Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-05-06
RELIGIOUS NEWS AND NOTES.

Ex-Governor Brown, OF Georgia, has
given 800, 900 to the Southern Baptist
Theological Seminary, at Louisville,
KY, to endow professorship.
There are, it il said, l50,00 German
Protestants In Brazil, the majority o
whom are Lutherans. They are very
poorly supplied with pastors and
churches.
The Rev. George G. Pentecost. the re-
vivalist. has closed very successful
series of revival meetings In Detroit
the most successful, it Is said, ever held
in that city.
The Scottish Episcopal church has
seven bishops, 2i2 churches. and 225
clergymen, against 1853 ministers and
1880 churches belonging to the Estab-
lished church of Scotland.
The Baptists of New Jersey have I75
churches. with 2,737 members. The
members. as related to the population
of the State, stand as one to twenty
seven. These churches report 1871
baptisms in the past ten years, or about
1900 year.
The triennial session OF the Free Will
Baptist General conference will be held
at Weirs, on Lake Winnipesockee, New
Hampshire, beginning July 81. This is
the centennial year of the denomination,
the first church having been organized
at New Durham, near Weirs, in l7s0.
The value of the church property o f
the Northern Methodist church in th e
South is estimated at 80, 100000. The
benevolent collections last year
amounted to S67 $50, of which $40, 1870
was contributed by the colored mem.
bers.
Chicago has 2l3 churches. besides 30
mission chapels and ii Adventist and
Spiritualist societies. The Catholics
have 81 OF the churches, the Baptists "a.
the Lutherans "a, the Methodists 10,
the Presbyterians Is, and the Episco-
pa,ians, Congregationalists and He
brews 10 each.
The Freedmen's Aid society proposes
TO the friends of the late Bishop Haven
to raise 100000 for the completion of
Clark University, at Atlanta, Ga, as
suitable monument TO his memory. his
name to be given to n professorship in
the institution, in which he was very
much interested.
1t is estimated that among the Eng
lish-speaking population of the world
there are $4,000. 900 Episcopalians, l6.-
600, 600 Methodists, Is, 500, 900 Roman
Catholics, l0.250,0O Presbyterians,
100000 Baptists. 100000 Congrega-
tionalists, 100000 Unitarians. of
other religious sects there are 500. 900
adherents and s 10000 are Of no par.
ticular religion.
The Rev. Theodore Monod. promi-
nent Protestant pastor of Paris, has been
deputed by a FrenchFnissionary society
to visit the United States, to represent
the present condition and needs of
Professionalism in France, and to obtain
help for the evangeliZation of Paris and
other parts of that country. M. Monod
studied theology in the United States.
A careful inquiry into the statistics Of
the work of the Methodist Episcopal
church in the South shows that there
are 2l3.776 white and 1877, l23 oolored
members, gain of 5000 colored and
about 5000 white members in two
years. There was an increase in the
same period OF l29 preachers and 81 ,22S
Sunday-school scholars. The number
of baptisms last year was very large,
reaching 4O. .4O6, about one half being of
adults.
The Salvation Army has considerable
strength In Great Britain. 1t has an an
nual income of nearly 800, coo, and its
organization includes 100 corps, $50 of
ficers and 3,256 speakers. 1t holds so,
900 meetings in the course of n year, n
ii3 theaters and music halls, beside
about 10000 open air meetings. One
estimate of the aggregate of the audi
ences places 1t at 1000. 900.