Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-04-15
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

The Presbyterian Church Of En-
gland requires its foreign missionaries
TO come home once every seven years.
Connected with MIR. Spurgeon's
church in London are twenty Sunday
schools, FIVE hundred teachers and Eve
thousand eight hundred and fifty-three
scholars.
The Baltimore Methodist Confer.
ence, one of the oldest Methodist Con-
ferences in the country, has just con-
cluded its annual session. It reports
80, 784 members and 4, 1868 probationers,
179 local preachers, and 358 churches
valued at 81, Az, $50, on which there 10
an Indebtedness of $3.50, 900.
A grandson Of the late Rev. DR..
Armstrong, one of the first missionaries
of the American Board to the Sandwich
Islands. was christened recently at Say
brook, Conn, "Kulani," Hawaiian
name (signifying From the skies,")
chosen by King Kalakaua J., who was .
playmate of the child's father.
The receipts of the American Board
for January amounted to S51, 160. For
the first five months of the financial
year the donations aggregated $751;
$50. 26; the legacies $50 ,860.87, n total
of S167, 43O.13. This is an advance be-
yond the average for the corresponding
months during the preceding three
years of about twenty per cent.
The number of Protestants IN
France does not exceed $50, 900. OF
this number $50. 900 belong to the Re-
formed Church, 80, 600 to the Lutheran,
and 10. 900 to other bodies. IL German
Austria there are 367, 900 Protestants,
of whom 249, 900 are Lutherans and
l18, 900 of the Reformed Church; but
these figures represent only ten per
cent. of the population of that country.
Good use is made of converts in
China as colporteurs and teachers. In
the presbytery of Shantung several ap-
proved men have spent the entire year,
others several months, itinerating and
circulating books and tracts in regions
extending over from two hundred TO
three hundred miles inland. They re-
ceived and expected no compensation
beyond the plainest food, not exceeding
in cost % per month for each person.
The Bishop of Manchester said at
an ordination service, the other day,
that it was better to be experts in god
illness than in controversy. He said he
was not ashamed to confess that he
could not get up any interest in many OF
the questions of the day. He cared little
for the shape or color Of vestments, the
form of bread used in communion, can
dies on the altar lighted or unlighted,
or anything of the sort. They did not
concern the weightier matters Of the
gospel.
"A year or so ago DIR. E. w. Kirby,
of Philadelphia, organized new
branch of Methodism, callingft 1.-The
Methodist Church." The conference
was composed of some ten or twelve
ministers, and there were several con-
gregations. At the second meeting of
the conference, held recently, several
of the ministers and delegates, repre-
senting four churches, together with
the secretary, left the conference, be-
cause of dissatisfaction with the rulings
of the President, DIR. Kirby, and organ
lied as an association of independent
Methodist churches in correspondence
with the Maryland association.
Germany, with a population Of A.
600, 900, has $4,000 schools and an at
tendance of 100000 pupils; Great
Britain and Ireland, with q population
Of $4,000 900, has So, 900 schools and
5000, 900 pupils; Austria Hungary, with
population of $1,000, 900, has 80. 0e0
schools and $4,000 pupils; France,
with a population of $1,000. 900, has
II 900 schools and 4,7O0.O pupils;
Spain, with q population Of 1900, 900,
has 20, 600 schools and 1,600. 900 pupils;
italy, with population Of $4,000, 900.
has Al, 900 schools and /, SOC, 900 pupils;
and Russia, with a-population of IA
OOO, 900, has $4,000 schools and 1,100.-
600 pupils.
"A thanksgiving service has been
held at Isandula, in Natal. and at other
places where there are Anglican
churches. At Isandula, the scene Of
the great disaster to the English troops,
the burial Office was said and the COM
munion administered by the Bishop,
who said he had three objects in hold
ing that service at Isandula: U That
the bodies of Christian men should not
be left without one word of peace and.
love being said over their graves; ca
that the protecting hand Of Providence
might be recognized, and (3) that Q
practical outcome of the work might be
the establishment of q mission. II 10
proposed to erect church on the spot
where the service was held.