The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1880-12-22
VOL. 16---NO. 21.


tinued.- Christian Observer.
Central University. Blanton, the
Chancellor, in town lastweek. He has met
with encouragement in the work of the Univer-
sity. Students have been arriving from week
to week during the autumn and there is reason
to expect others after Christmas. The new sub
scription for the endowment has reached twenty
thousand dollars, with good prospects for in
crease.-Ib.
Rev. Nathan Baohman, evangelist, has
been holding series of meetings in the Pres
byterian church at Sweetwater. Tenn. assisted
by all the pastors of the different denominations.
Last Sabbath eleven were received into the Pres
byterian church upon profession of their faith
in Christ. Others will yet come in, while others
will go into each of the different churches in the
place. Rev. Mr.. Bachman will long be remem-
bered by the people of Sweetwater, Tenn.-I6.
Northern Presbyterian.
The Presbyterian mission among the
Chippewas, at Odanah, Wis, has a church with
rs members, and native pastor and a school of
bright faced Indian boys and girls" Two
young men were lately examined and received
as candidates for the ministry, and third has
been licensed to preach, and is engaged 100 miles
in the interior as missionary.
The Presbyterian mission in Formosa
has 20 congregations. with 300 members and
several thousand interested persons. The mis-
sionary, Mr.. Mackey, has to do considerable
medical work, and has drawn 10000 teeth from
Chinese mouths with his own hands, He an
ticipates the conversion of the 100000 inhabi-
tants of the island within 20 years
A Presbyterian church of 90 members
has been organised among the Nez Perces In
dians at Oakland, Indian Territory Jim Horn,
Jay Gould, and Red Wolf have been elected
elders. More than two thirds of the tribe were
present at the administration of the Lords Sup
per, Nov. 81.
Lincoln University, of Oxford, Penn, a
Presbyterian institution for the liberal education
of colored youth, has given instruction to 400
young men, and has graduated 1873 from its
collegiate department. Most of them are teach
ers or ministers in the Southern States, and 65
have been ordained ministers. The school now
has 1l3 students.
After the Rev. DR.. Frazer's sermon at
the Classon avenue (Brooklyn) Presbyterian
church yesterday morning the members of the
congregation pledged themselves for $4,000,
which will relieve the church from all indebt-
ness.
The Presbyterian Boards come in for a
very large share of the estate of the late James
E. Brown, of Kittanning, Penn. Mr.. Brown
left property valued at 100000 His will
after providing for various purposes with fifteen
per cent. of the whole property, directs that
twenty per cent. of the remainder, Or about
$4,000, shall be paid to the Board of Domestic
Missions; the same amount to the Board of For
eign Missions; the same amount to the Amer
lean Bible Society ten per cent, or $4,000,
each, to the Board of Education and the Church
Erecting Fund; and $4,000 each to the Board
of Publication, the Fund for Disabled Ministers,
the Work among the Freedmen, and the Ameri
can and Foreign Christian Union
The German Presbyterian Church, in
connection with the Northern Assembly, consists
of 1O2 ministers and 10Y congregations The
total number of communicates is 8,224; children
in Sabbath Schools, 1O,63S congregational ex-
penses, $50 4O4 to the various Mission Boards
they gave $685. l45. In their German Theologi-
cal Seminary at Bloomfield, N. J., they have
twenty five students.
Santiago Reino, an Indian from the Taos
Pueblo, was recently baptized and received into
the Presbyterian church at Cenecero, Col So
far as known, he is the first from that Pueblo to
receive Christian baptism In the same neigh
borhood is Jose Antonio, Christian Navajo
Indian
The Uni ed Presbyterian Church in
this country has nearly 10000 members and
700 ministers. According to the statistics of
the past year the Church has shown steady
and large growth. 1t has nine Synods and
| fifty eight Presbyteries and there are under its
control two colleges, one at Monmouth, i'll,
and the other at New Wilmington, Pa, besides
other small institutions of learning 1t has two
theological seminaries The one at Xenia
claims to be the oldest Protestant theological
school on the Western Continent, having been
established in 1894
other Churches
The Methodist Episcopal church at
Salt Lake City is thriving Twenty two mem
bers were added November IA, and the atten
dance at the Sunday School has increased 33
per cent in q month. The seminary also enjoys
bright prospects"
The Baptists have seven churches for
whites in Washington with 2 600 rnernbers and