The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1881-11-09
SUNDAY READING.
RELIGIOUS News and Notes.

RIGHTEOUS Nc"o IL NOtCss
More than 100 Christian ministers and
teachers, representing five denomina-
tons, are now laboring in Utah.
A single Methodist college, the Ohio
Wesleyan university, is represented by
two missionaries in Japan, six in China,
three in India, n in Italy, two in
South America and n in Mexico.
The Methodist Episcopal mission to
the Chinese in California, employing
FIVE missionaries and ten teachers, has
five stations, four native helpers, Ill
church members, and 500 scholars in
the schools.
English.speaking Roman Catholics
have increased from 100000 to 49,
600, 900 during the last eighty years, the
increase of English-speaking Protest
ants during the same time being from
Is, 1000, 600, to $4,000, 900.
A movement is on foot, set in motion
bv the woman's executive committe of
home missions of the Presbyterian
church, to raise a subscription among
the women and children of America for
the purpose of establishing mission
churches in Utah in memory Of Presi-
dent Garfield.
The Protestant Episcopal Society for
the Increase Of the Ministry received in
the last year-its Observation-Disclosures,
and added seventy-one scholars, nine
teen of whom entered the ranks of the
ministry. A large share of the income
of the year has been added to perma-
nent or endowment funds.
The London missionary society issues
q sketch of ten years work at Lifu, n
of the Loyalty Islands. The popula-
ton of the island is now entirely
Christian. Out of the G,57G inhabi-
tants, 5,G36 arc Protestants and $40
Roman Catholics. The nine churches
have q membership of 1855.
There are more churches in Phila-
delphia than in any other city in the
new world, there being over $50
churches and chapels dedicated to re-
ligious worship. Ofthese the Presby-
terians, Episcopalians and Methodists
have the largest number respectively,
or ABOUT one lUQCTcu eaCu'
A missionary of the American Sun
dav-school Union in Missouri writes:
sIn eighteen days I have arranged for
organizing five new Sunday schools,
addressed six old schools, attended n
Sunday.school convention, preached to
three churches and visited several lam
lies"
In illustration of the taste of colored
church members in the Southern States
for the ministerial career, Professor
Simmons, of the Louisville Theological
seminary, recently remarked that he
knew of one county in which there
we're eighty colored Baptist ministers,
licentiate and ordained, and some
churches in which half the male mem
beers were in the anne category.
The statistics of the Protestant Epis'
copal church for Long Island gives tn:
following figures for the present year
clergy, ni~nety-seven; churches an.
chapels, eighty.three; churches conse-
Grated, two; lay readers and catechists,
fourteen: d~eaconesses, seventeen; bap-
tisms, 1889, of which 251 were adult;
combinations, 1920; communicates,
1850; Sunday.schoo scholars, 1926;
total contributions, S472,4SS.
The Rev. William Arthur, father of
the President, was remarkable for his
readiness in debate. Some years ago,
at a meeting of the old Hudson River
Baptist association, the Rev. Mr.. Wal
den, who had been settled in the West
but had recently taken a church at
Troy, said: 81 can tell the brethren
that if they think that any sort OF min
listers will do for the West they are
mistaken. 1t won't do to send second
or third rate men there" Mr.. Arthur
was on his feet in a moment, exclaim-
ing, "Mr. Moderator, I never knew be-
fore why Brother Walden came back"