The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-05-19
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

There are 116 stations for preach.
ing in Turkey.
The Presbyterians of the North will
hold their General Assembly at Buffalo
on the 10Th of May.
DIR. Newman proposes to erect an
independent Methodist Church in New
York.
AT the recent revival in Meriden,
Conn.,, there were $50 conversions, of
whom 400 have joined the Methodist
Church.
The sixty-first annual session of the
General Convention of the Church of
the New Jerusalem will be held in
Washington City, beginning May 20.
The Livingstone Mission of the
Free Church of Scotland has stopped
the slave-trade about Lake Nyassa,
whence $4,000 slaves were annually car
ried of.
There were over 700 preachers re-
ceived into the itinerant ministry of the
M. E. Church during the year 1880, an
average of about two each day for the
year.
Rev. Mr.. Baker, an English Wes-
leyan missionary, appointed to organize
the Governmental institutions of the
Tonga Islands (for the purposes of edu-
cation), has been appointed by the
King as his Prime Minister.
"A committee to investigate the
charge that some Methodist brethren
are addicted to theater-going was APP
pointed by Bishop Peck while holding
10 ~e L.
England Conference at Worcester,
Mass.
Thomas Ewing Sherman, son OF
General Sherman, was admitted to the
"tonsure'' and "minor orders by
Archbishop Gibbons, of Baltimore, Md,
the other day. These steps are prepar-
atory to his admission to the Roman
Catholic priesthood.
The University of Vermont and the
State Agricultural College form one in
stitution, and have together the present
year 221 students, of whom 143 are
medical students. Deducting from the
70 students remaining those who are
studying agriculture, the number left
to pursue the classical course would
seem to be small.
The Unitarian Society of Hartford,
Conn.,, had sleep of twenty years.
Getting into financial difficulty, it sold
its church to the Episcopalians, paid
its debts and invested the remainder of
the money. The fund was lately found
to have grown sufficiently to build q
fine church, which has been done, and
services have been resumed after an
intermission of two decades.
They had delightful revival in a
Methodist Church in Paterson, N. j.
1t was managed by two lady evangelists.
When the services were over each of
the ladies was presented with an apple.
These apples were similar to others ex-
cept as to the cores. which had been re-
moved in order that fifty gold dollars
might be slowed away in each speci-
men of fruit. The ladies gratefully ac-
copied the $50 apples.
In the diocese of Niobrara native
Indians play the church organ. This
fact is quoted by Bishop Hare and
others as conclusive evidence that the
aborigines can be civilized. Besides
playing, some OF these converted red
skins lend hand in lifting the voice of
sacred song. The music is said by those
who have heard it to sound we'll at a
distance. 1t is not great deal worse
than that rendered by the Chinese.
The courts of Pennsylvania have
settled the question as to how many
persons are needed to constitute in the
eyes of the law "a respectable number"
A citizen of Torresdale left SIS, 900 and
the income of $1,000 to build and sup
port Presbyterian church at Torres
dale whenever i" a respectable NUMBER
could be got together to form congre-
cation. Seventeen persons did so, and
the courts have just decided that this
is "a respectable NUMBER for con-
gregation.