in London are twenty Sunday
schools, five hundred teachers and five
thousand eight hundred and ffty-three
scholars.
The Baltimore Methodist Confer
ence, one Of the oldest Methodist Con-
ferences In the country, has Just con-
cluded its annual session. Il reports
83, 784 members and 4, 26S probationers,
l79 local preachers, and 1858 churches
valued at ~, 472, ,050, on which there 10
an Indebtedness Of $33O,O00.
"A grandson of the late Rev. DR..
Armstrong, one Of the first missionaries
of the American Board TO the Sandwich
Islands, was christened recently at Say
brook, Conn, Kulani," Hawaiian
name (signifying "From the skies, 'O
chosen by King Kalakaua l., who was a
playmate of the child's father.
The receipts of the American Board
for January amounted to S51, 100. For
the first five months of the financial
year the donations aggregated $751;
500 26; the legacies $35, S60.87, total
of S167, 43013. This is an advance be-
yond the average for the corresponding
months during the preceding three
years Of about twenty per cent!
The number of Protestants in
France does not exceed 600, 900. Of
this number 100000 belong to the Re-
formed Church, S0,000 to the Lutheran,
and 10000 to other bodies. IE German
Austria there are 367, 900 Protestants,
Of whom 249,000 are Lutherans and
$4,000 of the Reformed Church; but
these figures represent only ten per
cent of the population of that country.
Good use is made of converts in
| China as colpOTteurs and teachers. In
the presbytery of Shantung several ap-
| proved men have spent the entire year,
| others several months, itinerating and
| circulating books and tracts in regions
/ extending over from two hundred to
three hundred miles inland. They re-
| ceived and expected no compensation
| beyond the plainest food, not exceeding
in cost So per month for each person.
The Bishop of Manchester said at
an ordination service, the other day,
that it was better to be experts in god
| liness than in controversy. He said he
was not ashamed to confess that he
could not get up any interest in many of
the questions of the day. He cared little
for the shape or color of vestments, the
form of bread used in communion, can
dies on the altar lighted or unlighted,
or anything of the sort. They did not
concern the weightier matters of the
gospel. .....
Fourteen thousand clergymen of
the Church of England have united in
n iol 70
them to support earnestly measures for
the further restriction of the trade in in-
toXicating liquors. They are convinced,
they say, that the condition ofthe people
"can never be greatly improved,
whether intellectually, physically or
religiously, so long as intemperance ex-
tensively prevails among them, and that
intemperance will prevail so long as
temptations to it abound on every side"
"A year or so ago a DIR. E. w. Kirby,
of Philadelphia, organized new
branch of Methodism, calling it "The
Methodist Church." The conference
was composed of some ten or twelve
ministers, and there were several con-
gregations. At the second meeting of
the conference, held recently, several
of the ministers and delegates, repre-
senting four churches, together with
the secretary, left the conference, be-
cause of dissatisfaction with the rulings
of the President, DIR. Kirby, and organ
lied as an association of Independent
Methodist churches in correspondence
with the Maryland association.
Germany, with population of A.
900, 900, has 10000 schools and an at
tendance of 100000 pupils; Great
Britain and Ireland, with population
of $4,000 900, has $4,000 schools and
5000, 900 pupils Austria Hungary, with
a population of 37,000,000, has 80, 900
schools and 100000 pupils; France,
with a population of 1000 900, has
$1,000 schools and 400, 900 pupils;
Spain, with population of 17,000,0 900,
has 20, 900 schools and 1,600, 600 pupils;
Italy, with population of 28,000,0O0,
has 1000 schools and l, 90O,0 900 pupils;
and Russia, with a population Of IA
600, 900, has $4,000 schools and 1,10O,-
900 pupils.
"A thanksgiving service has been
held at lsandula, in Natal, and at other
places where there are Anglican
churches. AT Isandula, the scene of
the great disaster to the English troops,
the burial office was said and the COM
munion administered by the Bishop,
who said he had three objects in hold
ing that service at Isandula: a. That
the bodies of Christian men should not
be left without one word of peace and
love being said over their graves; ~
that the protecting hand of Providence
might be recognized, and (3) that a
practical outcome of the work might be
the establishment of mission. 1t is
proposed to erect a church on the spot
where the service was held. -.r.