The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1880-04-14
FOREIGN CHURCH NEWS.

Principal Cairns, of the United
Presbyterian Church of Scotland, is expected on
this side of the ocean some time in the coming
month of May. He will travel extensively in
the United States and Canada and will be pre-
sent at the Presbyterian Council in the month of
September next. He is an eloquent man and
an influential leader in his Church.
Lord Moncrief said at the Edin-
burgh Chalmers centenary that the money
raised by the Free Church of Scotland since
lo43 now amounted to $67 100000. Chalmers
struck the Scottish heart as Moses struck the
rock IN the wilderness and its benevolences
have flowed forth freely and constantly
In the eyes of French Professionals. a
saved and enlightened France means a saved
and enlightened Europe. And all France seems
now alive to discussions of Bible themes. Take
hall, announce lecture on Protestant phases
of religion, and your hall will be crowded. in
whatever town or city you try it.
DR.. V. White, of Liverpool, has made
up table showing that in Great Britain and
Ireland, where the growth of Roman Cathol
clsm is such bugbear, the proportion of Roman
Catholics fell from 81 per cent of the whole pop.
9lation In lS4l, to Is per cent in 1871. The
irrotestants have gained and the Roman Catho-
lies have lost.
One OF the native congregations con-
nected with the United Presbyterian Mission in
Old Caiabar has regular attendance of five
hundred persons. Not many Sabbatbs AGO
King Ego occupied its pulpit in the missionary 5
absence .
Robert Arlington, ESQ, of Leeds
the originator of the Tanganyika Mission has
onered to the directors of the London Missionary
Society further sum of CO 900, on the under-
standing that they will at once procure suit
able steamer capable of being carried in parts
place, 1T upon Lake Tanganyika, visit ali the
populations on its shores, explore the country
lying between the north end of Taneanvika
and the Albert Nyanza. Mwata Nzige, or other
lakes or large extents of water-with a view to
find and the determination to find if noss;bIS
the best route from the Tanganyika Lake to the
Nile" -'''N' ~ 'ii0
The Missionary Things asks the
ladies of the Methodist church how it is that the
Congregatonalst women have raised neaT yilv
9lOOOOO more than the Methodist women for
Nilsson work, and have sent out more than three
Times as many missionaries taking into account
the fact that there are a million and half of
Methodlsts and only half million Congrsoa-
tionalists? ga
AT the close of the last century there
were just seven Protestant missionary societies
the seven have now grown to be 10. There were
L ~ missionaries When the century began there
are now 24OO from Europe and America more
than 900 native preachers and more than %
OOO other native helpers. Eighty years ago the
whole sum raised for missionary enterprises was
10000; now it was almost a million and a
quarter.
The Church HlSsiono1v E1teZZioeace
states that Bonney, in Africa, where the late
chief ordered the idols TO be DESTROYED. has be.
come Bethel. Two Congregations are crowded
by the chiefs and people, and they are carrying
the gospel to other villages.
1t is not strange that Dean Stanley
has invited N. Renan to deliver the course Of
four Hubbard lectures in Westminster Abbey.
IT Renan IS not a believer in historical Chris
tlanity, in its supernaturalism, no more. we
suppose, is the Dean. We suppose. Judging
from what he says and does not saw. tbal to
him the Sermon on the Mount exha1sts Chris.
tianity, and that the miracles and the resnrrec
ton he regards as legendary excrescences, inn
possible and untrue. There is place for sucb
men in our respect but it is difficult to find
1t IN high official station in the Christian Church
Of England Independent.