New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-05-16

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| growth Of membership h&s been 1201G
Msfkodist says this increase csnno$ ~
as entirely satisfactory.n
DR.. somervilIe, Of the scoteh en-
seyenty-fve years old, has been p1c@@
crowded audiences III evangelical eh1fe&
| IN some of the theatres IN Italy. He
English, and hls sermons are translnte4 ~
by sentence by native ministers. Recenlly 4
preached IN Florcnces and at one Of th4
| 1,700 portions OF the Scriptures were ffxG
! at the door of the theatre In which 10 ~
| He has been IN NapiDs also, and w1lI feC
Rome. At Rome choir Of sineor6 3
| ing to use some Of Mr.. Sankey's byu1<
boys have been singing translatione q ~
the streets Of Florence. 81 S5
Statistics of the Catholic Church II
not including Poland, which have beer
in Russian newspapers, report ono nEeE
four bishops, 1854 priests. and . poc4
Of 3,397,778, distributed thropoh
parishes. Two sees have been eupproGe4
the present Gar. Outside. OF White H1
the most considerable parishes aret XIII
with 10, 419 Catholics T0b0isk, with ~
Kursk, with 1888; 0msk, with 4, 600 liz
| with 1926; and Krasnojarsk, with &Q
Siberia. Several are more extensive thaA
ordinary dioceses Of other countries. 80
The ladies of st. Johns Episcopal Missfoa Il
Deadw0Od, Dakota, have raised by their q
exertl0ns the SUM of 81 400 toward the ~
ing OF O church. During the coming oeGGon
is intended that the work Of putting up an
shall begin. The number of communie411
miles from Denver there are nearly or Quit4
many more people who belong TO the Ept1oo|
denomination. Still there 10 complaint IN
no minister has yet been obtained to leo4 ~
flock. q
Among the reports of an increasing tolcrstic
in Russia toward the non-orthodox eccts em4
which the Old Believers were violently ex>
cluded forty years ago will be restored TO then {
another is that the Cars birthday will thi1
year be signalizrd by the publication Of several
decrees one of which will grant equal riGh5s ~
tensive amnesty will be proclaimed Tor poueooE
offenders and that In this even Poland viii shaHe
The largest per cent Of the ministry Of ~
Protestant denominations In this country DE-
voted to the foreign missionary. field oonne4
from the Congregational Church, which supphee'
4.29 per cent of its own ministerial force. fx1o
Presbyterian Church North supplies 2.6o ~
lists of the North, ]: OF the Episcopal Churc6.
81. 1t is stated that of the 9,145 ministeeo
which the Southern Baptists have, only Ex ~,
engaged in foreign lands. &
An order has been issued by the Minister 81
Education in Greece requiring that the highest
classes IN all the common schools In the KING
dom shall use as a textbook the New Tesla.
ment in the original Greek. 1t was only four.
years ago that the Holy Synod OF the Greek
Church prohibited as injurious the use OF long
list of books, among which were the Old nnd.
New Testaments as published by the British
and Foreign Bible Society. 4
Placing the number of true followers Of the,
Lord" at 10, 900, 900, q Congregational minister
estimates that if every one OF those should b.;
tha Of
present year, and the 20, 600, 900 thus obtained
should each do the same in 1881, and so on Until
1888, there would be in 1888 1850, 100000
true followers or many millions more than.
the population Of the globe.
Not the least interesting part Of the recent
complimentary addresses to the Pope ir forty-f
nine different tongues by as many, young men
dresses with songs each in the language ana
after the manner of the distant country fro4
which the singer came. A very large numner
of cardinals and distinguished personages wore'
present at the ceremonial.
Before he took his departure for Rome, Arch-'
bishop Gibbons, of Baltimore, administered The
sacrament of confirmation 70 l9S ccicrsd pe!-,
XAVIER. The congregation OF this church
numbers at present 5000. OF the recent con-
verts eighty-seven were adults. 40
Among the churches recently reported as having
discharged the debts that remained up n them,
is the Congregational Church of the Redeemer %
New Haven, which lifted an encumbrance ot
$4,000. On top of thus it has just raised
49, 600 from q sale of pews.
The statistics of the Catholic Church In Eng
land are given as these: peers, 81 members ot
the House of Lords, %; members of the Hguae
of Commons, 81 members of the Queens Pdvy:
Council, s archbishops and bishops, ID priests,
2,140; places of worship, 1,348. Is.
The number of Baptists in the world e esft.
mated to be 1855, 172, of whom 1000 200 m
in the Southern States and the Territories q
this country. Or these 1900 900, 100000 are
colored people.
1t is rumored that citizen Of Louisville ha4
offered to give $4,000 for the endowment Of
the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary o.
condition that fourteen other persons viii each
give the same sum.
An apreal to his diocese has been made by the
Bishop of Pennsylvania for $50, 600 with which
to erect in Philadelphia q suitable edifice foe
the divinity school. ~