Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1880-03-25
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

The Lutheran church is addini
largely to the number of its buildings
A recent report mentions twelve nev
ones,
Last year twelve persons in tn
United States and Europe gave an az
gregate of S3,000,000 to the cause 0
foreign missions,
"A London publisher offers an edi
ton of the New Testament for tw'
cents, and says he can make money a
selling it at that price.
The Roman Catholic clergy il
France numbered, in 1851, 81, 2,885; il
1861, 58,321; in 1876, 5000. ThC
Protestant ministers and the Jewish
rabbis number about 5000.
The Methodist Conference in NORTH
India, recently held, reported 1853;
members and /, ,115 probationers. The
accessions the past year were 257
There are 1872 Sunday-schools, with
738 scholars, there being an increase
of 475 scholars.
With the money received toward
the Thanksgiving Fund($ 1872, 822) the
Wesleyans have paid off the heavy
debts of the home and foreign mis-
sionary societies, the education and
children's funds, ETC., and have paid
100000 to the Theological Institution
at Birmingham.
No church, apparently, could more
carefully preserve the even tenor Of it's
way than the Moravian has done dur
ing the past year, Its membership is
1920, and the increase in 1879 was
only 2. There are 8, 1920 SundaY-school
scholars in the denomination, and
1882 Sunday-school teachers The in
crease of teachers for the year was 9.
During the pastyear what is known
as the Protestant Bible Car has made
the tour of Italy from Genoa down the
shore of the Mediterranean to Naples,
and crossing the peninsula, thence to
Lecce, from Lecce has taken the, route.
up the Adriatic to Ancon b, and from
Ancona to Piacenza, ending at Brescia
A large number OF Bibles and Testa-
ments pave been sold, and many peo-
pie, tits said, have listened t0 theread
ing ot the Sculptures from The car
-Fourteen Thousand clergymen al
the Church Of England have united IN
a memorial to their bishops, asking
them to support earnestly measures for
the further restriction of the trade in
Intoxicating liquors. They are con-
vinced, they say, that the conditions of
the people "can never be greatly i'm
proved, whethsE intsllectually phgsi-
cally OF religidusly, 50 long as inteni- !
perance extensively PREVAILS AMONG
them, and that intemperance will pre-
vail SO long as temptations to it abound |
on every side" [5 4l.'tny aII " 4
Among gchurchesen engaged inpaying |
off their,deb front rank belongs to
the Baptists. Several instances of very
signal success are of late record. Here
are others of more recent date. Five
churches in Philadelphia, with the help
of Mr.. Kimball, have lifted debts ag-
gregating $105, 250, and three others
have raised $4,000 for building pur-
poses. Three Baptist churches in Phil
adelphia are without pastors, but if
theirs is the same life and spirit which
the other churches have shown, pastors
by the half score ought to be begging
for chance to minister unto them.
The proceedings instituted by Brit
ish authorities against the Wesleyan
the Rev. George Brown,
for inficting sangninary punishment
upon the cannibals of New Britain, who
ate his teachers, have broken down. 1t
now appears that Governor Gordon, of
Fiji, never approved Of the prosecu-
ion, because, he said, while he could |
lot commit himself to an unqualified
approval of Mr.. Brown s action, mo eVi-
lence had been brought to his notice {
which would,have led him to the insti-
ution of criminal proceedings. Mr..
Brown has returned from Fiji to his
mission, taking, with him five new men.
Private letters received in London +
rom Morocco report a barbarous anti q
Jewish movement amongst the Ma
lometans Of Fez. aIlhe Hcho says a ]
erce attack was made upon them in
he neighborhoodof of the Imperial Gar Il
ens and that many were severely i
eaten and wounded "A party of Ma !
ometans rescued a mum mberOf the Jews ]
nd escorted them in safety to the Jews
uarter. For this Service they denanded i
ansom-money, which the Jewish II
Ommunity was compelled to pay. II
N old Jew, seventy-five years of 9,
ge, who has been highly es-
3emed for his character, was
9ized, drenched with petroleum, and W
len actually set on fire. The Jews a.
arricaded themselves in their quarter, "
here they had to endure a siege at the II
ands of the mob. 1t appears that the =
panish Consul at Tangier had in h
)rmed the Government of Morocco =.
lat the Spanish Government would no n
niger impart to certain Jews and other h,
atives the protection with which it -,
I'D hitherto guarded them, and that II
le news of this withdrawal Of Spanish n
let loose the Mahometan
ob upon the defenseless Jews 8l8
Imagination has a great deal to do v
ith the happiness and misery of hu- IL II
an life. Indeed, we are so constituted nI
lat it seems as though we must have III
,mething to be Wretched about. If nj
If actual circumstances do not admit 91N
this Contamination then our life is a s