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thiry.ons young men for the Presbyterian ministry.
Scranton, Pa, has O new Reformed Rnia.
copa Church with NIFTY members and capital Of sl ,oo
Tho First Baptist Church, Elmira low
fully takes Its place among which are
from debt The raising OF g. 500 cleared on eyeryh,n
Felix j. s. Kyle, Superintendent of thu
Greenvils IN. ~ Methodist Sunday school has hcd IN,
position In that aud other sch oos for t,,v
FIVE years
Long Branch Is having Its Religions reI
vival at this time to be with by IN.
rush OF summer visitors The Reformed Church n. bod.
ing meetings and rejoicing In a number Of convert.
-"Half-baked evangelists" is what n roll.
gous calls some Of the peripaetcs who 20 rom
church to church with Turkey.morocco. lhnp.baeked
Bibles under their arms putting airs as If thew v.,.
Moody and Sankey.
The Board OF Education OF tho Presbv.
teran Church is receiving much money h,a
good reason to expect Secretary Poor make. an earne,
call for $4,000 to meet payments which been prom
ised to needy theological students
The Rev. Howard Crosby, ID. D.. savs in
the Independent that Utah should be dynamited Iiss
stencil heap, and needs birthstone II s a. I'M.
savory and unhealthy to the rest Of the Union a. tho
Long Island City smell manufactures are to the meek
and patent citizens of New York"
The Reformed Episcopalians are cstab-
fishing new church in Scranton, beginning with +,
membership OF about fifty people They have subscribed
81 500 financial bass for the enterprise The opep
ing meeting held In the Second Church
which was cheerullv offered for the purpose
An "anti-vivisection prayer meeting" ID
the most novel style of religious effort Such sathsr,n,
was recently held in Glasgow. The prayers and uth
cut short by the irreverent conduct medical
students These young men disapproved Of tie object o,
the meeting and made great uproar in order to rim,
the services to a close.
1t is mentioned as one OF the chief rccom-
mendaons OF new Sunday school music book that tho
nd in thp at
without experiencing any trouble. The Sioux children
in Dakota Sunday school have learned twenty tunes
out Of this book, aud them only Indians The
Indians not quite so unmusicai as the Chinese
Missionary work Is going on among the
soldiers at Fort wadsworth on Staten island Services
held on Sunday afternoons by leading pastors Of tho
neghborhood. and regular temperance meeting on
Monday evenings is well attended One Of the results Of
the temperance meetings is reported to be that
now in confinement Tor drunkenness The saloon
keepers Of the vicinity say that they Of
their best customers.
DIR. Scudder's church in Brooklyn has
recently received 50 converts. The Throop avenue
church has received about 80 In Brother Pentecosts
church, Tompkns avenue. the conversions are counted
at somewhat iuO since the opening OF the present
year. DR.. Cuylers church and Brother Fulton's and
Talmages and the Westminster Presbyterian and Dr.
Lawsons Greenwood Baptist and number OF other live
churches have received substantial additions
Although the revival all-day meeting
held by tie domnies OF Brooklyn wednc sdny last
not Of character to make very deep hnprc ssion
the churches of that city another meeting Is an
nounced for next Wedne sday II Is to be held in the
First Baptist Church IN Pierrepon street and 30
presided by several cergymen. Beechers revival
be expected to during the week and Tanages
is to be menced tomorrow evening, with musical
assistance of Philip Phillips
AT Methodist Conference in session at
Salem n. j. the official port for tile principal
districts said that although the preachers faithful
and dilgcnt and not accused Of doing anything
wrong, and even though their work had been followed
by numerous conve rsions. some OF them living
insufficient salaries 1t seems furthermore, that
these salaries In instances. paid
Null How the thodists any other Christian peo-
ple expect their ministers to do first work
slender salaries imperecly paid is OF those mys-
teres for which neither the Bible the Methodist Dis
ciplne furnishes any explanation.
1t is contcnded that the "Old Catholic"
movement in Germany is aiily the incrcas"
fits growth be slow. The body has Bishop and about
forty fifty clergy, most Of whom formerly
Roman Catholic priests The lay members number
somewhat under ioOo) and they have considerable
thusasm The fact that the Old Catholics to
extent the objects Of persecution binds them closely
gether and gives them zeal than they would other
wise have. Bonn Munich. and Heidelberg chief
centres The venerable DR. DOllnger VIII ~ practically
at the head OF the movement lives at Munich The per
manent council has Its abode there Bishop ReInkens
resides At Bonn AMI does the celebrated professor
Reusch. Tile KitIoi~her Bae Is published Satur
day at Heidelberg. and is the OF the Old Catholics
The leaders this faith stouty declare that there
prospect Of the dntegration which has been predicted.
The organization steadasy preserves what claims
he the Simplest rules ot faith and practice.
Now that some OF the work of the
reviscrs OF the New Testament has leaked out, the
heoorians and critics engaging in sharp work over
passages which disputes One Of these
the passage in the second chapter Of Acts winch accord
ing TO the old reading says that the Lord added to tho