The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1881-06-22
FOREIGN CHURCH NEWS.

Miss Dickson has school of. sixty
q ornban girls in the city of Nazareth, and she
teaches them the Bible with marked success
A new college. called st Mary's, is
81 .ho,t IN be erected at Canterbury England by
81 shs French Jesuts. 1t will consist of two
a blocks each covering an area of about 8 900
' mara wards These Jesuits have recently pur.
Siased a mansion and grounds in st. Stephen s
The Rev. DIR. Somerville held FIVE
81 ,vseks' mission in St. Petersburg with meeting
u expressly for English. During the last week
a he held conferences with men, with ladies, with
n Young men, with Germans, with Swedes, and
a with Jews.
q The municipal authorities at CAL
q cutta have thought it necessary to prohibit
Y street preaching in that city, unless by persons
dnlv licensed This action has been resented
n bv the missionaries, and the Lieutenant Gov
= ernor of Bengal has been appealed to on the
subject.
\ The old manse still stands in which
4 John Knox received the messengers of his
4 Queen, the fierce mobiles of his turbulent court.
and the Lords of the Congregation. The Free
Church OF Scotland long since acquired it as
piece of property, and the progress of decay has
been arrested.
The Rev. Narayan Sheshadri is still
in Great Britain, and on the 2lst of Nav made
an address in Edinburgh on the observance of
the Sabbath. in which he pleaded for the con-
tinuance of the Sabbath rest which has been for
so long the possession of Scotland
Rev. Joseph Cook has returned to
London after delivering numerous lectures in
Scotland, Ireland, and the provinces, and has
accepted an invitation from Rev. G. H. Spurgeon
to give some of his lectures in the METROPOLITAN
fret Itrac 10 ko LIZ
May 10TH when Mr.. Sturgeon has consented to
preside.
REV. THOMAS MAIN, D. Dive re-
greet to record the death of the Rev. Thomas
MAN, D. D., the Moderator of last years Gene
raj Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland.
A number of the Daily ReUiew of Edinburgh.
which comes to hand at the last moment, Re-
ports, without particulars, that on Saturday.
May sd, 1T was announced to the Assembly
that ne had died that morning at half past three
o'clock and committee was appointed to draft
minute In reference to the event-Presbyte.
Tidn Journal.
Missionary blood has again been
she'd Dispatches received in LIVERPOOL. Eng
land from Melbourne announce the massacre
In New Guinea of a number of missionaries be.
longing to the London Missionary Society. On
the 7th of March the missionaries were attacked
66y the natives at Kato, in the district of Port
Moresby, Hull, and four of them, with two of
their wives, four children, and two servants
were killed. The natives also ATTEMPTED TO xiii
TOUR native boys who were with the missionary
party, but they saved themselves by swimming
NO provocaton was given, but it Is stated in
the dispatch that the perpetrators of previous
massacres on the coast had not been punished
and this is looked upon as the main canse of
the outbreak. The total number of persons
killed was twelve, but the list would have been
much greater had not the remainder of the
party made their immediate escape. For fear
lest the natives should make further attack
upon the MISSIONARIES in the outlying districts,
they were all removed from their stations to
Fort Moresby.-Presbyteria Banner
.-ORIGINAL SECESSION SYNop.-An-
other Scotch Synod has been sitting at Edin
ourgh The Erskines, as is we'll known. seeded
from the Scottish Establishment about $50
years ago. But the Seceders did not long re
main united. There arose series of divisions
SO that In the beginning of this century there
We're four Secession communities. Then a
reaction seemed to follow, and Union was the
order OF the day. The Unions, however, which
TOOK place were not always, indeed hardly
ever, unanimous, and the small sections which
resisted them on conscientious grounds have
thelr representative in the Original Secession
Church, which claims to hold and testify for
the principles of e. Erskne and Adam Glib
rms small but respectable body, consisting of
iour IresDyterles with twenty-one ministers
TWO OF whom act as Professors has had its
annual Synod like its larger neighbors From
lts recent proceedings we learn that it has $500
communicates, that it has a missionary and a
catechlst IN India, and that it secures for its
ministers minimum of 9130 wear. It has its
committee on public questions which give no
uncertain sound the report this wear takes
sharp notice of Professor Robertson Smith of
the Scotch Sermons" by ministers of the Els
tablished Church, and of the st. Giles Lectures
Catholic Presbyterian.
ENGLISH PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
The English Presbyterian Synod has had
very successful meeting at Newcastle. DR..
bruce the well-know antiquary-not. however.
an ordained minlster-was chosen Moderator
ana seems to have excellently fulfilled the duties
OF the chair. We learn from the Statistical
report that the English Presbyterian Church
mas 273 congregations, $4,000 members IAN
increase OF 700 over last year,, 1900 elders. els
deacons, and 2011 managers In the Divinity
TALL last session there were 10 students. The
report on the Sustentation Fund was satisfac
tory. The income was G36 500; the number of
aid receiving was stated to be decreasing. while
aid-glvlng congregations are increasing. and the
equal dividend Of G200 a-year was again attain
co. Home Missionary effort seems to have rather
sslackened, but during the year three new 90 en-
OerPrlses were undertaken. For Foreign Mis-
5Ions upwards of el2000 were contributed-
Goth congregational collections and donations
showing an increase over those of the preceding
year The native congregations in China. f
was stated, are. improving in hberalitv.
young man who has w Gp;s 81 L..