The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-12-27
RELIGIOUS.

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.Mo last ten years the namber of churches
Ehic,go has increased from l56 to
"a are new absnt forty E%episcopal par
q Massachusetts whore the sittings are
bly, free.
society of Friends, in New York, re-
T. increase OF one hundred and ninety
members in the last year,
!. Methodist Episcopal church proposes to
atuudof s25,0C9 for the building o
h in Sweden and Norway.
i Black River, Illinois, Methodist con-
- has pledged five thousand dollars for
IN Yacht for the use Of missionaries III
ral China.
bomas Harrison the "boy preacher" is
h indianapolis on Christmas. He will
\. into full membership ia Of his last
hrs converts.
l.t.n 10 spending much money for church
The salaries Of the musicians in a
choir, says a Boston man of the old
oned kind, would pay half q dozen
try clergymen.
lcordingt to the Catholic ReuieW, there are
nina forty-one Catholic Bishops, 66I Eu-
an and $50 native priests, thirty-fear col
thirty four converts and ~1,O92,slS sor-
|pers.
! Moody has received . most cordial
lone in England. A writer there thus
ain. the secret of his power: "Hs talks
q people-te, not before them, and he
thoroughly mastered the subject he is talk
.bout, he has marvellous self-possession,
RI, ness, he never dwells tso long on one
/, his illustrations are homely, he uses
bic Saxon words, he is . man of one book,
|, as he says, not merely ear est, bat ter
in earnest, and he has spiritual power,
only IS a man can have who is filled with
Holy spirit of Ged."
he Fl st Roman Catholic Diocesan Synod
cotlana since the Reformation was held
klassow on tho l4th Of October.
he London Society's Central African Mis-
has spent $4,000 since 1874. Five
! men have been sent to she front. foul
died in harness.
general pastoral conference of the clergy
he Swedish Church has been held in
ekhoIm. There were present about five
bred members.
he Csngregationalists in Great Britain
raising a jubilee fand, and already $780,.
have been subscribed. r. S. Hudson
L 500, 900 of this amount,
rich Italian who lately died in France
bequsathed S40,0 900 10 Eisieben, the birth
be Of Luther, as 3 testimony Of his person
generation for the great reforner.
fae Sspansse Daily Ne,cs not long agt
led the attention of the priests to the re-
which had already been effected by The
body Of Christian ministers, seventy
bumbsr, and contrssted these with the
ness and insfiicisncy Of the tens of thou
DIS of priests.
fhe F'Ortnighty RerieW says: Central Ar
! may be counted on IS the Inheritance I.
i'm at no distant day. 1t has already 10,
loco Moslem.. Very few have been lee
ounce thi. faith for Christianity. This il
ng tSthe fear of persecution, for the Mos
hglds that it 10 no only proper, but
n, to kill any ons who abjures his faith il
r prophet.
Csnon Farrar is called tho most eloquen
achsr in the Church OF England. Tn
tor of the Evangelist recently heard hin
acb in Westm nster Abbey to the Volun
Is, who were present in their uniform
said that the true glory Of England wa
in war, but in peace, and her highest An
on should be Justice rather than Con
Pst. That policy Of justice lie commended
IL psrts Of the British empire--in India
South Africa aud, most difficult Of all, il
land. In closing, says the Evangelist ed
he spoke Of the relations Of England t,
psrica in such terms as for \ moment file
eyes, SO that / seuld hardly see tn
acher, although could hear his ringini
&c.