Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-04-22
RELIGIOUS NEWS AND NOTES.

Forty-fve years ago French Protes-
tant was very rarely seen in Canada.
but the number Ii how said 10 be thou-
sands.
Last year twelve persons in the United
States and Europe gave an aggregate
of 100000 10 the cause Of foreign
missions.
There are now ninety-one Reformed
Episcopal ministers, eight of whom are
bishops. Sixty.four OF these are in this
country. thirteen in Canada, and four.
teen in England.
The Methodist Protestant church bas
commissioned It's first foreign mission
AIRY, Miss l.. M. Guthrie, who goes 1,
Japan. A women's society in Pitts
burg, Pa, pays her salary.
A Chicago clergyman has been
preaching upon the wickcdness of en-
tering the church late disturbing and
the congregation, and his sermon Las
had the effect Of decreasing the number
OF tardv worshipers in his church.
According TO "A correspondent Of the
Examiner and Chronicle, in st. Louis
Mo-, with n population OF nearly half a
million, the entire membership of the
Protestant churches Is said TO be iess
than 10000, or about one in twenty.
five.
The Rev. Nathan Sites, an American
Methodist missionary in China, was re-
Gently bcse iby a mob at Yenping-foo.
and seriou ly injured with clubs and
stones. III "a magistrate had not inter
fered he woi lc have been drowned by
the infuriate populace.
The Baltimore Methodist conference.
one OF the Oldest Methodist conferences
in the country, recently concluded IL
annual session. reoDrls 80 ,764 mem
bers and 4.26S probationers, I7y .pcal
preachers. and 35S churches, valued at
81, Az $50. on which there is an indebt-
edness Of 1890. 900.
Edward Kimbail, the church debt ex-
tinguisher, says: THE three great
financial caiamities of church are: |.
A fund tor the support of preaching, 50
that the people need not pay. z. One or
two rich men, on whom everybody
leans, and whose property the church
feels at liberty TO appropriate. 3. A
debt"
The Atlanta (Ga) Baptist seminary
has ninety students. Most Of the freed
men under its charge are studying tor
the ministry, and some OF these are
making heroic efforts 10 obtain an edu-
overcoat. Another tried living on one
meal "A day. The wife Of another takes
in washing 10 support him. Another
worked for some months AS cook.
The receipts Of the American board
| for January amounted To S5l, ,I6O. For
/ the first FIVE months of the financial
year the donations aggregated sl3l.-
$50 26. the legacies S35. $50 81, total Of
| $l67, 40. 10. This is an advance beyond
the average for the corresponding
months during the preceding three
years of about twenty per cent.
| The following are reported TO be some
of the changes made in the revised YER
sion of the English Bible 10 be issued
this year: Damned il 10 be changed
| invariably TO CONDEMNED. For
hell, the original words Gehenna and
Hades are 10 be substituted. Pre-
ven" is TO be turned into go before"
Religion " is to be changed into "wor-
ship"
The Methodist Episcopal church had
at the close of the year 1879, /, ,524. .OO6
members and lie. .298 probationers. The
gain in members for the year was
~ sos. and the loss in probationers 49,
467; 20 that. taking the total OF mem
bcrs and probationcrs - zoo, ,302 - the
net gain for the year was only 6.I45.
The number of churches was 1886.
value of the churches is estimated at
Sd2, 500, ,4i7. being n decrease Of s6, 22s.-
al from the previous year.