Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-07-02
CHURCH AND PULPIT.

Sir Stafford Northcote has given his son
ship.
The salary of the Bishops of the United
Brethren in Christ is only 81, 600 year.
with travelling expenses and house rent.
The small diocese of Fond du Lac Epis.
copal), which contains only 2, 1853 commni
cants, raised the past year for various pur'
poses $50, Cos.
The Methodist Episcopal Church has in
Iowa Sl3 churches and 74,7Sl communi.
cants, gain in ten years of 800 churches
and Ia ,6S7 communicates.
The Supreme Court of the State Of
Maine decides that ga church is not a
corporation with authority to create debt
in erecting house of worship"
OF the 1896 Sunday. schools in New Jer.
international lessons are taught in l,644 Of
them. The next State Convention will be
held in Passaic in November.
The General Conference of the Congrega.
tional Methodist Church, body of about
| 10000 members, has just been held in
Fredonia, Ga. All the State Conferences
were represented except those of Missouri
and Texas.
The Presbyterian work among the freed
men the past year was quite successful.
The receipts of the year were S6S, I'll, with
which l62 preachers and teachers were en-
ployed. There are in the 80 schools 5, $40
pupils. The whole number of communi-
cants is IL ,555.
The subject of Spiritualism has been
brought before the two Archbishops of the
Church of England, and the Spiritualists
are elated with the idea that it will gain
much dignity from being seriously consid-
cred by these able prelates, even if they do
condemn it.
Presbyterianism begins to gain strength
in Ireland outside of Ulster, to which it
was mainly confined few years ago. The
Dublin Presbytery now has % congrega-
lions and mission stations, with 2,45S
communicates. The total sum raised for
all purposes during the past year was
f10,S7S.
The Rev. D. FL. Pattison, of Emanuel
Baptist Church, Albany, will succeed DIR.
w. C. Wilkinson as Professor of Homi-
letics in Rochester Theological Seminary,
and the Rev. Benjamin o. True, of Provi-
dence. r. l., will succeed S. A. Newman
as Professor of Church History in the same
institution.
The Archbishop of Canterbury, speaking
at conference of clergy and Sunday
school workers at Lambeth Palace, recon.
mended greater infusion of ranks into
Sunday schools, and remarked that where
the children of the upper classes joined
with those of the lower in receiving re-
ligious instruction, the best results had fol.
lowed.
The General Conference of the United
Brethren in Christ at Lisbon, Iowa, has
elected the following Bishops to serve four
years j. j. Glossbrenner, ]. Weaver, J.
Dickson, n. Castle and E. B. Kephast.
All except the last are reelected. D. K.
Fliekinger was reelected Missionary Sec
rotary, and W. j. Shuey publishing agent.
DR.. Murdoch, Secretary of the Ameri.
can Baptist Missionary Union, spoke at
the recent anniversary in Indianapo-
lis OF the need of more mis-
sionaries. Most of the candidates
who have offered themselves want to go to
some particular field where additional
help is not SO much needed. Reinforce
ments are most needed for Japan, Burmah
and Spain.
The number of Salvation Army stations
now reported in Great Britain is ISIS, of
officers, employed and paid, 1916, and of
trained speakers, 6,lS0, while total sit.
ting accommodation is provided for al, 800
persons, and the total number reached in
the streets and highways weekly is COM
puted at 5000, 900. The annual amount of
expenditure reaches nearly $50, 000