The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1880-02-04

Dr.. De Pressense, the Protestant preacher O
Paris and prominent also in political circles
has published a letter reviewing the years work
and ITS influence on France and It's future He
believes that the Republic is more firmly estab
llshed, that 1T tends to permanence and thai
pubic tranquility can be reached through il
more surely than by any other form of govern
ment But he does not conceal the perils of the
way through which France is passing and he
admits IN clerical circles that hatred TO the Re.
pubic has become more fierce and unrelenting
because envenomed by clerical hate The VI
tramontane party is compact, is fanatical TO
herceness, and is battling for power, may be for
HE. lie anticipates stormy scenes when the
debates on the educational question begin and
evidently feels that between the fanatics who
are churchly and the fanatics who are positivists
and atheists the good cause of freedom NAV
take great harm. This, however he considers
only as an episode in " that contest between III.
tramontanism and modern society, which will
occupy the closing years of the nineteenth cen
fury, and which will only be concluded when
the separation of Church and State shall have
entirely eliminated the political element from
religious controversies. Presbyterian
Mr.. Charles Scott of Belfast Ireland divides
the Protestant churches of the United Kingdom
INTO four families or groups, and gives the fol
lowing statistics of them:
L Episcopal-Church of England 80 do.
cesans, 5000 ministers; Church of Ireland. IL
docesans, 300. ministers: Episcopal Church OF
Scotland, diocesans, 223 ministers; Moravian
Church, 10 ministers.
z Congregational.-Indep England
3,2O5 ministers; Scotland and Ireland. l2S min.
isters-total, 1888 ministers Baptists | SIG
ministers Countess of huntingdon Connection
81 ministers
3. sbyterian.-Church of Scotland. 63g
ministers; Free Church, l,026 ministers: United
Presbyterian, SOS ministers-total 3. 233 minis.
tiers Presbyterian Church in England. 26S min
listers; Calvinistic Nlethodsts Sl4 ministers
Presbyterian Church in Ireland $50 ministers
T. Methodist Wesleyans, 2,l32 ministers
PRIMITIVE Methodists, 1,l37 minister's Metbo-
DIST Free Churches, 356 ministers; New Connec.
ton and Bible Christians, 344 missters.
The Society for the Propagation of the GospeI
has undertaken a mission to the HISTORIANS in
Kurdistan. Two missionaries have been am ~
pointed, and the society and the Christian
knowledge Society have promised together
fZ,oOO year to the work. One of the stations
Will be at Mosul, and the other at Oroomiab
The latter station will conflict with our Ameri.
can Presbyterian work, which has in the mast
been slgnallzed by much success, and is now
efficiently equipped-but it is not the custom OF
the propagation Society to care for matters like
that
The Church in England within thirty-seven
years, has erected 2,5Sl new parishes: and with.
IN thirty years has expended in Church buiId.
lngs 92OOOOOOOO. The net increase in accom-.
notation In her day schools in the last seven
years Is more than 100000 The voluntary
contributions to these schools rose from 81 GOO
oOo IN 1870, to 930,000000 in S77.-DoDainion
Gbwchman.
The friends of the Rev Tem4s Patterson. D. D
OF the Adelaide Place Baptis, church. GLASGOW
have Just celebrated a Jubilee An annuifv ie
secured nm, and at his death the interest of the
PIlgclPal is TO be used as bursary for Baptist
students attending the University of GLASGOW
Commenclngln small ROOM the membership o.
the church Is now 700 and the present edi6ce
cost 9oO,OoO. DIR. James Culross is acting pastor
EVANGELIST HAMMOND IN CAYADA The
first Canadian city visited bv the Rev r p
hammond this winter was London, named after
the hrst city of the world. London the Less
apes, In the nomenclature of its streets BRIDGES
and river, the Metropolis of the world. It skirt
the Thames and has a Blackfriars bridge and
many other reminders of the old worlds great
cry. here Mr.: Hammond, assisted by nearly
all the evangelical clergy, carried on revival
services that resulted in the BUILDING mn of hn
lfevers and the conversion of over eight hmm
dred souls. The largest churches being found
700 small to hold the crowds desirous of attend
ing the evening services, the managing commit
Tee obtained the use of the city's immense drill
she'd and here, nightly, the vast audience lis
tened to the evangelists exposition of Scripture
II Inc meetings were marked by the power of the
Holy Spirit VIZ
FROM London as centre Christian workers
accompanied by Mr.. Hammond Visited tn,
nIeighb boring towns and villages, carving with
them the good tidings Five weeks Of confirm
Gus work In this city terminated on the 3Otf
ut; with a crowded and most interesting fare
Mr. Hammond went from London to Strath
work in Woodstock, Ont. From that 9ow 60 h.
goes to St GATHERINGS, where he remains ill tn,
beginning of February. He. then expects r.
mold meetings In Montreal, where on a former
occasion he was gladly received and heard will
large proht.-N. Y. Evangelist
GENERAL SECITT,AR aJru1e