The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1880-12-08
RELIGIOUS NEWS AND NOTES.

Brooklyn Methodists own Sl,35O,5oO
worth of church and parsonage prop
erty, less $685., 900 of mortgage.
Mr.. Moody's sermons have been trans
lated into Arabic, and are popular
among the people of that tongue who
read.
The English Church missionary so.
ciety labored for twenty years before 1t
could report one convert. Now 1t re-
ports 10000.
The Religious Herald, published ut
Richmond, Va, says'that four-hfths OF
the LASS, 1923, 500 persons in the world
are "without God and without hope"
During the last ten years nine per
cent. of Yale students. twelve of VIII,
liams, twenty-three Of Amherst and
thirty-eisht Of Oberlin have entered the
ministry.
In the Mahratta district Of India the
leader of q band of robbers was several
years ago converted to Christianity. he
studied for the ministry. and is now the
pastor of p church at Watwal.
Evangelist Hammond has gone to
Winnipeg, where he will hold revival
services among the little Wlnnl-
peggers. Winnipeg is the principal city
of Manitoba, and is 1900 miles from
New York city.
The Hath anniversary of the Oldest
Methodist church in America, the Old
John street church in New York, was
celebrated recently, the exercises be-
ginning with q love feast at nine o'clock,
at which Bishop Harris presided
Bishop Bowman preached at 1880 A. NJ.
The lord mayor of London, Mr.. Nc
Arthur, is o jealous Wesleyan Metho,
dist, and his father is a preacher OF
Londonderry, Ireland. These facts have
been published in connection with other
intelligence concerning the Methodist
Ecumenial council to be held in London
next September.
In Baltimore the colored Methodists
have twenty churches. The colored
Episcopalians and Presbyterians each
nave two, while the Roman Catholics
have one and the Baptists several, most
of which are small. The two Episcopal
churches have white ministers, and are
somewhat on the ritualistic order.
The incomes of bishops OF The Church
of England are as follows: The arch
bishop of Canterbury, S75 600; the
bishop of York, S50,200; the bishop OF
London, $50, 600; the bishop of Dur
ham, $40, 600: the bishop of Winchester,
S35, 900; the bishop of Ely, S27, 500; the
bishop of St. Asaph, 1926, 900, and the
others between 800, 900 and $4,000 each.
Besides, each bishop hassan official rtsi-
dence free.
The Presbyterian church at Dunkirk,
N. Y. by a large majority vote, has
decided to stand by its pastor, the Kew
Mr.. Adams, who was lately deposed by
the presbytery at Buffalo tor heresy.
The presbytery has accordingly declared
the minority in the church, which nc
cepts its decision. to be the Presbyterian
church at Dunkirk, with all the rights,
privileges and immunities belonging to
the church. Under these circumstances
the case goes to the civil courts, to de-
termine to whom the property belongs.
The general convention of..the Chris
tian Church Leld a session at Louisville,
Ky. recently. The report OF the Rev.
F. M. Green, corresponding secretary,
showed that the denomination numbers
coo, 900 communicates in the United
States; that q large sun of money was
expended in evangelization, End thai a
large addition was gained to the church
during the past year. Delegates were
present from England, Canada and
Australia.