The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-06-17
RELIGIOUS NEWS AND NOTES.

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Forty-ive years ago a French Protes-
ant was very rarely seen in Canada.
but the number is Low said 10 be thou
sHnds.
Last year twelve personsinthe United
States and Europe gave an aggregate
Of $1,000, O0l TO the cause OF foreign
missions.
There are nov n~inety-one Reformed
Episcopal ministers, eight of whom are
bishops. Si1ty.fCur of these are in this
country, thirteen in Canada, and four
teen in England.
The Methodist Protestant church has
commissioned its first foreign mission
AIRY, Miss j.. II. Guthrie, who goes to
Japan. A wOmcn's society in Pitts
burg, Pa, pays her salary.
A Chicago clergyman has been
preaching upon the wickedness OF EN-.
tering the church late disturbing and
the congregation, and his sermon LAS
had the effect Of decreasing the number
of tardY worshipers In his church.
According TO n correspondent OF the
Examiner and Chronicle, in st. Louis,
Mo-, with a population of nearly half 3
million, the entire membership Of the
Protestant churches is said TO be less
than 10000, or about one in twenty
1--WE.
The Rev. Nathan Sites, an American
Methodist missionary in China, was re-
Gently bese 10y a mob at Yenping-foo,
and seriou ly injured with clubs ano
stones. II a magistrate had not inter
fered he vol Z have been drowned by
the infuriate 'populace.
The Baltimore Methodist conference,
one OF the oldest Methodist conferences
IN the country, recently concluded it,
annual session. raoDrt5 80 ,7S4 mem
bers and 4.26S pr~obationers, l79 Local
preachers. and 35s churches, valued al
$2,472. $50. on which there is an indebt-
edness Of $3.50, orc.
Edward Kimball, the church debt OK.
tin2uishcr, says: The three great
financial ca'amiiies Of n church are: /
A fund tor the support of preaching, Sc
that the people need not pay. 2. One OF
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 TO obtain an edu-
cation. One of them had to sell his
o~vercoat. Another tried living on n
meal a day. The wife of another takes
in washing TO support him. Another
worked for some months as n cook.
The receipts of the American board
for January amounted to S5l, 100. For
the first five months of the financial
year the donations aggregated Sl3l,-
500 26, the l]egacies $35, 500 81, a total OF
Sl87, 430. 10. Thisis an advance beyond
the average for the corresponding
months during the preceding three
years Of bout twenty per cent.
The following are reported to be some
ofthe changes made in the revised yer
sion of the English Bible to be issued
this year: Damned " is to be changed
invariably to condemned" For
4" hell" the original words Gehenna anG
Hades are TO be substituted. "Pre-
vent" is to be turned into Ego before"
Religion " is 10 - .'e.--3 iato "wor.
ship"
The Methodist Episcopal church had
at the close of the year 1879, 1884, 006
members and l76, 296 probationers. The
gain in members for the year was
2l.6OS, and the loss in probationers 49,
467; so that, taking the total of mem
bers and prObationers - l, 200, 302 - the
net gain for the year was only 6.l46
The number of churches was 1885,
which shows an increase Of 1896. The
value of the churches is estimated at
S62, 520,4l7, being a decrease Of $6,22S,'
74l from the nreYinns year.