Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-03-25
ELIGIOUs NEWS AND NOTES.

There are more than sixty Protestant
Episcopal bishops.
The first native Baptist missionary
has just been ordained In Japan.
There will be upward of thirty coiored
delegates In the Methodist General Con-
terence
The Friends have i'm England s27
meeting houses, 2g5 recorded and 400
unrecorded ministers, and 1900 men,
bers.
The new parish church of Haworth,
England, IL TO cost $50, 900 and contain
Il memorial window Ia the Bronte
family.
The total preaching power OF the Eng
lish Methodist churches amounts to 36,-
600 preachers, the great majority Of
whom are laymen.
The Episcopal Society for Promoting
Christianity among the Jews has mis-
sions in eighteen dioceses. II is said
100 Jews are ministers in the Church
of England.
There are sixty-four societies OF
Swedenborgians in England, with 4, ,967
members. The Mormons have eighty
two churches, and the Jews ninety
synagogues and $50 ministers.
The pastor of colored Baptist
church in Nashville. Tenn. the Rev.
n. @. Merry, received into his church
last year 2S7 members. Il net gain Of 223.
and the church raised-S4 .4S2.
The South Carolina Methodist Con-
ference (Nortbrrn) reports 7,044 mem
bers and 6.293 probationeis, 243
churches and 347 local preachers. show
ing that it hss grown rapidly. The col
lections, however. are extremely small,
indicating poverty.
The Rev. Burr Baldwin, believed 10
be the oldest surviving graduate of Yale
college, died recently in Montrose,
Penn. aged ninety. lie graduated from
Yale in 1909. and spent his life in the
ministry of the Presbyterian Church,
According 70 one of the Lutheran al
manacs. the Lutheran communion in
this country gained last year fifty-two
ministers, eighty. seven congregations,
and l7,9l7 members. According 10 an
other, the gain of members was thirty
nine, and OF congregations forty eight,
while there was a loss of 1908 mem.
bers.
The superintendent of the northwest
ern department of the Sunday-sChool
Union states that his missionaries report
tor the year past 400 new schools organ
lied, with 1859 teachers and 1860
scholars; 5.756 other Sunday schools
visited and aided, having 5.756 teach
ers and 52,045 scholars; 3,047 Bibles and
Testaments distributed GAS families
visited; 1900 sermons and addresses
delivered.
The Church of England has two arch
bishops, twcnty-eight bishops, four
Suffagan bishops, thirty deans, seventy
four archbishops. 6l0 rural deans.
% 600 clergy of all classes, one-fifth Of
whom have NO parochial charge One
-Canterbury-an twenty
four bishops have seats in the house OF
lords. The income of the prelates
ranges from 1000 to $4,000 n year;
that of the deans, Sl5, 600 TO 81 ,025.
The number of churches is about l6,
600. The gross income OF the Church
from all sources is $40 600. 900 per an
| mum.
The American New Testament re-
vised represent seven denominations,
as follows: DIR. T. ID. Woolsey (Con-
gregationaD. New Haven. (Chairman);
Prof. J. II. Thayer (CongregationaD,
Andover. Mass; Prof. Ezra Abbot
(Unitarianl, Cambridge, Mass. DIR. j.
~ DuIE NhetbOdttt). New jersey; Dr.
Thomas Chase (Friend), Pennsy lvania;
DIR: Howard Crosby (Presbyterianl,
! Congregational. New Haven; DIR. A.
| Z. Kcndrick (Baptist), Rochester. n. Y. !;
Bishop Lee (EpiscopaD. Delaware; DIR.
Nj. B. Riddle (EpiscopaD. Hartford !;
DR.. p. Schaf CPresbyterian) New
York; DIR. Charles Short (Episcopal),
New York; DIR. F. 4. Washburn (Epis-
copalJ J. New York.