The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1880-04-28


successive Sunday evenings, and on the first
Sunday in April gave the hand of fellowship to
twenty Among those recently baptized was
All Wing, the son of Chinese College Pro-
lessor. He was converted some time ago, but
has considered himself unfit to confess Christ
His experience, related to the church, was
most satisfactory, and no doubt is entertained
of the commences of the change in his heart.
The Trinity church is doing much to reach
practical solution of the troublesome Chinese
question"
We have the welcome intelligence from
DR.. Murdoch (says the Examiner and ChronicLe)
that the Foreign Missionary (Baptist) donations
and legaces of the month amount to $95. OOO. rs.
which exceed those of the corresponding
month of the previous year by $4,000, and is
the largest ever received in one month.
The total receipts for the year, from donations
and legaces, are Sl91 ,043.S5, which amount
will no doubt be increased by at least $50, 900
from other sources. OF the March receipts
about $500 was for specific objects. The debt
of April, 1879, is reduced therefore to about
$S,000
The Gospel in the South.-The Catholic
press claim that Professionalism is a conspicuous
failure among the Southern people, white and
black, and the Catholic missionaries are doing
the only religious work there which amounts to
anything. In answer. it may be said that the
Methodist Church alone as shown by recently
prepared statistics, has 2l3,776 white and 1877
l23 colored members in the South, or a total of
4l0,S89 members. The gain in the last two
1. n
bers. Before the war the colored membership
was only 24,000, showing an increase of nearly
la, 900 since 1861, with churches, conferences.
and pastors of their own choice. Now let the
Catholic papers give some figures. The aim of
the colored people is to become enlightened not
to become Cathohcs.-ErGmin and Chronicle.
Work Among the Methodists. ATbe
New York Methodist Conference numbers As, 1872
members, counting 1923 persons admitted on
probation. This is an increase of 1913 durinr
the past year. There are 37S churches. valued
at $3,l2S,000, and parsonages valued at 1927.
500, with an Indebtedness on churches and
parsonages of $399,072, a decrease of S7S SO6.
The value of the Church property has fallen off
$lO9,4OO since March, 1879 There are 456
Sunday Schools, having 6, ITO officers, and A.
304 scholars. The years receipts to support
the ministers were $177 1894, an increase of $11,-
7O7i to support the bishops 81, 492, decrease of
Sl,ol9. No fact in the list is so significant as
the last, indicating as it does the movement in
the Methodist denomination to limit and weaken
the episcopacy, if not eventually to do away
with it altogether. The New York Conference
contributed $2S, 1873 to home mission work. and
about $4,000 TO other missionary enterprises.
The Conference is in perhaps more prosperous
than harmonious condition
Miss Anna Oliver who has been preach
ing to congregation in Brooklyn, under license
as a Methodist local preacher, applied to the
New England Methodist Conference, at its re-
cent session, for ordination. She presented a
certificate of recommendation from the Quar-
terly Conference of Jamaica Plain, which was
officially signed by Presiding Elder Thayer.
The bishop presiding. DIR. Andrews, refused, in
accordance with decision of the EPISCOPAL
Board, to put the question of reception of Miss
Oliver to the Conference. DIR. Thayer took an
appeal to the General Conference, which, it is
hoped, will decide the question finally.
The Bishop of Ontario has suspended a
VI lAiS partaklng OF the HOlV
Communion in Presbyterian church with his
aged mother, member of that denomination.
Another cGse of this sort recently occurred in
Baltimore. certain Episcopal minister re-
fused.to permit lady to partake. of this sacra-
ment with other members of her family, at the
bedside OF dying mother She was a Presby
terrain, they members of the Episcopal Church.
In the middle of last winter, when the
work of Messrs. Moody and Sankey in Louig-
vile was in full progress, the Globe Democrat q
secular paper charged that the Rev. Mr.. vii.
liams, one of Mr.. Moody's helpers. had been
married years before to a lady whom he had
causelessly abandoned. Mr.. Williams imme-
diately sued the Globe Democrat for a libel
proving that at the time that it was alleged he
was married he was about four years old. The
proprietors of the journal confessed to a iudo.
ment for $1,000 as compromise, and the case
was thus settled
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