The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1880-11-19
RELIGIOUS NEWS AND NOTES.


A Presbyterian theological-seminary
has been established at Toxic, Japan.
Harvard college has had l4,9G3 gradu-
ates, OF whom 2,344 were ordained as
pastors of churches.
Thirty-seven natives of New Zealand
have been admitted to the ministry OF
the Episcopal church.
The number of Congregational
churches in Indiana is thirty-six, and
the aggegate membership of those
churches 1909.
Copies of the New Testament in
japanese have been placed in the schools
of Yokohama by order of the authorities
of that city.
1t is said that the value of the offerings
at recent heather festival in India
amounted to $1,000, coo, most of which
came from poor people.
DR.. j. A. Warne and wife, of Phila-
delphia, recently made over to the
American Baptist missionary union
property valued at $4,000.
Princess Eugene, sister of the queen
OF Sweden, is actively engaged in enlist
ing the Swedish women in behalf of the
conversion of the Laplanders.
st. James church, PHILADELPHIA, loses
It's assistant minister, the Rev. Charles
Morrison, who becomes associate rector
of the American church in Paris.
The Methodist Episcopal mission in
Italy reports 430 members and 27g
probationers-in all 709. There are
twelve native missionaries at work.
OF the home missionaries of the Pres
byterian church, who numbered I.I5I
last year, sac, or nearly one-half, are
laboring west Of the Mississippi river.
The Rev. DR.. Marshall, a prominent
minister of the United Presbyterian
church of Scotland, died recently at
Conpar-Angus. He received his degree
OF doctor of divinity from. the University
OF the City OF New York in 1865.
The Chicago Interior is urging the
tresbyterians of the Northwest to bestir
themselves and raise the 800, 600 for the
theological seminary which is necessary
TO secure another 800, COO offered condi-
tionally by Mr. Cyrus II. Mccormick.
The Methodist Central German con-
terence reports l,075 probationers, lI,5I5
members, 93 local preachers, and liz
churches. There was q gain of l55
members and loss OF two Churches.
$685..
The bishops OF the Methodist Epjs-
copal church have issued an urgent an
peal to the denomination to come for
ward and save the Metropolitan church
ct Washington. 1t cost 1926. 900. and
there is now outstanding a bonded debt
OF $500 and a floating debt of $40. 600.
The Germany and Switzerland Meth.
odlst Episcopal conference has recently
held its twenty-ffth session, with
bishop Merrill presiding. Letters from
there report an increase in members and
collections, with good prospects in gen.
eral. Bishop Merrill preached on Sun
pay to congregation numbering over
1000 persons.
There are eighteen Presbyterian Sun
day-schools which have over LOCO
scholars,. and three with more than
2,OUO. The latter are those of University
Place church, New York city, 2.l6G;
Bethany church, Philadelphia, 9.ll4,
and Second church, St. Louis, 1900.
The Presbyterian board of home mis-
slons, under its contract with the United
states government, is preparing to es-
tablish boarding schools among the
Western Shoshones,- the Uintah snd
and Moquis Indians.
The seventy-third general conference
of the New church Swedenborgian) in
England has been held in London. Up
ward of l00 ministers and delegates were
present. The Rev. G. Giles, fraternal
messenger from the church in the Uni
ted States, was received.
The average salary of Congregational
ministers in Connecticut has been stead
lily increasing during the last twenty
years. From $8l2 in the year 1861. II
has reached $500 in 1880. But sine
1874, when it reached Sl,460, it has
grown less, though probably the shrink
age is no greater than has been noticed
in the incomes Of other people.
A few days ago there were ten mis-.
sionaries of the American board in San
Francisco on their way to China and
Japan, who had just arrived from the
East. Two, on their way back from
China, were also in the city, making
twelve missionaries of the board. One
Baptist, two Presbyterian, and two Of
the Episcopal church, were also on their
way to the far East, making seventeen
missionaries on their way to and from
their labors among the heather.