The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1880-10-01
RELIGIOUS NEWS AND NOTES.

The Crees, of Hudson Bay, have given
up heathenism and become nominal
Christians.
The Rev. J. T. Duryea. d. D., will
deliver the Yale lectures on Preach
ing next winter.
A Women's home missionary society
of the Methodist Episcopal church has
been formed in Cincinnati.
Eighty ministers have received the
degree of ID. d. this season, forty-six
that OF LII. d. and twenty that of Phi. d.
The general convention of the Protes-
tant Episcopal church will meet in New
York city for its triennial session
Wedne sday, October 6. 1880.
There are in New York city eighty
five Protestant Episcopal churches.
Their number has doubled in twenty
five years.
There are eighty-eight young mems
christian associations in New York
State, fifteen having been organized
within year. The membership is more
than l2,000.
For sSTty-two years the Moravians
have BEEN at work among Greeniand's
Icy Mountains" 1t is estimated that
during this time 10000 Greenlanders
have been gathered into the Christian
church.
Bishop Hurst has since his elevation
to the bishopric of the Methodist Epis-
copal church, received from two insti-
tutions the degree of LID. TEe5 are
Dickinson college and Ashbury uni
versity
A national conference of young
mems christian associations, of which
there are $40 in Great Britain, will be
held soon in Manchester. Associations
having less than $50 members will be
entitled to send two delegates, and all
having more will be entitled TO send
three.
A circular has been sent to all pastors
of Methodist Episcopal churches asking
them to raise twenty-five per cent. addi-
tional for the episcopal fund to what
they have been raising. ms there are four
new bishops to be provided tor. and the
whole support of the episcopacy is now
brown upon the churches.
Religious services were held in Edin-
burg and other parts of Scotland on a
recent Sunday in commemoration of the
struggles of the Covenanters of the sew
enteenth century, and of the declaration
of religious liberty made by the Cam
eronians in SO. There was an open air
service in Edinburg attended by 10000
or $1,000 people.
There are seventy-five Baptist
churches without houses of worship in
the State of Minnesota. The annual
for 1879 gives lac churches, so that one
half are houseless. According to the
same ratio in other remote Western
States and Territories, there must be
quite 400 Baptist churches without a
place of theil own in which to meet.
All the Presbyterian theological semi
naries in the United States graduated
140 students last year, as follows: Union,
So; Princeton, 35; Western. l6; Au-
burn, l2; Northwestern, l6; Lane, g.:
Danville, 3; San Francisco, .; Lincoln, q
8; Biddle, 4; German seminary ats
Bloomfield, 3. &
The ordained foreign missionary force5
of the leading denominations in the.
dist, 1903; Congregationalist, 1856; Pres-i
byterian, 1877; Baptist, 10. and Episco-s
palian, TO- The number of converts ,
from heathenism at the various STAG
tions is divided as follows: Baptist =
8l,63S; Methodist, 22,430; Congrega-s
tional, is, 1875; Presbyterian, ii, ,497, and
Episcopal, 4,499. :.
The recent remarkable religious novel.
ment in France is attributed largely toi
the dlStr1DutlOn OI tne WOru OF GOdg
Rev. DIR. Fisk, Of Paris, reports that four,
million copies of the Scriptures have!
been sold in France; that all the youngt
men in the army havs been taught tos
read the Gospel of John, and that 500, :,
600 young men know that Gospel by;
heart; and that loo. 900 soldiers, driven
into Protestant Switzerland during the
late war, have returned TO France, eachss
with a New Testament and variousa
religious tracts.
The Oldest missionary society in ex-s
istence, the Society for the PropagationI
of the Gospel, states in its one hundred
and seventy-ninth annual report thati
among the results OF the society's work.
are 1856 bishops, more than 5000 clergy. !
and upward OF 2, ,OOO, 900 members of the :
communion. During the past year
there have been 5a3 missionaries en-
gagged. of whom l53 have labored in
Asia, l2i in Africa, IS in Australasia
and the Pacific. $50 in America and
West Indies, and two in Europe. There
are also about 1895 catechists ana lay
teachers, mostly natives, and about $50
missionary students.
The Peruvian Syrup has cured
thousands who were suffering from