, 1880-12-12
GENERAL NOTES.


| the beginning.
GENERAL NOTES.
| The Japanese Christians contemplate a
camp-1neetfng to be held at an early date in
| Uyeno Park, Toxic.
Fifteen years ago there were only two
Congre gational churches south OF Mason d
| Dixon's line. Now there are seventy-three.
] The Ladies' Social Society will hold grand
| fair during the week, for the benefit OF the
| Congregation Bnai Sholom in the temple,
Michigan avenue, between Fourteenth and
| Sixteenth Streets
The Bishop of Manchester, who objects to
his parochial priests wearing chasublcs, neg
| lccts to wear the cope which the Canon and
the Purchas Judgment authorize Evidently
''non-essentials" are a big thing In English
theology.
The Rev. J. A. Dobson, of Muncie, Ind,
has abandoned Uniyersalism and taken ref
uge with the Consregationallsts. He gives
as his reasons for his change Of base that he
does n OF believe in modern Uniyersalisln,
which Is nothing more than pretext to
Atheism; that there is no Christianity in the
Severinghaus' Lutheran almanac for 1881
United States, 3.1T ministers, !, ,oG> congIe-
gations and 7OJ,352 cOmuunicants. The
largest body, the Synodical Conference, has
], 1,30G ministers, 207S congregations, and 20l, >
GIG communicates. The independent Synod
have altogether 50, 473 communicates.
Bishop Rye has declared his firm conyic-
tion - that If the Bishops aud clergy of the
last century had done thelr; duty and under
stood their times as many do now, all i'm
mense proportion Of English nonconformtIy
would never have existed, and John Wesley
ceded from the Church Of England"
The International Lesson Committee, at its
recent meeting, decided to give the entire
year lSS3 to the study OF the Gospel of Mark.
1t also recommended that that Gospel be
committed to memory by Sunday-sehoo
Testament has had no place in the plan Of
study for year After 1889 tho plan of six
months III each Testament will be resumed
The Board of Managers OF the Episcopal
Church Society for Promoting Christianity
Among the Jews met In New York recently.
Provision was made for new missionaries 1or
leans, Pittsburg, Cleveland. and Louisville,
and also i'll Iowa, bringing the present force
up to eleven. Local Secretaries were ap-
pointed in nineteen additional Dioceses, at
the nomination Of their Bishops.
Representatives Of the various British
lAEluOUl5t DUulCS lIC1u u GOAlClC4lEC 4CCC4lki3
Ecumenical Congress. The bodies repre-
scnted were the Wesleyan. the Primitive
Methodist, the United Methodist Free
CHURCHES, the Methodist New Connection,
Union, anu the Irish Wesleyan Conference.
The Rev w. McMullen, of Ireland, presided,
and the basis Of the Congress- rs agreed upon
BY American Methodists, was considered alld
adopted.
Universalist Church. and having been frozen
out he had gone over into orthodoxy 10 re-
ceiye some warmth and fire; ttlut there are
over sixty organizations Of that denomina~
ton i'll Indiana, and none Of them have regu-
lar services; over ninety i'll OHIO, and only
ten have services every SUNDAY; tn that % the
lief; that he had lost nine years. Of earnest
labor, in the Uniyersalist fields, and lie
wished to atone for it By doing, some go?d
work i'll all Orthodox Church, where 1t
would be effective.
The English reyisers of the authorized
version OF the New Testament met for their
hundred and third and last session OIL Nov.
0, III the Jerusalem Chamber, Westminster
Abbey, and concluded their work on the 1ltll.
There were present duEin the !, session :s:;!o the
iaS HSsGp e Of GeasssteF nss o W VIZ Eoce
ter. Lincoln, aud Lichtield; the Master of the
TEMPLE Canon Westcott; Principals Angus
and NeWth; Pr0fs. Hort and Moulton: and
prebentliaries Hulnphry and Scrivencr, with
Mr. Troutbeck, the Secretary. The company
has sat: 4o7 days, and the average attendance |
has been sixteen OIL each day Ut meeting.
In the City Of Milau there are sixty-four
Isoulan Catholic churches, besides the great
Cathedral. There are seven varieties OF
Protestant worship. regularly maintained.
The Church Of England has services in Eli |
joyed the services Of the Waldenslans. the |
Free independents, the Freq Church ct Scot
land, the Wesleyan Aletho1ists, the Method |
ist Episcopalians and the Baptists. The |
Daptists are the most recent conleIs, and are
supported BY their wealthy friends in this
country. The Waldensans have q new and
beautiful church, costing anout S25'oo, on
which they owe 81 600. The Rev. Signor |
Turino is its pastor.
At the recent celebration OF the t5oth annl-
versary of the Piaistow (New Hampshire) |
Church, the old baptisntal font, presented to
the church IN 173o, and from Which the ilrss
pastor, the Rev. James CUSHING, baptized
j ,2S5 persons, was brought out. and from 1t
two infants were baptized, the one represent
ing the sixth generation from the hfst deacon |
OF the church, tile other the fifth generation
from the first paStor and c Gd
eighty years ago or more were in prominent
position near the pulpit. The names Of all
the ex-lunistefs were in large plain print,
decorated with cvergreens and autumn
leaves arranged in fhel1 or9et on ndar the w 1S
During the $50 years the church has had ten
pastors. including the present The first
served thirty-fouf years; the second. the hev;
Gyles Merrill, nearly thirty-seYen years; and
the first thres iuSt 9nsl6 3o iha t9f
,1ant was in vogue, and there are, therefore,
two lists Of church members: one, Of those
who 'owned the covenant" and received
baptism; and the other, Of those who "lolned