Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-06-24
RELIGIOUS NEWS AND NOTES.

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spurgeon's Pastors college has sdu-
Gated 472 preachers.
Ihe national council of the Congre-
gationAi churches will meet this year at
st. Louis.
1t is about 40 years since the begin
ming of foreign missions. and converts
rom heathenism now number about n
million and half.
The Methodist ecumenical council In
appointed at London in August of next
year. II will have four hundred mem
bers, one-half of them from the United
Statr9.
TIL" Japanese edition of the book OF
conn o.i ,rayer is said TO be nearly com
pleteu. 1t is being prepared under the
supc vision OF mixed committee OF
En ylish and American missionary So
ci' les.
The representatives of twelve theo-
To- ical seminaries who recently held o
conference in New York city adopted a
p. IN for an inter-seminary missionary
organization, and appointed mission
AIRY convention at New Brunswick in
Oci ober.
In October the First Congregational
AMI iversary, and preparations are al
ready being made for the event. Among
the Our signers of the first covenant in
;.t church were Governors Winthrop
an Dudley. The first book of records
and a silver goblet which Governor
Winthrop gave 10 the church are still in
the society's possession.
The home mission committee of the
lNnnndn oh. hes
ceived S4O0,0O0 during the last six
months, and it has arranged 70 send
seven additional missionaries to Mani
oba, where they are greatly needed.
The need of increased efforts on the
part of the Presbyterian denomination
among the German element in this
country is beginning to attract atten-
tion, and steps are about 10 be taken TO
push work in that direction more Wig
orously.
The Woman's Baptist Missionary 30
ciety, which was organized nine years
ago, has received in all s26l, 100. Last
year the society received some S46, ,I7S,
the largest amount ever received In one
year.
The income of the Presbyterian board
of foreign missions for last year shows
"A very large increase. The receipts az
gregate $3.50, 6,S44, gain over the pre-
vious year of more than $l50, 600. The
legacies have been unusually large. and
the Woman's societies have collected
$500, 900. The last assembly asked the
church to bring its contributions up TO
$500, 900. which the church has done,
and much more.
The desire for spiritual instruction is
such in some parts of Spain that West
leyan ministers report it not an unusual
thing to receive a written requisition
from villages, signed by forty or fifty in
habitants, asking them 10 come and
preach the gospel to them.
The quadrennial report of the agent
of the New York Methodist Book Con-
cern shows that It's net capital is 81, $50,
SOS. The net profits of the four years
have been S20l,s7s. The sales for the
same period were S3,4l5,0l6. The re-
port also shows that the support of the
bishops, which was thrown on the
churches three years ago, has drawn
upon the funds of the concern. Three
years ago the fund owed the concern
SllS,4 ,436; il owes now &I20.3ll. The
agents recommend that this amount be
charged to profit and loss, rs they
do not believe it will be made good by
the church.
The Presbyterian board has very en-
couraging reports from their mission
work in Mexico. More than 500 con-
verts recently sat down togei her at the
communion table in the city of Zita-
cuaro, situated southeast of the capital.
and the two native preachers say they
have nearly 1000 converts in the State
of MichoacAn.
There are in Great Britain thirty-four
Catholic peers, twenty-six holding
seats in the house of lords, and fifty
one Catholic members of the house of
commons. There are five members of
the queens privy council who are Catho.
lies. There are in Great Britain eighteen
archbishops or bishops, 2,i40 priests,
and l,3is Catholic places of worship.
The Episcopal convention of North
ern New Jersey has appointed n COM
mittee to ascertain the nature and
amounts of all membranes upon
church property in the diocese, with q
view to devise some practical means by
which all such membranes may be
removed prior TO the Centennial dio-
cesan anniversary, which will occur in
1883.