New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-07-03
tition calls it " an important paper,- and nrom-
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Can:da well set forth recently nj ono 80
o,e SESSIONS OF lne seventh General Assembly,
Guelph, who read the report of the statistics
committee. This report shows that the number
OF pastoral charges j. 40, AN increase in one
year of fifteen, or, adding those Of Manitona.
I61, an increase of twenty-seven. Including
thirty-two i'll Manitoba, there are 6s5 Preshyo
terrain ministers i'll Canada, a gain of twenty
SIX. Reports were received from 9I6 conr1e-
cations and mission stations. There were
l, !23 COMMITMENTS received into the Church
all purposes amounted to $l,245,495
The seventy ninth annual meeting of tbc
General Association of the Congregational
Churches OF Massachusetts was held recently
at Springfield. There was large attendance
OF clergymen and laymen. The Rev. Dr. r. ID.
tlske, OF Ncwburyport, presided. Among the ad-
dresses wa WAS one by the Rev; A. II. Plumb, of
Boston Highlands, on Our Church Work2Its
Deficiencies President Seelye. of Amherst
College, presided at the meeting of the Home
Missionary Society The total receipts of the
society last year were SOS, 400, an increase of
Sl,521 over the year before.
Theological students who attend the most
graduate course at the Andover Theological
Seminary next year will listen to lectures npon
topics of current interest. Among the subjects
that are TO be discussed are the revised version
OF the New Testament and the vio'vs of Pro-
sitiOn of the Pentateuch. Modern schools of
preaching, the doctrine of inspiration and
sunday school work are also topics that will
engage the attention of the students.
The Rev. DR.. Henry VI. Scudder, the pastor
OF the Central Tabernacle, Brooklyn, preached
In his old church, the Howard Presbyterian, i'm
san francisco, few Sundays ago. and received
IA warm welcome from his old friends and
pensioners. One of his hearers at least
thought that he did not seem to be Il day older
than when he left San Francisco ten years ago
ne preached two sermons, the church being
filled to its utmost capacity boih in the morning
and evening.
The Earl of Shaftesbury recently opened an
attractive bazaar and fancy fair AT the City Ter
minus Hotel, London, in aid of the Institution
OF the Daughters of Missionaries, which was
founded foIty-two years ago. The hall in
which the fair held was transformed for
the occasion by cunning devices into japanese
village, and the illusion was heightened by
many of the ladies who presided at the stalls
appearing in Japanese costumes.
There are eighteen Methodist churches in
Cincinnati, with membership of nearly 4 GOO
The aggregate amount paid last year by these
churches for ministerial support. including their
proportion of the salaries of two presiding
elders whose districts about equally divide the
city, and exclusive of house-rent, was
S25,6S9 40. The highest salary was 50 800
ana The lowest was $3S5, the average being
$l,I27 10.
The Church of the Holy Apostles in Phila-
delphia, which was organized nearly fourteen
years ago by the Rev. Drs. Phillips Brooks and
;. l.. Appleton. now has 45O communicates
seyenty-nlnc officers and teachers of Sunday
schools, and $50 scholars. The Sunday school
Library contains nearly 700 and the parish
Cooke Is the rector.
According to a correspondent of The National
bdpf'st there are more than 200, 600 colorcd
members of Baptist churches in the United
states. In South Carolina. Georgia and
Eastern Texas three of the Sunday-School mis-
slonares of the Baptist Publication Society re-
port that l02 Sunday schools were organized
last year
Considerable discussion has been caused in
England owing TO the fact that in North Wales
the Roman Catholic communities which were
expelled from France have established large
number of monastc houses. Within radius
of twenty five miles from Wrexham there are
seven of these orders.
The United Presbyterian Church in this coun.
Try contains 1Oi ministers. There are slI
CONGREGATIONS, with total membership of
S2,93I. Last year SIS members Joined the
church. The contributions last year amounted
to SSo3,o4l, an average of $40 a for each
member.
The, Baptist Publication Society last year re.
ceived 1921 ,137, and issued 5O9, 100000
pages OF printed matter. The Baptist foreign
missions received S3l3.77i and the home mis-
slons $235,o32, an increase of nearly one.
third over last year.
The denomination known as the I-nitel
brethren in Christ has five bishops. 224J
and l6O. 600 members The total
membership of Its Sunday-schOOlS is 1000.
The general conference of the Church was re-
Gently held at Lisbon. Iowa.
The members of the General Baptist Minis
telal lrtcmal Association OF England have
decided To establish Preachers Institute"
Tor the purpose of training Young men a. evan
CYCLISTS and lay preachers, under the presidency
OF the Rev. John Clifford.
There are 2l3 Congregational churches in
Maine. which have a membership of 2l .23a,
the additions during the last year having num-
bercd 6o5. The home expenses of the churches
amounted To 81 1928. and the total contribyi-
tions to SILL.
Congregationalism seems 10 flourish in the
West as well as in Ncw-Engand Thirty two
churches have been organized in Michigan iD
the last two years.
there are iii them - vacant PRESBYTERIAN
churches. there are only 81 ministers without
congregations
II l. said that in the last twenty years more
I han $4,000 Indians in British America have
been received into the Church OF England
The Methodist Church has forty-fve colleges
ana theological scminaricS in this country.
Bishop Scott, tie senior bishop OF the Method.
list Church, Is seVcnty-nine years OF age.
CURRENT RELIGIOUS DISCCS>IoN
4 judcious pastor ana = sensible choir always
agree IN no other way. by compIomsc. There
can. however. be but one head. The pastor knows
what he Is aiming at IN tie service. lie knows
ANY. lie knows the state of feeling H. hoies. by
the help of the Holy Spirit 10 proaucc by hi, dis