New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-05-09

| especially the argument In favor OF Il. has
good example TO preserve in an address ye-E
Gently made in this city by the Rev. Dr. BFidR.s
man on City Life. Ordinarily Dr.: Bddaman
breaches from manuscript but on this occasion
his success is said to have been 30 great that y
surprised all who heard him, and some OF hja
friends advise that he pu Z away the paper.
The Methodist Church in this country has q
membership OF 100, 600. The number OF it,
ministers lie II, 500, and of it's lay preachers
Elders, or Diocesan Bishops, which virtually Z
they are, il has $50. The number Of delegates
at the Conference now In session In Cincinnati
is 39S, of whom 24S are clerical and $50 lay.
Of fifty-six Baptist churches In Philadelphia
thirty-four own their property free of debt.
The remainder either do not own their building
or are incumbered to the amount of $50, 200.
Five churches have recently discharged their
obligations viz: the Tenth, $1,000; the New
town, 81 900; the Bethesda, $1,6OOi tho
Olivet $40 900 and the ROxbOro, $4,000.
Theodore Monod, the eminent French Prot
estant who was expected to visit this country
during the present season, viii be unable 20
come owing 10 the illness Of member on ms
family. Another prominent French Protestans
will, however, come in his place, to lay before
this people the cause OF Professionalism ID hiS
own country.
Eumpgahbowh and Menogishik, the Chippewa
Indian preachers, both chiefs, are still IN Balti-
more on their mission to raise FUNDS Tor new
church building on their reservation In MINNIE. .
sofa. They attended All SAINTS Church lass
Sunday, and spoke to the cODgre "a ton, the one
in bis native tongue, the other ia English.
Among the statistics Of work accomplished by Z
foreign missions during the past century are
these converts from heathfnIsm, 1,5OO,0O0j
languages into which the Bible mus been trans
lated 22G /: copies of the Bible circulated
100000; barbarOus languages endowed
with grammar and IlteTature,7O. ~
It is said of the Wesleyan church at BARGE
Iona, Spain, that ITS Sunday school now numbers
1872 children and 10 teachers, and that Its day
school has been carried on with such success
that the Roman Catholics have opened a
school of their own In opposition to it directly
across the street, I.
Strong efforts are being put forth by the Old
Waldensan Church to extends It's missions IN
Italy, and an attempt at the same time TO in
crease the salaries oil its pastors has been sue-
cessful. A Turin banker who cOnceals his
name has given for the purpose the sum OK
10000 francs.
In certain parts Of Palestine farming Is profit
able. AT Jaffa orange groves are said to pay
per cent net The converts succeed well IN
the culture of the olive and the manufacture OK
oil. Arab villages raise grain enough to supply
their own wants, and now and then have sur
plus for expectation.
Two missionaries who have been recently
Oh Lake Nyanza will arrive this month In
England with three native chiefs who bear q
letter from their sovereign 70 Queen Victoria:
Recent troubles between missionaries and
native authorities in that region have been ad-
justed.
The Rev. J. r. Massey is a native Virginian
who has been the pastor of the Baptist church
at Dillingham;, Mass, for the past fOrty-fve
years. He has recently resigned the office and
will return to Virginia 10 pass the remainder VI
lis lite amid the scenes OF his youth.
DR.. J. Monroe Gibson, who has been pastor OF
the ST cOnd Presbyterian Church at Chicago for
SIX years past, has accepted a call from ST. johns
Wood Church IN London. Before going to
Chicago DIR. Gibson was the pastor OF church
III Montreal.
There are 500 Swedes IN Denver, all young
unmarried people, il is said, and they are ABOUT
to purchase church site and raise money to
build an edifice to worship ID. IL Is bcievcd
thai IN the entire State the Swedes number
10000.
a Protestant chapel with seating capacity
of 800 has been erected at SamOkOO, Bulgaria.
More than half the funds for the purpose were
contributed by the natives. Since January 1
the congregation has increased so per cent.
Dr. d. X. Junkin, who died recently in West
Virginia, saw considerable service III the Navy
as chaplain during the civil war. Stonewall
Jackson was his sOn-in-lhw, but DR.. Junkin
had no political sympathy with him.
Preparations are making to acc Ommodate
$500 people at the ceremony Of laying tie
corner stone of Truro Cathedral on May 30.
The Prince and Princess OF Wales will be there,
and the Prince will lay the stone
Among eighteen persons confirmed recently in
an Episcopal church in Philadelphia two were
very aged. One candidate had reached sew
cnty-six, and another eighty-fve.
There is n church in Norway with its interior
made wholly of paper The bias reiefs are OK
paper also.