Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-02-05
RELIGIOUS NEWS AND MOTIFS

Spurgeon has not missed Sund,y
sermon in 500 consecutive SUNDAYS
Mr.. Moody. the evangelist. has ren,.d
house in st. Louis, Mo, for sir
months. -"
a Chinese boy in Pekin has reci,ed ,bo
whole of the New Testament in bis na
tive language. '"
-Four stn"cnts Of the Richmond Insti.
tutc la Virginia desire 10 become rn;s,
sionaries in Africa. "'''
Kevivals have occurred in Voru
Carolina In the cooperation merting.
of Friends and Nethodists.
The Rev Thomas Coorcr ,f p,r,
Ind, has accepted a call to a Congrega
tional church at Tiverton, England
A Vermont church annually puts II,
ut auction the post Of sexton. Tho mar
who offers to do the work for The lras,
money Is the successful bidder.
Miss Mary Travis, of CottIngb,,,
Yorkshire, Quakeress, three week.
after celebrating her hundrcdth birtL-
day, has just been baptized member If
the Episcopalian church.
The New York OLseruer offer rri1o
OF 800 for the best essay Of from two n
three columns in length, designed IN
counteract any one Of the many forms ri
assault upon Christianity by modern in.
fidelity.
A room under the Gil de Bout the
palace Of Louis XIV al Versatile. l.
used ne Il place o: worship by Protestant.
until "A church can be erected M
jules Favre. French minister of puhIir
instruction. who has married Il Protes.
tant wife. attends the services.
According 10 statistics, up to .Ju-y
last, the Methodist Episcopal church
had ninety-siX annual conferences II
453 itinerant preachers, and I.GgG ~
members and probationers. Since tho
I organization Of the church 44i prcsidiny
elders and 63i .967 members have died.
The Boston Y. NJ. G. Union la. 70
ceived from Joseph B. Eaton, Fsq.. the
sum of $50, 600. promised il by him jfit
would raise the $4,000 more which
was necessary TO remove all It's obiiya-
tions, and it now rejoiccs in entire tree.
dom from debt.
The Methodist church. Of Canada has
forty-four missions among the Indians
of the Northwe Territory. with ,lIr,y
missionaries and ten assistants. and
3.ll5 members. There are a.so Sly
Methodist missionaries between Puget
sound and Alaska, and \ number Of
teachers among the Indians
The missionary society of the Protest.
ant Episcopal church employs twelve
white and eleven native missionaries
among the Indians. with twcnty-seven
/ helpers AMI catechists. In the home
field il supports wholly or in part 800
workers. including ten bishops: abroad
it has $50 workers. including five bish-
ops.
a compilation of the number Of exist
ing sects in England has been made.
tn correct number, il is stated, is l6f.
from which deductions must further be
made for eight or nine foreign congre-
cations and such Implications as "Primi-
tive Methodists and Renters" TAX
ing the Protestant churches. there are
declared 10 be 25. 1853 Episcopal ministers
in Great Britain Cncluding the Nor
aviaLs), 5,246 Congregational (inc,udiug
Baptists). 4,95l Presbyterian and 1899
Methodist.
Prof. james Legge. Chinese professor
at Oxford, says in a late ho1iemy that
the number Of Buddhists in China is
! greatly over-estimated. Rhys Davids,
! in his " Buddhism" estimates the num-
ber at AS, 900. 600 in China and Japan.
Says Prof. Legge: If we lop Of ioo,-
000, 900 from this aggregate we shall not
be doing injustice 10 Buddhism. OF all
religious systems, Confucianism, per-
1 haps, has the greatest following; then
| Christianity, then Hinduism, then Mo.
Z hammedanism, and we would place
Buddhism in the fifth place