The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1880-03-07
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.
Notes From Mission Rooms Of NJ. E.,
Church.

Church.
lions Herald, Of July u, furnishes the
following.
Rev DR.. Thoburn, Of Calcutta, reports
bis health 30 good that he is holding twelve
meetings a week and feels more hopeful, in
every way, than he did, ten years ago.
Rev. o. w. Willetts, now Of Detroit.
Mich, has been appointed missionary 10
Peking, and may leave about March /.
Rev. 5. 7. Jacobs, Of Lawrence, Kansas
Conference, has been transferred to the
Sputh India Conference, 10 be stationed at
Calcutta. He left the port Of New York,
January 20.
Rev. l.. Mippert, delegate TO the General
Conference from Germany and Switzerland,
expects To arrive in New York about the
twelfth Of March.
There is evidence that the pastors, who
aIe the true and only agents OF our Mission
airy Society, are ON the alert about the or
ganzatlon OF missionary societies, in their
Sunday-schools. They are equally active in
furnishing missionary information 70 their
and are engaging adult rs well as juvenile
people collections in all their charges. We are
glad as we are every day called upon to fur.
nish collection books and cards for juveniles
aud pastors, together with tracts for pastors
and their missionary committees We hope
at an early day TO have these latter in the
hands Of every pastor in our connection.
Rev. ID. &. Challis writes from Bulgaria,
December 8, 1879; 1--WE are having very
cold spell of weather. The Danube is full
of ice, and the plains are covered with
wolves. Bro. Lounsberry was caught out
n storm on the way to Rustchuk toattend
Il funeral. He reached Bella, village half
way between, after fourteen hours Of hard
travel about twenty miles from which
place he wrote me-"
Mr.. j. Love, Of Abba, Iowa, gives 81 900
towards the endowment of the chair of nat,
ural science, in the Iowa Wesleyan Univer-
sity Rev, j. T. Simmons, the agent, has
raised within two months, about $4,000 for
this purpose.
The Baptist Church at Virginia, on the
st, Paul's river, in Liberia, has received
over 10 native Africans within two years.
1t has had no pecuniary aid from any mis-
slonlry society, and is preparing to establish
a missionary station in the interior.
Mr.. Job Turner, deafmute, who has for
some time been acting as lay reader in
connection with church mission to deaf
mutes, was recently ordained a deacon by
lev. Bishop Whittle in st. Paul's Church
Richmond, Virginia.
Between 5000 and 1000 seamen's libra
ries are kept on the water by the American
Seamen's Friend Society-the number of
volumes being over 10000 Many thousand
vessels are, however, still in need of books.
and gifts are solicited.
Howard University, of Washington, ID. c.,
lays claim to 100000 or 5000, 900 acres of
land in Texas, under the singular will of
John Woodward, who died in New York
city thirty or forty years ago.
Mr., Edmund Lyon, member of the Brick
Church, Rochester N. Y, celebrated his
eighty.seyenth birthday by giving $4,000
to the Board of Home Missions of the Pres
byterian Church,
Another important old manuscript has
been found in famous Greek monastery Oh
Mount Athos, which, it is believed, may
throw some light on difficult passages in the
Epistles of st, Paul,
The King of Siam has issued an order that
.he inhabitants of his dominion shall be
permitted to worship God according to tie
dictates of their own conscenCes.
A Brahmanee, a Mohammedan and Jew
oined a mission church in Bombay recently,
md were ali received at the same time.
The cable on Thursday last, February u.
the death of Rev. Alexander
Keith, the author and traveller.
There are eighty-two Mormon Churches
n England and Ireland.