The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1880-01-07
RELHIOUs NEWS AND NOTES.

Spurgeon has not missed a Sunday
sermon in / 500 consecutive Sundays.
Mr.. Moody, the evangelist, has rented
a house in St. Louis, No, for six
months.
a Chinese boy in Pekin has recited the
whole of the New Testament in his ma
tive language.
Four stuuenis of the Richmond Insti-
tute ia Virginia desire to become mis-
sionaries in Africa.
Revivals have occurred in North
Carolina in the cooperation meetings
of Friends and Methodists.
The Rev Thomas Cooper, of Peru,
Ind, has accepted call to Congrega-
tional church at Tiverton, England.
A Vermont church annually puts up
at auction the post of sexton. The man
who offers to do the work for the least
money is the successful bidder.
Miss Mary Travis, of Cottingham,
Yorkshire, Il Quakeress, three weeks
after celebrating her hundredth birth
day, has just been baptized a member of
the Episcopalian church.
The New York Observer offers prize
of 800 for the best essay Of from two to
three columns in length, designed to
counteract any one of the many forms OF
assault upon Christianity by modern in
fidelity.
A room under the Gil de Bruf, the
palace of Louis XIV at Versailles, is
used as place of worship by Protestants
until n church can be erected. NJ.
Jules Favre, French minister of public
instruction. who has married a Protes-
tant wife, attends the services.
According to statistics, up to July
last, the Methodist Episcopal church
had ninety-six annual conferences, H.
453 itinerant preachers, and 1896 1897
members and probationers. Since the
organization of the church 444 presiding
elders and 63l, ,967 members have died.
The Boston Y. NJ. G. Union has re-
ceived from Joseph B. Eaton, Esq, the
sum of $50, 600, promised it by him if it
Hould raise Tie $4,000 more which
was necessary to remove all its obliga-
tions, and it now rejoices in entire free
dom from debt.
The Methodist church, Of Canada, has
forty-four missions among the Indians
of the Northwest Territory, with thirty
missionaries and ten assistants, and
3,I15 members. There are also six
Methodist missionaries between Puget
sound and Alaska, and number o
teachers among the Indians.
The missionary society of the Protest
ant Episcopal church employs twelve
white and eleven native missionarie;
among the Indians, with twenty-sever
helpers .tnu catechists. In the home
field it supports wholly OF in part 33t
workers, including ten bishops; abroaC
it has 230 workers, including five bish
ops.
A compilation of the number of exist
ing sects in England has been made
TIL correct number, it is stated, is l6i
from which deductions must further b.
made for eight OF nine foreign congre
cations and such Implications as ''Primi
tive Mathodsts " and "Renters. TAX
ing the Protestant churches, there ar
declared to be 25, 1863 Episcopal minister
in Great Britain Gncluding the Nor
aviar 81, 5,246 Congregational Gnchdin!
Baptists), 1851 Presbyterian and 3,96
Methodist.
Prof. James Legge, Chinese professo
at Oxford, says in late Ac0den1y tina
the number of Buddhists in China i
greatly over estimated. Rhys Davids
in his Buddhism" )" estimates the mum
ber at 4i5, 100000 in China and Japan
Says Prof. Legge: If we lop off 400,
600, 900 from this aggregate we shall no
be doing injustice to Buddhism. Of al
/. religious systems, Confucianism, pei
haps, has the greatest following; the
, Christianity, then Hinduism, then Mo
hammedanism, and we would plac
Buddhism in the fifth place.