Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-03-19
CHURCH AND SCHOOL.

Inc ArkhQSaS MeJQOulSb CONFER
ence (NOrthern) reports 3, 437 members
and 491 probationers, 81 local preach
ers, and SO churches valued at Sl8, 1862.
During the first year of his incum-
bency of the See of Durham, Bishop
Lightfoot held Al combinations, con-
firming no less than 9,271 persons, of
whom 1907 were females.
The Roman Catholic clergy in
France numbered, in 1851, 81, 1856; in
1861, So, 321; in 1876, 55,269. The
Protestant ministers and the Jewish
Rabbis number about 5000.
The Methodist Conference in North
India, recently held, reported 1852
members and Lib probationers. The
accessions the past year were 257
There are 1872 Sunday-schools, with 738
scholars, there being an increase of 475
scholars.
"A German minister, the Rev. F.
Won Schluembach, is attracting much
attention by his evangelistic services in
st. Louis, where he is laboring among
German churches. He lately preached
for Mr. Moody, and told the story of
his conversion from infidelity.
The Evangelical Messenger is exact
ing in respect to the laity. 1t says;
1.-The people who go to hear a sermon
without a preparation to hear Alright,
are but little less guilty of wrong than
the minister who enters the pulpit to
preach without preparation.
In Texas the Presbyterian women
are preaching, as the new book of disci-
pline provides that nothing shall be
called an oifense or admitted as an ac-
cusation which cannot be proved to be
such from the Scripture, as interpreted
in the standards of the church.-N Y.
EUening Post.
The adoption by Calvinistic Meth
odist Church in Cardiff, Wales, of the
Anglican liturgy has caused a great
cOmmotion in the denomination. Many
approve the step, but the majority OPP
pose it, while outsiders predict that this
sect, which was the last to leave the
establishment, will be the firstto return
to it.
The Prussian Minister of Public
Worship said, in the course of a debate
in the Prussian Diet, recently, that a
compromise between the State and the
Vatican could be effected only ON the
basis of existing Prussian legislation.
Dispute over principles must end, and
more attention be given to facts.
The report of the Protestant Epis
copal Church of Maine for the last year
shows that there has been an actual loss
in membership. The whole number of
COMMITMENTS reported in 1873 was
2,1l5; in 1879 the whole number is
2,107. In four years the gain has been
less than one hundred, the whole num-
Der reported in 1875 having been 2,014.
"A museum of Methodist antiquities
has been opened in Wesleyan Centenary
Hall, London. The museum begins
with several valuable collections of let
ters, manuscripts, relics, etc. Among
the letters are hundreds of epistles
written by the Fletchers, the Wesleys,
DIR. Coke, Whitefield and other early
Methodists. There are also collections
of curiosities gathered in mission fields
The Church of the New Jerusalem
has Ill churches and preaching-plac
in the United States and in Canada.
The churches in this country are scat
tered over twenty-five States. They
are most numerous in Massachusetts,
where there are II. In Ohio there are
~, in Pennsylvania IL, in Illinois 10,
and in New York z. There are in
Chicago, in Philadelphia and in
Boston.
The ChurehnGn speaks of Lent and
its uses as follows; "Some of our Pres
byterian friends are coming to see that
Lent has some very important uses,
especially in view of the way in which
the churches in the city. are becoming
demoralized in consequence of the rush
and the hurry of the season, to be fol-
lowed by the summer vacation. The
Rev. II. j. Van Dyke, for instance,
writing to the Evangelist, is for one,
thankful for the temporary barrier
which the return of this season sets up
against the tide of worldliness, for the
opportunity it presents to bring our
churches for time under the steady
influence of the Gospel, and to press
home the claims of Christ's kingdom
upon the careless and impenitent. The
editor agrees also that the season of
Lent as observed by the Episcopal
Church, is a breakwater agains6the tide
of worldliness that is coming in like a
flood. Accordingly, DIR. Van Dyke is
going to revive the old-fas hioned pro
tracted meetings, at which some of the
most noted ministers in Brooklyn win
take part in the services" rr-r... r