The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1880-09-17
RELIGIOUS NEWS AND NOTES.

There are 2,0l3 Congregational
churches in England.
American residents in London propose
erecting Protestant Episcopal Church
in that city at cost of $4,000.
A mission of the Reformed presby-
terian church among the freedmen of
Selma, Ala, is manned by two edu-
Gated men of color.
The Moravians are said to number
10000 converts among the Greenlanders
since the beginning OF their mission in
Greenland's Icy Mountains"
The Pope's silence concerning the ex-
pulsion of the Jesuits from France is at
tributed bys some to desire TO avoid ex-
asperating the French into still more
unfriendly measures.
DR.. Cuyler, at the recent completion
of the twentieth year of his pastorage
in Brooklyn, disclosed this secret of his
success. lie said that he had never
allowed day to pass without visit TO
some family, and n talk with some one
on personal religion.
Rev. DR.. Kendall having said that
Mormonism is the most direct way to
bell ever discovered" the Csrisisan n
Statesman afiirms that there are a good
many parable. tracks" and protests
against blowing dust in our eyes to hide
from us infamies nearer home.
The Princess Eugenie. sister of the
King OF Sweden, is greatly interested in
supplying the religious wants of the
destitute people of Lapland She
wishes to form an association of the
Ladies of Sweden to support mission
aries among that nomadic race.
A Southern Methodist conference has
x1,,ts. Al. 81 4.
walls do not develop the grace of liber-
ality, but are detrimental to The
spiritual interests of the church, and we
will urge upon our members the duty
OF giving directly to the church OF
Christ"
A table of statistics, prepared for pre-
sentatiOn at the Raikes centennial cele-
bration at London, gives, among others.
the following figures: The United
States, 81, 1861 Sunday-schools, SS6 32S
teachers. and 6,623, l24 scholars: ana in
the world, l, ,i60,8 ,85l teachers and Il. .3iO,-
3l6 scholars.
London now contains $500. S69 per-
sons, an increase since 1871 of 366 Sos;
Liverpool, 53S, 1888, an increase OF A
933; Manchester, 36l,SlO; Leeds. 3ll.-
$50; Sheffield, 297, 1873; Bristol. sC9. .gi7;
Bradford. l9l,Oi6; Hull, l46, 3s7; Sal
ford. l77.s4s.
Inc S9S pastors OF Evangelical
churches IN New YORK city are ciassed
rs follows baptist, 30 Congregatlonai
Lutneran, "a Methooist, 2o' Mora
Wan. |; PRESBYTERIAN, So; Episcopal
rs; Reformed Episcopal, l; Reformed
Dutch, 25, and undenominalional. IL.
The Presbyterian board of education
raises the question whether the time
has not come for seriously examining
into the existing condition of the minis
try, and inquiring what evils there may
be in it retarding its proper development
and for taking earnest measures for
their removal"
The Rev. Henry Perkins, ID. ID. an
aged Presbyterian minister, died re-
Gently at Allentown, Penn. He was
born in Vermont in 1896. graduated froin
Ohio university and Princeton theolo-
gical seminary, and was pastor at len
town forty-three years, retiring from
active service In 1863.
A circular has been sent to all pastors
ofMethodist Episcopal churches, asking
them to raise twenty-five per cent. ad-
ditional for the Episcopal fund to what
they have been raising, as there are
four new bishops to be provided for
ia now tbrown nppn the chnrnhes pay
Two editions of tbo ro,isod tro,sla-
t;ons of tho New Testament will he NH
i;shed dnring Tho con,ino antnmp in
ENGLAND The one from the Oxford
nrasa will bo tho text edonted bv Tho
rev;s;on;s,s ,yL;Ie the ono frcp Con,~
hridge will he the Commonly received
taxt ,y;th foot rotee g;u;nr tho resd;r,
adontod hv the rev;sionists
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Important changes are Ikely 10 oc-
cur IN the New Enghtnu province OF ihe
homan Cathohc church. Two new
aloceses are planned; one 10 comprise
worcester county, Mass ana parls OF
the eastern counties ana me other 70
lnciuoe lower new Hampsnile, WIN