Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-04-01
RELIGIOUS NEWS AND NOTES.

There are 100000 church members In
the British army.
The Baptist missionaries in Japan
have ordained their first preacher.
In the last twenty years the Methodist
missions have received upward Of Sl0,-
QUO, 600.
The sixth Of next May is the date pro-
posed for the great council Of the worlds
20, 600, 900 Methodists.
The Methodist frcedmen's aid society
has disbursed in twelve years S70O,2l5.
II receipts last year were S74, ,G93.
The English Congregationalists have
l70 churches and 1856 ministers in active
work in the Australian colonies and
New Zealand.
The Lutherans nre displaying great
activity in church building. a denom-
national paper mentions the dedication
Of twelve German churches.
The Rev Mr.. Marshall, Baptist mis-
sionary in Orissa, India, writes that
400 Hindus in that place have renounced
caste ard become Christians. Many Of
them are men Of wealth.
Four Chinese were admitted 10 the
Second Presbyterian church, of Indian
apolis, by DIR. William A. Bartlett at
the last communion. the first Celestials
TO join church in Indiana.
The death is announced Of the Rev.
Thomas S. Berry, president of Simpson
centenary college, Methodist institu-
tion in Iowa. Mr.. Berry was delegate
elect to the general conference.
The daughter Of Chancellor Haven, of
Syracuse university, formerly president
OF the Michigan university. is on the
Pacific ocean, iourneying from San
Francisco TO Japan TO become mis-
sionary.
Principal Bancroft, OF Phillips acad-
emy, Andover, says the truths of the
| Bible engage the special attention of the
Chinese youths who are industrious stu
dents of that institution, often winning
their hearts.
There are now in the United States
$3.50 priests, twenty-four Catholic SEM
| inaries, 663 colleges and academies. I, ,2it
parochial schools, containing 405, ,234
| pupils. The estimated Catholic popula-
tion il 0, I43,e
The freedmen's aid society (Metho
! dist), in its several schools and colleges
taught last year 2,5I0 pupils. OF whom
453 were in the biblical, twenty in the
law. sixty in the medical, and l,G20 In
the normal classes.
The Rev. Alexander Keith, ID. d.. 8
| Scottish divine of advanced age and
much celebrity, died recently. He was
author of Evidences OF the Truth o.
the Christian Religion, which was pub,
lisled in 1923. aud which for many
years was textbook. DIR. Keith was
| born in 1872.
The Rev. DIR. Elsner, CT Samrodt
| Prussia, has celebrated very uncom.
mon anniversary, the sixticth anniver-
sary OF his being made doctor of philos.
ophy by the university of Breslau. He
has been pastor in Samrodt fifty-fivt
years. and is eighty-five years Of age.
fThe thirty-one universities and COL
| leges under Baptist control contain 267
| instructors and 4 ,659 students. In their
libraries they have l9O.4 400 volumes
with property worth 81, 1886 600, and en-
dowments amounting TO s3,243 $40
Besides these universities and colleges,
there are foTty-nine academies. female
colleges, etc. ABB students.
The New York Methodist book con.
Germ has a net capital of 3 ,O60. .56S. ThS
net profits for the year were S7I. 1856
| The sales Of publications amounted e
$s25. .63i, against S9l2,726 the previou.
year. The Western book concern. nj
| Cincinnati, has "A net capital of $474. I76
| the profits for the year being S27, ,Se7
The sales fell off SIS, ,s73 from the pre-.
vious year.