New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-08-07

| men,. And hundreds of smaller churche.
wnieI suner still more from their shepherdless
| conditon, are crying louder still. To all an
pearance, moreover, the situation will be worse
before 1T is better.n
| The one hundred and thirty-eiyot, sr,,,.r
meeting of the British Wesleyan ConfeTenca
| began at Liverpool July 10. The conference
was of the largest, if not the largest. that
ever assembled more than LOO memb hs,,s
| being present Of this number 23S were Law
| men, the rest being clergymen. The calling of
the roll OF the Legal Hundred showed that
there were four vacancies, which had been
caused by the death of the Rev. Drs. Jobson
aud Punshon and the Rev. Messrs. Simpson
ana Coley. TO these vacancies the Rev. r. w.
Briggs and the Rev. ID. j. Waller we're elected
ny ballot, and the Rev. Charles Carter and the
Rev >. ;. Jones were appointed by seniority
me Key. DIR. George Osborn was chosen presi-
dent of the conference. Among those who
responded TO the address of welcome was PresI-
dent Payne, of Ohio Wesleyan University who
stated THAT there were in the Methodist Church
IN America 100000 members, u, 900 itine-
rant minister's and as many local preachers. In
America, he said, they tried to preach the old
doctrines IN the old way--a statement that was
received with cheers.
sixteen native pastors and evangelists were
present at the fifth annual conference of tho
Italian Italian Methodist Episcopal churches in Rome
recently, over which Bishop Merrill, who is on
ms way back from India, presided. The reports
received were very encouraging. The most inn
portant result accomplished was the cOnstitu-
annual Conference" SO that it forms now one
OF the hundred Annual Conferences which
compose the Methodist Episcopal Church all
over the world. In six places,n saws an Ital-
ian correspondent, the Methodist Episcopal
Shurch Is the only denomination at work and
lel CONGREGATIONS are among the largest Prot
cstant congregations of the large cities"
That missionary work among the heather has
mace rapid progress in the last eighty years is
evident from the following facts Al the he
ginning OF the present century there were
5o,oOO missionary converts from heathenism;
now ther5 are ] 100000. At the close of tho
last century there were seven Missionary So
cietes, and now there seventy i'm Europe
ana America, and many more in the Colonies.
lhere are twenty seven in Great Britain aud
eighteen IN America. In 1900 about I7O men
were engaged in missionary work. Now there
are 2,4O0 ordained European and American
missionaries, hundreds of native preachers and
Zo,ooo native helpers, catechists etc.
Bishop Peck presided at the annual confer.
ence of the Methodist Episcopal Church i'm
Germany and Switzerland at Wintertbur
switzerland, which lasted from July Ia to lS
Many Americans were present, Bishop Warren
the Key; pr Reid and the Rev. Drs. Liebhart,
Hoyt Walden and Starr, of Cincinnati. being
among the number, The report showed that
there were in the conference eighty-one
preachers in full connection and five on trial.
The full membership numbers 6, ZIG; those on
probation, 2,237
1t is stated that the income of the Orphanage
Tor the last fiscal year. and that the expendi-
lures amounted to about $75. 900. There are
now DAB children at the Orphanage, the total
number which has been received being 646
A London photographer has produced what is
described as Photographic group of the por-
I,alts OF the twenty-five reVlsers of the New
Testament. Copies are sold at two shillings and
three Shliings and sixpence each.
The Rev. DIR. T. H. Pattison. of Albanv.
preached his farewell sermon in the Emanuel
baptist Church; of which he has been the pastor
for two years, last Sunday He leaves the pnI
PIT 10 accept prOfessOrship at the Rochester
Theological Seminary.
The Rev. Daniel Gould, of Dnnstable. one of
the oldest Baptist ministers of England, died a
few weeks ago at the age OF eighty. He Joined
the Baptlst denomlnatlon when he was about
twenty years old, and served pastor of his
punishable church fow more than half a century.
The largest Sunday school in Cannada is that
of 1T. James Cathedral, Toronto. Although
there are on its roll the names of 1925 children
ana SIXTY teachers, the average attendance is
only about 300. OF these regular attendants
500 are in the main school and'3O0 in the in
FAINT department.
DR.. Chalmers reports that the native Church
~ hong Kong has increased in numbers from
eighty three to PIG during the decade, al
though, during the same period, no fewer than
seventy seven members have removed TO other
parts OF China or have gone abroad.
The additions to the Presbyterian churches in
Indianapolis, resulting from the recent revi-:
walls, VIII number 800 or more.
According to the Baptist Year Book there are
2,296,327 Baptists in America, the net increase
for 1850 having been 163,2 93.
OF the graduates of Madison University,
eighty six, it is said, have become missionaries
among the heather.
All of the Congregational churches in Chi.
caSo. except One-the Union Park Church-aro
reported to be free of debt.
Baptist church has been formed at Toronto
on the basis of open communion, with the Rev.
w. Brookman as pastor.
There are said to he 1874 Baptist churches in
the Indian Nation in a population of about
10000.
The two Church of England Foreign Mis-
sionary Societies report this year a total income
of $l,6S9,94O.
There are said to be thirty-six Mctbodi,s
churches in Baltimore, with a membership OF
IL, 300.
OF the ESQ missionaries in India. III ara
from the United States.
Pere Hyacinthe, it is reported. will sail for
this country in September
Five graduates Of Fisk University have cone
to Africa as missionaries.
CURRENT RELIGIOUS DIScUSsy0y
"Men 40 not despse thief, if he steal to satisfy
ms soul when he Is hungry" PROV. vi 3O1 But
church. with salary of -. 600. and receints from
marriage fees, etc, who becomes a thief Biblio-
mama is form Of mental disease whose victim, IL
also afflicted with kleptomania, may steal old books
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