, 1881-01-09
GENERAL NOTES.

I "A hundred OF the French JeSuttS have ap
peared in ConstantinopIe.
! Missionaries are said to be overwhelmed
! with gifts of patent medicines for the
hcathen.
The announcement Is made that no more
money is needed to endoW the Ho ward Di.
vinity School.
The Congregational Church in Salt Lake
City, Utah, recently received ffty-fve per-
sons.to membership, Of whom fifty united on
confession of faith.
Canon Basil Wilberforce, son OF Bishop
Wilberforce, is delivering series Of lectures
against tie doctrine Of everlasting pnnisll~
ment. lie opposes annihllatfon In the fourth
lecture.
+ Mr.. Kimball recently succeeded in raising
10000 to pay debt Of 227 600 on the United
Presbyterian Church, Newburg,. n. 7. It
was thought that the balance could readily
be raised.
t long discussion, llas voted not to condemn
the action Of the Commission Of the Assent
/ bly, suspending Prot. Robertson Smith The
| vote was Sc to 50: =: =; :. s..s:'. ~
+ ~It44reported that the statistics of the-Re
formed Episccpaf Church show Q greater adj
dition to its membership during the past year
i tlan in any preceding one, not excepting the
first year OF its organization.
Two Catholic missionaries, the Rev.
Messrs. Desribes and Merlini,. are in this
+ country to raise money for their missions
/ among the Hottentots, and In Dahomey, de-
/ sgrlbed as the most difficult nlission-delds in
the world. 81.
Not all the civil officers in Russia are un-
/, friendly to the Jews. The new Governorof
Rabbi OF the Jewish CONGREGATION, assured
him of his goodwill, and gave him sum Of
money for charitable purposes. il,
The new American church in Paris will
be situated on the Avenue de Palma, and
will be built under the supervision Of George
3. Street, an English architect. The build
ing will be Of the early decorated Gothic
order. and will seat LOCO people
-: "A curious and Interesting tablet has been
fonnd in Sheusi Province, China, whose in
scrlptlon shows that Christianity was intro
dueed into China 4. D. G36, and sanctioned
by Imperial decree in t11a year 659 The tab
let was erected A. D. 731.
It Is said that the Rev: ]. r. Crawford, mis-
sionary of the Southern IBaptist Board at
there two genealogical tables which he
Identifies with the generations OF ADAM"
Of Noah, /" Genesis, K
: A congregation Of full-blooded Indians
gathered at Cane Creek, ChickasaW Nation,
q lew months ago By Il Cumberland Presby-
IS @ Gr fsea ssoas Mhsh
they had never heard of until the day the
collection was taken up..
Bishop Herzog, says the Standard Of the
Cross received during his stay In New York,
"a memorial from Roman priests, praying him
to inaugurate reform i'll America and he
1lrous; as q Reformed Catholic Church ex-
listed in the American Episcopal Church.
a memorial has been presented to the King
Of Sweden in behalf Of Baptist and Methodist
missionaries who hare been prosecuted. One
of the most recent cases was that OF Carl
Palniblad, a Baptist preacher, who was ar
preaching publicly in the Town Of Skofde.
:, The Baptist WtztchnsG7s opposes the hold
mg Of 'Pan-Baptist Council,' rs has been
suggested in several quarters, and thinks
that, as long as we, as . denomination, ad-
here in theory and practice to. the Bible, the
whole Bible, and nothing bnt the Bible, there
The meeting Of the Methodist Congress In
vlded for. The delegates haye not yet been
,,amed. however, There win be about 200
from. America, the Methodist EPISCOPAL
Church being entitled to about eighty, half
d whom will be laymen. The Bishops are
intrusted with the power Of naming them.
The American Baptist Telugu Mission in
india is still increasing its converts. The
Rev. j. E. Clough, in letter dated Ongole,
oct. 16. stated that 32l persons had just been
baptized, seventy-tive new helpers appointed
,twenty-six new churches set on, and twenty
FIVE new. teachers for village. SCHOOLS Sc
llcted.s The number baptized this year SO
FIR is 1875.
Presbyterian congregations in Canada,
fhnnph forty-five wears since not solitary