Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1880-04-01
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

Life is just long enough for mar
to decide as to where he will spend eter
nifty,
There revival Of Methodism il
Sweden. At one recent meeting sixty
new members were enrolled.
Some of the {" Salvation Army now
sojourning in New York say that Amer
lea is more wicked country than En-
gland,
Several large and influential church
es, in various sections of the country,
have recently taken strong action against
all kinds Of lotteries at church fairs.
The Congregational Church of Wind
sor, Conn, which is looked upon as the
mother Church in that State, will cele-
brate this month the 250th year of its ex-
istence.
1t is stated that during the past year
the American Bible Society has distribu-
ted one thousand copies daily Of its ten
cent New Testament, and been utterly
unable to meet the demand.
DIR. McCosh says that of the 1000
graduates of Princeton during his con-
nection with the college, only four were
skeptics, and three Of them have now
become preachers Of the Gospel.
The German correspondent of the
London Guardian hears that both in
Germany and Switzerland the old Cath
Olic Church is rapidly falling into decay,
and may not impossibly share before
long the fate which has already over
taken the Armenian revolt.
DR.. Jessup, Presbyterian missionary,
writing from Beyrout, Syria, says the
Government at ConstantinOple has given
notice that hereafter any Moslem who
becomes Christian will be put to death,
and that any foreigners subverting Mos
lemism by teaching Christianity shall be
imprisoned without notification to their
Consuls. In Syria, however, intelligent
Moslems condemn this action.
The colored Baptists of Kentucky,
who have a General State Association of
their own, report 36,695 members, con-
nected with 1876 churches. Last year
1872 were received by baptism. The
net gain was 2,299. The number of ex-
clusiOns was 854. Other churches, not
connected with the Association, have
$4,000 or $4,000 members enough. to
make the whole number in the State
$4,000.
The movement out of which ''The |
Salvation Army grew was begun in
London in 1865 among the churchless
poor by one man. Now there are 1872
corps engaged in the work, under 1876
officers. They are using weekly 148
theaters, warehouses, and other buildings
for services. They held, last year, 49,
900 outdoor and 60,0 0in-door services,
and employed 257 persons as officers,
ministers, missionaries, colporteurs, and
Bible women, and 1926 others occasion
ally.
Several paragraphs having appeared
in the newspapers concerning the mod
ern innovations in and the return of the
Jews in large numbers to Palestine, Mr..
F. S. Ce Haas, late United States Consul
at Jerusalem, writes: I" The facts are:
There is not railroad in all Palestine.
There is not an American missionary in
the Holy Land, nor a 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 decreased. The Jews have no
intention of reoccupying the land. They
60 there to die, not to live. No Jew
around Jerusalem owns or cultivates an
acre Of ground The Jews of Europe
and America will never return to Pales-
tine, unless forced back at the point of
the bayonet."