New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-03-21

four millions. The Baptists are III excess or
! the Catholics, and the MethOdists have about
! twice as many people as they. Several Roman
Catholic States have been ANNEXED 10 this
| country, and Professionalism has become strong
| IN them.
| Dr. J. l.. Diman of Brown University, in the
sixth of his Lowell Institute lectures. delivered
| q few DAYS ago. advanced views which are looked
upon as important, in that they are perhaps the
| first public avOwal on the part OF profess"d
| theologian of full faith in evolution as a phlo-
sophica principle applicable in the historic
| sciences. lie avOwed his implicit confidence
| in it as a valuable if not entirely fresh add
tiOA to formal philosophy, and 1t VIII exert, III
| his opinion, wholesome influence upon the
methodOlOgy of historic and scientific theology.
To-day the First Baptist Church Of Boston
will celebrate its second centennial, beng the
anniversary of the reOpenlng OF the OLD editce
after It bad been nailed up by order OF the
Puritan Government. DIR. Crane, the present
pastor, will deliver the historical discourse this
morning, aud this evening Governor Long, Dr.
Duryea aud others will speak. A poem also
will be read. 1t will be a significant thing"
says The Examiner and Chronicle, ito receive
cOngratulatOry addresses or thai occasion IRON
the Governor of the old Commonwealth and
from a representative C0ngregationallst."
The Methodist Book Concern has a favor
able report to make of its business condition.
With net capital on June 30, 1879, OF
Gus year. its net profits for the year ending
last June were ST., 155 SO. In addition To
placing at lower interest the bonds which were
issued to nay for the new building III Broad
way, $40, 600 OF bonds had been redeemed TO
June 30. 1879. and from June to December
30 last, an additional $4,000 had been re-
deemed and cancelled.
st. Paul's Episcopal Parish. Prince Georges
County, Nd, after much consideration of the
subject, established last Sunday system OF
free pews The result WAS crowded church.
Every available seat in the building was Oc-
cupied, and this, added TO the rapid increase
which had occurred in the cong egatiOn before
the innovation, has led to conviction that
the church must be enlarged. The advisabity
of charging 1t has already been canvassed
among the members.
DR.. f. NJ. Ellis, of the First Baptist Church
of Denver. Col, has been asked to visit Ire
mont Temple, Boston. With Il view to receiv-
having left Denver on Monday. To-day he
will preach to the congregation OF the Temple,
and II he receives call his acceptance is
altogether probable, although IA Denver paper
says he might be induced to remain there IL
the church would erect a larger cdliicc.
There are now in Chicago 213 churches, be.
side 20 m ssiOn chdpeis, aud ii Adventist and
Spiritullst societies. After the fire OF 1871
only one church RENAME standing IN the city.
Of the 2l3 churches the Catholics have the
largest number, 81 The Baptists are next with
u. Then come the Evangelical Lutherdns
with 81, the MethOdlStS with 70, the Presbyte-
rams with Is, and the EpiscOpdiians COngrega-
tOnalists and Hebrews each with 10.
During the rast year the National Bible So
ciety of Scotland issued 4l5,93 publications,
OF which 294, 515 were Bibles and New Tesla
ments. This circulation was surpassed only i'll
the war years, 1870, 1871, and 1873. During
the year the first edition Of the Scriptures IN
Gaelic was published COlpOrteuTs TO the num-
her of $50 were aided or maintained in thirteen
European countries and in India, China, Japan,
and Brazil
A few months before her death, Miss Frances
Ridley Havergal, the well-knOwn writer Of re-
ligious poems, who died short time ago, sent
all her Jewels to the English Church Missionary
Society. They were valued at $3.50. A memo
rial fund has been started for the training and
employment of native Bible women III India and
for the translation and circulation III that cOun-
try of selections from her books.
Bishop Corrigan of New-Jersey has issued O
circular recommending the formation of debt
paying societies throughout the diocese for the
pnrpnse of liqudating the debts of the various
clutches The total debt of the Church in the
State he gives as 81 .O00, 900 For these sOcie-
ties he advises a system of monthly payments
instead of fairs and festivals.
establishment of Methodist Museum i'm Lon
don. the object of which shall be o coec, as
many historic documents as can be Obtained re-
latng to the early history of MethOd.sm and
also interesting objects connected with the mis-
sion work i'll foreign lands.
The Lutheran Church has secured strong
foolhold in southern Italy. lis church OF Naples
is well established, and possesses Il parOchIal
school with 1870 children. Another church at
Sllclmo constitutes parish of considerable size.
A large edition of DE-. Cummings works is to
be published by the English UDitarians, at the
nominal price of IA sailing Il copy.